Industrial

November 2022
60 V Offset Power Rail Probes Offer the Capability Needed for 48 V Power Integrity Analysis

60 V Offset Power Rail Probes Offer the Capability Needed for 48 V Power Integrity Analysis

­In 2016, Teledyne LeCroy first offered the RP4030 Power Rail Probe, which was designed to enable engineers to probe a low-impedance, low-voltage DC power/voltage rail signal without loading the device under test (DUT). It provided ±30 V of probe offset to allow a DC power/voltage rail signal to be displayed in t
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Date:
11/30/2022

Omni Pro Electronics Unveils Newly Released Ultra-Compact DC Power Supplies by Altech

Omni Pro Electronics Unveils Newly Released Ultra-Compact DC Power Supplies by Altech

­Omni Pro Electronics has announced the release of the Altech Ultra-Compact PSC family of Power Supplies. The series has five models ranging from 75 to 480W of available power with some of the highest power density in the industry, ranging from 32mm wide (75W) to 70mm wide (480W). All models have a universal in
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Date:
11/29/2022
STMicroelectronics Reveals 100-Watt Wireless Power Receiver for Fastest Qi-Compliant Charging

STMicroelectronics Reveals 100-Watt Wireless Power Receiver for Fastest Qi-Compliant Charging

­STMicroelectronics has revealed a wireless power receiver with the industry’s highest available power rating of 100 Watts. Ensuring the fastest wireless charging times in the market today, ST’s new STWLC99 device can recharge high-end smartphones with the largest battery capacity in less th
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Date:
11/29/2022
ProTek Devices Intros High Current Voltage Suppressor SMDs for DC and AC Protection

ProTek Devices Intros High Current Voltage Suppressor SMDs for DC and AC Protection

­ProTek Devices has introduced a new series of 10kA bidirectional transient voltage suppressors for circuit protection in DC and AC, in telecommunications infrastructure, and other similar industrial applications. These surface mount devices can be connected in a series or in parallel to create very high capability ci
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Date:
11/29/2022
Harwin Increases Mixed Layout Hi-Rel Connector Portfolio

Harwin Increases Mixed Layout Hi-Rel Connector Portfolio

­Harwin has expanded the contact layout options of its Gecko-MT high-reliability (Hi-Rel) connectors. The new variants have been added to complement the existing symmetrical 2-power/8-signal and 4-power/8-signal layouts. There are 6 new contact arrangements that feature 2 to 6 power contacts and 4 to 24 sig
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Date:
11/21/2022
Ultrafast 650 V Recovery Rectifiers for Automotive and Industrial Applications

Ultrafast 650 V Recovery Rectifiers for Automotive and Industrial Applications

­Nexperia announced the expansion of its portfolio of Clip-bonded FlatPower (CFP) packaged diodes for industrial and automotive applications. The latest additions include four 650 V, 1 A parts available in CFP3 and CFP5 packages intended for use in onboard chargers (OBC) and inverters for electric vehicles, po
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Date:
11/21/2022
Elma Updates Product Selection for Quick-Turn Delivery of Embedded Systems Platforms

Elma Updates Product Selection for Quick-Turn Delivery of Embedded Systems Platforms

­Elma Electronic has increased the selection of popular chassis and development platforms available for quick shipment through the company’s Express List offering. A broader range of chassis platforms that support the new SOSA™ standard and OpenVPX are now part of the program. Each unit in Elm
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Date:
11/21/2022
Swappable Industrial Battery for Mobile Workstation and Motive Product Manufacturers

The Swappable Industrial Battery can deliver 1000 Watts to power mobile and motive equipment.

­Green Cubes Technology (Green Cubes) announced its Swappable Mobile Power (SMP) portfolio. The SMP portfolio enables manufacturers to electrify their mobile and motive products utilizing swappable batteries with the leading Lithium-ion battery chemistry. At the center of the portfolio, the Swappable Industrial Ba
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Date:
11/17/2022
Innoscience Launches 80mΩ RDS(on) 650V GaN HEMTs

Yi Sun, Sr VP of product development at Innoscience

Innoscience Technology announced a new low RDS(on) 650V E-mode GaN HEMT devices. INN650D080BS power transistors have an on-resistance of 80mΩ (60mΩ typical) in a standard 8x8 DFN package, enabling higher power applications, for example in totem pole LLC architectures or fast battery-chargers. Explains Yi Sun, S
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Date:
11/15/2022
A Customizable, Professional-Grade Single-Board Computer with Advanced Industrial Capabilities

A Customizable, Professional-Grade Single-Board Computer with Advanced Industrial Capabilities

­OKdo, part of RS Group Plc, announced the launch of the new compact-form-factor ROCK 5B octo-core single-board computer (SBC). This latest member of the ROCK SBC family delivers the kind of desktop PC level performance required for compute intense activities such as AI or gaming, as well as a wide suite of us
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Date:
11/15/2022
Industrial Motion Sensors Bring Fault Tolerance and Software Synergy to High-Performance Navigation Applications

Industrial Motion Sensors Bring Fault Tolerance and Software Synergy to High-Performance Navigation Applications

­TDK Corporation extends the SmartIndustrial line of robust and accurate motion sensors and announces the availability of InvenSense IIM-46234 and IIM-46230 new high-performance fault-tolerant inertial measurement units (IMU) targeted at navigation applications that require accurate, stable, and best-in-class bi
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Date:
11/15/2022
Ethernet Switch Portfolio Unleashes Full Potential of Industrial Networks

Ethernet Switch Portfolio Unleashes Full Potential of Industrial Networks

­Moxa announced the launch of a next-generation Ethernet managed switch portfolio designed to futureproof networks and accelerate digital transformation in the IIoT era.  Moxa’s expanded portfolio consists of EDS-4000/G4000 Series DIN-rail switches, MDS-G4000-4XGS Series modular DIN-rail switches,&
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Date:
11/14/2022
Pickering Adds Electrostatic Shielding to High-Voltage Miniature Reed Relay to Minimize Noise

Pickering Adds Electrostatic Shielding to High-Voltage Miniature Reed Relay to Minimize Noise

­Pickering Electronics has launched a new variant of its high voltage Series 104 SIL/SIP reed relay family with optional electrostatic shielding between the switch and the coil to help minimize noise between the coil drive and high voltage circuits. This new screening is in addition to Pickering’s internal mu-
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Date:
11/14/2022
Analog Front-End Enables the Software-Defined Factory

Analog Front-End Enables the Software-Defined Factory

­NXP Semiconductors announced its new NXP analog front-end (N-AFE) family for high-precision data acquisition and condition monitoring systems for factory automation. Designed as software-configurable universal analog input devices, the new N-AFE family helps enable the software-defined factory, making it easier fo
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Date:
11/14/2022
Industrial Gigabit Ethernet Transceivers Offer Precision Timing Protocol

Industrial Gigabit Ethernet Transceivers Offer Precision Timing Protocol

­Developers of industrial automation systems are looking to shift away from the reliance on proprietary solutions for process synchronization to standard-based solutions that offer broader compatibility and reduce design costs. To deliver critical process synchronization, Microchip Technology Inc. announces th
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Date:
11/11/2022
650V and 750V Automotive Qualified aSiC MOSFETs for Industrial and Electric Vehicle Applications

David Sheridan, Vice President of SiC products at AOS

­Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (AOS) announced its new industry-leading 650V and 750V SiC MOSFET platform for both industrial and automotive applications.  The 650V SiC MOSFETs are ideal switching solutions for industrial applications such as solar inverters, motor drives, industrial po
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Date:
11/11/2022
STMicroelectronics Extends Embedded AI Solutions with Advanced Features to Ease Machine-Learning Development

STMicroelectronics Extends Embedded AI Solutions with Advanced Features to Ease Machine-Learning Development

­Enhancing its tools to accelerate embedded Artificial-Intelligence (AI) and Machine-Learning (ML) development projects, STMicroelectronics has released upgrades to both NanoEdge AI Studio and STM32Cube.AI. These tools facilitate moving AI and ML to the edge of an application. At the edge, AI/ML del
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Date:
11/10/2022
CUI Devices Introduces New Power Relays Product Line

CUI Devices Introduces New Power Relays Product Line

­CUI Devices’ Relays Group announced its continued product expansion with the addition of a new line of power relays. Ideal for high-level current switching in a range of industrial applications, measurement and control equipment, and safety systems, CUI Devices’ power relays boast industry-best le
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Date:
11/08/2022
Harwin High-Reliability Connector Solutions, Available from Mouser, Enable Engineers to Push SWaP Boundaries

Harwin High-Reliability Connector Solutions, Available from Mouser, Enable Engineers to Push SWaP Boundaries

­Mouser Electronics, Inc. stocks a wide range of high-reliability connectors from Harwin. Designed to deliver robust performance in harsh environments, Harwin’s high-reliability interconnect families support demanding applications, including aviation, defense, medical, and high-end industrial solutions. These du
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Date:
11/03/2022
Infineon PSoC 4100S Max Supports Fifth-Generation CAPSENSE Technology with Higher Performance

Infineon PSoC 4100S Max Supports Fifth-Generation CAPSENSE Technology with Higher Performance

­Infineon Technologies AG announced the new PSoC 4100S Max family. It features expanded Flash memory and general-purpose inputs/outputs (GPIO) for next-generation human machine interface (HMI) applications to support the fifth-generation CAPSENSE™ touch sensors. Available in 7x7, 10x10, and 14x14 mm² packages, PSo
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Date:
11/02/2022
High Surge Rating SMD TVS Diodes 50% Smaller Than Other Surface-Mounted Solutions

High Surge Rating SMD TVS Diodes 50% Smaller Than Other Surface-Mounted Solutions

­Littelfuse, Inc. announced the new SMTOAK2 TVS Diode Series. Many of today’s high-power, high surge rating TVS diodes are only available in axial leaded packages. The compact, 2 kA (8/20 μs) rated, surface-mount package SMTOAK2 TVS Diode Series allows electronics designers to achieve a m
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Date:
11/02/2022
Microcontrollers Usher in New Era of Smart, Efficient Edge Processing

NXP’s New MCX N Microcontrollers Usher in New Era of Smart, Efficient Edge Processing

­NXP Semiconductors has announced the MCX N94x and MCX N54x, the first families in the N series of the new MCX microcontroller portfolio. Designed to simplify design for secure intelligent edge applications, including IoT and industrial applications, the MCX N features the first instantiation of NXP’s proprietary Ne
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Date:
11/02/2022
Keeping Track of Position Even After Power Loss

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Figure 1. The multiturn principle of the operation

­Position sensors and encoders are ubiquitous in automotive and industrial applications where it is vital that the position of the system is known at all times. However, incumbent position sensors and encoders can only provide a single turn or 360° TPO position information. Systems that require TPO position in
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Date:
11/01/2022
Time to Kill the Deadtime

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Figure 1: Deadtime in a synchronous buck converter

­Deadtime is the delay needed between the turn OFF and turn ON of two devices when an overlap in ON times would result in cross conduction currents. A typical example for a synchronous buck converter where the simultaneous conduction of Q1 and Q2 would result in a short on the input voltage (VIN), which can lea
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Date:
11/01/2022
Maximizing Power Density in Next-Gen USB Chargers

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Figure 1: Design specifications for a next generation USB charger

­As part of an initiative to reduce the amount of electronic waste, the European Union has created a requirement for the development of a compact, universal charging device based on the USB-C standard, suitable for all types of portable devices like E-bikes, mobile devices and ever more powerful portable computers, al
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Date:
11/01/2022
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