Communications

Pericom Semiconductor, recently acquired by Diodes, has announced multiple PCI Express products for embedded and automotive computing. For example there are AEC-Q100 qualified signal repeater chips, which it brands ‘ReDrivers’, for longer USB 3.0 and PCIe cables. ReDrivers compensate for signal distortion, but do not digitally re-time signals – take a look at this Pericom video. As well, “PI7C9X2G308GP is ...

Sequans has completed interoperability testing of its Calliope Cat 1 LTE chipset with NTT DOCOMO. It is the first single-mode Cat 1 LTE chip solution to enter the market in Japan. Cat 1 LTE is the lowest throughput category of the existing LTE standard and can economically connect numerous types of IoT devices while coexisting with Cat 3 and 4 ...

Solar charging has often been seen as a novel, yet green, way to charge your smart device whilst on the move, offering modest charging capabilities so long as the solar panels remain in direct sunlight, writes Tom Wilson. However what if the same technology could be baked right into the glass of a smartphone display, or the face of a ...

Trenz Electronic’s TE0808 UltraSoM+ system-on-module provides design engineers with a multiprocessing environment for the development of embedded systems like 5G wireless, ADAS systems and industrial IoT applications, the company says. According to Trenz Electronic it integrates Xilinx’s Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC with up to 4GB of DDR4 SDRAM main memory with 32-bit width, up to 512MB of flash, a switch-mode power ...

Arccore has released the new version of its software development kit Arctic Studio and its embedded Autosar platform Arctic Core. The release 11.0.0 of the software adds support for Autosar 4.2.2 and specific communication stack importers. As a result importing a system configuration from an “ECU extract to a BSW” configuration has been improved. Adding ECU extract importers for Ethernet ...

Lattice Semiconductor has introduced a baseband processor for wireless access and wireless backhaul LTE small cells networks operating in the 60GHz band. Lattice also offers the Sil6340 and SiI6342 60GHz RF transceivers. The chips support beam-steering technology on phased array antennas. Devices that implement beam-steering require only rough alignment and can be installed quickly without specialised skills. A link can ...

Advantech, ARM, Bosch Sensortec, Sensirion, and Texas Instruments are to co-operate on a physically interchangeable standard for wireless IoT sensor nodes and have started an industry body. Based on the 22x30mm M.2 (also known as NGFF – next-generation form-factor) physical shape, developed for computer expansion boards, it is to be know as M2.COM and will combine wireless technology, a microcontroller ...

The annual Mobile World Congress highlights the latest trends in mobile technology and services, and it ran from 22nd – 25th February in Barcelona, this year.

NI has come up with an embedded design platform for prototyping LTE network nodes which will use the unlicensed frequency at 5.9GHz. Called LTE-U, this is being considered as a way of finding more radio channel capacity to meet spiraling mobile data demand. The design test bed was demonstrated at Mobile World Congress this week, running LabView Communications software on the NI ...

Farnell element14 has launched two IoT starter kits, at Embedded World 2016, featuring energy harvesting wireless sensors from EnOcean, one of them including the Raspberry Pi micro-computer board.