Month: March 2020
An affordable edge-computing device for high-performance and power-efficient robotics automation
Industrial automation offers greater quality control, flexibility and safety for manufacturing. snickerdoodle is a customisable, affordable, palm-sized device that minimises the time, effort and cost of setting up industrial robotics. Older manufacturing systems lack the benefits of...
Continue ReadingAvalue introduces EMX-WHLGP, a 8th Gen Intel® Whiskey Lake U Core™ SoC i7/i5/i3 Thin MINI ITX motherboard
Avalue Technology Inc., a global industrial PC solution provider and an associate member of the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance, is unveiling EMX-WHLGP, based on Whiskey Lake U Intel® Core™ and Celeron® Processors. The 8th Gen Intel® Whiskey Lake U Core™...
Continue ReadingPD Micro – A Pro Micro with USB-C Power Delivery
PD Micro is the first Arduino-compatible board with USB-C power delivery. The pins are compatible with Pro micro. PD Micro allows you to control high voltage easily from USB-C Power delivery. It’s useful for applications that require voltage higher than 5V - like motor control or a...
Continue ReadingFundamentals of MOSFET and IGBT Gate Driver Circuits
The main purpose of this application report is to demonstrate a systematic approach to design high-performance gate drive circuits for high-speed switching applications. It is an informative collection of topics offering a “one-stop-shopping” to solve the most common design...
Continue ReadingWinmate IP70 is a Mini-ITX board equipped with Apollo Lake Pentium
Taiwan based company called Winmate recently released a new board. The new board is equipped with a quad0core 1.1GHz/2.5GHz Apollo Lake Pentium N420 processor. It is rated an industrial thin Mini ITX board with operating temperature support from -20 to 60°C and the storage temperature is...
Continue ReadingOptiMOS™ IPOL voltage regulators with COT engine for enhanced transients and easy design
Infineon Technologies AG introduces the IR3887M, IR3888M and IR3889M devices in its new family of integrated-point-of-load voltage regulators featuring a fast constant-on-time (COT) engine. This product family is designed for today’s server, base station and telecom (operating at...
Continue ReadingToradex Launches New SoM Family, Verdin
Toradex announced the launch of its newest family of System on Modules (SoM), Verdin. The first modules of the line feature the NXP i.MX 8M Mini and Nano applications processors. Features of the new Verdin line include a battery-ready design with an input voltage range of 3.3-5V; low...
Continue ReadingRohde & Schwarz enables sub-THz ultra wideband signal analysis
Rohde & Schwarz is paving the way for research in the terahertz frequency range by demonstrating multi gigabit data transmission in the D-Band at 140 GHz. The setup features the R&S FSW high-end signal and spectrum analyzer equipped with an R&S FSW-B8001 option, supporting...
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