Category: IC
Silicon Labs Streamlines Energy Harvesting Product Development for Battery-Free IoT
Silicon Labs' most energy-efficient Wireless SoC to date with energy harvesting-ready capabilities Silicon Labs, a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world, today announced their new xG22E family of Wireless SoCs, Silicon Labs' first-ever family...
Continue ReadingEspressif Announces ESP32-P4 SoC with Dual-Core 400MHz CPU, AI Instructions, HMI, MIPI-CSI, and more
Espressif Systems just announced their latest and greatest module the ESP32-P4. The most interesting thing about this SoC is that it doesn't have a Radio Module built-in, meaning No Wi-Fi or Bluetooth capabilities. Other than that it features a new RISC-V dual-core CPU clock at 400MHz...
Continue ReadingFrom Idea to Chip Design in Minutes – With Tiny Tapeout 6 You Can Design your Custom Silicon for Just $300
With Tiny Tapeout 6, you can design your custom ICs, get them fabricated, and then receive them on a development board, all for only $300. Matthew Venn has announced the launch of Tiny Tapeout 6, an educational program designed to assist beginners with their chip design. Participants...
Continue Readingu-blox launches new GNSS platform for enhanced positioning accuracy in urban environments
The u-blox F10 platform increases positioning accuracy by reducing multipath effects, simplifying the process of promptly locating a vehicle. u-blox, a global provider of leading positioning and wireless communication technologies and services, has announced F10, the company’s first...
Continue ReadingMicrochip’s LAN969x Series Ethernet Switches Features TSN, HSR/PRP Redundancy, and Scalable Bandwidth from 46 Gbps to 102 Gbps
In a recent press release, Microchip Technology announced their new LAN969x series of chips powered by a powerful 1 GHz single-core Arm® Cortex®-A53 CPU. This new Ethernet switch offers scalable bandwidths, time-sensitive networking (TSN), and two redundancy protocols for increased...
Continue ReadingAON1120 is a Ultra-Low-Power RISC-V SoC Designed for Always-On Edge AI Applications
At CES2024, AONDevice unveiled its new on-device machine learning chip, the AON1120. It features a RISC-V core, two NPU coprocessors, and a DSP, and operates at a remarkably low power consumption of just 260μW for full-load audio classification tasks. The AON1120 is a system-on-chip...
Continue ReadingEspressif Systems Releases ESP32-C61 A Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 SoC for Superior IoT Performance
Espressif Systems recently launched the ESP32-C61, an advanced System-on-Chip (SoC) with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (LE). Building on its predecessors like ESP32-C2 and ESP32-C3, it shares similar specifications but adds support for BLE Mesh 1.1 protocol and faster Quad SPI PSRAM,...
Continue ReadingLoad switch ICs extend battery life
Littelfuse has expanded its protection IC product line to include five load switch ICs that deliver power savings in a small package. Littelfuse, Inc. has announced the release of five load switch ICs in its protection IC product line. Featuring a small form factor and high...
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