Industrial Electronics

NXP announced a pair of eight input analogue front-end ICs for factory automation at Electronica this morning. Both have inputs that can measure ±25V, with the NAFE71388 being nominally ‘high speed’ and the NAFE11388 ‘low power’. They both have the same block diagram, and connect to a host over a 32MHz SPI bus. CRC error detection is included, and there ...

At Electronica Infineon is launching  the XMC7000 MCU family for advanced industrial applications including industrial drives, EV charging, two-wheel electrical vehicles and robotics. The XMC7000 series offers single and dual core options of 350-MHz 32-bit Arm Cortex-M7 and a 100-MHz 32-bit Arm Cortex-M0+, up to 8 MB of embedded flash and 1 MB of on-chip SRAM. The products operate from ...

Infineon has introduced an automotive current sensor IC, available in four pre-programmed current ranges: 25, 50, 75 or 120A. Called TLE4971, they are “ideal for on-board chargers, high-voltage auxiliary drives and charging applications”, according to the company. “Additionally, the sensor is also ideal for industrial applications including dc chargers for electric vehicles, industrial drives, servo drives and photovoltaic inverters.” Inside, ...

Pepperl+Fuchs have created a DIN-rail-mount gateway to link sensors and actuators using the well-established ASi-3 bus to Profinet and Ethernet/IP. It has three RJ45 sockets on the front as well as tool-free spring-terminals for single wires – all in a package 37.9mm wide. Inside is a web server which “not only meets modern cybersecurity requirements, but also enables simple and ...

Kontron is to introduce programmable logic controllers based on Raspberry Pi 4 at the SPS 2022 exhibition. At 1.5GHz they will be the fastest of the company’s Pi-based PLCs. “The main field of application of the electronic control based on the Raspberry Pi is in device and machinery construction,” according to the company. “PiXtend Pi 4 comes with the Broadcom ...

Advanced Linear Devices has introduced an IC that will balance four supercapacitors connected in series – to help prevent any of them being damaged by over-volting as they charge. Like other balance ICs in the company’s range, it does not use op-amps and a voltage reference. Instead it has four precision-trimmed mosfets that act as shunt regulators when connected gate-to-drain. ...

Recom is aiming at what it calls ‘cost-sensitive’ medical, industrial and IT applications with 130W open-frame ac-dc power supplies. “Safety certifications include 2MOPP/250Vac medical for ‘B’ or ‘BF’ applications to IEC/EN/ANSI/AAMI ES 60601-1, as well as IEC/EN 62368-1, IEC/EN 60335-1 and IEC/EN 61558-1 for industrial, test and measurement, IT and household use, all to 4000m altitude,” it said, adding: “EN ...

Infineon Technologies is taking orders for 8 and 16Mbit FRAM (ferroelectric RAM) aimed at automotive and industrial non-volatile data-logging. “The memories feature operation from 1.71V to 3.6V, support up to 54Mbit/s of throughput over a low-pin count interface and are available in a RoHS-compliant, 24ball FBGA package,” according to the company. “These products combine low-power operation with instant nonvolatility and ...

PFD7 is a family of 950V super-junction mosfets from Infineon, that can achieve 450mΩ Rds(on) in DPAK or 60mΩ in TO247. Gate-source threshold voltage is 3±0.5V. “Due to the low threshold voltage and tolerance, linear mode operation is avoided while allowing lower driving voltage and reduced idle loss,” according to the company. “By integrating a fast body diode with low ...

Advantech has introduced a family of industrial wireless edge gateways built around various Arm processors, for protocol conversion and edge-to-cloud communication. Jointly called ECU-1100, “these gateways feature wireless and Ethernet communication, multiple protocol support and WebAccess integration, and have specifically been designed for distributed solar power generation, electricity and energy management applications”, according to the company. There are seven models: ...