Industrial

    October 2023
    PSDcast – The Resurgent Nuclear Drive

    CEO and head of reactor development over at NANO Nuclear Energy, James Walker

    Why is there suddenly a renewed interest in nuclear energy? The CEO and head of reactor development over at NANO Nuclear Energy, James Walker, discusses.
    Date:
    10/30/2023
    PSDcast – Preventing Early Failure Rates

    Littelfuse’s Martin Schulz

    Why are power semiconductors limited in their service life and what are some of the biggest contributing factors to early failure rates? Littelfuse’s Martin Schulz is on the call.
    Date:
    10/16/2023
    PSDcast – Off-Grid Solar Charging at a California Vineyard

    Tom McCalmont, CEO and co-founder of Paired Power

    Paired Power and Monarch Tractor are announcing their partnership to power Kaerskov Vineyard with 100 percent clean, off-grid energy for its farming operations. And on the line to discuss it is Tom McCalmont, CEO and co-founder of Paired Power. 
    Date:
    10/03/2023
    New EU Laws Help Startups Tackle Big Tech

    Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

    The EU’s Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, two laws that aim to create a safer digital space while protecting users’ fundamental rights and establishing a level playing field for businesses, have now come into force. In the past, the EU has made sector-specific interventions at EU level, bu
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    Date:
    10/01/2023
    Enabling Sustainable Building Management Systems

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    Figure 1: A T1L-enabled building controller

    With its 10Mbps data rate, support for various topologies, and power over a single-twisted pair cable, 10BASE-T1L provides seamless Ethernet connectivity to DDC controllers and edge nodes in point-to-point, ring, and line network configurations. It offers real-time control and overcomes the limitations of previous pr
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    Date:
    10/01/2023
    How a Unified IOT Controller Can Simplify Smart Factory Installations

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    Figure 1: Current IIoT Edge to Cloud Infrastructure

    ­The technologies underlying IoT devices could also benefit the industrial sector. This resulted in the proliferation of ‘The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)’ edge devices (sensors and actuators) using various wireless communications protocols. In theory, this flexibility should be a welcome development, bu
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    Date:
    10/01/2023
    Multi-Dimensional MOSFET Modeling With Interactive Datasheets

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    Figure 1: Reading MOSFET RDS(on) from a standard datasheet

    Datasheets are often long and cumbersome, meaning locating and interpreting the required information is not always trivial. Furthermore, the meaning of the listed parameters is rarely explained in the datasheets, and even the slight differences in how they are interpreted can be critical for how a device behaves in
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    Date:
    10/01/2023
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