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Silicon Labs acquires Redpine Signals’ Bluetooth and Wi-Fi business

Silicon Labs has agreed with Redpine Signals to acquire the company’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth business, development centre in Hyderabad, India, and patent portfolio for $308m. The technology will accelerate Silicon Labs’ roadmap for Wi-Fi 6 silicon and software, the company says. The acquisition also includes Bluetooth classic IP (including extended data rate) for audio applications ...

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Renesas Electronics expands Wi-Sun Fan compliant portfolio

Renesas Electronics has announced that its RL78/G1H-based sub-gigahertz (sub-GHz) wireless solution has received certification under the wireless smart ubiquitous network for field area network profile (Wi-Sun Fan), one of the communication standards established by the Wi-Sun Alliance. It comprises Tessera Technology Inc.’s TK-RLG1H+SB2 evaluation board, which incorporates the Renesas 16-bit RL78/G1H MCU with integrated wireless ...

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15W and 20W chassis/DIN rail mount dc-dc converters from XP Power

XP Power has announced two series of wide-range input dc-dc converters. The DTJ15 and DTJ20 series are designed for convenience of installation and operation, XP says. They can be installed to a chassis or DIN rail and connected via screw terminals and require no additional components for protection or EMC compliance. The series offer 15W ...

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Mux/demux from Diodes enables 10Gbps port switching

Diodes Incorporated has announced the PI3L2500 LAN multiplexer/demultiplexer, designed to enable port switching in corporate LANs at Ethernet signal speeds of 2.5/5/10Gbps. The bidirectional design enables two Ethernet PHY differential outputs to operate with a single RJ45 connector or enables one Ethernet PHY output to be routed to one of two RJ45 connectors. The firm ...

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Mouser Electronics stocking STM32L5 low-power MCUs

Mouser Electronics is now stocking STM32L5 low-power microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics. The device is based on a Cortex-M33 core with Trustzone hardware-based security. Their security architecture features the Arm v8-M main extension. The M33 core with floating point unit also implements a full set of DSP (digital signal processing) instructions and a memory protection unit (MPU) ...

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Big Bang UK STEM fair cancelled over Covid-19 concerns

The ongoing coronavirus Covid-19 situation in the UK has led Big Bang UK to cancel its annual Young Scientists and Engineers Fair, which was due to take place 11-14 March. Explaining their decision, the fair’s organisers said “We have been actively monitoring and following advice about the novel coronavirus Covid-19 over the past weeks. “The unique ...

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Xilinx announces addition to ACAP platform with Versal Premium

Xilinx has announced Versal Premium, the third series in its Versal ACAP portfolio. Versal is an adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP), a heterogeneous compute device with capabilities that the firm claims “far exceed” those of conventional silicon architectures. Added to the Premium series are 112Gbps pam4 transceivers, multi-hundred GBe and Interlaken connectivity, cryptography, and PCIe ...

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Marvell announces dual 400GbE PHY for high density implementations

Marvell has launched the 88X9121P, a dual 400GbE (gigabit Ethernet) PHY transceiver with 100GbE serial electrical I/O capabilities, designed for secured high-density optical infrastructure. The device offers 256-bit MACsec encryption, class C compliant precision time protocol (PTP) timestamping and Marvell’s 112G pam4 serdes technology for high-density 400GbE and 100GbE deployments. 100G serial electrical signaling optical ...

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Chinfa DIN-Rail ac-dc power supplies available at Relec

The DRE480 series from Chinfa operates at 94% efficiency, and is designed for utilisation in space-constrained industrial applications. The power supplies are now available from specialist distributor, Relec Electronics. The DIN-Rail mountable supplies are available two in variants, the 24V DRE480-24A and 48V DRE480-48A, with adjustment ranges up to 28V and 56V respectively. In addition ...

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Nokia uses Intel Xeon processor for cloud-based 5G virtual RAN

Nokia has announced a collaboration with Intel to incorporate the company’s technology, including the Xeon processor, into its 5G radio portfolio. The companies have worked together on the Intel Atom P5900 processor for compute, connectivity and acceleration technologies. The silicon solutions are included in Nokia’s Airscale radio access products being shipped worldwide as part of ...

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