| Inspiring the Evolution of Embedded Design |
| January 19, 2021 IoT Technology Focus |
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| | | Solar Harvester IC for Wearables and IoT |
| Maxim Integrated has announced the MAX20361, a single-/multi-cell solar harvester with maximum power point tracking (MPPT). The company claims it as the industry’s smallest solar harvesting solution. It’s targeted at space-constrained applications such as wearables and emerging IoT applications. |
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| | | Wi-Fi 6E Tri-Band SoC Targets Access Points |
| NXP Semiconductors has announced its new CW641 Wi-Fi 6E Tri-Band system-on-chip (SoC). The CW641 makes use of the 6GHz band and extends Wi-Fi capacity by bringing higher throughput, increased capacity, reliability and improved latency. |
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| | | Network Appliance Serves IIoT Security Needs |
| Axiomtek has announce the launch of iNA600, a DIN-rail industrial-grade network appliance designed especially for applications such as edge AI inference, cybersecurity and function virtualization. The iNA600 can handle large data transition with computing acceleration, says the company. With its modular design, it is highly flexible and can be easily integrated into existing or new networks. |
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| | | Design a Wireless Tracking Device: Smart Antenna Choices |
| Portable trackers offer a very particular set of problems for designers. In this article, Antenova's Geoff Schulteis takes a quick look at the design requirements of a portable tracking device, the choice of embedded antennas and some of the points to consider when designing a product where the performance of the antenna in situ could determine the commercial success of the product. |
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| | | Smart Metering Gear Taps Semtech LoRa Tech |
| Semtech has announced that Alpha-Omega Technology (AO-T), a developer of IoT utility metering solutions, has incorporated the LoRaWAN protocol into its new KLAX line of smart meter interface modules for enterprise and consumer utility management. AO-T’s applications leveraging the LoRaWAN protocol enable the simple deployment and retrofit of legacy metering solutions for real-time utility data transfer over LoRaWAN networks. |
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| BeagleV SBC Runs Linux on AI-Enabled RISC-V SoC BeagleBoard.org and Seeed unveiled an open-spec, $119-and-up “BeagleV” SBC with a StarFive JH7100 SoC with dual SiFive U74 RISC-V cores, 1-TOPS NPU, DSP, and VPU. The SBC ditches the Cape expansion for a Pi-like 40-pin GPIO. |
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