
‘Usb Dongle’
An Electronicstalk guide
Start with the news release Swiftpoint mouse uses Nordic transceiver from Nordic Semiconductor, which we summarised at the time by saying "Nordic Semiconductor has announced that the Swiftpoint wireless mouse employs the company's nRF24LE1 2.4GHz transceiver.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release LTE chipset can be used for USB dongle development from Wavesat: "Wavesat has released a tri-band LTE reference design that manufacturers can use in the development of handset devices, USB dongles and consumer-premises equipment. ".
In July 2010, we covered the news from Avalue Technology - take a look at Avalue offers low-profile digital signage computer which says: "Avalue Technology has unveiled a digital signage computer for small-panel installations that can be mounted on walls or integrated in in-store sign boards or inside public transport display systems.".
Take a look also at the news release from Nordic Semiconductor, Nordic chip enables low-cost ANT USB dongle design, as well as Wireless transceivers selected for RF remote from Nordic Semiconductor, and ST releases details of touch-sensor controller from ST Microelectronics.
Latest stories...
Radicom Research launches medical-certified modems (March 2010)
Radicom Research has announced its line of medical-certified dial-up modems for OEMs.
Elonics platform receives digital TV and radio (February 2010)
Elonics and Realtek Semiconductor have combined forces to create a premium performance, multi-standard DVB-T, DAB/DAB+ and FM TV and radio reference design.
Xway Wave100 ICs comply with 802.11n (August 2009)
Infineon Technologies AG has introduced a range of single-chip WLAN integrated circuits (ICs).
Fujitsu partners Cisco for interoperable demo (February 2009)
Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) and Cisco will team up at this year's Mobile World Congress to show a multi-application interoperable demonstration.
Yamaichi releases Y-ConBluetooth-Dongle-1 (October 2008)
The Y-ConBluetooth-Dongle-1 is an IP67/68/69K device for wireless data transmission according to the Bluetooth SIG 2.0 standard.
Audio peripheral design uses Wi-Fi PAN (August 2008)
Audio reference design combines the OZMO1000 IC with Wolfson Microelectronics' WM8987L low-power codec.
Design points to wireless optical mouse (August 2008)
Wi-Fi PAN device joins with optical mouse sensor in complete reference design for mouse manufacturers.
Miniature modem is easy to interface (August 2008)
USB hardware modems work with Linux, Windows and Mac operating systems and have all the features found in larger packages.
Further reading
- LTE chipset can be used for USB dongle development
Wavesat has released a tri-band LTE reference design that manufacturers can use in the development of handset devices, USB dongles and consumer-premises equipment. - Nordic chip enables low-cost ANT USB dongle design
Nordic has released the NRF24AP2-USB single-chip ANT with USB interface, to enable compact, low-cost ANT USB dongles for applications such as wireless sport, fitness and health monitoring.

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