Industrial Electronics

Need an industrial colour touch screen with control and measurement functions? PanelPilotACE is a hardware and software development kit for industrial and commercial user displays and panel meters from Lascar. Called Design Studio, the software is free to download and has building blocks for elements including background images, text elements, analogue-style meters, and digital-style meters. Users can also design there ...

Wi-Fi is being ruggedised for use as an industrial communications technology. Industrial wireless specialist u‑blox has acquired a developer of Wi-Fi baseband intellectual property (IP), called Antcor. Switzerland-based u-blox’s intention is to use the IP to develop Wi-Fi devices for use in demanding environments. “The acquisition of Antcor’s technology and expertise significantly strengthens our chip design capabilities for short range wireless communications,” said Thomas Seiler, u‑blox CEO. ...

Q1 revenue for industrial ICs was up 0.6% from Q4 at $8.6 billion, according to IHS – a good result in a traditionally weak quarter.

A Polish start-up company is claiming to have created the first industrial computer based on the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Techbase, said the device which it has dubbed ModBerry is designed to be used in automation and installation markets providing multi-level user access cloud management. It designed around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module’s 700 MHz Broadcom processor with 512 MB ...

Congatec is offering an industrial computer in the Mini-ITX form-factor – originally promoted by Via Technologies for consumer computers. Based around AMD’s Embedded G-Series of chips, “embedded Mini-ITX is a great addition to our computer-on-module family and extends our embedded computer scalability with a great entrance product on the board level,” said Congatec product director Martin Danzer. There are three ...

Amplicon has added to its range of industrial Ethernet switches, the EDS-G500E series which is designed to provide Level 4 EMS protection and severe shock/vibration resistance. A novel thermal fin design is designed to reduce switch temperatures by 5°C. The EDS-G500E series offers various copper and fibre slot combinations with up to 16Gbit/s Ethernet ports to create a full-gigabit network ...

ON Semiconductor’s latets CMOS image sensors offer resolutions of 300k, 500k and 1.3Mpixels for general purpose industrial image sensing applications such as machine vision, security and surveillance. The CMOS sensor range, dubbed Python, allows the capture of fast moving scenes without distortion by combining a read noise of less than 9 e-, with 7.7 V/lux sensitivity and frame rates as high as 850 frames per second, says ...

Industrial market is good place to be right now. The global market for industrial semiconductors had a strong year in 2013 and revenues were significantly up from the previous year, according to a new report from IHS Technology. In Europe 13 countries figured among the top 20 global industrial electronics markets. Those nations included the likes of Germany, France, Switzerland, ...

The industry is hoping the UK’s industrial sector will return to growth in the first quarter of 2014. “Unfortunately whilst many other sectors of the UK economy (construction, services, automotive, aerospace) picked up in 2013 the industrial market is lagging,” said Adam Fletcher, chairman of the supply chain body, ecsn/afdec. “Extrapolating current data suggests that the industrial sector, which is ...

The global market for industrial semiconductors had a strong year in 2013 and revenues were significantly up from the previous year, according to a new report from IHS Technology. Global industrial electronics chip revenue $33.7bn in 2103 which was 11% up on 2012. Growth is predicted to continue and industrial related semiconductor revenue will reach some $45bn by 2018. “The market’s persuasive bounce-back is due to a strengthening global economy, ...