Maxim has healthy regard for reducing development time for wearable devices

Developers can save at least six months of development time using the Health Sensor Platform 3.0 (HSP 3.0), claims Maxim Integrated Products.

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MCUs integrate peripherals for sensor-based IoT applications

Sensor-based IoT applications use a combination of analogue functionality and digital control capability to meet cost, size, performance and power parameters for efficiency. In response, Microchip has combined analogue peripherals and multi-voltage operation with inter-peripheral connections in its PIC18-Q41 and AVR DB MCU families. In addition to these attributes for increased system integration and reduced signal acquisition times, they offer the convenience and efficiency of operating in a single design environment, says Microchip.

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Bluetooth LE chips enables Wi-Fi 6 to boost IoT performance, says NXP

Claiming to usher in a new phase of connectivity for gaming, audio, industrial and IoT applications, NXP Semiconductors has introduced a family of 2×2 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Dual Band + Bluetooth/Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices which enable the world’s first Wi-Fi 6 enabled gaming console, says NXP.

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Image sensor minimises distortion in machine vision and mixed reality applications

A combination of a high dynamic range and pixel design means that the AR0234CS CMOS global shutter image sensor by ON Semiconductor delivers image clarity at 120 frames per second.
The 2.3 Mpixel CMOS image sensor, with global shutter technology is designed for a variety of applications including machine vision cameras, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) headsets, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and barcode readers.

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