Nordic Semiconductor-powered development platform delivers rapid prototyping solution for IoT and connected home applications

Nordic collaborates with Skyworks Solutions and notWired.co to provide long range, low power, Arduino-compatible evaluation kit Oslo, Norway 2016/12/16 Nordic Semiconductor today announced that Denver, CO based notWired.co (formerly Embedded Masters) has released the C-nRF52-SKY66112-11 Bluetooth® low energy (previously known as Bluetooth Smart) long range Arduino-compatible evaluation kit. The evaluation kit is the result of…

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u-blox modules underpin South Korea’s smallest battery-powered 3G tracking device

Industry’s smallest GNSS module, u‑blox EVA‑M8M, at the heart of new asset tracker Thalwil, Switzerland – December 20, 2016 – u‑blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, today announced that two of its products have been used by Cobilsys to create South Korea’s smallest battery‑powered asset tracking device.   The…

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Nordic Semiconductor is named 2016 ‘Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company’ by the Global Semiconductor Alliance

Nordic Semiconductor today announces that it has been voted the ‘Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company’ (achieving $100 to $500 million in annual sales) in 2016 by the members of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA). The award was announced during an official 2016 GSA Awards ceremony hosted December 8, in the U.S. at Santa Clara, California….

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New golf rangefinder wearables use u-blox GNSS technology to help players improve their game

Voice Caddie GPS Watch and Band take advantage of compact, low‑cost location detection components Thalwil, Switzerland – December 14, 2016 – u‑blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, today announced its components are at the core of two new cutting‑edge GNSS products. The golf rangefinder wearables were launched by Voice…

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Emergency personnel tracking

By John Leonard December 14, 2016 Firefighters, security guards and health workers routinely risk their lives whilst trying to protect people and their property from harm. It’s vital that risks are minimized as much as possible. Technological advances present new ways to help meet this need. A firefighter enters a burning office block to try to save workers…

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Qorvo New Product Announcement

www.qorvo.com Announcing the latest additions to Qorvo’s innovative RF portfolio of GaN transistors and Wi-Fi front-end modules (FEMs), which serve a wide range of defense and commercial applications, including radar, communications, avionics and customer premise equipment (CPE). These high-performance solutions simplify RF for designers worldwide and are available at Qorvo’s authorized channel partners. 50V GaN…

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Counterfeit products and u-blox brand misuse

u‑blox has detected counterfeit u‑blox modules that are sold through non‑official sales channels and internet platforms, such as ebay or AliExpress. The products look very similar to the original u‑blox products, but they come from sources that copy our designs and use chipsets that are not sold by u‑blox or one of its authorized re‑sellers….

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Nordic Semiconductor announces that its nRF52840 and nRF52832 SoCs and their supporting software are Bluetooth 5-ready within a week of Bluetooth 5 being officially launched by the Bluetooth SIG

This includes a suite of Bluetooth 5-ready software, released today, that will allow Nordic customers to immediately start building next generation applications based on the latest Bluetooth 5 standard using Nordic’s latest nRF52840 and the popular nRF52832 System-on-Chips (SoCs). Bluetooth 5 introduces enhanced range, data throughput and broadcast capacity options that will redefine product horizons…

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LTE: is speed what everyone needs?

By Stefano Moioli, Director Product Management Cellular, u-blox Developers of the first analogue cellular networks that began to proliferate in the 1980s would be amazed to see how far cellular technology has advanced in the intervening thirty years or so – if they’d been entirely out of the loop in the meantime. While their networks…

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Taoglas GWLA.10 2in1 GPS & Dual-Band Wi-Fi Ceramic Loop Antenna

Multi-Band Application 1575.42MHz GPS and 2.4/5.8GHz Wi-Fi Omnidirectional Tiny Size, High Efficiency Surface Mount Dims: 3.2*1.6*0.5mm Product Links The GWLA.10 GPS * 2.4/5.8GHz 2in1 Embedded Ceramic Loop antenna is a high efficiency, miniature SMD, edge mounted ceramic antenna for GPS and Wi-Fi, WLAN, Zigbee, Bluetooth, and 802.11ac applications where PCB space is limited, such as hand-held…

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