Industrial Electronics

Cosel has announced a series of ac-dc power supplies with enhanced reliability for industrial applications. Called the PDA series, the PSUs are form, fit and function backwards compatible with the company’s 20 year old PBA series, with fewer internal components explaining part of the reliability increase. With more to follow, the initial versions are: PDA15F (15W 31 x 78 x 85mm), ...

Infineon has introduced a ~10 x 20mm antenna-inclusive Bluetooth 5.0 (core spec) module that consumes 1.3mA receiving (-95dBm) and 3mA transmitting (0dBm). Called CYW20822-P4TAI040, it sleeps at 2μA when retaining 32kbyte of ram, or hibernates at 800nA – the latter rising to 950nA hibernating with the wake-up receiver enabled. At maximum transmit power (+4dBm) up to 250m of range can be ...

CUI Devices has added M5 connectors and M5 cable assemblies to its product range. “CDM5 family offers a range of male or female jack or plug versions with 3 or 4 pins,” according to the company. “These connectors and cables are all A coded to support 1Gbit/s Ethernet, while carrying IP67 ratings [once mated] to deal with environments found in ...

Review Display Systems is stocking a pair of industrial mini-STX (140 x 148mm) motherboards from Kontron, built around Intel Alder Lake-N processors with in-built graphics. K3921-N (pictured) has two DisplayPort v1.4, one DisplayPort via front USB type-C, an embedded DisplayPort and a dual-channel 24bit LVDS interface. A total of two 4K UHD and one FHD can be driven. There are ...

NXP has fleshed out the MCX A microcontroller series it announced in 2022. The ‘A’ series is the lower-cost branch of the MCX family, and like other MCX MCUs, the devices are built around an Arm Cortex-M33 core – this is the security-enabled M3. The first parts are MCX A14x (48MHz core) and MCX A15x (96MHz core), which come in ...

ABB has created a liquid cooled synchronous reluctance motor series that achieves IEC international efficiency class 5 (IE5). It brands its synchronous reluctance motors ‘SynRM’, and is offering liquid-cooled versions across 37 to 710kW (400V in IEC 200-315 frame sizes (aluminum, steel on request). “A major advantage of the IE5 SynRM liquid-cooled motors is that they are much more efficient ...

Rohm has added a lineup of 600V super-junction mosfets in 6.5 x 7 x 1.66mm SOT-223-3 packaging. “In recent years, power supplies for lighting and motors for pumps are required to be smaller as devices become more sophisticated – spurring the demand for compact mosfets that are essential for switching operation,” said the company. “Generally, however, it has been difficult ...

Novosense Microelectronics has created a pair of isolated digital input chips suitable for 24V industrial control applications that only need power on the output side. 4-channel NSI8604 (SSOP16 package) and 8-channel NSI8608 (SSOP20) provide input/output isolation when converting voltages in the range of -60V to 60V to logic signals. (The third digit is a capital ‘i’, not a numerical ‘1’). ...

Advantech has announced a fan-less edge computer for kiosks and robotics, built around Intel’s 12th and 13th generation Core ix desktop processors up to 35W. ARK-3533, as it will be known, measures 200 x 75 x 215mm and workd from 9 – 36Vdc/ It “has a shock-resistant design that can also withstand temperatures from -20 to 60°C,” according to the ...

Teledyne has introduced a high-voltage connector system for use up to 13.5kV and 70,000 feet (21km) altitude. Called DHM, they use the company’s self-contained ‘Hi/Mate’ inserts, pre-wired inside sub-D housings and back-shells – they are only available made-up onto cables. “These inserts leverage Teledyne’s advanced interface sealing system, rendering them suitable for a wide range of aerospace and defense electronic ...