U-blox has introduced Bluetooth LE modules with PSA Certified Level 3 security, based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF54L family of wireless mocrocontrollers. The modules “are qualified against Bluetooth Core 6.0 that includes Channel Sounding, enabling tracking and locating use cases”, according to U-blox. The multi-protocol 2.4GHz radio can also handle Thread, Zigbee, Matter, Nordic’s proprietary 2.4 GHz protocol and Amazon Sidewalk. ...
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RP2350 with 2.4GHz radio, Bluetooth and 16Mbyte flash
Sheffield-based Pimoroni has introduced a wireless development board with Raspberry Pi’s RP2350 microcontroller. 2.4GHz comms is through a Raspberry Pi RM2 module – a module that Raspberry Pi has yet to reveal. Update (Oct 24): Pimoroni now sells the RM2 alone on a breakout board (link below). Also on-board is 16Mbyte of QSPI flash, 8Mbyte of ram, USB-C and a ...
Stripped-down 2.4GHz-only Wi-Fi 6 radio chip for lower cost designs
Nordic Semiconductor has taken 5GHz radios out of its recent nRF7002 Wi-Fi 6 companion IC, to create the 2.4GHz-only nRF7001. “nRF7001 lowers the cost of the bill-of-materials for designs requiring single band capability for smart home, smart city, industrial automation and other low power Wi-Fi IoT applications”, it said. It “offers all the Wi-Fi functionality of the nRF7002, including compliance ...
Wireless-connected EV battery manager has ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity
Analog Devices has had its wirelessly-linked electric vehicle battery management systems certified to the new ISO/SAE 21434 standard for whole-life cyber-security risk management. It is “the highest standard of automotive cybersecurity engineering and management”, according to ADI, managing security “from concept, product development and production, to operation, maintenance, and decommissioning of electrical and electronic systems.” The company’s wireless battery manager ...
Sub-GHz and 2.4GHz tranceivers in same chip for smart metering
AT86RF215 is the first dual-band sub-1GHz + 2.4GHz transceiver compliant to IEEE 802.15.4g-2012 and ETSI TS 102 887-1, claims its maker Atmel Aimed at smart metering, it supports a variety of data rates with three modulation schemes: multi-rate and multi-regional frequency shift keying (MR-FSK), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MR-OFDM), as well as offset quadrature phase-shift keying (MR-O-QPSK). This includes the ...
Microchip expands RF power amplifier portfolio
SST, a division of Microchip, has announced two 2.4GHz InGaP/GaAs RF power amplifier modules. SST12LP17E is dc coupled and has 50? matching built in. At 2x2x0.45mm, the 8pin QFN "is the smallest fully-matched...
WaveAngle squeezes CD-quality sound into wireless guitar link
Texas-based professional sound system firm WaveAngle has squeezed CD-quality sound into an AAA-powered 2.4GHz wireless guitar link. “Wireless guitar audio is nothing new, but it has yet to take off in a big way in the mid-range market,” said WaveAngle president Sean Michaud. “Low end analogue solutions based on UHF and VHF radio have existed since the late 1970s, but ...
Top 10 most viewed Products – Touch sense demo board, wireless chip with MCU
Here are the top ten most viewed Products on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with a touch sense demo board from Microchip leading the way, followed by Nordic Semiconductor's 2.4GHz wireless device which is integrated with a mixed signal 8-bit MCU, and DSP capability for Actel's radiation-tolerant FPGAs...
Tiny wireless ECG machine can monitor heart in real conditions
Eindhoven-based bio-electronic research lab IMEC-NL demonstrates a miniature wireless ECG machine