A STAR IME has developed an ultra low power analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for medical devices and wireless sensor nodes. The ADC, which uses only 400 nW, reduces 20% of the total power consumption of an implantable 100-channel neural ...
Tags: A STAR IME, ADC, analog-to-digital converter, medical devices
Multichannel time-synchronised mesh networks based on 802.15.4 radios address many of the challenges involved in designing wireless sensor networks, write Lance Doherty, Jonathan Simon and Thomas Watteyne from Linear Technology While both ...
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The JN516x family supports JenNet-IP, ZigBee Light Link, ZigBee Smart Energy, ZigBee Home Automation and RF4CE UK based semiconducter firm NXP Semiconductors has introduced JN516x family, new ultra-low-power wireless microcontrollers ...
Tags: Wireless Microcontroller, JN516x family, semiconducter
Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine,CA,USA,which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets,says it will start volume production of its ...
Tags: RFaxis, CMOS, Mass Production, RFeICs
Everyone's talking about energy harvesting–but what exactly is it?The term is often used as a paraphrase for the whole range of low-power applications,yet the"harvesters"themselves are only one part of a larger system,writes Ingo ...
Tags: Electrical&Electronics, Energy Harvesting, battery, MEC, IPS
A major fabless semiconductor company is emerging from the UK's high tech start-up community. Toumaz,a developer of specialist medical sensors and low power wireless chips is to acquire Frontier Silicon,the digital radio chipset developer ...
Tags: UK, high tech start-up community, fabless semiconductor, Toumaz
Texas Instruments demonstrated a ZigBee Light Link implementation at Computex Taipei and announced Golden Unit status,while Atmel announced Golden Unit compliance and an evaluation kit. The ZigBee Light Link standard promises to offer ...
Following opening of the competition last Autumn and closing for applications in December,the'Technology Inspired Innovation'competition for collaborative research&development funding in the UK has now resulted in 43 projects being chosen ...
Tags: UK funds, compound semiconductor, Photonics and Electrical Systems
New standards-based,easy-to-implement ZigBee Light Link profile expected to boost wireless networked LED lighting space TAIPEI,Taiwan,June 3,2012/PRNewswire via COMTEX/--Texas Instruments Incorporated(TI)today announced the industry's ...
Tags: Ti Unveils Industry, Taipei, wireless networked, LED lighting space
ZIgBee wireless technology makes a modest Lightfair impression,but in general,proprietary remains the norm in the lighting-control schemes that are vital to SSL uptake.Leading into the Lightfair International(LFI)conference,it appeared ...
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For commercial off-the-shelf antennas to used for medical body area networks they must be able to operate in an environment that they were not generally designed for,next to the human body instead of in free space,writes Simon Kingsley ...
Tags: commercial off-the-shelf antennas, Radio and wireless networks