Winbond Electronics Corporation announced a collaboration to combine HyperRAM and Apollo4 to deliver ultra-low-power system solutions for IoT endpoints and wearables. Several customers are in design with Ambiq’s Apollo4 SoC and Winbond 256Mbx8 HyperRAM Hybrid Sleep Mode (HSM), with volume production expected in 2022. HSM power consumption is about 50% if comparing to normal standby […]
Wearables
Haptics interface brings touch control to smartphone sides
The new NexusTouch sensing and localized haptic platform from Boréas Technologies allow designers to expand touch-based user interfaces on the sides of smartphones and gaming phones. The platform enables seamless context-sensitive swipes, taps, and clicks—all while delivering rich haptic feedback. Blending advanced gesture sensing with localized haptics, NexusTouch supports a range of new use cases, from finger-clicks that […]
Low-voltage CMOS clock oscillators target battery powered designs
Today, billions of electronic devices are developed to suit consumer needs. As technology evolves, devices need to run at lower and lower voltages and this means that systems may need to have multiple supply rails. Because of this IQD, a subsidiary of the Würth Elektronik eiSos Group has produced a range of frequency products that […]
Haptic engine module manages piezo actuators in space-constrained applications
Boréas Technologies unveiled the Boréas Piezo Haptic Engine (Boréas PHE), the first module to harness the high performance of piezo actuators to solve wearable devices’ most significant challenge—achieving true high-definition (HD) haptic feedback in a broad range of low-power space-constrained devices. The Boréas PHE is a major advancement over the two legacy technologies that have dominated haptics in […]
ePaper displays sized to 42 in, come in varioius colors
DATA MODUL announces its cooperation with E Ink, the world’s largest manufacturer of ePaper products and technologies. DATA MODUL is thus expanding its own display portfolio with the tried-and-tested E Ink products and is adding both segment and active-matrix displays to its range for individual customer solutions. Available in sizes from 1.10” to 42.0”, the […]
Waterproof MEMS barometric pressure sensors target smartwatch apps
TDK Corporation announces worldwide availability of the InvenSense ICP-10125, part of the SmartPressureTM family of the MEMS barometric pressure sensor platform. The ICP-10125 achieves the industry’s lowest pressure noise of 0.4 Pa RMS, attains the industry’s lowest power consumption of 1.3 µA, and ensures excellent temperature stability with a temperature coefficient of ±0.5 Pa/°C. The […]
NAND flash controllers support latest SD card spec
Silicon Motion Technology Corporation announced that its flagship SM2708 SD Express controller solution now supports the latest SD 8.0 specification and backward compatibility to SD 7.1 specification. With PCIe Gen 3 x2 interface and NVMe 1.3, the SM2708 SD Express controller solution is targeted at the advancement of applications with demanding performance levels across a […]
Integrated development environment now handles RE MCUs
Embedded developers can now use SEGGER Embedded Studio IDE with the Renesas RE Family of microcontrollers (MCUs). Embedded Studio is SEGGER’s cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for embedded systems development. The editor is quick to start up and the build process is blazingly fast, saving precious working hours. Embedded Studio contains SEGGER’s own runtime and […]
BLE MCUs incorporate baluns feature new power-saving operation mode
STMicroelectronics has extended its STM32WB* Bluetooth LE microcontroller (MCU) offering with new devices that combine entry-level features with extra power savings for longer-lasting performance. The dual-core STM32WB15 and STM32WB10 Value Line pair an Arm Cortex-M4 processor to run the main application and a Cortex-M0+ to handle Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, ensuring real-time performance from each. The radio stage has a 102dBm link […]
Development platform delivers smartphone-like UX on low-power hardware
Crank Software continues to innovate with the launch of Storyboard 7.0, a development platform built to deliver smartphone-like user experiences (UX) on low-power, tightly-resourced hardware. With increasing consumer expectations and the number of IoT-connected devices projected to increase to 43 billion worldwide by 2023, Storyboard’s new Rapid Design Import and Iteration Technology meet the needs […]
