A new 15 Degrees-of-Freedom (DOF) SmartBond Multi-Sensor Kit supports sensor connectivity in the Internet of Things (IoT). Built on Dialog’s DA14585 SmartBond System-on-Chip (SoC), the kit allows engineers to easily connect sensors to the cloud at the lowest power and smallest footprint. Said to support more sensors than any other on the market, the kit […]
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MCUs incorporate chip-level security, arm TrustZone technology
With the booming growth of Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints, security is sometimes an afterthought for many designers, increasing the risk of exposing intellectual property (IP) and sensitive information. To address the growing need for security, the new SAM L10 and SAM L11 MCU families are now available from Microchip Technology Inc. The new MCU […]
Image recognition SoC integrates four 2-GHz cores
Optimum Semiconductor Technologies, Inc. announced the GP8300 image recognition SoC. The GP8300 dramatically reduces chip cost, area, and power consumption for image recognition and object detection in a broad range of products such as self-driving cars, autonomous vehicles, smart cameras and other IoT edge devices. Created in 28nm technology, the GP8300 includes four 2GHz ‘Unity’ CPU […]
Standard provides industry-accepted framework to enable performance and security while accelerating innovation and market growth in IoT, 5G and AI
The OpenFog Consortium’s OpenFog Reference Architecture for fog computing has been adopted as an official standard by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA). The new standard, known as IEEE 1934, relies on the reference architecture as a universal technical framework that enables the data-intensive requirements of the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. “We now have […]
eSIM chip loading with connection credentials
STMicroelectronics is now the first embedded SIM (eSIM) manufacturer to be accredited by the GSMA for loading eSIM chips with connection credentials such as certificates and operator profiles before shipping. The eSIMs, customized with connection credentials, enable smaller form factors, greater security, and increased flexibility. Chip-scale, permanently embedded, and electronically reprogrammable, eSIMs save space inside smartphones […]
IoT sensor nodes include accelerometers, magnetometers, barometer, and gyro
ROHM and Kionix are introducing the RoKi Sensor Node, a key component in the new RoKi IoT Platform. The sensor node utilizes Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52840 Bluetooth 5/Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) advanced multiprotocol System-on-Chip (SoC), offering better throughput and longer range compared to the Bluetooth 4.2. It also has better coexistence with other wireless devices, and an increased broadcast […]
Arduino expansion board enables quick sensor environment setup
ROHM announced the availability of a new sensor shield (expansion board) equipped with 8 sensor boards (e.g. accelerometer, barometric pressure, geomagnetic, heart rate sensors, etc.) designed for use with existing open platform MCU boards such as Arduino, and mbed. The SensorShield-EVK-003 is the latest sensor evaluation kit offered by ROHM. The updated kit bundles 8 individual sensor […]
Software option simplifies in-field set-up of sub-GHz IoT devices
Silicon Labs has released new software options for its Wireless Gecko portfolio, enabling simultaneous sub-GHz and 2.4 GHz Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) connectivity on a single chip. This Silicon Labs solution enables commercial and industrial IoT applications to combine long-range sub-GHz communications with Bluetooth connectivity, simplifying device setup, data gathering and maintenance. By avoiding the complexity […]
ARM SoCs support EdgeX Foundry IoT designs
Cavium, Inc. announced support for EdgeX Foundry. Hosted by The Linux Foundation, EdgeX Foundry is a vendor-neutral open source project building a common interoperability framework to facilitate an ecosystem for IoT edge computing. Available immediately on the OCTEON TX family of products, including the CN80xx/81xx and the CN83xx series, EdgeX Foundry hosts a full hardware- and OS-agnostic […]
BLE SoCs get Bluetooth mesh support
Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG)-compliant mesh support has been extended to the widely used SmartBond Bluetooth low energy System-on-Chip (SoC) family of devices from Dialog Semiconductor plc. Dialog is rolling out mesh support for the latest SmartBond products, starting with the DA14682 and DA14683, and then closely followed by the DA14586 and the DA14585, including […]