Communications

Arccore has released the new version of its software development kit Arctic Studio and its embedded Autosar platform Arctic Core. The release 11.0.0 of the software adds support for Autosar 4.2.2 and specific communication stack importers. As a result importing a system configuration from an “ECU extract to a BSW” configuration has been improved. Adding ECU extract importers for Ethernet ...

Lattice Semiconductor has introduced a baseband processor for wireless access and wireless backhaul LTE small cells networks operating in the 60GHz band. Lattice also offers the Sil6340 and SiI6342 60GHz RF transceivers. The chips support beam-steering technology on phased array antennas. Devices that implement beam-steering require only rough alignment and can be installed quickly without specialised skills. A link can ...

Advantech, ARM, Bosch Sensortec, Sensirion, and Texas Instruments are to co-operate on a physically interchangeable standard for wireless IoT sensor nodes and have started an industry body. Based on the 22x30mm M.2 (also known as NGFF – next-generation form-factor) physical shape, developed for computer expansion boards, it is to be know as M2.COM and will combine wireless technology, a microcontroller ...

The annual Mobile World Congress highlights the latest trends in mobile technology and services, and it ran from 22nd – 25th February in Barcelona, this year.

NI has come up with an embedded design platform for prototyping LTE network nodes which will use the unlicensed frequency at 5.9GHz. Called LTE-U, this is being considered as a way of finding more radio channel capacity to meet spiraling mobile data demand. The design test bed was demonstrated at Mobile World Congress this week, running LabView Communications software on the NI ...

Farnell element14 has launched two IoT starter kits, at Embedded World 2016, featuring energy harvesting wireless sensors from EnOcean, one of them including the Raspberry Pi micro-computer board.

Plans for a global roll-out of 5G mobile by 2020 are starting to take shape. This week at Mobile World Congress the European Union (EU) and Brazil signed an agreement to develop 5G, the next generation of communication networks. Mobile World Congress: Your Electronics Weekly guide » This agreement follows similar cooperation initiatives with South Korea, Japan and China and EU ...

ARM is pushing for the wider use of the near field communications (NFC) wireless protocol in wearable devices, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. The processor firm has created a wearable reference design in its mbed open source design community, and it has selected wireless technology from ams and an STMicroelectronics secure microcontroller. The NFC design is based around the ST54E ...

Browsing among the crowded booths and enthusiastic attendees of Mobile World Congress this week, the world’s biggest showcase of mobile phone technologies, the overwhelming presence of one particular product is blatantly obvious – Virtual Reality (VR), writes Tom Wilson from Barcelona. The floors of the MWC exhibition tend to provide a good indication of the years key consumer products. Mobile World Congress: Your Electronics ...

Rohde & Schwarz demonstrated at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona an RF test set-up for LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation with four component carriers in the downlink. Two CMW500 testers each generated two component carriers with 2×2 MIMO using the 256QAM modulation method. The complete set-up can achieve a high data throughput of up to 800Mbit/s in the downlink, said Rohde & ...