Microchip has introduced a four channel temperature sensing IC for use with remote sensing diodes. Called MCP9904, it has advanced features such as resistance error correction as well as beta compensation, the latter to support CPU diodes requiring the BJT/transistor model  – those on 45nm processes, for example. “Beta compensation eliminates temperature errors caused by …

Four channel remote temperature sensor works to -40°C

With 5G mobile communications expected to run on networks operating in the 60GHz millimetre-wave band, Jean Pierre Guillemet describes a technique for testing multi-port broadband components up to 145GHz Although vector network analysers (VNAs) are available for carrying out tests at very high frequencies from several gigahertz up to the terahertz range, the more common …

5G goes to 60GHz and multiport, testers need to adapt

There’s just one week to go until the first Electronics Weekly webinar, which involves Test & Measurment – Combining the Power of Functional Test and Embedded System Access

One week to go – Functional Test Webinar

Californian start-up MicroCore Labs has announced an 8051 soft processor core, four of which will fit into 1227 LUTs on a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA. The core is called MCL51. “Because it is based on a microsequencer, this four-core demonstration is even smaller than a single soft-core gate-based 8051,” the company founder, known simply as Edward, told Electronics …

Updated: Micro-sequencing crams 8051 into tiny FPGA space

Orange has decided to use the IoT wireless technology, known as LoRa, to connect “smart city” deployments across France. This is one of the largest IoT connected city deployments to be announced and follows pilot testing in Grenoble of the LoRa wireless standard in long range wide-area networks. The LoRaWAN protocol, which is one of …

Orange builds IoT smart cities in France

Sigfox and Irish telecoms firm VT Networks have rolled out a long-range low data rate IoT network in less than eight months. The two companies expect to connect over a million devices by 2017. Remote nodes on Sigfox networks, which are low data rate and ultra-narrowband, are expected to run for over 10 years on …

Ireland is Sigfox-enabled for IoT

The new treatment facility is expected to save close to 5 million gallons a year by using recycled water instead of running the tap.

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for June 13, 2016.

Spartan Environmental Technologies has supplied its first turn key containerized SPARTOX ozone water treatment system to a Fortune 300 client for groundwater remediation.

 

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 …

Intel’s Mobile Puzzle