Electronics related to industrial applications
Powerbox added two intelligent dc-dc battery chargers to its automotive product line. Called ENA200, the chargers are small (116 x 88 x 18mm), efficienct (>95%) and include a microcontroller with switch-selectable charging algorithms for standard Pb-acid batteries as well as absorbed glass matte (AGM), gel cell and calcium types – plus application-defined profiles can be uploaded from Powerbox to meet ...
Infineon has developed an Arduino shield to demonstrate the potential of its 24V Profet protected power switches. Called the Protected Switch Shield, it is also compatible with the firm’s own XMC microcontroller kits which borrow the Arduino form factor. The shield runs from 8-36V and provides a driver circuit with logic level inputs, load diagnosis and current sense. The power switches ...
Allegro has developed a range of high-current automotive-grade current sensors in packages only 1.5mm thick. The Hall sensors are differential to reject common-mode fields – from nearby current-carrying conductors, for example. The devices consist of a precision low-offset linear Hall circuit with a copper conduction path located near the die (see photo). Applied current generates a magnetic field which the ...
Eurotech is offering IoT designers a development kit that bundles all the hardware and software needed to prototype as sensor-based IoT device with data support in the cloud. The ECDK 4001 development kit is intended to allow designers to model specific IoT applications based on a template that includes the various elements typical of an industrial IoT chain – gateway, PLC, devices, protocols, cloud services. The ...
Datum Electronics has built a record-breaking torque transducer, weighing 4.6tonnes and able to measure 10,000,000Nm (10MNm) torque. As a comparison, 80Nm of torque is needed to tighten a nut on your car wheel. The Isle of Wight firm developed it with Solent LEP and the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board. An extension of Datum’s 425 Series, it offers accuracy to 0.01%, 24bit resolution ...
A security flaw has been discovered in Schneider Electric’s Unity Pro software for managing and programming industrial controllers across the globe – and has been subsequently fixed. The flaw was found by secrity firm Indegy Labs, and would allow industrial control boxes overseen by Unity Pro to be disrupted. “The vulnerability in Unity Pro allows any user to remotely execute code ...
LP-176 from BMV is a Pico-ITX (100 x 72mm) single-board computer is based around a choice of Intel 14nm Braswell quad-core processors: 1.6GHz N3710 Pentium or 1.04GHz Atom X5-E8000. Applications are expected in information appliances where graphics rich operation and high end audio are key. Both versions have Generation 8 graphics support with a standard HDMI output plus HD audio ...
If you thought there was nothing much left to do with switches, think again, and Elma has bought real-time variable feel to a rotary encoder. Dubbed Cyber One, as a switch it combines a 384 clock/rev rotary encoder and push-button. Then, for user experience, as an experience, its firmware offers various pre-set ‘feels’, including: 0-6 Ncm torque (electromagnetic), 8-64 detents, artificial end-stop, ...
Linear Technology is to show two third-party IoT network product ranges at Electronica in Munich, based on its SmartMesh radios.
Vishay expands its Powertron S-Line of precision current sense resistors, aiming at industrial and energy applications.
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