Electronics related to the Internet of Things (IoT), and all its associated sensors, comms, security, and embedded systems.
ZTE’s chip unit, ZTE Microcircuits, which changed its nane to Sanechips, has licensed the CEVA-X1 IoT processor. Sanechips wants the Ceva IP for its Narrowband-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) product, the RoseFinch7100. Sanechips recently took part in the first large scale field test of NB-IoT using its pre-commercial RoseFinch chipset. The trial, organized by China Mobile, tested the network of the entire ...
Bosch Sensortec will put out to distribution a family of MEMS acceleration sensors for wearables.
Arrow and NXP have developed an SCM that simplifies the use of NXP’s i.MX 6 applications processor in IoT devices
Using liquid metal connections, North Carolina State University engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester. The proof-of-concept is intended to provide energy for wearables. “We wanted to design a flexible thermoelectric harvester that does not compromise on the material quality of rigid devices yet provides similar or better efficiency,” said Professor Mehmet Ozturk. “Using rigid devices is not the ...
Nordic Semi introduces a Bluetooth 5 chip for cost-sensitive applications.
Silicon Labs has introduced a multiband version of its Wireless Gecko system-on-chip device which now supports full Bluetooth 5. Designated EFR32xG13, the device family supports all Bluetooth 5 features which means twice the speed and eight times greater broadcasting capacity than Bluetooth 4. The chips feature a 2Mbit/s PHY and also integrate a new 125kbit/s and 500kbit/s coded PHY for ...
5G will need standards for many use cases. says Luis Jorge Romero
The adoption of mmWave technologies will speed the integration of IoT devices into the 5G network.
Rohm and Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) are to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) chip for predictive maintenance in smart factories. The aim is to predict machine failures in by analysing information from sensors in real-time. “AI is becoming a key enabler for predictive maintenance and performance improvement, because of its cognitive abilities such as learning, reasoning ...
Bristol-based XMOS has created a reference design for home listening devices, like Amazon’s Echo, that work with voice recognition algorithms. Based around the firm’s digital processing silicon, it converts an array of up to four microphones into a single far-field microphone with a range of 5m or more, XMOS v-p marketing Paul Neil told Electronics Weekly. It includes per-microphone acoustic ...
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