Industrial Electronics

UK-based antenna maker has created an product for wireless lighting that can be used on metal surfaces. Named Magna (part SR4I051) and aimed at industrial IoT and smart buildings, it operates in the ISM 868/915MHz bands. It uses two electrical layers, one isolated from the other, which enables an antenna to radiate on a metal surface or housing  – an ...

Adesto, new owners of Echelon, will be promoting LonWorks and its ecosystem at Embedded World, particularly recently-approved ANSI/CTA 709.7 – LON IP protocol – that enables native LON communication over any IP (internet protocol) transport such as Ethernet and Wi-Fi, as well as interoperability with IP-based web services. With this, building and industrial automation based on LonWorks can “seamlessly and ...

Congatec will present tiny servers at Embedded World 2019 in Nuremburg next month. It has squeezed an Intel Core i7-8565U (Whiskey Lake) onto a 146 x 102mm board (nominally 3.5inch). “Compared to similar processors of the Kaby Lake U generation, the soldered Intel Core i7 processor of the 8th generation Whiskey Lake family offers quad core instead of dual core ...

Ahead of the Hannover Fair (1 to 5 April 2019), Omron announced that it is collaborating with Taiwanese robotic company, Techman, to develop cobots (collaborative robots) with integrated vision systems. Designed as an autonomous system, the TM cobot will combine sensors and a vision system allowing it to judge pieces on production lines and which to select. Once the cobot ...

In this current period of economic uncertainty, stoked by international trade deals and the spectre of Brexit, Jurgen Von Hollen has some words of encouragement. He believes that at a time when CEOs cannot forecast 12mths ahead, the only constant is a need for a company to be flexible and creative, and this can be brought about by robots. In ...

Toshiba has announced an automotive chip that can bridge between PCIe and two Ethernet standards: Ethernet AVB and Ethernet TSN, to connect central processors to telematics, infotainment and driver assistance systems, as well as sensors, at up to 1Gbit/s. Called TC9562XBG, “it’s not just a simple hardware-bridge between PCIe and Ethernet”, Toshiba Electronics Europe told Electronics Weekly. “Through the built-in ...

Taiwanese single board computer maker Aaeon has launched a hex-core industrial mini-ITX motherboard using ‘8th generation’ (Coffee Lake) Intel Core processors hyper-threading – fewer cores are also available. Called MIX-H310A1, “increased core count and the refined graphic engines meet the requirements for graphic-intensive and high-performance computing applications in machine vision, kiosk and robotics,” said the firm, which also sees it ...

STMicroelectronics has put plenty of analogue features and DMA (direct memory access) into its latest 8bit 8pin microcontroller. Dubbed STM8L050, alongside two comparators, it has four-channel 12bit ADC and a low-power real-time clock (RTC) with programmable alarm and periodic wake-ups. Either external or internal clock at up to 16MHz is supported. There is an integrated DMA controller which, according to ...

Microchip is aiming at factory automation with a ‘zero-drift’ operational amplifier that will run from 45V and includes on-chip EMI (electromagnetic interference) filters. Called MCP6V51, it has a gain-bandwidth product of 2MHz and a self-correcting architecture that  provides a maximum offset of ±15µV and ±36nV/°C maximum offset drift. Operating range is 4.5V to 45V, with a maximum quiescent current of ...

The ATM600 series of 600W ac-dc switch-mode power supplies from Luso Electronics are convection-cooled and intended for both medical and industrial environments. Approved to IEC62368-1, the supplies offer 2 x MOPP protection, and are also certified to EN60601-1 (3.1). Efficiency is up to 95% and a leakage current is <1mA. Four variants are available, all working from 100-240Vac, and have ...