IoT & Smart Cities

May 2020

Omron's All-in-One Controller for Compact IoT Applications

Omron Automation Americas recently announced the release of its new CP2E Series all-in-one controller that provides advanced control that enables IIoT connectivity for compact machines. The controller improves manufacturing productivity and quality by making it easy to visualize the performance and data of connected ma

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05/21/2020

Microchip Shows Software Development Kit, Neural Network IP

With the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and the Internet of Things (IoT), applications are moving to the network edge where data is collected, requiring power-efficient solutions to deliver more computational performance in ever smaller, thermally constrained form factors. Through it

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05/18/2020

Renesas Extends Bluetooth 5.0 Connectivity to 32-Bit MCUs

Renesas Electronics Corporation introduced the first RA microcontroller (MCU) with an integrated Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy radio. The single-chip RA4W1 MCU includes a 48 MHz, 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4 core and Bluetooth 5.0 core delivered in a 56-pin QFN package. Together, the RA4W1 MCU and easy-to-use Flexible Software Pa

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05/11/2020

Silicon Labs SoCs, Now at Mouser, Deliver Secure Performance

Mouser Electronics, Inc., is now stocking the latest Wireless Gecko system-on-chip (SoC) families from Silicon Labs. The new SoCs are highly energy efficient, delivering exceptional battery life for a range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The Silicon Labs EFR32BG22 (BG22) SoCs are single-chip so

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05/11/2020

6-Axis IMU with Industry-Leading Motion Sensor Performance

TDK Corporation announces the availability of the InvenSense ICM-42688-P high-performance motion sensor, a 6-axis MEMS MotionTracking device that combines a 3-axis gyroscope and a 3-axis accelerometer in a 2.5mm x 3mm x 0.9mm package. The device enables high-precision motion sensing applications such as robotics, we

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05/05/2020

Power Management ICs Enhance Battery-Powered IoT Design

Silicon Labs announces a new line of energy-friendly power management ICs (PMICs) serving as dedicated companion chips for EFR32 wireless devices and EFM32 microcontrollers (MCUs). The EFP01 PMIC family provides a flexible, system-level power management solution enhancing the energy efficiency of battery-powered ap

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05/05/2020

Microcontroller Family Enables Real-Time Control

As the Internet of Things (IoT) delivers greater connectivity for industrial and home applications and as connected vehicles enhance cabin and operational features, higher-performance microcontrollers are required for better real-time control as well as to enable enhanced human machine interface applications. Mi

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05/05/2020

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Figure 1. 12 V, 8 A application using LT8645S at 400 kHz

Monolithic 65 V, 8 A Step-Down Regulators with Fast Transient Response

Ying Cheng, Analog Devices, Inc.

The LT8645S and LT8646S are 65 V synchronous step-down monolithic regulators capable of supporting 8 A outputs. Their Silent Switcher 2 architecture enables exceptional EMI performance regardless of layout. The LT8646S features RC external compensation to optimize transient responses. Wide In

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05/03/2020

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5 Home IoT Devices that would Benefit from e-Paper Displays

Scott Soong, CEO, Pervasive Displays

E-paper brings several benefits to home IoT systems, enabling them to display information to the user that can be seen in ambient light using minimal power. What's more, the technology can display in color (yellow and red), enabling the delivery of eye-catching alerts. Here we look at five of the be

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Date:

05/03/2020

Figure 1: Replacing a SJ with a SiC MOSFET, switching loss decreases significantly

Solar Inverter Design

Mostafa Khazraei, Senior Staff Application Engineer and Damijan Zupancic, Application Engineer, Infineon Technologies

Due to the ever-increasing demand for a clean and renewable source of energy, installing solar systems has accelerated significantly in the last decade. Contemporary solar applications require very highly efficient, power-dense and lightweight grid-tied inverters. Traditionally, IGBT has been the device of

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05/03/2020

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Figure 1. Typical PTC and ESD USB 3.0/3.1 application

Protect Industrial IoT Equipment with PTC Resettable Fuses

Nick Stone, Global Product Manager, Circuit Protection, Eaton

PTC resettable fuses can open electric circuits during fault events like one-time fuses, but are resettable, allowing them to achieve longer use over the product's lifetime. Each PTC fuse consists of a positive temperature coefficient material whose internal resistance increases exponentially with an increase in

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Date:

05/03/2020