Industrial Electronics

Power module companies Semikron and Danfoss subsidiary Danfoss Silicon Power have completed their merger to form Semikron-Danfossmerge, majority owned by Danfoss. Of the two family-owned companies, Semikron is bringing in 3,000 staff from 24 subsidiaries worldwide, and there will be 500 from Danfoss Silicon Power. Where did Danfoss get resources to buy the significantly larger company? “We can’t go into ...

Farnell, NXP and Doulos are partnering to provide a webinar entitled ‘Automation and Edge AI for Industry 4.0’. Scheduled to last one hour, the webinar will run on Wednesday 24 August at 10-11am (BST) for Asia and Europe (and 10-11am (PDT) for the Americas). It will be conducted by Rahul Dubey, an AI expert from Doulos. Specifically, it will address ...

Kioxia is sampling new industrial-grade flash memory devices. This new lineup uses Kioxia’s latest generation BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory with 3-bit-per-cell (triple-level cell, TLC) technology, and is available in a 132-BGA package. Densities range from 512 gigabits (64 gigabytes) to 4 terabits (512 gigabytes) to support the unique requirements of industrial applications – including telecommunication, networking, embedded computing and much ...

Toshiba has released a ±2.5A output IGBT gate driving photo-coupler with and isolated fault feedback, that can also drive mosfet gates. Called TLP5212, it “features a new totem pole output with two n-channel mosfets,” according to the company. “In addition, the photocoupler incorporates de-saturation detection, active Miller clamp, under-voltage lock-out, soft gate turn-off and a fault output.” Maximum propagation delay ...

Advantech has announced Gen 12 Intel Core processor upgrades to its industrial motherboards, single board computers and industrial PCs. Available in i9, i7, i5 and i3 forms, the processors have up to 16 cores and can run up to 24 threads. With the maximum core count, there are eight ‘performance cores’ and eight ‘efficient cores’ with which to optimise processing ...

Renesas is aiming a set of microcontrollers at industrial equipment needing real-time Ethernet control. Dubbed RZ/N2L, the MCUs have an integrated time-sensitive networking (TSN) compliant three port Gigabit Ethernet switch and an EtherCAT slave controller. They support industrial network communication protocols including EtherCAT, Profinet RT, the new Profinet IRT, EtherNet/IP and OPC UA. “By using the RZ/N2L as a companion ...

Display Technology is aiming at driving displays up to 4K x 2K at 60Hz with a fanless box-PC from Aaeon. Called Boxer-RK99, it has an HDMI 2.0 port for the display and both video decode and encode to enhance visual display quality. “Combining the Rockchip RK3399’s dual Arm CPU and Mali-T864 GPU, Boxer-RK99 offers diverse deployment options due to its ...

Renesas is aiming at applications that need a fast RTOS (real-time operating system) as well as a sophisticated user interface with a group of microcontrollers built around a single 1GHz 64bit Arm Cortex-A55 core. RZ/A3UL MCUs, as they will be known, are intended to boot FreeRTOS or Azure RTOS within one second. “This feature is ideal for systems that require ...

Murata has introduced a series of chip ferrite beads with a 20A current rating, aiming them at the battery charging systems and powertrains of electric vehicles, as well as in industrial equipment. Called the BLE32SN series, its members are 3.2 x 2.5 x 2mm (1210 or metric 3225) and operate over -55 to +125°C or -55°C to +150°C. “By leveraging ...

Congatec is aiming at high-end industrial workstations and desktop clients with a Micro ATX-compliant carrier board with a COM-HPC interface – avoiding committing to a specific BGA or LGA processor. “As it is processor socket and vendor independent, the board can be equipped with any computer-on-module available in COM-HPC Client Size A, B or C,” according to the company, which ...