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BBC delivers up to one million micro:bits free to UK school children each employing a Nordic Bluetooth Smart wireless chip

Posted on March 29, 2016By RF Design

At the heart of the BBC micro:bit is a single nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart wireless technology System-on-Chip (SoC) from Nordic Semiconductor. This integrates the micro:bit’s computer brain (a 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 microprocessor) where the school child-created software code runs, and that also allows the micro:bit to both wirelessly communicate with other micro:bits, and sync to…

Ultra Wideband LTE Antenna Increases Versatility, Cuts Size and Costs

Posted on March 29, 2016By RF Design

Most Compact Form Factor Ultra Wideband Antenna Covering 3G and 4G bands from 700-2700MHz Enniscorthy, Ireland and San Diego, Calif,– Taoglas, a leading provider of IoT (Internet of Things) and M2M (Machine to Machine) antenna solutions, today launched the patent pending FXUB65 Minima compact ultra wideband flexible LTE antenna covering 2G, 3G and 4G bands…

RF Design completes Cape Epic race with Tracker live tracking u-blox MAX7 GNSS module

Posted on March 24, 2016By RF Design

Sponsored by u-blox, the RF Design team joined the 620 rider teams that completed the Cape Epic race in South Africa (647 KM) in 8 days. All teams were each fitted with specially developed lightweight tracking devices from Tracker. These devices, with embedded the MAX-7 GNSS modules, delivered live rider information, such as speed and…

At the heart of the BBC micro:bit is the nRF51822 SoC

Posted on March 24, 2016By RF Design

BBC micro:bit At the heart of the BBC micro:bit is the nRF51822 SoC from Nordic that integrates the micro:bit’s computer brain where the school child-created software code runs and allows the micro:bit to both wirelessly communicate with other micro:bits, and sync to or be updated from smartphones, tablets, and computers via Bluetooth. BBC micro:bit is…

Spatium from Qorvo is improving radar and EW power and efficiency with GaN

Posted on March 23, 2016By RF Design

Solid-State Power Amplifiers Qorvo’s patented Spatium™ RF power combining technology provides a highly reliable, efficient alternative to traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) for commercial and defense communications, radar, electronic warfare (EW) and other defense systems. Spatium solutions are readily customizable and dramatically improve broadband RF power and efficiency through patented coaxial spatial combining techniques using…

Turnkey IoT wireless mesh network solution delivers unique smartphone-based configuration, industry best range, and works with any cloud service or sensor

Posted on March 23, 2016By RF Design

Ready to deploy immediately and developed by U.S. IoT solution provider Delphian Systems, the ‘SecuRemote® Smart’ solution is built upon an ultra low power 2.4 GHz ANT wireless mesh network infrastructure using Nordic Semiconductor nRF51422 multiprotocol ANT and Bluetooth Smart SoC based modules. Delphian says SecuRemote Smart delivers an industry-leading +10dBm radio output power (with…

Coilcraft Introduces New XEL40xx Series of High Frequency Power Inductors at APEC 2016

Posted on March 22, 2016By RF Design

Cary, IL, USA – Coilcraft is introducing its new XEL40xx Series of low-loss power inductors today at the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC 2016) in Long Beach, CA.The XEL40xx Series is offered with lower inductance values (as low as 92 nH) that have been fully optimized for high frequency applications. They also offer extremely low DCR…

Nordic-powered Bluetooth Smart development board offers complete hardware solution for wearable and IoT prototypes

Posted on March 22, 2016By RF Design

Developed by Finnish design house iProtoXi, the Aistin Blue BTL3X2 development board comes in a small form factor complete with nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart solution, accelerometers, and gyroscope Oslo, Norway 2016/03/18 Nordic Semiconductor today announces that Oulu, Finland-based Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables design company, iProtoXi, has selected Nordic’s nRF51822 Bluetooth® Smart System-on-Chip (SoC) for…

Inductors for everything

Posted on March 18, 2016By RF Design

Author: Len Crane, Coilcraft – Courtesy of www.powersystemsdesign.com Date: 03/13/2016 Categories: Inductors, Magnetics, Coils & Chokes Selecting magnetics for emerging applications Electronic devices have been ubiquitous in modern life for some time. So it is perhaps easy to assume that everything necessary has already been accomplished in the world of passive components. As consumers, we are…

ATEX certified u-blox cellular module for Pietro Fiorentini’s metering

Posted on March 17, 2016By RF Design

SARA-G350 ATEX is designed for use in gas metering applications in residential and industrial areas Thalwil, Switzerland and Arcugnano, Italy – March 17, 2016 – Pietro Fiorentini S.p.a., a leading company producing components, systems and services for the regulation and metering of natural gas, has announced the launch of the RSE gas meter family,…

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