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Debug & Test

The Solve: Debug Infrequent Events with R&S MXO 4 ‘Scopes - Story

January 20, 2023

Failure to identify infrequent events when debugging waveforms can cost engineering teams a lot of time and money later in the development cycle.

Consumer

2023 Will See Continued Growth for Wearables, But Not With 5G Connectivity - News

January 19, 2023

In its whitepaper, 74 Technology Trends That Will—and Will Not—Shape 2023, analysts from ABI Research have identified 41 trends that will shape the technology market and 33 others that, despite receiving plenty of speculation and commentary, are less likely to move the needle over the next twelve months.

Storage

CES 2023: Folio Photonics' Enterprise-Scale Optical Data Storage Solution - News

December 29, 2022

SOLON, OHIO. At CES 2023, Folio Photonics will showcase how it is reenergizing data storage media with an enterprise-scale optical disc data storage solution designed to improve cost, margin, performance, and sustainability.

AI & Machine Learning

cnvrg.io ML Insider 2022 Survey Shows Continued Increase in AI Investment - News

December 23, 2022

SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA. cnvrg.io, an Intel company, released findings from its 2022 ML Insider survey. The results indicated almost 50% of companies' belief in a continued increase in AI investment despite the current state of the economy. The survey also showed that a majority of organizations recognize AI's benefits, but overall adoption remains low because of a lack of AI talent and the complexity of the technology's development.

Open Source

Dev Kit Weekly: CodeBug - Video

December 23, 2022

Rome wasn’t built in a day — and neither are professional (or just experienced) programmers. Whether you’re 14 or 40, coding and programming can be a hobby, a useful skill to add to your resume, or something more. But you have to start somewhere, right? That somewhere could be this little CodeBugTM.

Networking & 5G

Skyworks and Sequans Introduce Small LTE-M/NB-IoT SiP Solution - News

December 02, 2022

MUNICH. Skyworks Solutions, Inc. and Sequans Communications S.A. introduced the SKY66431, a multi-band, multi-chip 5G Massive IoT system-in-package (SiP) solution that combines Sequans’ Monarch 2 modem with Skyworks’ RF front-end solution, creating a small, high-performing single package LTE-M/NB-IoT connectivity platform that maintains low power consumption.

Networking & 5G

Success Story: How an Open RAN PlugFest Cut Mobile Network Power Consumption by 10 Percent - Story

December 02, 2022

Unless you’re a network engineer, you probably don’t think about how much energy the mobile network infrastructure that connects our smartphones and other gadgets consumes. But if you did, you’d be shocked. According to the International Energy Agency, global data transmission networks consumed 260-340 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in 2021. That’s roughly the same amount of energy that England, the country, consumed in the same year (333.2 TWh).

Networking & 5G

Renesas' LPWAN Product Line Expanded with NB-IoT-Capable Wireless Module - News

November 21, 2022

MUNICH, GERMANY & TOKYO, JAPAN. Renesas Electronics Corporation is expanding its low-power WAN product line as part of its strategy to deliver connectivity devices used for smart cities, smart homes, medical devices and industrial applications. The RYZ024A supports Cat-M1 and NB-IoT internet connectivity independent of a gateway, consuming 1µA (microamp) in power savings mode. The RYZ024A supports extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) with an extended voltage range of 2.2V to 5.5V, making it suitable for battery-powered applications.

Networking & 5G

Septentrio Expands AsteRx SB3 Family With Ruggedized Base Station Receiver - News

November 11, 2022

LEUVEN, BELGIUM. Septentrio recently launched the AsteRx SB3 ProBase, an IP68 housed GNSS base station receiver that features quad constellation GNSS technology. The AsteRx SB3 ProBase, a complement to the company's SB3 receiver family, is designed to be an integrated base station capable of setting up local, high-precision RTK or densifying customers' existing networks, according to Silviu Taujan, product manager at Septentrio.

IoT

Arm’s New Partnerships Help Accelerate IoT Software Development - News

November 08, 2022

Arm announced its Arm Virtual Hardware solution, a cloud-based virtual modeling platform that provides models of Arm subsystems and third-party development boards to allow software developers, OEMs, and service providers to begin software development as well as software and hardware co-design without physical silicon or complex board farms. This virtual approach enables embedded systems developers to both use and scale modern development practices like MLOps and DevOps flows at scale.

Analog & Power

Agile Analog’s IP Block Set Helps Accelerate IoT Design Process - News

November 07, 2022

Agile Analog recently made available a full set of analog IP designed to accelerate IoT designs. The blocks envelop a device’s processor core and memory to provide the analog functions needed to facilitate communications between the digital and the analog aspects of IoT devices.

Processing

TI Unifies IoT Ecosystems with Matter-Enabled Wireless MCU Software - News

November 04, 2022

DALLAS. Texas Instruments (TI) introduced Matter-enabled software development kits for Wi-Fi and Thread SimpleLink™ wireless microcontrollers (MCUs) designed to simplify the Matter protocol's adoption in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The software and wireless MCUs (such as the CC3235SF and CC2652R7) can be used to create secure, ultra-low-power, and battery-powered smart home and industrial automation IoT applications that connect with devices across proprietary ecosystems.

Networking & 5G

Industry Report Finds High Demand for Wi-Fi 6E and Upcoming Wi-Fi 7 - News

November 04, 2022

LONDON. A recent cross-industry survey of technology vendors, enterprises, and service providers conducted by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) found that Wi-Fi 7 is emerging as an important innvestment area for new connectivity technology. Wi-Fi 7 is designed to supercharge current Wi-Fi capabilities by utilizing technologies such as multilink operation and time sensitive networking (TSN) — suitable for applications such as Industry 4.0 — as well as dynamically using the 6GHz spectrum with automatic frequency coordination.

Debug & Test

Spirent and MVG Power Over-the-Air Antenna Testing - News

October 21, 2022

PAIGNTON, UK. Spirent Communications plc announced that the Spirent GSS7000 GNSS simulator has been integrated into passive and over-the-air (OTA) antenna test systems from Microwave Vision Group (MVG). The output from Spirent’s GNSS test equipment closely mirrors the real world so that developers can perform representative testing.

Open Source

Dev Kit Weekly: Maxim Integrated MAXREFDES178 Cube Camera Reference Design - Video

October 21, 2022

Generally, face identification isn’t something we pay attention to, or at least I don’t. It was super cool when iPhones started using it instead of the fingerprint scan in lieu of a password, but that was a couple years ago — it’s old news, especially in the world of technology, right?

Analog & Power

Antenova’s 'Invicta' Antenna Extends Coverage for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and ZigBee Designs - News

October 14, 2022

HATFIELD, UK. Antenova Ltd. announced the release of Invicta, a compact, efficient flexible printed circuit (FPC) antenna for 2.4 - 2.5 GHz Zigbee, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth frequencies that connects to PCBs with an IPX MHF (UFL) connector and cable. The Invicta antenna features 70% efficiency on average across the 2.4 GHz band, enabling designs to operate across greater distances and through obstacles like walls, thereby expanding the coverage range of wireless devices that utilize those protocols. 

Automotive

Valens Semiconductor Successfully Completes MIPI A-PHY Interoperability Testing - News

October 12, 2022

HOD HASHARON, ISRAEL. Valens Semiconductor successfully completed a joint interoperability high-speed data transmission testing session between a Sony Semiconductor Solutions transmitter and a Valens Semiconductor receiver to demonstrate MIPI A-PHY communication features such as error correction and retransmission mechanisms.

Debug & Test

imc Test & Measurement's New Insulated Measurement Module Captures Up to 1500V - News

October 12, 2022

BERLIN. imc's recently released CANSASfit HISO-HV-4 measurement module, part of the company's CANSASfit series of compact, robust modules for CAN-based test tasks, can perform measurements in high-voltage environments — such as mobile applications and test benches in e-mobility and battery testing fields.

Analog & Power

CML Microcircuits Launches Low-Power, Cascadable Gain Blocks - News

October 12, 2022

CML Microcircuits recently released the CMX90G301 and CMX90G302 Positive Gain Slope Amplifiers, general purpose gain blocks based on the company's SµRF RFIC/MMIC design capability that are designed for wireless applications — like 4G/5G infrastructures and devices that operate in license-free bands — that operate in the 1.4—7.1 GHz frequency range.

Analog & Power

Siemens’ Calibre Platform Certified for Samsung’s 3nm Process Technology - News

October 11, 2022

PLANO, TEXAS. Samsung Foundry’s 3nm process technology now supports Siemens Digital Industries Software’s Calibre® nmPlatform tool, a solution for physical verification of next-generation integrated circuits (ICs). This certification allows customers to use the Calibre nmPlatform tool with the performance and power efficiency of Samsung’s 3nm Gate All Around (GAA) process. 

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