Reference Design
ROHM Releases REF68005, REF68006, and REF68004 Reference Designs for Three-Phase Inverters with EcoSiC SiC Molded Modules
ROHM has released three reference designs REF68005, REF68006, and REF68004 for three-phase inverter circuits incorporating its EcoSiC brand SiC molded modules HSDIP20, DOT-247, and TRCDRIVE pack. The designs are available on ROHM’s website. Designers can use the provided data to deve
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Kneron Face Recognition Module Achieves Zero-Error Results in ISO 30107 and 19795 Biometric Security Testing
Kneron announced that its Face Recognition Module v1.0 has recorded zero-error performance in independent testing against the ISO/IEC 30107 (Presentation Attack Detection) and ISO/IEC 19795 (Performance Testing) standards. The month-long evaluation was performed by Fime, a laboratory accre
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750W motor-drive reference board in tiny outline for home and industrial equipment
STMicroelectronics has made available the EVLDRIVE101-HPD (High Power Density) motor-drive reference design featuring a 3-phase gate driver, STM32G0 microcontroller, and 750W power stage on a circular PCB just 50mm in diameter. The board features extremely low power consumption in sleep mode, below
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3D sensor fusion reference design by Lattice for autonomous applications
Lattice Semiconductor announced a new 3D sensor fusion reference design to accelerate advanced autonomous application development. Combining a low power, low latency, deterministic Lattice Avant-E FPGA with Lumotive’s Light Control Metasurface (LCM) programmable optical beamforming technology, the r
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Cirrus Logic, Intel, and Microsoft to collaborate on PC reference design
Cirrus Logic, Intel, and Microsoft are working together to develop a new PC reference design. This collaboration integrates Cirrus Logic's audio and power semiconductor ICs with Intel's upcoming client processor, codenamed Lunar Lake, aiming to enhance laptop audio and improve battery life and devic
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TDK offers obstacle detection demo kit to develop products using its ultrasonic sensor modules
Obstacle detection by autonomous robots can be achieved using ultrasonic sensors. TDK makes ultrasonic sensors for such applications. To support development, TDK is offering a demo kit for its mechanically decoupled ultrasonic sensor module USSM1.0 PLUS-FS . This component can be used for obstacle
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Wi-Fi module evaluation board from GainSpan for IOT
GainSpan has launched a starter kit board based on GS2200MIZ Wi-Fi mini module. GS2200MIZ is the small module comparable to a size of a penny. GS2200M Starter Kit Board is an evaluation and development platform for GS2200Mxx-based designs provided with Arduino (host or shield) and Pmod compatib
2 min readIoT gateway ref design based on Linux running on NXP's i.MX processor
NXP Semiconductors has unveiled a new modular IoT Gateway design reference solutions for large node networks (LNNs) to support wireless communications protocols such as Thread, ZigBee and Wi-Fi. IoT Gateway solutions not only supports different wireless protocols, it also offers design engineers to
4 min readSOC chip, software, and hardware development kit for wearable-design by MediaTek
After the Qualcomm’s turn, its now the MediaTek focusing on the wearable electronics market. MediaTek is making available chips, software, and hardware development kit for quickly designing the popular wearable devices. MediaTek is offering a new Hardware Development Kit and expanded it’s LinkIt dev
4 min readIOT Kit enables embedded boards with instant cellular IoT connectivity to cloud
Telit released built-in cellular connectivity enabled IOT Development Kit with cloud connectivity to its own IoT Portal. Telit claims this kit can reduce IoT solution prototyping from weeks to hours. It is used not only to develop standalone IoT prototypes and also interfaced boards which are d
3 min readIIoT reference design helps in designing secure sensor to cloud data chains
Core issues related to system security in Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) needs to be resolved in the installation process. To make your IIoT design secure, MAXIM has made available a new reference design called MAXREFDES143. It provides security against fake sensor data throughout the data cha
3 min readA reference design for industrial IOT sensor data acquisition
Fujitsu and CRATUS released a complete, edge device platform to expedite the development of Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) wireless sensing and control products for OEM applications. The new BlueBrain platform features embedded hardware, software and industry standard interfaces and periphe
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