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Panasonic shrinks Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy module for IoT

Tue, Nov 26, 2019

The low energy PAN1740A Bluetooth 5.0 module is compact and has a fast boot time for IIot and smart home applications as well as remote controls.

The module is the successor of the PAN1740 Bluetooth module. The PAN1740A is an optimised version, offering a quicker boot time and supporting up to eight connections to create more advanced applications. It can be used as a standalone application processor or as a data pump in hosted systems. The device is optimised for remote control units (RCU) requiring support for voice commands and motion/gesture recognition.

The Bluetooth Low Energy firmware includes the L2CAP service layer protocols, Security Manager (SM), Attribute Protocol (ATT), the Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) and the Generic Access Profile (GAP). All profiles published by the Bluetooth SIG, as well as custom profiles, are supported.

The footprint is only 9.0 x 9.5 x 1.8mm and features a Dialog DA14585 board and an Arm Cortex-M0 microcontroller. The operating temperature range is -40 to +85 degrees C and the supply voltage range is 2.2 up to 3.3V.

The fast boot is a benefit to industrial IoT (IIoT) devices, like connected sensors or human machine interface (HMI) devices, says Panasonic. Smart home and building automation devices like lighting systems, metering applications, remote controls, trackers or smart home nodes will benefit from the PAN1740A’s low power consumption, says Panasonic.

Panasonic develops diverse electronics technologies and solutions for customers in the consumer electronics, housing, automotive, and B2B businesses. The company celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2018 and operates 582 subsidiaries and 87 associated companies worldwide.

Panasonic Industry Europe is part of the global Panasonic Group and provides automotive and industrial products and services in Europe. As a partner for the industrial sector, Panasonic researches, develops, manufactures and supplies key electronic components, devices and modules up to complete solutions and production equipment for manufacturing lines across a broad range of industries. Panasonic Industry Europe is part of the global company Panasonic Industrial Solutions.

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ADI announces quad-channel member of RadioVerse family

Fri, Nov 22, 2019

Designed to support base station applications (including single and multi-standard 3G/4G/5G macrocell base stations, massive multiple input multiple output (M-MIMO), and small cell systems, the ADRV9026 is the latest member of Analog Devices’ RadioVerse family.

The quad-channel, wideband RF transceiver offers quad-channel integration with the lowest power, smallest size, common-platform solution, according to Analog Devices.

It is supplied in a 14 x 14mm BGA package and is claimed to be the smallest size, lowest power transceiver for base transceiver stations. The small size reduces footprint and enhances form factor flexibility.

It also reduces power consumption by 50% compared with the previous generation, ADVR9009, for increased radio density and enables open radio access network (ORAN) small cell designs with lowest system power and cost, the company continued.

The integrated, high performance software defined radio supports up to 200MHz bandwidth and covers all bands from 650MHz to 6GHz.

Other features are the quad-channel transmitters and receivers with dual-channel observation receivers, local oscillator (LO) frequency of 650 to 6,000MHz and a maximum receiver/transmitter bandwidth of 200MHz. Maximum observation receiver/transmitter synthesis bandwidth is 450MHz.

There is also multi-chip phase synchronisation for all local oscillators and baseband clocks.

Future software upgrades for new features will include external local oscillator support, extending the local oscillator frequency down to 75MHz, with Filter Wizard to support custom profiles.

A common platform design for 3G, 4G and 5G reduces complexity, development costs and time to market, says Analog Devices. The single-chip FDD/TDD simplifies hardware and software development and a common application programming interface addresses multiple applications.

For macro base stations or small cell designs the ADVR9009 reduces product development cycles for band and power variants and enables modular architecture for scalable radio solutions. An evaluation kit is also available.

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Fanless embedded system is palm-sized for digital signage

Fri, Nov 22, 2019

The latest fanless embedded system from Advantech is the EPC-U2117. The palm-sized system uses the latest Intel Atom E3900 processor technology to give a 30 per cent CPU performance enhancement and a 45 per cent graphic performance boost, says the company.

The EPC-U2117 is designed with dual display output, multiple I/O and a wide range of 12 to 24V DC power inputs, making it suitable for smart vending machines, digital signage and smart kiosks. The EPC-U2117 is compatible with Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, and Linux OS and has Advantech’s WISE-PaaS DeviceOn intelligent software integrated for remote system monitoring and management.

The EPC-U2117 is a palm-sized metal chassis which measures only 170 x 117 x 52.6mm for mounting as a desktop PC, or via wall, or DIN-Rail mounting. The aluminium, passive heatsink thermal management is designed for -20 to around 60 degrees C.

There are two expansion slots including one M.2 for Wi-Fi or GPU module, and one full size Mini PCIe for 3G/LTE connection or mSATA storage. EPC-U2117 reserves four antenna apertures to support wireless connection.

The thermal design and two independent add-on modules enable the EPC-U2117 to be used in outdoor or harsh environments and in space-limited applications, such as outdoor vending machines and passenger information systems.

Customers can directly use the EPC-U2117 system from different power supplies without extra adapters. EPC-U2117 has multiple connectivity and expansion options including one RS-232 and one ccTalk. Intel’s latest Intel Atom E3900 processor suits the graphic and processing parameters of smart vending machines or smart kiosks and digital signage. The COM port can also be customised to MDB and RS-422/485 for device control and payment device. There are also four USB 3.0 ports, one audio jack, dual gigabit LAN ports and CANBus for general system control.

Multiple storage is supported, including on-board eMMC up to 128Gbyte, mSATA, and 2.5-inch SSD/HDD for flexible storage options. Customers can install operating systems and key data in eMMC for security protection and reliability, assures Advantech. If a customer requests larger storage capacity and high data transfer, they can use mSATA or SATA SSD.

EPC-U2117 comes with Advantech’s WISE-PaaS DeviceOn software, which offers remote management, system monitoring for better device performance, security, and reliability, and predictive maintenance. WISE-PaaS also supports BIOS/FW OTA to upgrade the system and devices with latest firmware to keep everything running at peak performance.

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Temperature sensor delivers power savings for mobile monitoring

Wed, Nov 20, 2019

Typical temperature reading accuracy of 0.25 degrees C, low operating and standby current, make the STMicroelectronics STTS22H temperature sensor particularly suitable for temperature and heat-flow monitoring in asset trackers, shipping-container loggers, HVAC systems, air humidifiers, refrigerators, building automation systems and smart consumer devices, says the company.

The STTS22H is I2C- and SMBus 3.0-compliant and supports flexible operating modes including configurable output data rate (ODR) down to 1Hz, a power-saving one-shot mode and an interrupt pin that supports SMBus alert response address (ARA). This allows the sensor, as an SMBus slave, to signal the application if a user-programmed upper or lower temperature threshold is exceeded. Programmable I²C/SMBus slave addresses allow up to two STTS22H sensors to share the same bus.

Power consumption is very low, drawing just 2.0 microA at 1Hz ODR and 1.75 microA during periodic one-shot measurements, to extend the running time of battery-powered devices. In standby mode with the serial port inactive, the STTS22H draws just 0.5 microA (typical). The 1.5 to 3.6V operating voltage range allows use with various power sources such as a small lithium cell.

The fast-acting sensor has a conversion time of 5milliseconds and provides 16-bit temperature data. The package’s metal slug minimises thermal resistance to ensure fast settling at the ambient temperature, says ST. The sensors are delivered factory-calibrated and maintain the 0.25 degrees C typical accuracy from -10 to 60 degrees C, eliminating any need for user calibration.

The STTS22H is in production now as a compact , low-profile 2.0 x 2.0 x 0.5mm, six-lead UDFN.

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