Electronics related to industrial applications
How are component suppliers responding to the needs of high reliability markets such as the oil and gas or rail sectors? Roger Tall gives a few pointers. In the oil and gas and rail industries the need to ensure high reliability is an everyday design challenge but now more is being demanded from these systems and from the designers who ...
US President Barack Obama was given a demonstration of German IoT technology for smart factories when he visited the the Hannover Messe exhibition with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. President Obama and Chancellor Merkel were given a taste of Industrie 4.0 by Harting on its stand at the exhibition. They saw the Rinspeed “Etos” car, in which incorporates the a MICA ...
Industrial processes depend on reliable network cabling. This is typically run through cable chains and can take a lot of abuse which may eventually lead to breakages. Regular testing to make sure they are functioning correctly is therefore essential. Handheld diagnostic tools, such as the PROFIBUS Tester 5 from Softing Industrial Automation, can be used to identify faults on the ...
Raytheon UK has collaborated with Newcastle University to produce silicon carbide (SiC) based amplifier circuitry with operational amplifier like characteristics. The research has used the thermal characteristics of SiC not in a high power device, but in small-signal circuitry that can operate in high temperatures. “To date, the focus on Silicon Carbide semiconductors has been power electronics and exploiting the ...
Congatec has added a COM Express Basic Server-on-Module which is optimised for graphics, the conga-TS170. The GPU of the new SoC module provides 128Mbyte eDRAM and according to the embedded board supplier, with 72 execution units it has three times more parallel execution power than the Skylake architecture without Iris graphics. Congatec expects one application will be as an industrial-grade ...
Displays can define electronic design in many industrial as well as consumer products, so making the right choice is important, writes Mike Logan Electronic systems are now being defined by the display. When designing wearable devices, for example, designers start with the desired form-factor (often a wrist watch style device) and create the system around that. If they can’t source ...
Harting Integrated Solutions has extended its design and manufacturing capabilities in the UK for PCBs capable of transmitting high-power using a range of solutions designed to connect high currents directly onto the PCB. In addition to their normal use for carrying data and signals, backplanes and passive PCBs are used to link the power supply to connected devices. The Harting ...
Arrow Electronics has created a development kit based on a group of Microsemi ICs. It is designed for sensor-based system design. The SF2+ development kit incorporates Microsemi’s SmartFusion 2 system-on-a-chip FPGA, a Timberwolf audio processor and a number of LX series power devices. The FPGA is used for the PCIe Gen2 control plane, image processing, I/O expansion and bridging and its security features are increasingly ...
Atmel has formed a partnership with French embedded systems design house and manufacturer Lacroix Electronics. The aim seems to be to design its microcontrollers and other ICs into embedded systems products for industrial applications and radio communications. As a result the semiconductor company will be able to offer complete system products and not only ICs. Many semiconductor suppliers are looking ...
Internet connectivity is changing the way manufacturers manage their factories and supply chains. The concept of the smart factory is becoming known as Industry 4.0. Manufacturing processes now rely on internet connectivity and embedded sensor and control systems. It also needs the software tools to manage the production process from supply chain to finished product. An important aspect of Industry ...
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