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.
Bi-directional ESD diode protects portable devices up to 30kV
Toshiba Electronics Europe has introduced a bi-directional electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection diode which is mainly targeted at interface protection in applications. The DF2B7ASL has a minimum footprint requirement such as portable equipment.
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