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Teardown: Amazon 4th generation Echo Dot

December 29, 2022 By Lee Teschler

echo dot teardown

One of the latest incarnations of the Echo Dot boasts premium sound and an ability to pair up with Fire TV devices for a home theater audio experience. Construction-wise, there are usually a few changes from one generation of Echo devices to the next, and sometimes between early and later models of the same generation. […]

Filed Under: Applications, FAQ, Featured, IoT, Teardowns Tagged With: FAQ, mediatek, nordicsemiconductor, qorvo, semtech, texasinstruments

Inference engine hits 1,000 TOPS with sub-10 msec processing delay, 25-W power consumption

December 13, 2022 By Lee Teschler

recogni

The Recogni Scorpio is billed as the world’s first 1,000 TOPS (Peta-Op) class inference solution for autonomous mobility. The vision-inference chip enables superhuman object detection accuracy up to – 300 m in real-time under various road and environment conditions, and the ability to process multiple streams of ultra-high resolution and very high frame rate cameras. […]

Filed Under: Applications, Artificial intelligence, Automotive Tagged With: recogni

FMCW LiDAR system offers polarization information

December 7, 2022 By Lee Teschler

silc

The Eyeonic Vision System is billed as the industry’s most compact and powerful coherent vision system on the market. The new system features the highest resolution, highest precision and longest range while remaining the only FMCW LiDAR solution to offer polarization information. The Eyeonic Vision System integrates the company’s unique photonics technology into the industry’s […]

Filed Under: Applications, Consumer Electronics Tagged With: silctechnologiesinc

Front-end modules handle next-generation Wi-Fi 6/6E-enabled devices

December 6, 2022 By Lee Teschler

skyworks

The industry’s highest efficiency portfolio of Wi-Fi front-end modules (FEMs) addresses the power, performance and thermal requirements of Wi-Fi 6/6E-enabled devices in next-generation enterprise and Internet of Things (IoT) products. Leveraging Skyworks’ lab-to-fab design process and the advanced signal processing capabilities in Broadcom’s family of Wi-Fi 6/6E solutions, the Skyworks ICE TM (Incredible Current & […]

Filed Under: IoT, Products, Wireless Tagged With: Skyworks

5G LPWA ALT1350 Chipset boasts ultra-low power consumption

November 24, 2022 By Lee Teschler

sony

The ALT1350 is the world’s first cellular LTE-M/NB-IoT solution to enable additional LPWA communication protocols, as well as satellite connectivity (NTN), in a single chipset, opening the door to further innovation in the connected world. The ALT1350 by Sony is the most advanced cellular IoT solution on the market, with an architecture that resolves IoT […]

Filed Under: Embedded, radio modules Tagged With: sony

Autonomous technology and the compute environment

November 15, 2022 By Lee Teschler

recogni

Purpose-built compute technology that has sensory input to accurate perception processing provides a path forward, addressing concerns around latency, jitter, and power consumption. Contributed by Recogni Although it may not be the first technology that comes to mind when thinking about autonomous vehicles (AVs), compute plays a critical role. To understand the role of compute, […]

Filed Under: Applications, Automotive Tagged With: FAQ, recogni

MCU-compensated XOs feature high stability, low power consumption

November 15, 2022 By Lee Teschler

Q tech

The QT2020 Series of microcomputer compensated crystal oscillators provide exceptional temperature stability (up to ±20ppb at -40 to +85°C) while consuming a maximum of 90 mW. The QT2020 small form-factor package weighs just 50 gm, compared to comparable oven-controlled (OCXO) units weighing 100 gm or more. This significant improvement in size, weight, and power (SWaP) […]

Filed Under: crytals, Products Tagged With: qtechcorporation

Analog MCU front-ends enable the software-defined factory

November 14, 2022 By Lee Teschler

nxp

A new NXP analog front-end (N-AFE) family for high-precision data acquisition and condition monitoring are designed as software-configurable universal analog input devices. The new N-AFE family helps enable the software-defined factory, making it easier for operators to configure a smart factory and adjust settings based on shifting market needs. Even as factories have become smarter […]

Filed Under: Embedded, Hardware Tagged With: nxpsemiconductors

Advanced DRAM improves bit density by 35%

November 1, 2022 By Lee Teschler

micronb

The world’s most advanced DRAM double data rate 5X (LPDDR5X) mobile memory delivers top speed grades of 8.5 gigabits (Gb) per second. The 1β node also delivers significant gains across performance, bit density, capacity and power efficiency that will have sweeping market benefits. Beyond mobile, 1β delivers the low-latency, low-power, high-performance DRAM that is essential […]

Filed Under: Memory, Products Tagged With: microntechnologyinc

Teardown: Why the Kinect V2 doesn’t show “ghosts” that aren’t there

October 31, 2022 By Lee Teschler

Do you believe in ghosts? And do you believe video gaming equipment can find ghosts lurking in your house? That’s the premise of some YouTube videos that use the Xbox Kinect gaming system to display what they have claimed are ghostly apparitions. That premise has been thoroughly debunked by several YouTubers, perhaps most notably Ken […]

Filed Under: FAQ, Featured, Teardowns Tagged With: FAQ, macronixinternationalco, microchiptechnologiesinc, onsemiconductor, samsungelectronics, texasinstrumentsinc

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