Lattice Semiconductor took home one of the two gold medals in the Embedded Computing category in the recently completed 2022 Leap Awards for product innovation. The LEAP Awards celebrates the most innovative and forward-thinking products serving the design engineering space. Lattice Semiconductor tied for the gold in the Embedded Computing category, which includes microcontrollers (MCUs) […]
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Matter development kits simplify smart home designs
Qorvo announced the availability of Matter-compatible development kits to immediately create smart home Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that comply with the newest version of the industry standard. The Qorvo Matter kits are pre-certified for Matter after successfully passing all test events. With the final certification of the standard expected in the fall of 2022, […]
MIL-rugged 3U OpenVPX 5-slot chassis enclosure enables forward compatibility
Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division has debuted an innovative MIL-rugged 3U OpenVPX 5-slot chassis enclosure that shares a common mounting solution with its popular PacStar 400-Series 4-Slot Smart Chassis for PacStar 400-Series Modules, widely used today in numerous U.S. Army deployments. With ~50,000 PacStar 400-Series Modules and Chassis currently fielded by the DoD, the new PacStar VPX […]
3U/6U OpenVPX computer boards, peripherals, ATR-style chassis target defense apps
General Micro Systems introduced a new product family of 3U and 6U OpenVPX computer boards, peripherals, and ATR-style chassis for use in U.S. Army ground, air, communications, and weapons systems. The “X9 Venom” family of 21 products will be available by early 2023, starting first with the 3U and 6U single-board computers (SBCs) based upon […]
NeoMesh protocol software reduces power consumption, improves monitoring, network stability
NeoCortec has announced the release of Version 1.5 of its NeoMesh protocol. The new software reduces power consumption and improves monitoring and network stability. In the new protocol, data packets can be aggregated which cuts power consumption per packet transported, or enables more packets to be delivered using the same overall power budget. V1.5 also […]
Digital pixel readout IC features 120 dB dynamic range, 700 fps speed
Senseeker Engineering has announced the availability of the Calcium RP0033, an advanced digital pixel readout IC (DPROIC) with > 120 dB dynamic range and a frame rate of up to 700 frames per second. The 20 µm p-on-n pixel and 640 x 512 format is an industry-standard that allows the Calcium RP0033 chip to be […]
LTE-M: delivering a future-proof IoT
By Dima Feldman, VP of Product Management and Marketing at Sony Semiconductor Israel The CAT-1 LTE modem was initially defined in 2008 as a low-cost, low-power alternative to connect IoT devices that needed to transfer limited amounts of data. However, vendors and network providers at that time focused on higher throughput. The actual device introduction […]
Relay feature that extends LoRaWAN coverage for metering, utilities, smart cities
The LoRa Alliance announced that it has expanded the LoRaWAN link-layer standard with the addition of a relay specification. Relay allows for battery-operated, easy-to-deploy network coverage extensions at a fraction of the cost of adding additional gateways. This allows LoRaWAN to achieve excellent coverage in use cases requiring deep indoor or underground coverage, or relay data […]
MPUs feature built-in vision AI accelerator for image recognition, multi-camera image support
Renesas Electronics Corporation has expanded its AI-capable RZ/V Series of microprocessors (MPUs), with a new device that enables AI processing of image data from multiple cameras, offering a new level of highly accurate image recognition for vision AI applications. Equipped with two 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 cores, the new device is capable of delivering high computing […]
Microcontroller boosts automotive security
NXP Semiconductors has announced the NCJ37x Secure Element (SE), an automotive-qualified secure microcontroller with advanced cryptographic accelerators and physically built-in electrical attack resistance for various security-critical automotive applications such as smart access key fobs, Qi 1.3 authentication, or car-to-cloud communication. The device supports the protocols from the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) and its passive NFC […]
