Fundamentally the Kalman filter is a sensor and data fusion algorithm. It uses the control inputs of a particular system combined with a substantial amount of measurements from sensors to rapidly create an estimate of the system's current operational state. Th...

By Paul Whytock | 23-03-2016

Specialists in voice and music connectivity, XMOS, has developed and launched the xCORE Array Microphone and claims it is the most flexible microphone aggregation solution for voice user interfaces (VUI). VUI enables man-machine interaction via human speech an...

By Paul Whytock | 22-03-2016

A 12V output digital DC/DC converter module that offers up to 25A current handling and 300W of power to deliver closely regulated voltages to point-of-load (POL) DC/DC regulators have been developed by power electronics specialists Ericsson.  The module employ...

By Paul Whytock | 18-03-2016

Graphene is incredibly light and weighs a mere 0.77mg per square metre yet is many times stronger than steel despite being only an atom thick. Graphene: A Game-Changer in Material Science Everyone in the electronics business has heard of these sheets of honeyc...

By Paul Whytock | 17-03-2016

What is claimed as the world’s lowest power and smallest twelve degrees-of-freedom (DoF) wireless smart sensor dev kit for connectivity applications has been developed by power management specialists Dialogue Semiconductor. It can output real world orientation...

By Paul Whytock | 15-03-2016

Solar power systems by their very design have inefficiency problems when it comes to power loss. This occurs when the DC current generated by solar panels is changed to AC current. This process is enabled by passing the current through an inverter circuit. A c...

By Paul Whytock | 10-03-2016

Test and measurement company Anritsu has demonstrated peak throughput for an LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) device and network simulator using 3CA (3x Carrier Aggregation) and 4x4 MIMO with 256QAM modulation. The demonstration employed devices featuring the Qualcomm Sna...

By Paul Whytock | 09-03-2016

The other week I returned from the excellent Embedded World exhibition in Nuremberg which in my opinion is now one of Europe's best electronics exhibitions and ranks right up there with its Munich-based rival Electronica which happens later this year. But coul...

By Paul Whytock | 09-03-2016

Although newer technologies have replaced electromagnetic relays in some applications, electromechanical relays still have a lot to offer. These robust and versatile relays suit high voltage applications or those that require galvanic isolation between termina...

By Martin Keenan | 02-03-2016

Embedded World Exhibition, Germany: Electronic design engineers must be able to perform complex measurement tasks quickly and accurately and making its debut at the show was Rohde & Schwarz' R&S RTO2000, a fast and compact lab oscilloscope for multi-do...

By Paul Whytock | 25-02-2016

Embedded World Exhibition, Germany: A wireless-focused Gecko family of multiprotocol system-SoCs designed to provide flexible connectivity options for Internet of Things (IoT) devices has been launched here at the Nuremberg show by Silicon Labs. The SoCs integ...

By Paul Whytock | 24-02-2016

Embedded World Exhibition, Germany: Dissipating sufficient heat from small packages is a long-standing design challenge but industrial systems engineers may well be interested in an IO- Link dual-channel transceiver that dissipates the lowest heat in what Maxi...

By Paul Whytock | 23-02-2016

Often the unsung heroes of electronic design, passive components are present in every piece of electronic equipment from consumer electronics to electric vehicles to spacecraft. Though not often lauded as ‘game-changing’ like semiconductor devices, passive com...

By Adam Chidley | 18-02-2016

The integrated development environment (IDE) technology sector is a pretty crowded and competitive area of business these days and new systems entering it need to have some attention grabbing features rather than a meaningless list of shameless superlatives th...

By Paul Whytock | 17-02-2016