Compact industrial Bluetooth 5 module is smallest, claims u-blox

Designed for tough environments, the Anna-B1 is tailored to applications for the industrial IoT, says u-blox.

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Win a Wearable Health EV Kit

Win a MAX86140/MAX86141 EV kit and learn how to anticipate and deal with real-life conditions that your wearable health and fitness monitor devices may encounter. See how the MAX86140/MAX86141 optical pulse oximeter and heart-rate sensor provides lower power and higher accuracy measurements in a smaller space.

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Imec and Renesas lower supply voltage for low power Bluetooth 5 transceiver

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.

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