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 …
Orange builds IoT smart cities in France
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 …
Ireland is Sigfox-enabled for IoT
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 …
Wastewater being used to cool Apple data centers in Oregon
The new treatment facility is expected to save close to 5 million gallons a year by using recycled water instead of running the tap.
WaterWorld Weekly Newscast, June 13, 2016
A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for June 13, 2016.
Spartan Environmental Installs Ozone Water Treatment System for client in Southern US
Spartan Environmental Technologies has supplied its first turn key containerized SPARTOX ozone water treatment system to a Fortune 300 client for groundwater remediation.
Intel’s Mobile Puzzle
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 …
Sundance adds Xilinx Ultrascale FPGA to EMC-2 boards
Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Of Chesham has integrated Xilinx’s smallest Kintex UltraScale FPGA with its EMC2-family of embedded boards for the “OneBank” PC/104-compatible format. Sundance’s EMC2-family is a range of industrial-grade and deployment-ready PC/104 boards that feature either a Xilinx Zynq SoC or Xilinx Artix/Kintex FPGAs. The EMC2-KU35 is the latest member and has two banks …
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 …
Developing a lower cost MEMS test system
NI PXI and LabVIEW delivers an 11x reduction in the cost of a MEMS test system