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ANSYS software creates digital twins to double productivity rates
Feb
A digital twin combines physics-based virtual replicas of a product (medical, aerospace, wireless or automotive, for example) which can alert the design team to potential operating or performance risks and provide preventative maintenance data to analyse machines in real-world operating conditions, to reduce risk. The data to generate the digital twin is collected…
Toshiba puts industrial photorelay into volume production
Feb
The chip integrates MOSFET devices fabricated using the latest U-MOS IX process to reduce on-state resistance.
Housed in the 4-pin SO6 package, the TLP3122A provides an off-state output terminal voltage (VOFF) of 60V, a constant on-state current (ION) of 1.4A and an on-state pulsed current (IONP) up to 4.2A. The on-state resistance (RON) is typically just 0.13…
ICS series modular housings from Phoenix Contact
Feb
The latest range of modular electronics housings from Phoenix Contact are available in graduated sizes and with standardised device connections such as RJ45, USB, D-SUB and antenna sockets.
Industrial Case System…
Neural network accelerators for Lattice FPGAs
Feb
Both are aimed at implement neural networks in consumer and industrial network-edge products. They are not suitable for network training, which must be done elsewhere.
‘Binarized neural network (BNN) accelerator’ supports 1bit weights, has 1bit activation quantisation, and is designed to be used with the firm’s iCE40 UltraPlus FPGAs.…
PM to bring AI into the NHS for early diagnoses
Feb
“Late diagnosis of otherwise treatable illnesses is one of the biggest causes of avoidable deaths,” the PM is expected to say, “and the development of smart technologies to analyse great quantities of data quickly and with a higher degree of accuracy than is possible by human beings opens up a whole new field of medical research.”
“Achieving this missio…
Eye tracking glasses sense eye’s natural dipole
Feb
Sensing only voltages, the solution smaller, lower-power and cheaper than incumbent camera-based solutions, said the lab.
Measuring this natural diploe is called electro-oculography (EOG)…
40mΩ silicon carbide transistor switches 1,200V and 50A
Feb
Unusually for SIC transistors, the gate is fully compatible with existing IGBT drivers, and has a 5V gate threshold – avoiding accidental turn-on issues associated with the lower thresholds of SiC mosfets.
Called UJ3C120040K3S, its gate characteristics come from the cascode-connected pair inside the TO-247 package – a technology initially common with early Si…
DAC explores the role of AI and ML across the markets
Feb
Moscone Center, San Francisco, will host DAC 25-28 June…
Infineon expands TRENCHSTOP thin wafer IGBTs
Feb
The new product family is offering up to 40 A 650V IGBT, co-packed with a full rated 40 A diode in a surface mounting TO-263-3 also known as D2PAK.
The TrenchStop 5 IGBT in D2PAK package serves the growing demand for higher power density in power devices for automated surface mounted assembly.…
20mm circular connectors now range from 2 to 12 ways
Feb
“These additions to our 4000 series connectors give designers more options when selecting rugged connectors for their designs,” said Bulgin engineering team leader Christian Taylor. “Not only does having the exact number of poles available avoid over-engineering, it also reduces the possibility for assembly errors.”
Power ratings are up to 13A and 600V, d…
12bit ADC spreads 6Gsample/s over four channels
Feb
Called EV12AQ600, it is “the first quad-channel ADC suitable for space applications”, claimed the firm. “Customers can design systems that operate the cores independently or synchronised, in quad-channel at 1.5Gsample/s, dual-channel at 3Gsample/s or single-channel at 6Gsample/s mode, while only having to qualifying one ADC. This makes the EV12AQ600 suitable…
Amplicon offers Cisco Ethernet switch for extreme environments
Feb
The ethernet switch offers 24Gbit PoE/PoE+ capable ports, making it suitable for use as access switches in industrial environments to connect high definition IP cameras, Access Points and IP phones.
These switches provide high-bandwidth switching (Layer 2) and proven Cisco IOS Software-based routing (Layer 3) capabilities.
There are a range of security features …
Solar PV inverter market to decline over next four years
Feb
The report Solar PV inverters – Update 2018 says that Asia Pacific, currently the leading market for solar inverters, with a market valued at £3.75b in 2017, will suffer the most and see its market share fall from 59% to 38% in 2022. The Americas market is expected to grow from 27% to 41% and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) will increase from 14% t…
The pros and cons of SiC
Feb
In applications such as inverters, motor drives and battery chargers, silicon carbide (SiC) devices offer advantages such as higher power density, reduced cooling requirements and lower overall system cost.
Although an SiC device costs more than its silicon counterpart, the system level benefits, particularly at 1,200V, more than compensate for the higher device …
Harting adds wireless to MICA industrial computer range
Feb
It has also introduced the MICA Wireless with 2G/3G/4G, 802.11a/b/g/n and Glonass for data acquisition and communication and the MICA Energy, which allows data from current meters and current transformers to be read, compressed and transferred to MES, ERP and Cloud systems.
The computers also integrate the InfluxDB OpenSource time-series database and the Grafana da…