RF & Microwave

Novocomms, the UK antenna design and manufacturing specialist, has announced it is restructuring as part of growth plans for the next five years, including the establishment of three manufacturing divisions. The plans have the potential to create up to 300 new jobs in Birmingham, said the company. Note that we have already previously reported on 100 of these in June. Operating ...

U-blox’ LARA-R6 LTE Cat 1 and LARA-L6 LTE Cat 4 cellular modules have been certified to Radio Equipment Directive (RED) cybersecurity, having passed RED article 3.3 d/e/f requirements using ETSI’s EN 303 645 standard. “As cyberattacks and privacy concerns grow, there’s an urgent need for wireless devices and products to feature enhanced security. With stricter regulations on the horizon, manufacturers ...

Nordic Semiconductor is aiming at Bluetooth, Thread and Matter with a secured wireless microcontroller built around a 128MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor with 1.5Mbyte of non-volatile memory and 256kbyte of ram, which it describes as “ample for concurrent running of multiple protocols” and providing “double the processing power of the nRF52840 SoC while reducing power consumption” – the claim includes halved ...

Teledyne e2v is developing a fully radiation-tolerant (RT) space computing reference design, enabling high-speed data routing in space applications. Based on an Arm Cortex-A72, and with multiple high-speed interfaces, it will process and route data from various sources, such as RF front ends, image sensors and radars. Target use cases for the design include Earth observation, SATCOM applications, defence in ...

Infineon has bought the Zurich-based UWB startup 3db Access (3db). 3db delivers secured, ultra-low power and high-precision integrated UWB ranging and sensing products which enable a broad range of applications including provable secured access to valuable assets (vehicles, buildings), secured proof of proximity for seamless mobile payments and real-time high accuracy and precision localisation of connected, intelligent devices. Infineon now ...

AST SpaceMobile has announced it has achieved a space-enabled 5G cellular broadband connection, on a standard smartphone, in its latest test ahead of launching a commercial service in 2024. The connection used the company’s BlueWalker 3 test satellite and AT&T spectrum – in collaboration with Vodafone, AT&T, and Nokia – and AST SpaceMobile says it shows the promise for filling ...

For 6G to be operational indoors and out it needs an understanding of channel propagation characteristics at sub-THz frequencies, says Dr Taro Eichler. There is a growing interest in 6G, enabled by extremely high data transmission rates based on sub-THz communications. The vision is that in the 6G era, expected to be commercial around 2030, the digital, physical and human ...

Nordic Semiconductor has announced EEMBC benchmarks for its forthcoming multi-protocol nRF54H20 wireless microcontroller, which combines multiple Arm Cortex-M33 processors and multiple RISC-V coprocessors “optimised for specific types of workloads”, it said, adding that developers will be able to dynamically change between configurations for processing ability or energy efficiency. Configured for high processing efficiency, it got a ULPMark-CM score of 170 ...

In today’s evolving business landscape, companies must adapt their customer interactions and services to unlock new revenue and value-producing opportunities. The key lies in digitalization, which enables both operational and business model innovations. By increasing operational efficiency and embracing new ways of delivering value, businesses can gain a competitive edge. IT/OT convergence is essential for businesses to succeed in the ...

As the curtain has just risen on IAA Mobility 2023 in Munich on September 5, the leading Chinese provider of CMOS mmWave radar chips, Calterah, brings a most comprehensive portfolio of automotive radar SoCs at Booth A2-F31 of Mess München to the global audience. Figure 1 Visitors Showing Great Interest in Calterah mmWave Radar SoCs (please click on images to ...