Today, asset tracking is a dynamic market with a very wide variety of use cases, taking advantage of almost all available wireless technologies John Leonard 2017/01/11 The asset-tracking sector has evolved rapidly since mobile phone networks provided the platform for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. Today, asset tracking is a dynamic market with a very wide variety…
It seems almost laughable now to think that voice was the driving force behind the development of the original telecommunications services. How surprised those early pioneers of telephony and telegraphy, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Guglielmo Marconi, would be to find teenagers wandering around, mobile phone in hand, downloading and watching videos as they…
The WDK1.0 DK from ON Semiconductor employs Nordic’s nRF52832 SoC to provide a complete hardware and software solution for Bluetooth low energy wearable applications Oslo, Norway 2017/01/16 Nordic Semiconductor today announces that Phoenix, AZ-based ON Semiconductor has selected Nordic’s nRF52832 Bluetooth® low energy System-on-Chip (SoC) for its Wearable Development Kit (WDK1.0). The WDK1.0 provides a…
Although people intuitively see the human body and mind as somehow distinct from the hard machinery of science and engineering, the healthcare industry has always been an early adopter of the new technologies – from the first surgical tools and prosthetic limbs to more recent innovations, like MRI scans, heart pacemakers and wearable monitoring devices….
HIGH-THROUGHPUT 5 GHZ AND 2.4 GHZ FEMS SUPPORT NEWEST GENERATION OF WI-FI DEVICES GREENSBORO, NC – January 4, 2017 – Qorvo® (Nasdaq:QRVO), a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world, has introduced a new family of 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Front-End Modules (FEMs) that pave the way for smaller, more…
Courtesy of www.mspoweruser.com The Bluetooth SIG recently released the final spec for the new Bluetooth 5 standard to OEMs, and Nordic Semiconductor has been one of the first companies to engineer it in their products. They have now posted a video demonstrating the much improved range due to the new spec, which gives you up to 4…
By Julien Happich – Courtesy of www.electronics-eetimes.com The single-chip Bluetooth low energy nRF52840 System-on-Chip (SoC) from Nordic Semiconductor includes support for new long range and high throughput features of the soon-to-be-released Bluetooth 5 specification, plus radio support for IEEE 802.15.4, more extensive Flash and RAM memory availability, and a new radio hardware architecture with increased output…
Dermot O’Shea, Co-Founder and Joint CEO Taoglas The adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has certainly been on the rise, and just about every industry in every corner of the globe has made strides forward with IoT projects. We’re seeing Smart City initiatives pop up around the world, Smart Metering projects mandated by governments,…
The QPD1017 from Qorvo is an internally matched discrete GaN on SiC HEMT that operates from 3.1 to 3.5 GHz. It provides a saturated output power of 56.6 dBm (457 W) with a gain of 16.5 dB and has a PAE of 60%. The transistor requires a supply voltage of 50 V and consumes up…
RF Amplifier by Custom MMIC www.custommmic.com The CMD240P4 from Custom MMIC is a distributed RF amplifier that operates from DC to 22 GHz. It provides flat, stable gain of 15 dB and a 1 dB compression point of +19 dBm. The amplifier has a low noise figure of 2.2 dB and +28 dBm IP3. The…
