Communications

Anritsu and DSpace (stylised dSPACE) will jointly demonstrate a 5G network emulator integrated in a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) system for the development of applications for automotive connectivity. The Anritsu booth at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2020 will showcase virtual test drives, testing vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) applications for traffic optimization and sensor sharing. The test drives will simulate the vehicle and environment ...

Microchip has announced what it claims is industry first space-qualified Ethernet transceiver – a radiation-tolerant device based on a COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) chip. Called VSC8541RT, according to Microchip it is a single-port Gigabit Ethernet copper PHY with GMII, RGMII, MII and RMII interfaces. Radiation performances is: latch-up-immune to 78Mev and TID tested up to 100Krad. A second version,VSC8540RT, it bit-rate limited ...

The Bluetooth special interest group (SIG) has unveiled its next-generation of audio encoding at CES in Las Vegas, with new encoding to squeeze sound signals into Bluetooth LE bandwidth. It is called Bluetooth LE Audio. “Not only will LE Audio enhance Bluetooth audio performance, it will add support for hearing aids and enable ‘audio sharing’, an entirely new use case,” ...

It will be well below the radar, but Flutter is a technology I expect to make a noticeable impact in 2020. Spawned by Google at the very end of 2018, Flutter is a mobile user interface (UI) toolkit for creating embedded graphic components for both iOS and Android from a single codebase. It is an open source project with a ...

Availability of 5G networks is expected to climb quickly throughout 2020 and beyond. 5G networks already operate in cities across the globe including London, New York and Seoul, and although availability is low right now, adoption is expected to climb quickly throughout 2020 and beyond. The parameters for what would come to constitute a 5G network were defined in 2015 ...

Rutronik UK adds the Telit LM960A18 Mini PCIe (mPCIe) data card. It uses Advanced LTE to deliver high-speed data rates for network appliances, such as routers, mobile gateways and access points. The card is based on LTE Category 18 and achieves up to 1.2Gbps download and 150Mbps upload. It supports uplinke with 2x carrier aggregation (CA), downlink with up to ...

Swarms of drones with limited resources can effectively search an environment, according to the Technical University of Delft, which has invented an algorithm to make it all work – without guidance from a central computer. The overall aim of the project was for a group of small robots to spread out autonomously after they are released, video as much of an ...

Test gear maker National Instruments systems has announced a 110-170GHz software-defined radio for 6G comms research, built on NI’s existing mmWave Transceiver System (MTS) and Virginia Diodes’ (VDI) radio heads. MTS has modular base-band and IF components that can be combined with programmable logic (FPGAs) to build complex RF transceiver – such as MIMO systems with digital signal processing capabilities. ...

The Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has developed and demonstrated the first large-scale optical switching test bed capable of handling one petabit per second optical signals – that is 1015bit/s and “equivalent to the capacity to send 8K video to 10 million people simultaneously”, according to the lab. Low-loss MEMS optical switches were used, alongside three ...

Chirp and DSP Group have announced the Chirp SDK reference design for sound-based data transmission. The design kit combines Chirp’s ultrasonic signaling protocol for smart-enabled devices with DSP Group’s Smartvoice technology to allow connectivity between nearby devices without set up, pairing, or configuration. Chirp’s ultrasonic machine-to-machine communications software enables any device with a loudspeaker or microphone to exchange data using ...