Industrial Electronics

Fortec UK is to distribute an Aaeon Pico-ITX board with a NXP i.MX8M Plus processor, which has quad 1.6GHz Arm Cortex-A53 cores. Called Pico-IMX8PL (PICOIMX8PL-A10-0001) and measuring 72 x 100mm, the “board delivers exceptional computing power and versatility in a remarkably compact form factor”, said Fortec. To this, the on-board machine learning accelerator adds 2.3 Top/s. Memory includes 2Gbyte of LPDDR4, ...

Microchip Technology has announced a 32bit 200MHz version of its dsPIC33 series of DSP-heavy MCUs. dsPIC33A, as the family will be called, is aimed at fast closed-loop control of PSUs and motors. As with earlier dsPIC processors, the parts remain a combination of CPU and maths accelerator (‘DSP engine’), rather than a pure DSP architecture. In this fifth generation, the ...

Lumissil Microsystems has created a pair of LED drivers that include a 32MHz 8051 microcontroller. “These new controllers enable lighting engineers to create customised dynamic LED lighting animations tailored to their system requirements,” according to the company. “They feature integrated non-volatile memory to store animation sequences and LED parameters, essential for dynamic lighting effects such as colour transitions, pulsing, fading ...

Panasonic has produced a range of micron-accurate industrial distance measuring sensors. Unlike its earlier similar sensors, digital output devices in the new HL-G2 series include interfaces for both Ethernet and RS-485 in each unit, selected by the cable used to connect them to the host system. They can communicate using EtherNet/IP, SLMP (seem-less message protocol), Modbus TCP or Modbus RTU. ...

Moxa is aiming at industrial Ethernet with Layer 3 rack-mount switches. There are two types of MRX Series 64 port Layer 3 switches (left in photo): MRX-Q4064 have 16 and up to 48 2.5Gbit/s ports MRX-G4064 have 8 10Gbit/s Ethernet ports and up to 56 Gbit/s ports “Commercial Ethernet switches are seldom tailored for industrial applications,” said Moxa product manager ...

The AH3712 is a latching Hall-effect magnetic sensor, protected for automotive electrical conditions, in a choice of SC59, SOT23 or SIP-3 packaging. The single output is switched ‘on’ with a magnetic pole above a certain flux density, and then switched ‘off’ when exposed to the opposite pole of the same flux density magnitude. There are three parts: AH3712: south pole ...

XP Power has introduced a range PCB-mount PSUs that will run from 85 to 528Vac. There are 5W (EHL05) and 20W (EHL20) types, all single output, with 3.3, 5, 9, 12, 15, 24 or 48Vdc outputs depending on version. There is a choice of open-frame or encapsulated (see photo) packaging, and efficiency is typically between 82 and 88% – 3.3V ...

TDK-Lambda has announced a series of rugged conduction-cooled dc-dc buck converters rated up to 750W. They come in a five-sided conduction cooled aluminium housing that measures 38.1 x 49.5 (39.4) x 13mm including (ignoring) mounting tabs. None are isolated and all have a single regulated output, remote on-off, remote sense and output trim – through a standard 1/16th brick through-hole ...

Recom has created a 15W ac-dc power supply range that meet a wide range of international specifications including those for medical use. RACM15E-K supplies come in 80 x 23.8 x 22mm open-frame form with Molex connectors (photo below), or in a 83 x 26.4 x 29.5mm IP20 enclosure with push-in terminals and a DIN rail clip (right) – they are ...

Rohm has released a line of 16bit microcontrollers for power supplies with hybrid analogue-digital control loops, plus an evaluation board with software as a design stepping stone. “In recent years medium power power supplies are required to provide a level of reliability and precise control that is difficult to meet with analogue-only configurations,” said Rohm. “On the other hand, while ...