Infineon spearheads the smart home revolution with leading role in Zigbee Alliance’s Project “Connected Home over IP”
Munich, Germany – 29 September 2020 – The world’s leading smart home device manufacturers and suppliers have joined forces to develop a global standard that eases smart home implementations. The Zigbee Alliance’s working group “Connected Home over IP”, CHIP for short, aims at increasing compatibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet. As a world leading security solutions provider, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) has helped to define security features in CHIP that are both easy to integrate for manufacturers and easy to use for consumers.
“We are convinced that Project CHIP as … Read More → "Infineon spearheads the smart home revolution with leading role in Zigbee Alliance’s Project “Connected Home over IP”"
Emerson Introduces Industry’s First Pneumatic Valve System with Embedded Wireless Connectivity
“The AVENTICS G3 fieldbus platform is the first in the industry to offer wireless technology that puts valve system configuration and diagnostics at the control engineer’s fingertips,” said Enrico De Carolis, vice president of global technology, fluid control and pneumatics, at Emerson. “ … Read More → "Emerson Introduces Industry’s First Pneumatic Valve System with Embedded Wireless Connectivity"
Keysight Delivers First 256 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generator with 65 GHz Analog Bandwidth
SANTA ROSA, Calif., September 29, 2020
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced the first 256 GSa/s arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) – Keysight’s M8199A – with 65 GHz analog bandwidth in a compact 2-slot AXIe module.</ … Read More → "Keysight Delivers First 256 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generator with 65 GHz Analog Bandwidth"
Kerlink and ClearBlade Offering IoT-Edge LoRaWAN® Solution for Smart-City, Smart-Agriculture Asset Tracking
Thorigné-Fouillard, France and Austin, Texas, USA – Sept. 29, 2020, 6:00 p.m. CEST – Kerlink (AKLK – FR0013156007), a specialist in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), and ClearBlade, the industry-leading IoT-platform and edge-computing software company, today announced an out-of-the-box smart-city & agriculture-asset monitoring solution that combines their best-of-breed gateways and device management, edge-application, LoRaWAN® network-management, and IoT-platform capabilities.
With this secure, flexible, zero-touch and easily deployed solution, cities, agribusinesses, transport companies and businesses in other vital verticals can rapidly realize return on investment (ROI) by preventing theft, loss and damage of critical, … Read More → "Kerlink and ClearBlade Offering IoT-Edge LoRaWAN® Solution for Smart-City, Smart-Agriculture Asset Tracking"
Low profile, 3-phase 5kW AC-DC power supply modules deliver compact design and easy integration
September 29, 2020 – XP Power has announced the addition of a low-profile enclosure to their HPT5K0 series of high-power density, high efficiency, 5kW AC-DC power supply modules. In common with the existing products in the range, the new HPT5K0-L units feature a three-phase, three-wire & earth, 180 to 528VAC input and they carry ITE/industrial and medical agency approvals.
The new ‘-L’ designated units are supplied in a chassis mount package with a height of just 63mm (2.5”) and a footprint of 254mm x 336mm (10” x 13.25”). With 5kW of power available and efficiencies up to 94%, the units offer … Read More → "Low profile, 3-phase 5kW AC-DC power supply modules deliver compact design and easy integration"
Renesas Introduces Functional Safety over EtherCAT for 32-Bit RX Microcontrollers
Düsseldorf, September 29, 2020 ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the extension of the RX Functional Safety solution, with the release of its Functional Safety over EtherCAT (FSoE) Application Software Kit, the first software offering that supports functional safety on EtherCAT from a semiconductor manufacturer. Renesas’ RX Functional Safety solution is a solution for industrial automation applications that reduces the complexity of IEC 61508 SIL3 (Note 1) certification, an international standard for functional safety.
Renesas’ new FSoE software is based on the FSoE standard published by the EtherCAT Technology Group, the world’s … Read More → "Renesas Introduces Functional Safety over EtherCAT for 32-Bit RX Microcontrollers"
Nexperia launches Common Mode Filter with ESD protection for HDMI2.1 and DisplayPort
Nijmegen, September 29, 2020: Nexperia, the expert in essential semiconductors, has announced its new PCMFxHDMI2BA-C, a combined, highly efficient, common mode filter and ESD protection device with the widest 10 GHz differential bandwidth. It is suitable for the latest HDMI 2.1 standard up to 12G FRL, where eye-diagram tests were passed even with “worst cable model”.
Stefan Seider, Nexperia’s product manager for high-speed protection and filtering) … Read More → "Nexperia launches Common Mode Filter with ESD protection for HDMI2.1 and DisplayPort"
STMicroelectronics Raises Performance and Value for Smart, Connected Devices with Even Faster STM32H7 Microcontrollers
- Industry’s first Arm Cortex-M7-core, embedded-Flash MCUs running at 550 MHz core speed
- Scalable architecture with state-of-the-art cyber protection
- Feature-rich and functional-safety ready
Geneva, September 29, 2020 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has revealed record-breaking Read More → "STMicroelectronics Raises Performance and Value for Smart, Connected Devices with Even Faster STM32H7 Microcontrollers"
Antenova adds high performer to its 5G antennas
This brand–new antenna, Lepida SR4L054, is a wideband antenna in SMD form, designed to achieve high efficiency and performance right across the s
Lepida operates right … Read More → "Antenova adds high performer to its 5G antennas"

