ADI has announced an optical sensor for gesture recognition, which improves sensing accuracy and reliability by measuring a subject’s position, proximity, and gestures from a single sensor. Solutions requiring multiple sensors are often inaccurate, as the sensors “see” objects differently from varying angles making the signals difficult to combine. The single-point sensing used in the …
TI launches retimers
TI has introduced three retimers which enable an extended signal range over long traces, connectors and cables without degradation of signal integrity. These devices expand TI’s high-performance retimer portfolio, and support flexible, cost-optimized system design, enabling designers to speed their products to market while maintaining optimal performance. The retimers improve signal quality by removing jitter …
Top Ten Automotive IC Vendors
Thanks to IHS for this one – the top ten automotive semiconductor suppliers last year: $bn NXP 4.1 Infineon 2.7 Renesas 2.7 ST 2.0 TI 1.8 Bosch 1.5 ON 1.1 Toshiba 0.7 Micron 0.7 Sanken 0.7
Call for more support for London’s IoT start-ups
With London Technology Week taking place this week, Jim Bowes, CEO and co-founder of digital consultancy Manifesto, suggests ways London can encourage future growth in its internet of things (IoT) technology sector. The capital has been successful at attracting digital technology and software start-ups, but Bowes says more can be done to support research in …
Testing the RF circuit for IoT success
Buzzwords like Industry 4.0, the internet of things (IoT), mobile computing, and cloud computing can currently be found in many headlines in magazines. The common theme throughout is the development of RF communications systems, writes Wolfgang Bartels of Rigol Technologies. Behind all these applications you will find the technologies like LTE, 3GPP, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, …
RoHS updates
Be aware there was (and may still be) a missing sentence in the consolidated version of EU ROHS in the EU website.
The Big Play
As Peter Thiel’s book Zero to One points out there’s no point starting a business where there’s loads of competition. You can’t make money. Taxi-hailing apps are a business which has attracted a large number of competitors, yet Uber has raised $15 billion in backing. Don’t Uber’s backers realise that any cab company can run …
Irish town networks LED street lights with Silver Spring mesh technology
The LED street light system in County Mayo also ties into smart utility meters as part of a broader IoT energy play.
Amazon EBS now supports cross-account copying of encrypted snapshots
Starting today, you can copy encrypted Amazon EBS snapshots between accounts, a capability previously supported only for unencrypted snapshots. Now you can easily copy encrypted snapshots between your development, test and production environments or between different department and project accounts. It also makes it easier for you to follow AWS security best practices which include copying encrypted snapshots to separately managed accounts, in the same or other regions, to provide an extra level of account isolation.
Docker Datacenter on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
This Quick Start automates the deployment of Docker Datacenter (DDC) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Docker Datacenter is an end-to-end platform for agile application development and container management. It offers organizations a CaaS (containers as a service) solution for deploying their apps, both on premises and in the cloud.