IoT & Smart Cities

March 2014

Avnet Electronics to present at Freescale Technology Forum

Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, announced Strategic Solutions Architect John Weber and Global Technical Marketing Engineer Peter Fenn will be featured presenters at the April 8-11 Freescale® Technology Forum. Weber will show design options engineers can use in board-level products in

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03/31/2014

Silicon Labs shows their latest wireless MCUs at Embedded World 2014 (PSDtv)

In this episode of PSDtv Silicon Labs talks about their wireless MCUs at embedded world 2014. WIreless MCUs are at the heart of the latest cloud-enabled devices in the Internet of Things. Silicon Labs leverages mixed-signal IC design in standard CMOS to eliminate as many discretes as possible and use fewer

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03/28/2014

Key speakers will discuss their energy harvesting needs at Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe 2014

Delegates from 23 countries will converge in Berlin on 1-2 April at Energy Harvesting & Storage - Europe's leading event on the topic. The event features end users across multiple verticals presenting and attending to discuss their key energy harvesting needs. The conference and tradeshow looks at the div

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03/21/2014

The first web server, used by Tim Berners-Lee

On the 25th anniversary of the web, let’s keep it free and open

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web, for the Google Blog

This essay was posted yesterday on the Google Blog -Ed. Today is the web’s 25th birthday. On March 12, 1989, I distributed a proposal to improve information flows: “a ‘web’ of notes with links between them.” Though CERN, as a physics lab, couldn’t justify such a general software project, my boss

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03/13/2014

ARM-based Ember ZigBee SoC portfolio

Silicon Labs expands ember ZigBee portfolio for the IoT

Silicon Labs, a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, announced a major expansion to its industry-leading ARM®-based Ember® ZigBee® system-on-chip (SoC) portfolio delivering unmatched wireless performance, energy efficiency and reliability for the Internet of Things (IoT). Silicon La

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03/11/2014

Nordic Semi's BLE wireless chips expand Digi-Key’s IoT solution lineup

Digi-Key, an industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, announced a global distribution agreement with Nordic Semiconductor, a leading provider of ARM-based Bluetooth Low Energy solutions. Nordic Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra-low power (UL

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03/11/2014

Wind River expands what is possible in an RTOS for IoT

Wind River, a leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems, announced that it has reinvented the real-time operating system (RTOS) to address the market opportunities created by the Internet of Things (IoT). The latest release of VxWorks® will further reinforce the company’s leadership in

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03/06/2014

Echelon explains their IzoT platform at embedded world 2014 (PSDtv))

In this video Echelon explans their IzoT platform for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the next generation of their industrial control platform, for Power Systems Design at embedded world 2014. IzoT software, chips and modules are designed to provide an effective, safe and simple migration path to

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03/05/2014

EEMBC benchmark to verify microcontroller ultra-low power claims

The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) announced the availability of the first version of EEMBC ULPBench™, a standardized, industry-developed and endorsed method to encourage microcontroller vendors to provide application developers with accurate, reliable information that allows them to eq

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03/04/2014