Communications

Silicon Radar of Frankfurt introduces development kits for its GHz CMOS radar MMICs, which are built using SiGe or SiGe:C from IHP.

Wireless light switch firm EnOcean has introduced a Bluetooth LE version of its battery-free wireless light switch technology.

Taiyo Yuden has made its Bluetooth v4.1 low-energy modules a third smaller, getting them down to 15.4 x 10 x 2mm. There are two, called EYSGCCAXX and EYSGCCSXX, and they are aimed at wearables and industrial equipment such as hand-held barcode scanners and mobile printers. The difference between the part is that the AXX version has UART and SPI interfaces, while ...

Keysight Technologies has announced signal analyser that covers millimetre-wave frequencies, now seen as the most likely option for next generation 5G mobile communications networks. The N9041B UXA X-Series signal analyser will provide frequency coverage to 110GHz with a maximum analysis bandwidth of up to 5GHz. The instrument’s front end design has a specified average noise level (DANL) as low as ...

Advantech adopts Linear Tech's 'SmartMesh IP' wireless mesh technology for its M2.COM sensor platform.

Silicon Labs is sampling a family of Wireless Gecko modules focused on mesh networking applications with support for ZigBee and Thread software.

Wind River has announced a VxWorks  real-time operating system (RTOS) client for the IBM Watson IoT platform. This is part of the IBM and Wind River collaboration aimed at IoT deployments amongst industrial customers – offering what the pair call ‘edge-to-cloud recipes’ designed to simplify the development of smart connected devices. “This integration marks the first in a series of VxWorks ...

Texas Instruments has announced a microcontroller with radios for both sub-GHz and Bluetooth low energy, claiming it to be the lowest power dual-band MCU yet. Called the CC1350 wireless MCU, it offers a range of up to 20km on a coin cell for building automation, factory automation, alarms, security, smart grid, asset tracking and wireless sensor networks. To see which ...

Fujitsu’s utilization of coding technology between antenna subarrays enables a low power 5G technology for the practical implementation of millimeter-wave high-speed communications Fujitsu Laboratories has built a prototype wireless unit incorporating inter-subarray coding technology, which makes it possible to achieve high-speed transmissions, in excess of 10 Gbps, for 5G mobile wireless base stations and access points. It has achieved these ...

Socionext will start volume shipments this month of a single-chip codec which can process decoding, transcoding and encoding of H.264/HVC video and audio signals