Industry News

From bulky vacuum tubes to compact high performance microprocessors the evolution of electronic components over the years has always been evident.  This section covers all the recent technological advancement in the electronics industry and the new-age products that have hit the electronics market recently.

Wearable technology has opened the door to many exciting applications and has brought about the great technological revolution with much more advancement taking place at a fast pace. In the recent research conducted at Rice University, flexible carbon nanotube fibers have been developed to be woven into a fabric like t-shirt to keep gather accurate EKG…

Kryptor is a single-chip, easy-to-use, plug-and-play encryption solution for your embedded systems. This Max10 FPGA-based tool is a hardware security module (HSM) for processors supporting serial interface communication, a perfect security solution for boards like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and BeagleBone.  

Advantages of Kryptor FPGA Board

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u-blox has launched u-center 2, the next generation popular GPS evaluation software that offers advanced features to explore leading u‑blox positioning technologies. This highly intuitive GNSS receiver evaluation software runs on Microsoft Windows enables tenth-generation u‑blox GNSS technology users to configure GNSS products, evaluate their performance, improve the quality…

Renesas Electronics has teamed up with eProsima to simplify the development of professional robotics applications for IoT and industrial systems. The company announced that its EK-RA6M5 Evaluation Kit for RA MCUs is now the official supported hardware platform of the micro-ROS development framework (robotics operating system for MCUs).

The micro-ROS…

New Smart High Level Synthesis (HLS) Tool Suite from Microchip enables C++ algorithms to be directly translated to FPGA-optimized Register Transfer Level (RTL) code thereby enhancing productivity and providing ease of design.  Based on the open-source Eclipse integrated development environment, the  SmartHLS design suite uses C++ software code to…

Giving college students an opportunity to win prizes and use the real-world tools and resources to learn about the field of engineering, Digi-Key Electronics has announced to hold their annual Back2School Prize Draw sweepstakes. The 2021 Back2School Prize Draw is open to any student with a university or college email address. Submissions are open from August 25th …

@HOME kit from Digi-Key is an easy-to-use remote lab or take-home kit because all applications are accessible via a web-based user interface. It is created specifically for professors and students working remotely or at home. The company has recently announced that it has secured a global distribution partnership with Red Pitaya to offer its @HOME kit.

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XGO-Mini from Luwu, a STEM education technology company is a 12 DOF, omnidirectional quadruped robot that can interact with its surroundings using voice, image recognition, and tracking. This advanced programmable, open-source robot has 12 degrees of freedom based on inverse kinematics. It can easily act, walk, and react like a dog and is capable of movement …

By the end of September, Toyota announced to widely cut its production rate to 40 percent that will affect 14 plants in Japan and many of its North American plants

With a set of major warnings in the past week by giant car manufacturers such as Volkswagen and Toyota who provided a new picture that the automobile industry is still under major crisis…

Powered by the Qualcomm QRB5165 processor, builds upon Qualcomm Technologies’ latest IoT offerings, delivering a solution which will drive the next generation of high-performance, low-power, 5G drones

The US based global wireless and semiconductor firm Qualcomm unleashed the world’s first drone platform and reference design to offer both 5G and AI-…

Dialog Semiconductor has announced to deliver its WiRa-enabled solution to enhance Carnival Corporation’s OceanMedallion wearable devices for proximity-based locationing to help ensure passenger safety and offer enhanced cruise services. To implement WiRa and advanced multipath cancellation, Carnival selected DA14697 Bluetooth LE SoC.  In addition to Dialog’s DA1469x…

Baidu has launched its second-generation artificial intelligence chip “Kunlun 2” and its first “robocar”, a driverless EV idea designed to focus on the chip’s autonomous driving capabilities. The new AI Chip makes use of 7nm course of technology and has a computational functionality shut to 3 occasions bigger than its first-generation Kunlun chip. The semiconductor is…