Industrial Electronics

The industrial semiconductor market will grow 9.7 CAGR during 2015-2018 says IHS.

At the start, there was no generic name. The simple glass of the car windshield started to incorporate printed antennas and heaters. It was what we now know as “structural electronics” – one structure performing mechanical, electrical and other functions. The dumb material is no longer needed. Fast forward to 2015 and the world’s first car with the load-bearing structure ...

Analog Devices has secured a design-in for its smart metering ZigBee transceiver as part of a nationwide energy efficiency initiative sponsored by the British government. Under the UK’s smart metering implementation programme, more than 50 million smart gas and electric meters will be installed in all homes and small businesses across the UK by 2020. ADI’s ADF7241 smart meter chip ...

Over the past year, we continued our focus on the automotive, industrial and communications markets. We addressed each with analogue and power solutions to help our customers get to market faster and more reliably. In the automotive market, fuel efficiency, comfort, navigation/entertainment, and safety drive the need for new analogue solutions. Many of the mechanical functions in an automobile are ...

The industrial semiconductor market is expected to rise by 12.9% in 2014, reaching $38.5 billion, up from $34 billion in 2013, compared to an 11.4% rise  in 2013, says IHS Technology

“Either by luck or by brilliance we’re in the right markets at the right time,” says Linear Technology’s CEO Lothar Maier.

Renesas Electronics has introduced an embedded platform for designing industrial Ethernet networking nodes.

Low Power Radio Solutions of Witney is selling the Circuit Design STD-503 2.4GHZ wireless transceiver for integrating into industrial equipment.

We are surrounded by LCDs. There are large ones in public places with advertising and other information. Smaller ones grace the front panels of almost all the electronics we use personally and for work. Further screens entertain and inform us at home, provide the interfaces to our PCs and more. LCD is so ubiquitous now that we frequently overlook its many ...

Xmos has announced development boards for its fast and novel xCore-XA microcontroller, that includes an ARM Cortex-M3 alongside its unconventional low-latency 32bit multi-core processor architecture – invented to provide fast deterministic interfacing without interrupts. The first products aimed at flexible industrial ‘field bus’ communication. “There are a plethora of field bus standards. A lot are emerging, and this is where ...