Industrial Electronics

New Yorker Electronics is aiming at displacing PowerPAK 1212 packaged mosfets by stocking a pair of symmetric 80V n-channel mosfets in a single 3.3 x 3.3mm package from Vishay. Called SiZF4800LDT, the “device provides designers with a space-saving solution for synchronous buck converters, point-of-load converters, and half-bridge and full-bridge power stages,” according to New Yorker. “In these applications, the high ...

Binder has announced surface-mount M12 circular connectors. “They are suitable for processing in fully automated processes, such as for the particularly dense, double-sided assembly of PCBs,” it said. They are available “in blister or tape and reel packaging for automated processing”. Versions with 4, 6 and 8 contacts and with different codings are being offered, in both shielded and unshielded ...

BASF Schwarzheide has installed a 1MW 5.8MWh sodium-sulphur battery to increase the amount of energy it can use from the solar park at its manufacturing site in Lusatia Germany, where it produces electric vehicle battery materials. “The stationary energy storage system is another step towards increased sustainability in battery production for electric vehicles,” said company v-p of battery metals Daniel ...

Panasonic Industry has introduced compact surface-mount electrolytic polymer hybrid capacitors that are “one size smaller than ZC series with the same capacitance” and AEC-Q200 compliant for automotive use, it said. Called the ZL series, the parts come in five case sizes from 5mm diameter (ø) x 5.8mm high (47 or 82μF), to 10ø x10.2mm (470 or 680μF). There are two ...

Würth Elektronik is promoting PCBs with press-fit power connectors as the interconnection technology of choice for high-voltage power distribution in mobile machines and commercial vehicles. It has a design service for vehicle companies seeking custom power distribution units that handle between 60 and 1,000V “that are compact, robust and can be flexibly configured”, it said. “Press-fit technology makes it possible ...

Abaco Systems latest analogue front-end mezzanine card for FPGAs has been tailored for software defined radio, as well as electronic warfare, radar, test and measurement. FMC300, as it will be known, has 7GHz of usable analogue bandwidth, claims the company, with multiple channels offering up to 12bit 6Gsample/s ADC and up to 16bit 12Gsample/s DAC through a JESD204B/C interface. Data ...

A new take on the concept of digital twins was announced by Nvidia at its developer conference in San Jose this week, as founder and CEO, Jensen Huang announced that the company’s Omniverse Cloud will be available as APIs (application programming interfaces). Customers will be able to use these APIs to design, simulate, test and build physically based digital twins ...

As accelerated computing reaches its tipping point, Nvidia’s CEO explained the company’s plan is not to drive down costs but to scale up performance. He was speaking at Nvidia GTC in San Jose, introducing the Blackwell AI superchip. It will democratise trillion parameter AI, promises Huang, to meet the 1.8 trillion parameters computing performance of accelerated computing. In the home ...

Renesas is aiming at industrial robots with a microcontroller that combines AI vision and real-time control processing. Called RZ/V2H, the ICs include the company’s DRP-AI3 ‘dynamically reconfigurable processor’ AI accelerator – recently revealed at ISSCC in San Francisco – in 10Top/s/W form. “Pruning technology employed in the DRP-AI3 accelerator improves AI computing efficiency, boosting inference performance to 80Top/s,” according to ...

Weidmuller has announced a series of battery connectors and battery connector cable assemblies. They are “engineered to handle high currents” and “designed to withstand harsh environmental conditions”, according to the company. Connectors for cables from 16 to 95mm2 are available, with contacts made from copper alloy finished with silver and, approved according to UL 4128. Predicted mechanical connection life, without ...