4 February 2019 by Phillip Johnston Last updated 18 August 2021 Welcome to the February 2019 edition of the Embedded Artistry Newsletter! This is a monthly newsletter of curated and original content to help you build superior embedded systems. This newsletter supplements the website and covers topics not mentioned there. This month we’ll cover: The new Bluetooth 5.1 specificationPhil Koopman’s peer code review best practicesEmbedded news from around the web (there was a lot of activity this month!)Embedded job postingsUpdates to the Embedded Artistry Website Bluetooth 5.1 Released The Bluetooth SIG released Bluetooth version 5.1 in January. The Bluetooth 5.1 …
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Silicon Labs provides a Blue Gecko Starter Kit to support Bluetooth 5 development. The Blue Gecko kit is built around the EFR32 SoC line. The starter kit is modularized to support a wide variety of radio daughter boards for easy prototyping and chip comparisons. This kit provides a "mainboard" with two radio daughter boards: EFR32BG13 …
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Nordic has released a nRF52840 Preview Development Kit (PDK) to support their new nRF52840 chip. Unlike the Thingy:52 and nRF52 DK, the Preview DK supports the new long-range LE Coded PHY, making it fully Bluetooth 5 capable. The Preview DK also supports 802.15.4 for the Thread communication protocol. This kit is similar to the nRF52 …
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The Thingy:52 development kit is a a fully-loaded sensor platform that is ready for web and app connections. Like the nRF52 DK, the Thingy:52 platform is built on the nRF52832. The nRF52832 is Bluetooth 5 ready, although it does not support the new long-range LE Coded PHY. The Thingy:52 development kit is designed for developing …
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This is a great platform for learning more about BLE and the ARM Cortex-M4 architecture. It seems as if every company I've worked with in the past 6 months is using the Nordic nRF5x. The nRF52 is an "ultra-low power" SoC consisting of a Cortex-M4F MCU with an integrated 2.4GHz transceiver. Nordic also supplies software …
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7 August 2017 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 28 September 2019 Welcome to the August 2017 edition of the Embedded Artistry Newsletter! This is a monthly newsletter of curated and original content to help you build better embedded systems. This newsletter is intended to supplement the website. This month we’ll be covering: MAX17055 – a new fuel gauge chip from MaximThe Bluetooth 5 standard and changes to the PHYProcessors and development kits that support Bluetooth 5The new Bluetooth Mesh standardSDKs that support Bluetooth MeshA handy trick for when you can’t read the part numbers on a chip MAX17055 – …
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