Nordic Semiconductor news focuses on this company’s leadership in ultra-low-power wireless communication, particularly Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Thread, and cellular IoT. Their SoCs power a wide array of smart devices, wearables, and sensors. Recent innovations include AI-ready platforms, enhanced security features, and expanded development ecosystems. Nordic’s commitment to low-power design makes them a go-to for IoT engineers. For Electronics Weekly readers, Nordic news provides vital updates on wireless connectivity, embedded design, and scalable solutions for connected products.
Nordic Semiconductor has updated its Fuel Gauge software to v2.0. This is the battery health system for its nPM1300 and nPM1304 power management ICS. The release adds State-of-Health estimation, adaptive battery modelling, and long-term fleet analytics capabilities, says Nordic. Basically, extending battery management for a wider range of power-constrained IoT products. Fuel Gauge Fuel Gauge v2.0 runs on any host ...
Nordic Semiconductor has brought out a new reference design enabling secure, interoperable access control solutions for commercial and residential applications using Aliro and Matter. The release coincides with the Aliro 1.0 specification. Developed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), Aliro replaces physical keys, cards, and fobs with secure mobile credentials that work across reader types, devices, and manufacturers. It supports ...
By transforming performance data into actionable insights through edge processing, sports tracking solutions will help athletes, coaches and teams reach their full potential, says Thomas Søderholm. In today’s world of sport, the difference between winning and losing can come down to the finest of margins. Results are routinely decided by milliseconds, millimetres or blink-and-you-missed-it moments. Yet even precise metrics such ...
Insight SIP will offer three variants of its ISP2454-LX module, based on Nordic’s nRF54L15 core. All three variants are based on the same core nRF54L15 core radio and processor, and have the same integrated antenna offering class leading radio performance. All three variants are pin and footprint compatible, allowing manufacturers to easily build variant products with different characteristics. They are ...
At CES, Nordic Semiconductor announced a wireless MCU with a 128MHz neural processing unit, 512kbyte of ram and 2Mbyte of non-volatile memory. Called nRF54LM20B, it is aimed at battery-powered local AI processing with no need for a cloud connection. It is also the company’s first large memory nRF54L processor to get the Axon NPU, acquired when Nordic bought Atlazo in ...
Nordic Semiconductor has had its nRF9151 cellular wireless IoT module certified for satellite network use on Skylo’s service. “The certification ensures compliance with Skylo’s satellite network spanning 36 countries and more than 60 million square km of coverage, enabling developers to build IoT devices that maintain connectivity even in areas without terrestrial coverage,” according to Nordic. It enables building “a ...
Nordic Semiconductor is expanding its nRF54L Series development options with the nRF7002 EBII board for Wi-Fi 6 connectivity. The nRF7002 EBII plug-in board adds Wi-Fi 6 capabilities to Nordic’s nRF54L Series Development Kits (DKs), enabling developers to create high performance, energy-efficient, Wi-Fi 6-enabled IoT solutions. Based on Nordic’s nRF7002 Wi-Fi Companion IC, the nRF7002 EBII allows product developers using Nordic’s ...
Sateliot and Nordic Semiconductor are boasting an industry milestone with the space-based completion of a 5G IoT transmission for a standard commercial cellular IoT device. This was via Sateliot’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. The demo consisted of sending an end-to-end message using Nordic Semiconductor’s standard nRF9151 low power cellular IoT module. Without any hardware changes, the nRF9151 module ...
Nordic Semiconductor is aiming at Bluetooth LE and Matter applications with a wireless microcontroller equipped with 2Mbyte if non-volatile memory and 512kbyte of ram. Made on a 22nm process, nRF54LM20A, will have a 128MHz Arm Cortex-M33 main processor and a RISC-V co-processor, USB and up to 66 GPIOs. The 2.4GHz radio will support Bluetooth LE channel-sounding and Matter-over-Thread, and will ...
Rutronik is stocking an evaluation board for a power management IC (PMIC) for wearables. The IC, Nordic Semiconductor’s nPM1304, has a 4 – 100mA linear battery charger with programmable termination voltage, and four power outputs via two 200mA dc-dc converters and two 50mA LDOs – the LDOs can also be set-up as 100mA load switches. “nPM1304 is configurable via an ...
