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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.
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.
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