Industrial Electronics

“Either by luck or by brilliance we’re in the right markets at the right time,” says Linear Technology’s CEO Lothar Maier.

Renesas Electronics has introduced an embedded platform for designing industrial Ethernet networking nodes.

Low Power Radio Solutions of Witney is selling the Circuit Design STD-503 2.4GHZ wireless transceiver for integrating into industrial equipment.

We are surrounded by LCDs. There are large ones in public places with advertising and other information. Smaller ones grace the front panels of almost all the electronics we use personally and for work. Further screens entertain and inform us at home, provide the interfaces to our PCs and more. LCD is so ubiquitous now that we frequently overlook its many ...

Xmos has announced development boards for its fast and novel xCore-XA microcontroller, that includes an ARM Cortex-M3 alongside its unconventional low-latency 32bit multi-core processor architecture – invented to provide fast deterministic interfacing without interrupts. The first products aimed at flexible industrial ‘field bus’ communication. “There are a plethora of field bus standards. A lot are emerging, and this is where ...

Need an industrial colour touch screen with control and measurement functions? PanelPilotACE is a hardware and software development kit for industrial and commercial user displays and panel meters from Lascar. Called Design Studio, the software is free to download and has building blocks for elements including background images, text elements, analogue-style meters, and digital-style meters. Users can also design there ...

Wi-Fi is being ruggedised for use as an industrial communications technology. Industrial wireless specialist u‑blox has acquired a developer of Wi-Fi baseband intellectual property (IP), called Antcor. Switzerland-based u-blox’s intention is to use the IP to develop Wi-Fi devices for use in demanding environments. “The acquisition of Antcor’s technology and expertise significantly strengthens our chip design capabilities for short range wireless communications,” said Thomas Seiler, u‑blox CEO. ...

Q1 revenue for industrial ICs was up 0.6% from Q4 at $8.6 billion, according to IHS – a good result in a traditionally weak quarter.

A Polish start-up company is claiming to have created the first industrial computer based on the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Techbase, said the device which it has dubbed ModBerry is designed to be used in automation and installation markets providing multi-level user access cloud management. It designed around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module’s 700 MHz Broadcom processor with 512 MB ...

Congatec is offering an industrial computer in the Mini-ITX form-factor – originally promoted by Via Technologies for consumer computers. Based around AMD’s Embedded G-Series of chips, “embedded Mini-ITX is a great addition to our computer-on-module family and extends our embedded computer scalability with a great entrance product on the board level,” said Congatec product director Martin Danzer. There are three ...