Paul Golata, Mouser, explains how you can express your designs with the Microchip MPLAB Xpress dev board.

  Paul Golata, Mouser, talks about shaping smarter cities, farming against the grain and intelligent analogue solutions for smart agriculture in deep space.

The BlueCoin hearing and motion sensing platform from STMicroelectronics (ST) is an integrated Bluetooth development system that incorporates low-power, high-performance 9-axis inertial and environmental sensors and a cluster of four digital MEMS microphones that are coupled with a powerful STM32F4 microprocessor. It is in stock at Mouser Electronics.

The S71KL512SC0 HyperFlash and HyperRAM Multi-Chip Package (MCP) from Cypress Semiconductor is available at Mouser Electronics. This memory subsystem solution combines high-speed NOR flash memory for fast-boot and instant-on with a self-refresh DRAM for expanded scratchpad memory in a reduced footprint, low-pin-count package that suits space-constrained and cost-optimised embedded designs.

The PolarFire Evaluation Kit from Microsemi, which allows designers to evaluate the PolarFire FPGA product family is now being shipped by distributor Mouser Electronics. The flash-based PolarFire field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) deliver 100K to 500K logic elements at up to 50% lower power consumption than equivalent SRAM-based FPGAs.

The MAX30004 biopotential analogue front-end (AFE) from Maxim Integrated is in stock at Mouser Electronics. The device is a single-channel biopotential heart-rate detection AFE solution for wearable medical applications, such as chest bands and single-lead wireless patches for heart rate monitoring. It eliminates the need to extract and process electrocardiogram (ECG) data on its microcontroller for high-motion environments.

The Wireless Input Output (Wio) Tracker from Seeed Studio is an open source gateway that allows for faster GPS solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) by tracking nearly any moving thing and uploading that data wirelessly. It is an Arduino-compatible development board that integrates Bluetooth 3.0 and GPRS into a single board for quickly and easily developing location-tracking solutions.

The Digi XBee Cellular 3G global embedded modem is in stock at Mouser Electronics. Designed to help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) avoid time-consuming and expensive FCC and PTCRB end-device certifications, the modem enables engineers to quickly and easily integrate 3G (HSPA/GSM) with 2G fallback connectivity into their machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) designs.

The LMX2594 wideband PLLatinum radio frequency (RF) synthesiser from Texas Instruments (TI) is now being shipped by Mouser Electronics. Part of TI’s PLLatinum series, the LMX2594 enables designers to easily synchronise the output of all onboard PLLs, saving design time for multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO), beamforming, and other applications.  

Mouser Electronics, along with celebrity engineer Grant Imahara, has released the third videoin the Shaping Smarter Cities series, part of Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together program. In the latest video, Imahara travels to Tokyo to meet with top executives and engineers from Mirai and discuss new developments in vertical farming.

The MAXQ1061 DeepCover cryptographic controller from Maxim Integrated is in stock at Mouser Electronics. Designed to protect the confidentiality, authenticity and integrity of software IP, communication and revenue models, the MAXQ1061 is a turnkey security solution that enables engineers to add an extra layer of protection to Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), smart metering, network appliances and other connected embedded systems.

The cloud is becoming an increasingly important part of the design of a system that connects to the Internet of Things (IoT), as Mark Patrick, Mouser Electronics, explains.

Mouser Electronics is a Silver Sponsor of the 2017 Microchip MASTERs Conference which takes place at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort in Phoenix, Arizona (16-19 August). The MASTERs offers an in-depth exchange of technical information between customers and Microchip subject-matter experts, including the company's technical partners and design partners.

It is clear over the past few years that wearable devices have moved forward and are continuing to do so. From their early role as novelty gadgets and sports accessories to become more powerful and generally more useful, who knows what is next. Guest blog by Mark Patrick, Mouser Electronics.

Amphe-Lite gray zinc nickel (ZnNi) metal connectors from Amphenol Industrial are available from Mouser Electronics. Part of the Amphe-Lite commercial subminiature connector series, these RoHS-compliant connectors feature zinc-over-electroless-nickel shell plating to withstand harsh environments.

The MAX77650 and MAX77651 power management ICs (PMICs) from Maxim Integrated are now being shipped by Mouser Electronics. These ultra-small, ultra-low-power PMICs integrate voltage regulators with a charger and current regulators to reduce external component count when designing small lithium-ion battery-operated products.

The DE10-Nano development kit from Terasic Technologies, a platinum member of the Intel FPGA Design Solutions Network, is now being shipped by Mouser Electronics. The DE10-Nano kit is a robust hardware design platform built around an Intel System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA, which combines a processor, peripherals, and an FPGA fabric into a single, user-customisable device.

The SX128x 2.4GHz transceivers from Semtech are available at Mouser Electronics. Part of Semtech’s SX1200 line of ultra-low-power wireless transceivers, the half-duplex radio frequency (RF) transceivers are able to withstand heavy interference and transmit over long ranges, and are one of the first of their kind to integrate time-of-flight functionality for a broad range of RF and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

Two ultrasonic signal processors and drivers, the PGA460 and PGA460-Q1, from Texas Instruments (TI) are now being shipped by distributor Mouser Electronics. Available in both automotive (PGA460-Q1) and non-automotive (PGA460) options, these devices are ultrasonic sensors that support wide-distance object detection at low power, making them well suited to address a broad range of ultrasonic position sensing and robotics applications.

The XLamp XHP70.2 LEDs from Cree are in stock at Mouser Electronics. These second-generation Extreme High Power (XHP) LEDs deliver up to 9 per cent more lumens and 18 per cent higher lumens-per-watt (LPW) than the first-generation XHP70 LEDs. The LEDs feature the same 7.0mm × 7.0mm footprint as the previous generation and provide an easy drop-in upgrade for customers with existing XHP70 designs.