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Tracking CO2 in the Environment with XENSIV PAS Sensors

Randy Scasny

A better environment contributes to improved health and productivity. Increasing environmental awareness has spurred the development of accurate and affordable monitoring solutions. Carbon dioxide (CO2) sensors can sense rising CO2 levels allowing re...
- 12 Feb 2022
Xiao BLE Sense nRF52840

ralphjy

In my quest to find wireless IoT solutions, I find a lot of interesting and useful products manufactured by Seeed Studio. I posted about a WiFi dev board yesterday: Wio RP2040 Mini Dev Board. In addition to WiFi, I've been lo...
- 12 Feb 2022
Introduction to Massive IoT Applications

rscasny

The growing popularity of IoT use cases in domains that rely on connectivity spans large areas. The ability to manage a large number of connections has spurred demand for massive IoT (MIoT) technologies. MIoT refers to the tens of billions of devices...
- 7 Feb 2022
Ultra-Low Power Wi-Fi SoC for battery-powered IoT devices

Randy Scasny

What is the DA16200? The DA16200 is a highly integrated ultra-low power Wi-Fi system on a chip (SoC). It contains an 802.11b/g/n radio (PHY), a baseband processor, a media access controller (MAC), on-chip memory, and a host networking application pro...
- 7 Feb 2022
Take the Global IoT Survey 2022 and Get a Chance to Win an iPad

rscasny

The global IoT market is expected to have tremendous group in the coming years. A wide variety of industries and end users will use IoT Technology to improve their internal processes or deliver products and services that customers may not currently h...
- 14 Jan 2022
The Things Network is moving to The Things Stack

ralphjy

I just received an email reminding me that I'll need to migrate my LoRaWan gateway from The Things Network to The Things Stack. To quote from the Johan's email:"With excitement I announce that The Things Network is upgrading to the latest and gr...
- 26 May 2021
Meet One of the Most Cost-effective Arm Cortex-M33 MCU for your Next Generation IoT Design

leo_

I talked a lot about NXP's newest Cortex-M33 platform microcontroller series: LPC5500, since the first product's launch 2 years ago, NXP has been proactively launching different product families within the series to fulfill customer needs. There is t...
- 24 Feb 2021
Blockchain - HyperLedger Fabric pt 2: application using blockchain and smart contract

Jan Cumps

Blockchain can be used to build a trail of trusted actions. A chain of events built on trust or agreements between parties. In Fabric lingo: a smart contract. Post 2: test an application that calls some functions . I try to ...
- 3 Jan 2021
Build an application in Eclipse and GCC for Windows and Linux - supports external Libs, DLLs, Debug: Part 4b: link 3rd party library on Windows

Jan Cumps

Goal: use a 3rd party library in my c++ project, on Windows and Linux.Continuing from post 4a, where I configured the Linux build. I'm assuming here that the 3rd party provides a compiled lib and the necessary header files. And that you did ...
- 25 Dec 2020
Build an application in Eclipse and GCC for Windows and Linux - supports external Libs, DLLs, Debug: Part 4a: link 3rd party library on Linux ARM

Jan Cumps

Goal: use a 3rd party library in my c++ project, on Windows and Linux.Example: the support library for a USB smart card reader.I'm starting from previous project, that's already set up for both platforms. I'm assuming here that the 3rd party pro...
- 25 Dec 2020
Build an application in Eclipse and GCC for Windows and Linux - supports external Libs, DLLs, Debug: Part 3: debug on both platforms

Jan Cumps

Goal: debug the project from the previous blog.Both the Windows and Linux version, from the same Eclipse project on your Windows laptop.The Windows version as a local program - we're running eclipse on Windows and can debug locally.The Linux version ...
- 24 Dec 2020
Build an application in Eclipse and GCC for Windows and Linux - supports external Libs, DLLs, Debug: Part 2: start multi-target project

Jan Cumps

Goal: build a project in Eclipse, on Windows, that builds binaries for Windows Intel and Linux Arm.When you create a project, you tell Eclipse what toolchain to use.In our case, we'll want 2 chains:GCC compiler for Windows (I'm using Cygwin + GCC)GCC...
- 23 Dec 2020
Build an application in Eclipse and GCC for Windows and Linux - supports external Libs, DLLs, Debug: Part 1: preview

Jan Cumps

Use case: Build an application that runs on a Windows Intel PC and on a Linux ARM (Raspberry Pi, BBB, ...), using 3rd party libraries.In my case: I want to use a USB NFC card reader that comes with precompiled Linux lib and Windows DLL.Let's say you ...
- 22 Dec 2020
Digital Logic µFR NFC Card Reader - part 5: refactor, look back at initial design

Jan Cumps

Follow up on my project to create an object oriented framework for smart card use.In this article I want to add vendor-specific card functionality.That is when I I find out that I'd better relocate some functions away from the Reader classes, to avoi...
- 19 Dec 2020
Digital Logic µFR NFC Card Reader - part 4: first meaningful ISO14443 / APDU conversation

Jan Cumps

In this article I make a c++ application for the D-Logic card reader and a set of smart cards.This time I focus on the ISO14443_4 / APDU protocol. Getting results instead of focusing on Object Oriented Design. In contrast to previous posts, I&#3...
- 16 Dec 2020
Digital Logic µFR NFC Card Reader - part 3: C++ Class to handle ISO14443 / APDU cards

Jan Cumps

In this article I make a c++ application for the D-Logic card reader and a set of smart cards.This time I make a class that can deal with ISO14443 protocol. Specialised Interface for ISO14443 / APDU Cards I have a set of ISO14443 cards (fro...
- 16 Dec 2020
Digital Logic µFR NFC Card Reader - part 2: first C++ program

Jan Cumps

In this article I make a c++ application for the D-Logic card reader and a set of smart cards.It's again a simple console program that checks the type of card is on top of the reader, and get the card ID. The purpose is to show that you can use it in...
- 15 Dec 2020
Digital Logic µFR NFC Card Reader - part 1: first C program for Linux (Raspberry Pi, BB, ...)

Jan Cumps

In this article I make a C(++) application for the D-Logic card reader and a set of smart cards.It's a simple console program that checks the type of card is on top of the reader, and get the card ID.I have a Digital Logic µFR Nano reader.I'm using D...
- 13 Dec 2020
EMVCo L1 Contactless certification process (Session 1)

mubeen.abbas

OverviewDesigning your own POS terminal can be a demanding task and getting the product certified often reveals the next big challenge. With the PN5180 NFC frontend, NXP eases the design process paving the way for EMVCoL1 contactless certification. F...
- 26 Oct 2020
Getting start with XMC4200 and TLE94112EL SHIELD

asokfair

Hi All,In this blog , I'm going to explain about programing the XMC4200_Platform2Go board and interfacing TLE994112El H-Bridge driver. There are the software we need to download from infineon website:DAVE IDE 4.x XMC Peripheral Library XMC4200_Pl...
- 4 Sep 2020
Bumpy Road? : Connecting an Arduino MKR1310 WAN to The Things Network

Jan Cumps

Here's my first experience with the Arduino MKR1310 and The Things Network (TTN).A (failed) attempt to follow the tutorial and connect to TTN.I'm using a Arduino MKR 1310 WAN, tested with two different 868 MHz antennas, in an area known to be...
- 28 Aug 2020
Build up Your Own Project, Benefitting from NXP's LPC5500 Ecosystem

leo_

It has been a long time since I posted my latest article in the community about NXP's newest LPC5500 MCU: The LPC551x/S1x family with same security level as the previously launched LPC552x and LPC55S6x, but less price as well as extra CAN-FD interfac...
- 14 Aug 2020
Set up AWS & WICED for IoT development with Cypress PSoC 6

Catwell

I attempted to connect a Cypress PSoC 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit to AWS (Amazon Web Services). The process had many steps just to get some code loaded. So, I put together this guide to walk you through the setup. In this example I wanted to send the data ...
- 29 Jul 2020
K32W061/41 MCUs Get Ready for Your Multiprotocol Applications with Built-in NFC option!!

nicolelan

NXP launches K32W061/41 wireless MCUs on Apr 30, 2020 The K32W061/41 portfolio is designed to power the next generation of ultra-low-current multiprotocol wireless devices, supporting Zigbee 3.0/Thread/IEEE 802.15.4 and Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0...
- 30 Apr 2020
LPC551x/S1x: Cortex-M33 based MCU with New Levels of Cost and Performance Efficiency

leo_

Semiconductor industry is always evolving at an unprecedented speed. You may feel this trend when changing your smart phone from an older generation to the latest offering from Apple or Samsung, and found that the screen and performance of the device...
- 28 Apr 2020