In 2010 Intel paid $1.4 billion for Infineon’s wireless unit which was then supplying the modem for the iPhone. Intel promptly lost the Apple contract and has been making a big effort to win it back – reports say it has 1,000 engineers working on the project, Now, according to Bloomberg, the iPhone 7 sold …
IoTUK partners with Electronics Weekly for IoT Design conference
We are very pleased to announce that IoTUK has become a supporting partner of our IoT Design event, the one-day conference for hardware and software engineers working in the fast-growing Internet of Things (IoT) sector.
IoTUK partners with Electronics Weekly for IoT Design conference
ADC does S-band direct digitisation in space systems
The EV12AD550 1.5GSample/s analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) from e2v is designed for a high dynamic range at 4.5GHz and S-band direct digitisation in space systems. It removes the need for down conversion stages reducing size and power consumption of the overall system. The design of what the company calls synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation systems, …
Wideband clock meets 100G Ethernet jitter spec
A range of low jitter clock oscillators from IQD cover a frequency range from 1MHz up to 1.5GHz and can be used for high speed serial interfaces such as Ethernet and PCI Express. The devices, IQXO-940, IQXO-942 and IQXO-944, have a specified phase jitter performance down to between 0.9ps and 0.05ps rms max depending upon the …
8W isolated DC-DC is smaller than a square inch
An 8W isolated DC-DC converter has been designed in to a 16-pin DIP package measuring only 0.94 x 0.54 x 0.31-inch. The MDW08 family from US-based supplier Minmax offers 9-18 / 18-36 / 36-75Vdc input ranges with single and dual output models ranging 3.3 – 15Vdc delivering 8W of output power an encapsulated package. All …
Developing a lower cost MEMS test system
NI PXI and LabVIEW delivers an 11x reduction in the cost of a MEMS test system
Fujitsu wireless module uses Nordic BLE SoC
Fujitsu has announced a Bluetooth 4.2 module measuring 15.7 x 9.8 x 1.7 mm with integrated antenna based upon Nordic Semiconductor’s Bluetooth Smart SoC. The nRF52832 QFN-package wireless module has been designed around a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4F CPU with 512kB + 64kB RAM. The embedded 2.4GHz transceiver supports Bluetooth Smart, ANT and proprietary 2.4 GHz …
Stackable PC/104 module has 2Gbyte/s data bandwidth
Sundance Multiprocessor Technology, the UK-based manufacturer of embedded modules, has developed a range of boards for the “OneBank” PC/104-compatible format. Dubbed the EMC2-family, the range of industrial-grade and deployment-ready PC/104 boards are based on either a Xilinx Zynq SoC or Xilinx Artix/Kintex FPGAs. The EMC2-KU35 is the latest member and has two banks of 16-bit …
LG Chem wins contract to supply new Sohar plant with reverse osmosis membranes
LG Water Solutions is to provide its high rejection NanoH20 reverse osmosis membranes to the new 250 million litres per day desalination plant that is slated to be built in Sohar, Oman, by 2019.
Eben Upton gets CBE
Eben Upton, chief executive of Raspberry Pi, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. “The great thing about the Raspberry Pi is it’s Cambridge all the way down, designed here, and developed here,” says Upton. The Pi has sold 8 million since introduction in 2012 – more than any other UK-made …