Arduino shield makes low power radio modules even easier

Rick Winscott of US company Quilix has married together two ‘easy’ technologies by  developing an Arduino shield for the LPRS easyRadio Advanced low power radio modules.

Winscott comments: “All you need is power, ground, and two serial-capable pins and you have reliable bi-directional communication between microcontrollers, desktops, laptops, or whatever. No frustrations over pairing, and no twiddles with configuration. I haven’t seen anything like this product in the States.”

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Teseq to acquire IFI, increasing its Presence in the RF Amplifier Market

Teseq, a European developer and provider of instrumentation and systems for EMC emission and immunity testing, intends to acquire New York-based Instruments for Industry (IFI), a leading designer and manufacturer of solid state and traveling wave tube (TWT) amplifiers.

Spectrum analyser now caters for new WLAN bandwidths

Rohde & Schwarz’ FSW signal and spectrum analyser is offering new options for analysing WLAN signals. The 20/40/80/160 MHz bandwidths defined in IEEE 802.11ac based on the proven orthogonal frequency division multiplying process are now supported. With the 256QAM modulation process, up to 8 MIMO data streams and bandwidths four times higher than that of previous standards such as IEEE 802.11n, it supports data rates up to 6.9 Gbit/s, to support future applications such as wireless HD video.   

Rugged, panel-mount trackballs are plug-and-play

ITAC Systems has announced a range of 38mm and 50mm rugged, panel-mount trackballs. The products, which are designed for installation into OEM enclosures, are plug-and-play, requiring no software or drivers. They can be used with all common communications protocols including phase quadrature, USB, PS/2, Microsoft serial, Mouse Systems and Sun, reducing inventory.

Light engines set to simplify effective LED lighting design

OMC has introduced a range of Light Engines designed to simplify LED lighting design. SPECTRALUX light engines enable luminaire manufacturers and other lighting users to produce a vast range of products that deliver excellent illumination and have an extremely long life time at particularly high luminous efficiencies, which in many cases exceed 100lm/W.

Latest PAs and LNAs from Avago target femtocells

Avago has released several new wireless products targeted at macrocell and small cell base stations and portable GPS systems. Power amplifiers in the MGA-43×28 series provide final stage gain for Picocell and Enterprise Femtocell systems, offering 34 to 40 dB of gain and power-added efficiency ranging from a high of 15% to 13.8%. The power amplifiers are implemented as a three-stage design and display performance of excellent linearity of 50 dBcadjacent-channel leakage ratio (ACLR) at 27.3 dBm output power when biased with a 5-V supply.

New 10 gigabit interconnect meets harsh-environment specs

TT electronics has extended its rugged interconnect portfolio with new products offering data rates up to 10Gbit/s in harsh industrial and military environments. Developed in response to customer requests, the mil spec high speed RJ45 & USB connector systems incorporate ABAC (MILDTL-38999 series III) or AB05 (MIL-DTL-26482) derived metal shells with full 360 degree EMC and mechanical protection.

Active noise cancellation with minimal power consumption

AMS, formerly Austriamicrosystems, has introduced two single chip active noise cancellation (ANC) solutions with integrated speaker driver ICs, which make it easier for manufacturers of Bluetooth headsets, headphones and earpieces to implement ANC.

Logic IC couplers for industrial applications support 5Mbps data rates

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced two new optocouplers that will support data rates up to 5Mbps while saving board space and reducing power consumption in industrial designs.

Raspberry Pi peripherals use optimised USB interface ICs

FTDI has added to its range of connectivity offerings with two new products that address the rapidly growing popularity of the Raspberry Pi (RPi) computing platform. The TTL-232R-RPi is a USB-to-TTL Serial UART debug cabling solution that incorporates the company’s FT232RQ high performance interface IC. This is complemented by the RPi USB Hub Module, which is designed to connect to an RPi unit and expand the number of interfaces that can be accessed downstream from a host.