Tag: Wireless

Get the latest news on developments in the wider community and topics including wireless, embedded and open source silicon.

Semtech Releases Open-Source LoRaWAN Gateway Software

Semtech has announced the release of an open-source packet-forwarder protocol designed for LoRa-connected gateways, and it has partnered with The Things Industries to integrate it into 700 miniature gateways to be distributed at The Things Conference this weekend. “Semtech’s LoRa Technology is enabling the devices, networks and applications (DNA) of… Read More

Bluetooth 5.1 Standard Adds Centimetre-Scale Location, Direction Finding

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced the release of Bluetooth 5.1, which brings with it a new direction-finding feature capable of detecting how far away and in what direction devices are to centimetre-level accuracy. “Location services is one of the fastest growing solution areas for Bluetooth technology, and… Read More

SiFive HiFive1 Board, Courtesy of SiFive

CRU: RISC-V’s Bumper Year, LoRaWAN Growth, cocotb 1.1, and More

The RISC-V Foundation has released a video highlighting some of the key features of the 2018 RISC-V Summit, held in Santa Clara late last year and attended by over 1,100 community members. To say that the free and open source silicon (FOSSi) movement in general and RISC-V in particular had… Read More

LoRa Alliance LoRaWAN Deployments Map (December 2018)

LoRaWAN Deployments Pass 100 Operators, 100 Country Milestones

The LoRa Alliance, which is behind the open LoRaWAN low-power wide-area network protocol designed with the Internet of Things (IoT) in mind, has announced “explosive growth” which has seen it pass more than 100 network operators in around 100 countries. Designed for minimum power draw and maximum range, LoRaWAN has… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Grows Apace, RTOS Vulnerabilities Patched, and More

The IIT Madras SHAKTI Project has celebrated a major milestone this month: the first boot of a RISC-V processor both designed and manufactured within its native India. Launched in 2014 with a focus on IBM’s Power instruction set architecture (ISA) before switching to the open-source RISC-V ISA, the Shakti Project… Read More

TechInsights Compares LPWAN Standards via Die Analysis

TechInsights’ Jefferson Chua and Daniel Yang have published a comparative piece looking at the four main low-power wide-area networking (LPWAN) technologies currently vying for the Internet of Things (IoT): LoRa, Sigfox, NB-IoT, and LTE-M. In the piece, published on Electronic Design, the pair compare the four primary LPWAN standards currently… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Design Contest, Radio Spectrum Harmisation, Mbed Linux, and More

The RISC-V Foundation has announced the launch of a design contest, in partnership with Google, Antmicro, and Microchip, which will see entrants competing to build the smallest and fastest RISC-V soft core implementations on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). One of the biggest benefits of free and open source silicon (FOSSi)… Read More

European Commission Harmonises Radio Spectrum for Short-Range IoT, RFID Projects

The European Commission has announced a plan to harmonise the radio spectrum allocations for short-range devices in a pair of popular frequency bands, to help support Internet of Things (IoT) project development and deployment. Adopted as what is known as an “Implementing Decision,” the European Commission’s plan will see additional… Read More

CRU: FOSSi Growth Scares Arm, Verilator 4.0 Launched, and More

Storage giant Western Digital has published full instructions for building the Gnome Desktop variant of the Fedora Linux distribution for RISC-V, targeting the SiFive HiFive Unleashed development board. As part of Western Digital’s push to ship more than a billion RISC-V cores per year, as it moves away from… Read More

A Fernvale Kit in Ground Electronics Housing

Sysmocom Discounts Fernvale Open-Source GSM Development Kits

Sysmocom’s Harald Welte has announced a steep discount on his company’s stock of Fernvale kits, development boards put together by Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang and Sean ‘Xobs’ Cross for cellular networking projects, dropping the price per kit from €110 to €58.82 (excluding VAT.) Unveiled during a presentation at the 31c3… Read More

Iridium, Amazon Partner on Globe-Spanning Satellite IoT Network

Satellite communications giant Iridium has announced a partnership with Amazon’s Web Services arm to launch a globe-spanning cloud-powered communications network for the Internet of Things (IoT): Iridium CloudConnect. Based on Iridium’s constellation of 66 cross-linked communications satellites, Iridium CloudConnect ties the company’s satellites into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud… Read More

OsmocomBB SDR PHY Project Achieves GSM-on-Any-Frequency Milestone

OsmocomBB SDR PHY, a project to replace the currently-proprietary Layer 1 of the Osmocom GSM mobile baseband stack, has announced a major milestone: unlocking the ability to run a cellular network on any radio frequency, including unlicensed frequencies. The Osmocom project was founded with a laudable goal: to create a… Read More