Waveguide Attenuators at a Glance

Tim Galla, Pasternack Enterprise Comments Off on Waveguide Attenuators at a Glance

Attenuators are 2-port passive devices that can incrementally dissipate microwave energy. They have a myriad of uses and are often applied in test scenarios as padding to prevent damaging sensitive... Read More

Small Cells taking cellular to new heights with IoT tech and global deployments

Qualcomm Technologies Comments Off on Small Cells taking cellular to new heights with IoT tech and global deployments

At MWC in Barcelona, Qualcomm Technologies introduced and demonstrated new LTE-IoT features on the Qualcomm FSM Small Cell platform. The Qualcomm booth also highlighted Small Cell momentum and technology innovation... Read More

The path to high GNSS accuracy

By Thomas Nigg, Senior Director Product Strategy, Product Center Positioning at u-blox Comments Off on The path to high GNSS accuracy

For fully autonomous driving to become reality, several technologies will have to reach maturity and be rolled out in concert. One of them is affordable, scalable, and reliable high precision... Read More

Using 24 GHz Radar to Speed Commercial UAV Adoption

Abhishek Kapoor, Analog Devices Inc. Norwood, Mass. Comments Off on Using 24 GHz Radar to Speed Commercial UAV Adoption

Over the last decade, unmanned aerial vehicles and systems (UAV and UAS)—also referred to as drones—have become widely popular and gained significant interest in commercial, consumer and government markets. What... Read More

MC272561-DRAGONFLY and SmartMesh IP®

Kristof Feja, Arrow Electronics Comments Off on MC272561-DRAGONFLY and SmartMesh IP®

Introduction The MC27561-DRAGONFLY is part of Arrow’s board family called SmartEverything.  This board is a ready-to-use Internet of Things (IoT) hardware. It is Arduino IDE compatible which allows fast and... Read More

IP-Classes in Rugged Computing

Angela Hauber, MEN Mikro Elektronik GmbH Comments Off on IP-Classes in Rugged Computing

Batten down the hatches – and not just at sea Far away from protected server rooms or automation lines in air-conditioned production halls, embedded computers need to withstand the toughest... Read More

Securing IoT Nodes

Andrew Bickley, Arrow Electronics EMEA Comments Off on Securing IoT Nodes

It is not news that the Internet of things has vast potential for value creation and is being heralded as the next phase in the hyper-digitization of our world. IoT... Read More

Cooling for high-performance industrial computers Novel liquid cooling expands application spectrum for CompactPCI computers

Dipl.-Inform(FH) Manuel Murer, Wolfgang K. Weber, EKF Elektronik Comments Off on Cooling for high-performance industrial computers Novel liquid cooling expands application spectrum for CompactPCI computers

When the first electronic computer with its almost 17,500 tubes went into operation in 1946 with the ENIAC, the power loss of a good 175KW required special attention to the... Read More