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New software puts Bluetooth Mesh on old hardware

With the official release of Bluetooth mesh networking, Silicon Labs is implementing it on existing silicon with three software packages. Bluetooth mesh is a protocol that will run on top of any Bluetooth 4.0 device. It does not need Bluetooth 5 hardware, Silicon Labs marketing manager Mikko Savolainen told Electronics Weekly. It relies completely on Bluetooth Low ...

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24pin ATtinyAVRs get 16kbyte of flash

Microchip has added 16kbyte flash options to its ATtiny AVR microcontroller family and, despite the extra flash, the devices are pin and code compatible with the recently released ATtiny817 series of MCUs, according to the firm. “There is more growth and innovation in the AVR MCU portfolio now than at any point in the past ...

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Raspberry Pi based product qualification programme for professional users

Raspberry Pi has introduced an official qualification programme for organisations building Raspberry Pi single-board computers into products.

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LTC buck converter has differential VOUT remote sensing

The LTC7150S is a 20V, 20A monolithic synchronous buck converter with differential VOUT remote sensing.

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Plessey offers mid-power LEDs for general lighting applications

Plessey has extended  its LED product portfolio into a variety of mid-power LED packages and now offers lighting equipment manufacturers a complete and competitive portfolio of solid-state lighting products and solutions for all general illumination market applications. Plessey’s mid-power LED product offering, called Midion, includes products with efficacy up to 210 lm/W, said the firm, ...

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Vishay trench Schottkys cut voltage drop

Vishay expands its surface-mount 'TMBS' trench MOS Barrier Schottky rectifiers with 10 1A and 2A devices

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Two PLLs and a VCO in one chip for RF and IF synthesis

CML Microcircuits is offering two phase-locked loops and a VCO in one chip. Called CMX979 is designed to implement an RF synthesiser at the same time as an IF synthesiser. The RF synthesiser operates over 2.7-3.6GHz with a integrated VCO and PLL, and is capable of operating between 338MHz and 3.6GHz via a configurable output frequency ...

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Diodes trench Schottkys cut voltage drop

The SDT series of Schottky diodes from Diodes is claimed to deliver superior performance to planar-type ones.

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Samtec delivers 14 Gbps FireFly dev kit

Samtec, the Indiana interconnect specialist, has brought out a 14 Gbps FireFly FMC Development Kit

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Toshiba BLE supports Bluetooth Mesh

Toshiba says that its line-up of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) products now offers support for the Bluetooth Mesh standard.

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