Industrial Electronics

The IoT Secure Systems Summit 2017 runs in London on Tuesday 25 April, and the speaker lineup has been expanded.

Prime Minister Theresa May singled out robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) in her blueprint for a 'modern' industrial strategy for the UK.

Cypress adds to its FL-L flash family with AEC-Q100 (automotive) qualified 64 and 128Mbit NOR memories with Quad SPI data transfer.

Analog Devices is collaborating  with the China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI) to develop smart electrical grid technologies. The joint research programme will investigate technologies that will improve the reliability of electricity substations in a smart power grid. It will aim to identify specific reliability issues, jointly create innovative solutions, hold technical workshops, and draft international standards. Rick Hess, executive vice president, Analog Devices, writes: “Reliable electricity is ...

NI has joined up with IBM and SparkCognition to bring the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analysis to the maintenance of aging assets in heavy machinery, power generation and process manufacturing. The collection of raw data can be used for analysis and to improve operations, equipment and processes. The companies propose to use artificial intelligence-driven prognostics warn of component failures before they occur, identify suboptimal ...

New airport security screening technology using millimetre waves have to potential to improve threat detection without using body images which invade personal privacy, writes Dr. Sherif Sayed Ahmed Long airport security queues are not fun for anyone involved. Waiting times can be stressful for travellers, who would rather be relaxing airside. The security staff themselves can feel pressure to work ...

Wolfspeed (part of Cree) has introduced a 1,000V silicon carbide mosfet. C3M0065100K is a 65mΩ device in a four-lead TO-247-4 package – it has a second source pin for the driver. “This package provides lower switching losses with minimal gate circuit ringing due to the Kelvin gate connection,” said Richardson RFPD, which is stocking the mosfet and providing design services. ...

Rohm Semiconductor has developed an evaluation kit for motor driver devices which is designed as a ‘shield’ to plug directly into the Arduino open source board. There different versions of the kit for the supplier’s various stepper motor driver ICs– from standard, micro step, low voltage to high voltage. It covers supply voltages from 8V to 42V, enables up to 2.5A per phase, as well as micro-stepping ...

Congatec has introduced industrial Mini and Pico-ITX motherboards based around Intel’s Apollo Lake processors. Conga-PA5 is Pico-ITX and Conga-IA5 is Thin Mini-ITX, and both of them are long-term available, said Congatec, and come with a choice of Atom, Celeron or Pentium processors (see table below). “System engineers can immediately deploy them to upgrade existing Pico-ITX and Mini-ITX designs and benefit ...

Design teams need to cope with anticipating how a new product is going to be used and they understand the compromise between functionality and cost, says Ryan Chessar Many companies use design partners as part of their product development plans. Over the last 10 years or so the ways in which these companies interact their design partner has seen a ...