Industrial Electronics

Texas Instruments is aiming at robot motor control up to 60V with a series of isolated ADCs that include 200V barriers and come in 8pad 3.5 x 2.7mm VSON packaging. Each has a ΣΔ ADC on the hot side, an isolation barrier, then a digital interface on the cool side. The output is a modulated bit stream synchronised to an ...

The IPC, the trade association for electronics assembly companies, has released the findings of recent research into the industry’s approach to sustainability. Each year, electronic waste accounts for $57 billion in losses including the disposal of iron, copper, and gold.  The survey finds that sustainability is inspiring changes to every aspect of electronics manufacturing, said Dr John W Mitchell, the IPC’s ...

Vishay is claiming industry’s lowest Rds(on).Qg and Rds(on).Co(er) figures-of-merit for its latest 650V super-junction mosfet. The typical figures are 3.74ΩnC and 8ΩpF respectively. SiHK050N65E is an n-channel device aimed at power factor correction and subsequent dc-dc converter blocks up to 6kW. Typical on-resistance is 48mΩ (25°C, 10Vgs) and gate charge can be 78nC (16A, 520V, 10Vgs). “The device addresses 200 ...

RT-Labs is has extended its U-Phy fieldbus and Ethernet industrial protocol library to cover Infineon’s Arm Cortex-M7 based XMC7000 industrial microcontroller family. Profinet RT, EtherCAT Master, Ethernet/IP, CANopen, CC-Link and ModBus/TCP are available, accessible through Infineon’s Modbus Toolkit – although only ‘registered XMC7000 opportunities’ can use it commercially in products, Infineon told Electronics Weekly.  Infineon is providing code examples and ...

For those seeking form fit and function replacements for Red range rack and panel connectors from ITW McMurdo, Weald Electronics offers its LMR series. The Red range “was made obsolete in 2024, Most residual stock of this widely used connector family has now been consumed”, according to Weald. “Matching the technical performance and dimensions of the Red range, Weald LMR ...

Nexperia has launched a 1,200V 30mΩ silicon carbide mosfet in a top-side-cooled plastic package with a 18.5 x 14mm footprint. The leaded package is 3.5mm thick is a SOT8107-2, according to the company, which has branded it ‘X.PAK’. The keads have a 1.27mm pitch. “This package, with its compact form factor, combines the assembly benefits of SMD with the cooling efficiency ...

Nexperia has introduced four 40V bi-directional GaN power transistors. With 5V gate drive, maximum on-resistance values of 1.2, 4.8, 8 or 12mΩ are available – see table below – and operation is up to 125°C. Packaging is VQFN16, WLCSP22, WLCSP16 or WLCSP12. They “support overvoltage protection, load switching and battery management systems in mobile devices and laptop computers”, according to ...

Embedded World 2025: LED design is highlighted by Rutronik with its RAB5 adapter board. It features ams Osram Osire LEDs which are designed for dynamic, ambient lighting. LEDs are customisable to meet specific applications, using the manufacturer’s graphic user interface (GUI). LEDs are individually addressable chips for colour and driver selection. The LEDs can be used for interior and ambient ...

Microchip has added high-performance analogue blocks to its PIC32 MCUs: 12bit 40Msample/s ADCs, 5ns comparators and 100MHz GBW (gain.bandwidth) op-amps. There are implemented in in the new 32bit 200MHz PIC32A family. On top of the analogue blocks are hardware safety and security features such as ECC (error code correction) on flash and ram, built-in memory self-test, IO integrity monitoring, clock ...

Aiming at industrial networking, Renesas introduced a Profinet-certified IRT (isochronous real-time) and Profidrive software stack for some of its RZmicroprocessors today at Embedded World in Nuremberg. Initially, the stack is for the RZ/T2M servo motor control MCU and the RZ/N2L industrial internet gateway MCU. Binary versions are available for evaluation, and licenses for commercial come directly from Renesas. Read all ...