Industrial Electronics

Semiconductors drive three trends to maximise productivity and reduce energy consumption in factories and cities, says Amichai Ron of Texas Instruments. Higher levels of automation and control through more efficient systems maximise productivity and small innovations at the component level can result in meaningful cost, energy and time savings at the system level. There are three consistent trends, across industrial ...

STMicroelectronics has introduced a 250MHz Arm Cortex-M33 microcontroller with the company’s own security hardware and software trusted execution environment (TEE) on top of Arm’s TrustZone. The part is the STM32H573 (or 563, ST has said both, watch this space), and the internal security system has been dubbed ‘STM32Trust TEE security manager’ (right). “STM32H5 is the first MCU series to come ...

Omron is aiming to replace conventional contactors with its most powerful ac PCB relay yet: G9KA-1A-E, which handles up to 1kVac and carries up to 300A. Sitting on a 51 x 51mm footprint, the relay is 54.5mm tall and weighs ~235g. The contacts are cadmium-free silver alloy and offer 200μΩ on-resistance (at 200A). Maximum timing is 30ms make and 10ms ...

Bourns is aiming at high power density forward converters with a series of planar construction transformers. Called the PLN0xx-ED21 series, of them the company said: “Planar-style transformer components offer efficiency and power density advantages over conventional wire-wound transformer designs due to significantly reduced ac resistance losses.” Ratings vary across 48 to 70W with inputs from 33 to 57Vdc when switching ...

While the Arduino organisation has been making industrial single-board computers for a while, it has finally taken the plunge and produced a complete industrial product – and industrial controller called Opta, created in partnership with industrial controller maker Finder. Built around an STM32H747XI microcontroller, internal processing comes from two cores: a 480MHz Arm Cortex-M7 and a 240MHx Cortex-M4. It is ...

A collaboration between Würth Elektronik, FEGA & Schmitt and IAV demonstrates how industrial manufacturing equipment can be upgraded and digitised. The bias of progress dictates that the latest technology is believed to be superior. Sometimes, however, it is better to use tried and tested, current, or even legacy technologies, but there are challenges with older equipment, including efficiency, inconsistent quality, ...

Torsten Siems, of Toshiba Electronics Europe, suggests using discrete optical isolators for cost-effective and flexible transfer in industrial applications. I2C-bus applications sometimes require high voltage isolation to ensure safety and reliability. The inter-integrated circuit I2C bus was introduced in the 1980s to enable communication between a host CPU and peripheral devices for configuration, monitoring and control. Originally intended for short ...

The industrial circular connector specialist binder is extending its range of M12-type connectors, with L-coding and dip solder contact options. Addressing the IIoT – and the hybrid transmission of high data rates or high power levels – binder has expanded its M12 portfolio with panel mount connectors featuring L-coding (for device supply with 63V (DC) at up to 16A) and ...

IAR Systems has added PX5 RTOS support to its Embedded Workbench for Arm development tool suite – a development tool-chain with a C/C++ compiler and debugging. “The PX5 Industrial RTOS is an advanced 5th-generation RTOS designed for the most sophisticated and developed embedded applications, and is deterministic regardless of system load,” said IAR. It “helps embedded systems developers to manage the ...

TDK-Lambda has introduced a full brick power factor correction module capable of offering the input ac a 0.98 power factor while providing up to 1.5kW at a regulated (non-isolated) 360Vdc. Called PF1500B-360, it delivers that power with inputs from 170 to 265Vac, while 1kW is available when operating down to 85Vac. Input and output to base-plate isolation is 2.5kVac. Efficiency ...