At this year’s International Solid State Circuits Conference (San Francisco, USA), imec and Renesas Electronics will present a 0.8V lowpower Bluetooth 5 transceiver. The low battery life offers up to 50 per cent improvement, for IoT applications where numerous tiny sensor nodes are embedded in the environment.
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Tiny amplifiers deliver high performance for challenging system designs
From Texas Instruments come a tiny operational amplifier (op amp) and low-power comparators at 0.64 mm2.
u-blox introduces “world’s smallest” LTE Cat M1 and NB-IoT multimode module
According to u-blox, the SARA‑R412M is the world’s smallest multi-mode LTE Cat M1, NB-IoT (NB1), and quad-band 2G solution to offer global configurability in a single hardware version.
Skyworks introduces FEM for Bluetooth Low Energy/802.15.4/Thread/ZigBee
Supporting Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth Smart, 802.15.4, Thread and ZigBee applications, the SKY66114-11 is the latest 2.4GHz integrated RF front-end module (FEM) from Skyworks.
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