Communications

NXP and Canonical have ported Ubuntu Core to NXP's quad ARM Cortex-A53 core LS1043A SoC, aimed at IoT gateways and networking equipment.

AMS has come up with a new communications interface for audio devices that uses the microphone wire in a standard 3.5mm audio cable to carry power and bidirectional data with a rate of up to 16Mbit/s, as well as digital audio signals. According to AMS, this can eliminate the need for a battery in noise-cancelling 3.5mm headsets. Called Accessory Communications ...

Nordic Semiconductor has launched its first Thread SDK, which uses the IEEE 802.15.4 PHY support in the firm's nRF52840 chip.

In today’s 2017 Budget statement, Chancellor Philip Hammond has unveiled an investment strategy for bringing universal 5G internet access to the UK.

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Hardware ‘secure elements’ will defend against hacking in Sigfox low-power wireless wide-area networks, claimed STMicroelectronics as it introduced such a device. “It’s more important than ever to consider and plan the security architecture at the very beginning of the design and development of an IoT solution,” Sigfox chief marketing officer Laetitia Jay. STSAFE-A1SX is a secure element in 4x5mm and ...

Rohde & Schwarz and MediaTek collaborate on testing 5G: mm-waves for 5G radio access and over-the-air testing concepts for massive MIMO antenna arrays.

It seems likely that the first 5G network deployments will be in the 28GHz band in the US and South Korea. This jump in frequency, bandwidth and complexity for design of the radio access network  will require new test capabilities, says Rohde & Schwarz, which will show its 5G coverage measurement demonstrator at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. ...

Cobham Wireless will demonstrate what it claims is industry’s first software-defined 5G user equipment (UE) simulator, based on Verizon’s open 5G standard and down-linking at up to 10Gbit/s, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – and it has an IoT simulator – see below. “Virtualising the solution provides operators with the flexibility to test technology and share hardware, software and licenses ...

Large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) internet attacks increased 140% year-over-year from Q4 2015, according to the Q4 2016 ‘state of the internet’ security report from Massachusetts content delivery network firm Akamai Technologies, which carries a significant proportion of global web traffic. It uses data gathered by its own software to analyse threats to cloud security and discover seasonal trends. ...