Renesas has released an IoT system design platform that it says will significantly simplify the prototyping of IoT systems.The Quick-Connect IoT system consists of standardised boards and interfaces, enabling designers to connect a wide range of sensors to MCU development boards. The new system also delivers core software building blocks that a...

Marvell has introduced the OCTEON 10 DPU that's been designed to accelerate and process a broad spectrum of security, networking, and storage workloads required by 5G, cloud, carrier and enterprise datacentre applications.OCTEON is Marvell's response to the increased demand for data centric compute and by combining compute with hardware...

Atmosic Technologies and Globalscale Technologies are making available what is being claimed is the lowest power Bluetooth Low Energy module currently available on the market.Atmosic, a specialist in ultra-low-power wireless platforms for the Internet of Things (IoT), and Globalscale, a supplier of IoT solutions, said that with a transmit power...

The mobile industry processor interface (MIPI®) standard defines industry specifications for the design of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and hybrid devices. MIPI interfaces play a strategic role in 5G mobile devices, connected car and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The MIPI standard defines three unique physical (PHY...

IntroductionThe imminent large-scale rollout of 5G technology imposes new and tough challenges for designers of PCB, network equipment and electronic devices in general. 5G will not only represent an increase in data rates, but it will be a real revolution, with latency times reduced up to 1ms and the use of millimeter waves (mmWave) to support...

Mouser is now stocking the TMF8801-EVM evaluation kit from ams. The kit allows engineers to evaluate the operation of the ams TMF8801 1D time-of-flight (ToF) sensor for applications such as smartphones, industrial robotics, and autonomous appliances.The TMF8801-EVM includes a ToF sensor enclosure and sample glass, USB type A to micro-USB cable,...

Qualcomm Technologies has announced a new 5G mobile platform in the 7-series, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G 5G Mobile Platform.The Snapdragon 750G has been designed to enable, what Qualcomm describes, truly global 5G with enhanced HDR gaming and impressive on-device AI. To date, there have been more than 275 designs announced or in development b...

SEGGER has announced added support for the RV32E embedded processor core to its RISC-V floating-point library, which currently supports RV32I.According to SEGGER this new library will lead to a significant reduction in code size for RISC-V applications using floating point.With all arithmetic functions hand-coded in assembly language, the m...

Detection Technology, a global leader in X-ray detector solutions, today unveiled the industry’s first off-the-shelf detector subsystem for security CT (computed tomography) applications. The plug-and-play-type subsystem, branded as Aurora CT, includes ready-made, multislice detector boards and a data acquisition system (DAS). Aurora CT speed...

Detection Technology, a global leader in X-ray detector solutions, today rolled out the X-Scan C series to trim down time-to-market and total costs of industrial X-ray imaging systems. The X-Scan C is a product family of robust and reliable X-ray line cameras. The series is a perfect fit for the quality control, sorting, and grading of various good...