Microchip has announced a simplified version of its GestIC gesture recognition chip. Dubbed MGC3030, it is design to detect hand gestures near the surface of a flat panel – a display or a plain surface. It implements ‘approach wake-up’, an ‘air wheel’, ‘flick gesture’ detection, and touch detection – one feature less than the earlier MGC3130, which also detects X-Y ...
Sub-threshold transistors have allowed a 32bit ARM Corex-M4F microcontroller to run at 35µA/MHz, and sleep at 100nA with the real-time clock (RTC) running. Announced by University of Michigan spin-out Ambiq Micro, it uses technology invented at the University and developed through collaboration foundry giant TSMC. Sub-threshold operation – where low supply and gate voltage means mosfets are either ‘off’ or ...
Electric Paint from London-based company Bare Conductive is now available from RS Components. Electric Paint is an electrically conductive liquid wire, which can be used as a cold-soldering medium or conductive adhesive. Non-toxic, solvent-free, and water-soluble it can be used for prototyping, repairing PCBs, and painting circuits and sensors on any surface. Along with the liquid wire, the supplier Bare ...
Segger’s latest middleware offering is designed to secure embedded designs for internet connected devices. Called emSSL, the middleware is designed to integrate with Segger’s embOS/IP or, alternatively, any IP stack that supports plain sockets, or any bidirectional communications channel. emSSL supports TLS version 1, 1.1, and 1.2 out of the box and provides modern cipher suites that offer robust authentication, ...
The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) runs from Tuesday 6 January – Friday 9 January in Las Vegas, showcasing the latest developments and trends in the world of consumer electronics. Bookmark this page to keep up to date with the latest news of interest to the electronics design industry. 8 January 2014 CES: LEDs and imagers get serious in 2015 ...
Let’s look beyond the internet of things (IoT) the embedded world is moving into the zone of “software-defined everything,” according to Wind River’s chief strategy officer Gareth Noyes. Wind River says it continues to address IoT applications, but in a keynote presenation at the Embedded World conference in February, Noyes will move the IoT discussion forward to describe the role software-based ...
The internet of things is not happening yet, says a executive at processor firm ARM. Despite the marketing hype around the market for internet-enabled wristbands and fitness monitors, the market is being sen as slow to develop. ARM, one of the biggest promoters of the market, does not yet see the internet of things as its biggest market opportunity, an ...
Element14 has launched a second hi-fi audio card for Raspberry Pi, this time for the A+ and B+, called the Cirrus Logic Audio Card. Previously it introduced a hi-fi card for the model A and B based on the same WM5102 chip – which was branded Wolfson until Cirrus bought Wolfson. “The Cirrus Logic Audio Card offers Raspberry Pi A+ ...
Two Raspberry Pi computers are to be taken into space. British Astronaut Tim Peake will take the Raspberry Pis to the International Space Station as part of a school coding competition organised by UK Space and the European Space Agency. School students will be asked to devise and code their own apps or experiment to run on a Raspberry Pi ...
Microchip has released the fourth-generation of its JukeBlox multi-room audio platform. The Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module is based on Microchip’s DM920 Wi-Fi network media processor, which has 2.4 and 5GHz 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, USB 2.0 and Ethernet. It has dual 300MHz DSP cores, and a PC-based graphical user interface gives access to a library of speaker-tuning DSP algorithms, including a 15-band ...
