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Bench Talk for Design Engineers

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Bench Talk for Design Engineers | The Official Blog of Mouser Electronics


Steven Keeping gained a BEng (Hons.) degree at Brighton University, U.K., before working in the electronics divisions of Eurotherm and BOC for seven years. He then joined Electronic Production magazine and subsequently spent 13 years in senior editorial and publishing roles on electronics manufacturing, test, and design titles including What’s New in Electronics and Australian Electronics Engineering for Trinity Mirror, CMP and RBI in the U.K. and Australia. In 2006, Steven became a freelance journalist specializing in electronics. He is based in Sydney.


Bluetooth 6.0 Brings Enhanced Distance-Ranging Applications
On April 18, 2025 in All, General, Industrial, IoT, Low Power, Wireless by Steven Keeping
Steven Keeping
Bluetooth Low Energy continues to diversify into new applications. The Channel Sounding technology added to Bluetooth 6.0 opens a huge range of possible distance-ranging and locationing applications for imaginative developers. Examples include enhanced asset-tracking devices, smart locks, and tags.
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Tagged With: asset tracking, bluetooth 6.0, bluetooth channel sounding, distance ranging, iot, location services, remote networks, smart locks, tags, wireless engineering
Three Ways to Build a More Resilient IoT
On March 5, 2025 in All, Computing, General, IoT, Security by Steven Keeping
Steven Keeping
The complexity of the IoT means that breakdowns are inevitable. Engineers are implementing enhancements to the network to make it more resilient, such as multipath networking, redundancy, and system degradation. These help ensure that faults are isolated, preventing widespread communication failure.
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Tagged With: draas, intrusion detection and prevention, iot, iot resilience, machine learning, multipath networking, network protection, preventative maintenance, security, system redundancy, wireless engineering
New MCU Hardware Enhances IoT Security
On February 17, 2025 in All, Computing, General, IoT, Security by Steven Keeping
Steven Keeping
Hackers are getting smarter and quickly finding new ways to circumvent IoT chip protection. However, chip makers are rising to the challenge by enhancing MCU hardware security. Developers can now use Root-of-Trust, secure processing, and fault injection protection to guard against malicious attacks.
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Tagged With: authentication, distributed denial-of-service, encryption, iot, mcu protection, root-of-trust , secure boot, secure firmware updates
Keeping Data Secure in a Post-Quantum Computer World
On November 8, 2024 in All, Computing, General, Security by Steven Keeping
Steven Keeping
Encryption protects internet data from cybercriminals. But quantum computers will easily break the keys based on current algorithms. To fight back, engineers have spent years developing post-quantum cryptography algorithms that tomorrow’s computers will find impossible to crack.
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Tagged With: crystals-dilithium, crystals-kyber algorithm, encryption, internet data, post-quantum cryptography, post-quantum cryptography algorithms, pqc, pqc algorithms, public keys, public-key cryptographic algorithms, quantum computers, quantum-proof, sphincs+
How to Keep Cryptographic Keys Secure
On September 20, 2024 in All, Computing, General, Security by Steven Keeping
Steven Keeping
The internet exposes data to malicious intents, and while encryption protects it from hackers, cryptographic keys are often mishandled due to lax security procedures. Hardware security modules ensure keys remain secure and beyond the grasp of even the most determined hacker.
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Tagged With: cryptographic keys, cryptography keys, cybersecurity, encryption, hackers, hardware security module, hsm, kek, key-encryption-key
Adapting Ethernet to Accelerate Industry 4.0
On May 19, 2023 in All, Automation, General, Industrial, IoT, Robotics, Sensors by Steven Keeping
Steven Keeping
Industry 4.0 promises to revolutionize the factory through smart technology. Yet it can be expensive to install, scale, and maintain. A new form of Industrial Ethernet, using single twisted pair cables, promises to cut costs and ease installation while also promising interoperability across design, procurement, and manufacture.
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Tagged With: iiot, industrial automation, industrial ethernet, industrial internet of things, industry 4.0, m2m communications, single pair ethernet, spe
Why Matter Matters for the Smart Home
On December 28, 2022 in All, General, IoT, Sensors, Wireless by Steven Keeping
Steven Keeping
It’s been a long time coming, but Matter promises to simplify the smart home—making it easier for manufacturers to build innovative products and for consumers to use them. That will finally see the true potential of the smart home a become reality.
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Tagged With: bluetooth le, matter, rf engineering, smart home, thread, wi-fi, wireless connectivity
The Critical Component in Low Power Products is the Designer
On June 3, 2022 in All, General, IoT, RF, Wireless by Steven Keeping
Steven Keeping
Low power components have come a long way. But unless the designer knows how to get the best from them, the battery life gains won’t be realized. What is it that the skilled low-power product designer knows that’s news to the rest of us? It comes down to hardware selection, good coding, testing, and sleep.
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Tagged With: iot, low power design, rf engineering, wireless connectivity
5G Is Not Just Good for Consumers, the IoT Will Benefit Too
On May 2, 2022 in All, General, IoT, RF, Wireless by Steven Keeping
Steven Keeping
5G is the first generation of cellular mobile technology that was designed from the outset to support not only traditional mobile telecoms, but up-and-coming “new radio” wireless technologies for the IoT.
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Tagged With: 5g, cellular, dect 2020 nr, iot, new radio, rf engineering, wireless connectivity
Bluetooth® LE Promises Higher Quality Wireless Audio
On October 22, 2021 in All, Audio, Low Power, RF, Wireless by Steven Keeping
Steven Keeping
Bluetooth® audio is big business, but battery life is short and sound quality less than perfect. But by switching from classic Bluetooth to Bluetooth LE and introducing a new codec, the Bluetooth SIG says the “next generation of wireless audio is just around the corner.”
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Tagged With: analog-to-digital sampling, audio, bluetooth audio, bluetooth le, codecs, headphone design, wireless

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