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sensing ‘Air-mouse’, multi-touch trackpad technology,
plus 39 developer-programable buttons and legacy IR
hardware support (to control IR-only products).
“One area we have worked hard to really further
optimize is the voice input control,” explains Nordic
Semiconductor Product Marketing Manager, John
Leonard. “This includes developing an even more robust
wireless link for wireless audio data, and 20 percent
better current consumption compared to Nordic’s
previous nRFready Smart Remote 2 solution.”
Leonard claims that developing advanced Bluetooth
Smart remotes using the nRFready Smart Remote 3
reference design has been made “check-box-clicking”
easy thanks to a newly-developed configuration Wizard
that works in the Keil development environment.
“TheWizard and underlying software is built in a modular
format that has refined the developer element down
to a list of check-boxes that allow every parameter of
the remote to be configured and fine-tuned,” explains
Leonard. “This includes large chunk function decisions
such as whether to employ a track-pad or motion
sensing, down to specifying the number of milliseconds
it takes for the remote to wake-up from sleep mode.”
In operation, the nRFready Smart Remote 3 reference
design employs Nordic’s nRF51822 System-on-Chip
(SoC) and so is designed to work as an add-on for
Nordic’s existing nRF51 Development Kit (DK). An
nRF51 DK is required to use this reference design but
is not included and must be purchased separately. The
add-on contains all the external sensor devices that can
interface with the nRF51 DK.
First of Four New NFC Solutions Released to
Quicken Design Process and Ensure Robust
Operation in Challenging Environments
With the flagship solution, PN5180, NXP
Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI), co-inventor
of Near Field Communication (NFC), announced the
beginning of a new era in the evolution of NFC to bring
intuitive proximity technology everywhere. PN5180 is
an advanced, multi-protocol (ISO/IEC 15693, Felica™,
MIFARE
®
and ISO/IEC 14443A/B) NFC frontend that
delivers more efficient, robust, and reliable operation,
even in harsh environments. Building on the success
of the PN512, PN5180 delivers four times more
output power and is designed to enable state-of-the-
NXP Announces Beginning of
New Era in NFC Technology
art readers for contactless payment without the need
of an additional booster.
“NFC moves increasingly into new and more
demanding applications, now transportation terminals
need to support EMV payment schemes and have to
interact with new payment or transit form factors
like NFC-enabled phones, wearables and even rings.
The requirements for performance, reliability and
interoperability therefore expand,” said Pradip Mistry,
vice president of research and development at Cubic
Transportation Systems. “NXP succeeds to bring NFC
to the next level in technology with the PN5180 and
its new features like Dynamic Power Control and
Adaptive Wave Shaping which enables us to deliver
an unmatched user experience to our end customers.”
the nRFready Smart Remote 3