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embedded world 2020 Announces It Will Take Place As Planned Amid Coronavirus Fears

embedded world 2020 Announces It Will Take Place As Planned Amid Coronavirus Fears

All About Circuits received confirmation that a major trade show, Mobile World Congress 2020, had been axed due to coronavirus fears.


News Feb 13, 2020 by Luke James
What Is the Light Convergent Reflective Sensor on OMRON’s New Sensor Eval Board?

What Is the Light Convergent Reflective Sensor on OMRON’s New Sensor Eval Board?

Let’s take a look at the 2JCIE-EV, which comes with sample code and supports a wide variety of sensing applications.


News Feb 12, 2020 by Robert Keim
Arm Adds Machine Learning and Neural Processing IP to Its AI Platform

Arm Adds Machine Learning and Neural Processing IP to Its AI Platform

Arm’s Cortex-M55 and its Ethos-U55 NPU are designed to deliver a combined 480 x leap in machine learning performance.


News Feb 11, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
New Regulations in the UK and California Raise Stakes of IoT Security

New Regulations in the UK and California Raise Stakes of IoT Security

Government officials are proposing and ratifying laws that will push greater IoT security at the software and hardware level.


News Feb 10, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors: When Research Becomes Reality

Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors: When Research Becomes Reality

Silicon carbide and gallium nitride are gaining ground in a market that has long been dominated by silicon. What does the rise of wide-bandgap materials tell us about the relationship between research and engineering?


News Feb 07, 2020 by Robert Keim
STMicroelectronics Joins Global Alliance Board to Establish International IoT Standards

STMicroelectronics Joins Global Alliance Board to Establish International IoT Standards

STMicroelectronics (ST) has joined the Board of Directors of the Zigbee Alliance, a major step forward towards plans to guide the adoption and evolution of the IoT-friendly wireless standard.


News Feb 05, 2020 by Luke James
Murata Debuts “World’s Smallest LoRa Module”

Murata Debuts “World’s Smallest LoRa Module”

The Type 1SJ is designed for ISM bands ranging from 868 MHz to 916 MHz, including those employed in the US, Europe, and Asia.


News Feb 04, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Upcoming embedded world 2020 Demonstrates the Latest Developments in Embedded System Technologies

Upcoming embedded world 2020 Demonstrates the Latest Developments in Embedded System Technologies

The embedded world Conference is the world’s leading meeting place for the embedded community, and it is returning again for its 18th year.


News Feb 03, 2020 by Luke James
A Difference of Business Models: Semiconductor Companies with End-user Products

A Difference of Business Models: Semiconductor Companies with End-user Products

Some traditional semiconductor companies step into the end-user market and some do not. What companies are making this move and how does it affect the industry as a whole?


News Feb 02, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
Four Up-and-Coming Semiconductor Start-ups are Sparking Innovation

Four Up-and-Coming Semiconductor Start-ups are Sparking Innovation

In this article, we will take a look at a few up-and-comers and discuss their promise in the silicon industry.


News Jan 31, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
Industry’s First Intelligent, Peer-to-Peer Cloud Computing Platform Leans on Open Hardware Security

Industry’s First Intelligent, Peer-to-Peer Cloud Computing Platform Leans on Open Hardware Security

Subutai's P2P hardware computing system is designed for many tasks, including IoT and blockchain.


News Jan 30, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
Digilent’s New Dev Boards Help C and C++ Designers Interface With FPGA

Digilent’s New Dev Boards Help C and C++ Designers Interface With FPGA

Diligent’s Eclypse Z7 and Genesys ZU are designed to speed development for projects based on Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 and Zynq Ultrascale+.


News Jan 30, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
NXP Tacks On Near-field Communication to Two New Bluetooth MCUs

NXP Tacks On Near-field Communication to Two New Bluetooth MCUs

The QN9090 and QN9030 are Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) devices that integrate Arm Cortex-M4 CPUs.


News Jan 29, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Hyundai and Analog Devices Team Up for “Industry’s First All-digital Road Noise Cancellation System”

Hyundai and Analog Devices Team Up for “Industry’s First All-digital Road Noise Cancellation System”

Analog Devices' Automotive Audio Bus (A2B) technology uses a daisy-chain topology and combines power and data into a single twisted pair.


News Jan 29, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
Fieldscale and ST Introduce Simulation Software for STM32-based Capacitive Touch Sensors

Fieldscale and ST Introduce Simulation Software for STM32-based Capacitive Touch Sensors

Fieldscale’s SENSE simulation software allows OEMs to develop touch-enabled devices with far less hardware prototyping.


News Jan 28, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
DesignCon 2020 Showcases New Design Tools, Continuing Education, and Career Development

DesignCon 2020 Showcases New Design Tools, Continuing Education, and Career Development

Five thousand industry professionals and more than 175 suppliers will be on hand to present their latest design tools, technologies, and new advancements.


News Jan 28, 2020 by Cabe Atwell
Toray Industries Communicates Wirelessly Across UHF Band With a Printed Semiconductor

Toray Industries Communicates Wirelessly Across UHF Band With a Printed Semiconductor

Toray Industries recently claimed that they were the first in the world to communicate wirelessly across the ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) band.


News Jan 27, 2020 by Lisa Boneta.
Three Recent IoT Platforms That Show Smart Home Security Isn’t Just a Software Problem

Three Recent IoT Platforms That Show Smart Home Security Isn’t Just a Software Problem

Here are a few developers that have taken extra precautions to bake security into IoT components at the silicon level. 


News Jan 22, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
One Month Into 2020, What’s New With 5G?

One Month Into 2020, What’s New With 5G?

Just a few weeks into the new year, many companies are progressing 5G to make 2020 the "year of 5G."


News Jan 21, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Socionext Side Steps the Pitfalls of Cloud Computing with New Edge Computing Devices

Socionext Side Steps the Pitfalls of Cloud Computing with New Edge Computing Devices

BOXiedge is a 24-core mini-server driven by an SoC clocked at 1GHz. What about this solution speaks to the trend toward edge computing?


News Jan 16, 2020 by Robin Mitchell