The Internet of Things (IoT) is proceeding at a relentless pace, prompting new applications, form factors and technologies. Here are five ways that IoT applications are driving technological innovation in the world of connectors. Increased capacity and speed i...

By Martin Keenan | 26-04-2016

System-on-Chip specialists, Imagination Technologies, and fabless supplier of low-power semiconductor radio devices Cascoda, have teamed-up to integrate Cascoda’s communications technology into Imagination’s Creator Ci40 microcomputer. This is the board at the...

By Paul Whytock | 22-04-2016

This week sees three technical collaborations that could provide the first automatic geo-referenced RF enabled map system, a DSP system-on-module innovation and a flexible haptic actuator for wearable devices. On the right track Mapping experts TRX Systems are...

By Paul Whytock | 18-04-2016

A few weeks ago I wrote about how that incredibly lightweight and microscopic material graphene was poised to become a heavyweight contender in terms of its global usage. And that statement has now been born out in a new report called World Graphene published...

By Paul Whytock | 13-04-2016

Bluetest, a specialist in reverberation chamber technology testing of wireless devices and test and measurement company Keysight have collaborated to provide what is said to be a simpler and more advanced form of OTA testing. Over-the-air (OTA) measurements ar...

By Paul Whytock | 12-04-2016

Half-bridge 15MHz Half-Bridge development boards that use eGaN FETs and high-frequency synchronous bootstrap topology have been launched by California-based power specialists, the Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC). The company says the EPC9066, EPC9...

By Paul Whytock | 31-03-2016

A module that is pre-certified, Bluetooth 4.1 compliant and features 3dBm output power for apps requiring up to a 50 metre range has been developed by Texas-based Silicon Labs. It is based on the company's Blue Gecko wireless SoC. Being 4.1 compliant is import...

By Paul Whytock | 30-03-2016

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