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The Location Awareness Engine and Hardware Behind Nanotron’s Real-Time Location System Tracking

The Location Awareness Engine and Hardware Behind Nanotron’s Real-Time Location System Tracking

Tracking via a real-time location system (RTLS) has proven important for a variety of industries, including agriculture, manufacturing, traffic management, healthcare, and general location analytics. This article takes a look at a location engine server with ultrawideband functionality and some of the MEMS-based hardware that puts RTLS into action.


News Oct 08, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
ROSCon2018: ROS 2, Autonomous Vehicles, and ROS’s Availability on Windows

ROSCon2018: ROS 2, Autonomous Vehicles, and ROS’s Availability on Windows

Here’s a brief summary of a few sessions that touched on ROS being used in autonomous vehicles, the development of ROS 2, and the ROS’s recent availability on the Windows platform.


News Oct 02, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Molex Mega-Fit Double-Ended Overmolded Cable Assembly | Featured Product Spotlight

Molex Mega-Fit Double-Ended Overmolded Cable Assembly | Featured Product Spotlight

Molex Mega-Fit Double-Ended Overmolded Cable Assemblies provide high power density in a ruggedized, off-the-shelf cable assembly.


STMicroelectronics STEVAL-SMARTAG1 NFC Sensor Node Evaluation Board | New Product Brief

STMicroelectronics STEVAL-SMARTAG1 NFC Sensor Node Evaluation Board | New Product Brief

STMicroelectronics’ NFC Tracker evaluation board is an ultra-low power sensor node with an NFC tag, MCU, and sensors for developing IoT, industrial, retail, and other sensing applications.


Amphenol LTW Waterproof Swift USB Type-C Connectors | New Product Brief

Amphenol LTW Waterproof Swift USB Type-C Connectors | New Product Brief

Amphenol LTW Swift-GG series are USB Type-C connectors designed for automotive applications and provide all the benefits of USB Type C with an IP67 rating and high vibration resistance.


Clock Signal Management: Clock Resources of FPGAs

Clock Signal Management: Clock Resources of FPGAs

This article will review the common FPGA resources that allow us to efficiently generate and distribute clock signals throughout a system.


How to Design a Super Simple Sensor System for Industrial Monitoring Applications

How to Design a Super Simple Sensor System for Industrial Monitoring Applications

This article describes an Ethernet-connected subsystem of a larger modular sensor system designed for industrial or smart home sensing and monitoring. We will discuss a custom sensor subsystem developed for this application.


Projects Sep 12, 2018 by Mark Hughes
BrainChip to Release Biologically Inspired Neurmorphic System-on-a-Chip for AI Acceleration

BrainChip to Release Biologically Inspired Neurmorphic System-on-a-Chip for AI Acceleration

BrainChip has announced the Akida Neuromorphic System-on-Chip (NSoC), the first production-volume artificial intelligence accelerator utilizing Spiking Neural Networks (SNN).


News Sep 12, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
What You Need to Know About the TLS 1.3 Protocol and wolfSSL’s SSL/TLS Libraries

What You Need to Know About the TLS 1.3 Protocol and wolfSSL’s SSL/TLS Libraries

Security protocols, like communication protocols, are currently in competition to set industry-wide standards. What is the TLS 1.3 protocol? How does this security protocol differ from SSL?


News Sep 10, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
Does a Smart City Need to be 5G? Three Cities Implementing 5G Today

Does a Smart City Need to be 5G? Three Cities Implementing 5G Today

The terms are often used interchangeably, but you can implement a smart city with or without 5G, and 5G doesn’t need to live in a smart city. But if you don’t want to be left in the digital dust, it seems clear that the trend is to not pursue one without keeping the other in mind.


News Sep 06, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
3M Twin Axial Cable Assembly for PCI Express Extender Card Applications | Tech Specs

3M Twin Axial Cable Assembly for PCI Express Extender Card Applications | Tech Specs

3M PCIe extender and jumper cable assemblies are based on 3M’s Twin Axial cable, providing designers a dense, flexible, low-loss solution for relocating PCIe cards or bridging connections in applications such as enterprise computing and medical imaging.


new products Sep 06, 2018 by TTI, Inc
Scaling Power Racks for Data Centers: A Look at a Modular Power Shelf from Bel Power

Scaling Power Racks for Data Centers: A Look at a Modular Power Shelf from Bel Power

This News Brief takes a look at a new power shelf offered from Bel Power.


News Sep 05, 2018 by David Jones
TRACO Power TEL 10WI 10W DC-DC Converters | New Product Brief

TRACO Power TEL 10WI 10W DC-DC Converters | New Product Brief

TRACO Power’s TEL 10WI is a series of 10 W DC-DC converters designed to provide high density and efficient power conversion to cost-sensitive instrumentation, IT, and industrial applications.


Analog Devices ADP5003 Low-Noise μPMU Buck Regulator | New Product Brief

Analog Devices ADP5003 Low-Noise μPMU Buck Regulator | New Product Brief

Analog Devices' ADP5003 Low-Noise µPMU combines a high voltage buck regulator and ultra-low-noise LDO to improve efficiency and thermal performance while reducing noise in high-speed data converters and RF transceivers.


3M 25G SFP28 Direct Attach Copper Cable Assemblies | Tech Specs

3M 25G SFP28 Direct Attach Copper Cable Assemblies | Tech Specs

3M’s 1422 series of 25G SFP28 Direct Attach Copper Cable Assemblies help keep data center racks cool and easy to service.


new products Aug 16, 2018 by TTI, Inc
Measure Position and Speed Control of a DC Motor Using an Analog PID Controller

Measure Position and Speed Control of a DC Motor Using an Analog PID Controller

This article shows how to implement an analog PID controller, including adjusting of the angular position of a DC motor shaft, editing the design to control its speed, and tuning PID parameters for reliable performance.


Overvoltage Protection for Harsh Industrial Environments: An Analog Devices RS485/RS422 Transceiver

Overvoltage Protection for Harsh Industrial Environments: An Analog Devices RS485/RS422 Transceiver

LTC2879X is an Analog Devices RS485/RS422 transceiver which offers robust operation in industrial environments up to 175°C.


News Aug 13, 2018 by Dr. Steve Arar
Arm Announces Pelion IoT Platform, Combining Mbed Device Management with Data Management

Arm Announces Pelion IoT Platform, Combining Mbed Device Management with Data Management

Arm just announced a new "device-to-data" IoT platform, Arm Pelion, to combine Mbed's IoT device management with a new generation of Arm data management and connectivity tools.


News Aug 02, 2018 by Kate Smith
Silicon Labs Si540 & Si545 Ultra Series Crystal Oscillators | Featured Product Spotlight

Silicon Labs Si540 & Si545 Ultra Series Crystal Oscillators | Featured Product Spotlight

Silicon Labs Si540 and Si545 Ultra Series Crystal Oscillators are ultra-low jitter, low phase noise crystal oscillators for any frequency from 200 kHz to 1500 MHz.


3M 100G QSFP28 Direct Attach Copper Cable Assemblies, 9Q Series | Tech Specs

3M 100G QSFP28 Direct Attach Copper Cable Assemblies, 9Q Series | Tech Specs

Based on 3M Twin Axial cable technology, the 3M 9Q series 100G QSFP28 direct attach copper cable assemblies offer rack cable management for data centers.


new products Jul 26, 2018 by TTI, Inc