Industrial Electronics

Abaco Systems latest analogue front-end mezzanine card for FPGAs has been tailored for software defined radio, as well as electronic warfare, radar, test and measurement. FMC300, as it will be known, has 7GHz of usable analogue bandwidth, claims the company, with multiple channels offering up to 12bit 6Gsample/s ADC and up to 16bit 12Gsample/s DAC through a JESD204B/C interface. Data ...

A new take on the concept of digital twins was announced by Nvidia at its developer conference in San Jose this week, as founder and CEO, Jensen Huang announced that the company’s Omniverse Cloud will be available as APIs (application programming interfaces). Customers will be able to use these APIs to design, simulate, test and build physically based digital twins ...

As accelerated computing reaches its tipping point, Nvidia’s CEO explained the company’s plan is not to drive down costs but to scale up performance. He was speaking at Nvidia GTC in San Jose, introducing the Blackwell AI superchip. It will democratise trillion parameter AI, promises Huang, to meet the 1.8 trillion parameters computing performance of accelerated computing. In the home ...

Renesas is aiming at industrial robots with a microcontroller that combines AI vision and real-time control processing. Called RZ/V2H, the ICs include the company’s DRP-AI3 ‘dynamically reconfigurable processor’ AI accelerator – recently revealed at ISSCC in San Francisco – in 10Top/s/W form. “Pruning technology employed in the DRP-AI3 accelerator improves AI computing efficiency, boosting inference performance to 80Top/s,” according to ...

Weidmuller has announced a series of battery connectors and battery connector cable assemblies. They are “engineered to handle high currents” and “designed to withstand harsh environmental conditions”, according to the company. Connectors for cables from 16 to 95mm2 are available, with contacts made from copper alloy finished with silver and, approved according to UL 4128. Predicted mechanical connection life, without ...

Navitas Semiconductor has demonstrated a 4.5kW 54V server power supply using both GaN and SiC transistors. Claimed density is “over 130W/in3 with efficiency over 97%. The architecture replaces the standard four diode bridge (and boost power factor correction) at the front end with an active all-transistor circuit – a multi-phase totem pole power factor corrector. While often called ‘bridgeless’ because ...

Infineon Technologies has put 2kV silicon carbide mosfet die in its four lead TO-247PLUS-4-HCC package, aiming them at systems with dc links up to 1.5kV. “It is the first discrete silicon carbide device with a breakdown voltage of 2,000V on the market, with a creepage distance of 14mm and clearance distance of 5.4mm,” according to the company. “The devices are ...

May & Scofield manufacturers electronic controls and systems, and needed to fulfill a contract for automotive flex circuits which forbade hand soldering. It turned to capital equipment distributor Altus, which recommended Promation’s Quick 9434 four-axis soldering robot which for consistency, according to Altus, has closed-loop temperature control up to 500°C and a toothed gear solder wire feeder that also perforates the ...

At APEC 2024, Power Integrations‘ chairman and CEO, Balu Balakrishnan, “declared war on DC-DC post regulators”, as the company introduced the GaN-based InnoMux-2 switcher IC family. The company said that the new ICs are an example of its value and energy focus because it combines AC-DC and DC-DC stages into a single power converter, resulting in a reduction in power ...

Fortec Integrated has introduced a 3.5inch format single-board computer with a choice of Intel Raptor Lake processors. Made by Taiwanese company iBase, it is called IB961 and comes in four versions: i7 with 14cores (6 performance, 8 efficiency, 20 threads) i5 with 12 cores (4p, 8e 16t) i5 with 10 cores (2p, 8e, 12t) i3 with eight-cores (4p, 4e, 12t) ...