By Rick Bye, Senior Product Marketing Manager, NXP Using face recognition for access control The COVID-19 pandemic highlights concerns over how many different surfaces we often touch during a typical day. For example, everyone entering a secured building, such as a workplace or after-hours hotel entrance, touches access control keypads that present an ideal surface […]
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What is Wi-Fi HaLow? Players and future
Part 1 focused on HaLow technology; this part will explore who the major players are and discuss the future of the technology. Who are the major HaLow players? A few silicon startups are taking the lead in Wi-Fi HaLow rather than the traditional major chipmakers. They include Morse Micro, Newracom, Methods2Business (an IP provider), and […]
Displays sport LED control, external LED lighting around their edges
DATA MODUL now offers two fully pre-configured monitor solutions including external LED lighting around the display edges and LED control – not to be confused with display backlight. The monitors are available with 27″ and 31.5″ display diagonals and are also equipped with a cover glass and optional suitable PCAP sensor. This custom lighting solution […]
Tester doubles as programmable USB-C hub, power delivery analyzer
USB Type-C, commonly called USB-C, promised standardized power and data delivery. Unfortunately, poorly tested devices in the market make USB-C systems unpredictable, expensive, and frustrating to consumers. Improving USB-C testing is critical to delivering on the “one connector to rule them all” promise of USB-C. Acroname announces the USBHub3c: the world’s first and only programmable […]
Serial bus exerciser, protocol analyzer handle interface development tasks
Prodigy Technovations Pvt. Ltd introduces PGY-QSPI-EX-PD, PGY-SMI-EX-PD, PGY-SMBus-EX-PD, and PGY-JTAG-EX-PD. These serial bus Exercisers and Protocol Analyzers are for the development of interfaces for consumer, automotive, and 5G applications. PGY-EX-PD is a family of leading instruments that enables the design and test engineers to test the QSPI, SMI (MDIO), SM Bus, and JTAG designs for its specifications by configuring […]
hand-held camera cube reference design enables AI at the edge
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. unveiled the MAXREFDES178#camera cube reference design, which demonstrates how Artificial intelligence (AI) applications previously limited to machines with large power and cost budgets can be embedded in space-constrained, battery-powered edge devices. The MAXREFDES178# enables ultra-low-power internet of things (IoT) devices to implement hearing and vision and showcases the MAX78000 low-power microcontroller with neural […]
What is Wi-Fi HaLow? Part 1
In the first part of this two-part series, we focus on Wi-Fi HaLow technology. Part two will explore who the major players are and discuss the future of the technology. What is HaLow? In 2017 the wireless networking standard IEEE 802.11ah, also called Wi-Fi HaLow (pronounced “HAY-Low”), was released. HaLow uses the 900 MHz industrial, […]
Resistive RAM handles unclonable cryptographic keys
CrossBar Inc. announced a new application of its Resistive RAM (ReRAM) technology for use as a physical unclonable function (PUF) in order to generate cryptographic keys in secure computing applications. While historically utilized as a non-volatile semiconductor memory, CrossBar’s ReRAM technology is now being introduced for use in hardware security applications utilizing its ReRAM based cryptographic […]
Cloud-based platform speeds development of far-edge cloud compute, data analytics, AI/ML software
Wind River has introduced its latest release of Wind River Studio. Unique to the industry, Wind River Studio is a cloud-native platform for the development, deployment, operations, and servicing of mission-critical intelligent systems from devices to the cloud. It enables dramatic improvements in productivity, agility, and time-to-market, with seamless technology integration that includes far edge cloud computing, […]
Docker containers connect Modbus TCP controllers to IIoT apps
Softing adds to its Docker technology-based edgeConnector product family. The new edgeConnector Modbus is a flexible Docker container application for Modbus TCP controllers. After edgeConnector Siemens for connecting SIMATIC S7 controllers and edgeConnector 840D for accessing data from SINUMERIK 840D controllers, Softing introduces edgeConnector Modbus. This Docker Container is suitable for connecting Modbus TCP controllers […]