Ceva Launches Next-Generation UWB IP with Extended Range and Higher Throughput

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) is expanding beyond proximity-based digital keys and trackers into longer-range positioning, radar sensing and high-performance data applications. Addressing this shift, Ceva, Inc ...
Electronic Design

What’s Driving The Success Of IEEE 802.15.4 Radios?

Fig 1. Among the protocol stack layers for IEEE 802.15.4, only layers 1 and 2 belong to the standard, while the upper layers are defined by the specific protocol (e.g., ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, and ...
EDN

Sidebar: IEEE 802.15 standardization of UWB

While negotiating the FCC approval for UWB, the IEEE 802.15 member companies initiated a Study Group to adapt the emerging IEEE 802.15.3 specification to support the UWB physical (PHY) layer. At the ...
Design-Reuse

Imec Showcases World's First Sub-5mW, IEEE 802.15.4z Ultra-Wideband Transmitter Chip

With a power budget that is ten times lower than UWB’s state-of-the-art, this transmitter lays the foundation of next-gen ultra-low-power and small form-factor UWB use-cases. This is achieved while ...
EDN

IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee for new consumer apps

The first version of 802.15.4 ZigBee was ratified in 2003, with an update in 2006. Originally developed for industrial wireless sensor networks, the IEEE 802.15.4 standard is now expanding into many ...
Electronic Design

IEEE 802.15.4 Transceiver Targets ZigBee, RF4CE Remote-Control, And Smart Energy Apps

The CC2530 from Texas Instruments is an 802.15.4 radio on a chip along with an 8051-compatible MCU and appropriate interfaces that should find its way into a variety of wireless applications. Recall ...
Electronics Weekly

Embedded World: Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth and IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPAN in one module

With Matter communication in mind, Murata has combined Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth and IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPAN radios in a single module – LBES5PL2EL, which it described in detail at Embedded World in Nuremberg ...
Computerworld

UWB, Bluetooth and IEEE 802.15.3

802.15.3 is the IEEE standard for a high-data-rate WPAN designed to provide sufficient quality of service for the real-time distribution of content such as video and music. It is ideally suited for a ...
Design-Reuse

Espressif Systems Announces an IEEE 802.15.4 + Bluetooth 5 (LE) RISC-V SoC

ESP32-H2 comes with integrated IEEE 802.15.4 radio and Bluetooth 5 (LE) connectivity from a 32-bit RISC-V core. This ensures low power consumption and security for connected devices. Shanghai, China - ...
New Electronics

Imec demonstrates first sub-5mW, IEEE 802.15.4z UWB transmitter chip

Imec has showcased the first IEEE 802.15.4z impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transmitter chip at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). The device has been designed to strike ...
Hackaday

New Part Day: An ESP With ZigBee

It seems that the folks at Espressif are doing their best to produce chips to fit every possible niche in the microcontroller-with-radio market, because here comes news of their latest chip bearing ...