TPS1663 60 V, 6 A Power Limiting eFuse

Texas Instruments’ eFuse can be used for hot-swap and power rail protection applications

Texas Instruments’ TPS1663 is an easy-to-use, positive 60 V, 6 A eFuse with a 31 mΩ integrated FET. Protection for the load, source, and the eFuse itself are provided along with adjustable features such as accurate overcurrent protection, fast short circuit protection, output slew rate control, overvoltage protection (OVP), and undervoltage lockout (UVLO). The device includes adjustable overcurrent functionality. PGOOD can be used for enabling and disabling control of the downstream DC/DC converters.

The shutdown pin provides external control for enabling and disabling the internal FET and placing the device in a low current shutdown mode. For system status monitoring and downstream load control, the device provides fault and precise current monitor output. The MODE-pin allows flexibility to configure the device between the two current-limiting fault responses (latch-off and auto-retry). The devices are available in a 4 mm × 4 mm 24-pin VQFN package and are specified over a -40°C to +125°C temperature range.

Features

  • Operating voltage: 4.5 V to 60 V (absolute max: 67 V)
  • Integrated 60 V, 31 mΩ RON hot-swap FET
  • Adjustable current limit: 0.6 A to 6 A (±7%)
  • Low quiescent current: 21 µ in shutdown
  • Adjustable UVLO and OVP cut-off with ±2% accuracy
  • PGOOD
  • Package: VQFN
  • Adjustable output slew rate control for inrush current limiting:
    • Charges large and unknown capacitive loads through thermal regulation during device power-up
  • Selectable OVC fault response options between auto-retry and latch-off (MODE)
  • Analog current motor (IMON) output (±6%)
  • UL 2367 and UL 60950 recognition pending

more information: www.ti.com

ADS131M08 8-Channel Simultaneous Sampling Delta-Sigma (ΔΣ) ADC

Texas Instruments’ 24-bit, 32 kSPS ADC is optimized for cost-sensitive applications that require simultaneous sampling

Texas Instruments’ ADS131M08 8-channel, simultaneously-sampling, 24-bit ΔΣ ADC offers wide dynamic range, low power, and energy-measurement-specific features. These features make the device ideal for energy metering, power metrology, and circuit breaker applications. The ADC inputs can be directly interfaced with a resistor-divider network or a power transformer to measure voltage or to a current transformer or a Rogowski coil to measure current.

The individual ADC channels can be independently configured depending on the sensor input. A low-noise programmable gain amplifier (PGA) provides gains ranging from 1 to 128 to amplify low-level signals. This device integrates channel-to-channel phase calibration and offset and gain calibration registers to help remove signal-chain errors.

Features

  • Eight simultaneously sampling differential inputs
  • Programmable data-rate up to 32 kSPS
  • Programmable gain up to 128
  • Noise performance:
    • Dynamic ranges: 102 dB (gain = 1, 4 kSPS), 80 dB (gain = 64, 4 kSPS)
  • High-impedance inputs for direct sensor connection:
    • Input impedance for gains of 1, 2, and 4 (330 kΩ), 8, 16, 32, and 64 (1 MΩ)
  • Programmable channel-to-channel phase delay calibration:
    • 244 ns resolution, 8.192 MHz fCLKINTotal harmonic distortion: -100 dB
  • Current-detect mode allows for extremely low power tamper detection
  • Fast startup: first data within 0.5 ms of the supply ramp
  • Integrated negative charge pump allows input signals below ground
  • Crosstalk between channels: -120 dB
  • Low-drift internal voltage reference
  • CRC on communications and the register map
  • Analog and digital supplies: 2.7 V to 3.6 V
  • Low power consumption: 6.0 mW at 3 V AVDD and DVDD
  • Package: 32-pin TQFP or 32-pin WQFN
  • Operating temperature range: -40°C to +125°C

Applications

  • Electricity meters: commercial and residential
  • Circuit breakers
  • Battery test equipment
  • Battery management systems

A low-drift 1.2 V reference is integrated into the device reducing printed circuit board (PCB) area. Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) options can be individually enabled on the data input, data output, and register map to ensure communication integrity. The complete analog front-end (AFE) is offered in a 32-pin TQFP or leadless 32-pin WQFN package and is specified over the industrial temperature range of -40°C to +125°C.

more information: www.ti.com

IBASE Announce SMARC 2.0 CPU Module with NXP i.MX 8M Mini Processor

IBASE Technology, a manufacturer of application-specific embedded computer platforms, has announced the release of the RM-N8MMI SMARC 2.0 CPU Module built with NXP ARM Cortex-A53 i.MX 8M Mini Quad 1.6GHz industrial-grade processors. Together with a customised carrier board equipped with an array of serial, video and network interfaces, the RM-N8MMI solution is the perfect choice for multimedia and IoT applications that require low power and high performance in transportation passenger information and entertainment systems.

“The modular approach of the SMARC specification allows customers to take full advantage of the scalability benefit, optimized time-to-market and upgrade capability,” said Archer Chien, Director of Solution Product Planning Dept. at IBASE. “The cost-efficient RM-N8MMI offers a competitive advantage to our customers by reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and lowering the lifecycle costs.”

The new RM-N8MMI module measures 82mm by 50mm and features Vivante’s GC 320 GPU, 2GB soldered LPDDR4 and up to 64GB eMMC flash memory. Extensive I/Os supported include 1x GbE, 2x USB 2.0 with OTG interface, 1x MIPI CSI-2 for image capture, 4x UART, 2x SPI, 2x I²S, 2x SPI and 1x PCI-E (x1) Gen2.

Shipped with extended longevity of up to 10 years, the RM-N8MMI is provided with Yocto BSP and Android 9.0 support. It is available with an industrial-grade variant that runs from -40°C to +85°C extended temperature, as well as the RP-103-SMC carrier board providing users a rich set of interfaces and 12V~24V DC input.

For more information regarding available options and configurations, please visit www.ibase-europe.com

5W USB Type-C Power Delivery 3.0 Adapter Reference Design

The EVLSTCH03-45WPD 45W USB Type-C® Power Delivery 3.0 adapter from STMicroelectronics is a USB-IF certified solution and reference design. The EVLSTCH03-45WPD is an isolated ac-dc power supply with a standalone USB PD controller. The board implements at the primary side a quasi-resonant flyback converter based on the STCH03 controller with optocoupler feedback for voltage regulation. This controller combines a high-performance low-voltage PWM controller chip with a 650V HV start-up cell in the same package. The STCH03 controller drives the gate of the new 650V MDmesh™ M6 technology Power MOSFET STD7N65M6.

At the secondary side, to increase the system efficiency, the rectification is based on the SRK1001 adaptive synchronous rectification controller. This controller drives the gate of the 100V STripFET™ F7 technology Power MOSFET STL110N10F7.

Always on the secondary side the CC/CV regulation loop to drive the power regulation stage and the USB Type-C® PD interface are based on the STUSB4761 controller. This controller offers the benefits of a full hardware USB PD stack allowing robust, deterministic and safe negotiation in line with USB PD standard.

The EVLSTCH03-45WPD is protected against destructive electrostatic discharge from the USB Type-C® connector using a Dual Transil array for ESD protection ESDA25L.

Key Features

  • USB-IF certified
  • USB Type-C® PD 3.0 references:
    • Power Brick EVLSTCH03-45WPD TID: 2071
    • PD Controller STUSB4761 TID: 2070
  • Universal ac input range VIN:
    • 90- to 264-Vac
  • PD output profile:
    • 5V – 9V – 12V – 15V @ 3A
    • 20V @ 2.25A
  • Maximum efficiency at full load:
    • 90% @ ac input range
  • No-load consumption (no cable plug-in):
    • < 30mW @ 230Vac
  • Energy efficiency meeting all DOE and UE CoC requirements
  • Isolated quasi-resonant flyback topology with adaptive synchronous rectification
  • Programmable output voltage and current protections
  • Safety according to EN60065
  • EMI according to EN55022 – Class B
  • Compact form factor: 70 x 50 X 26.8 mm
  • RoHS compliant

The evaluation board implements a robust adapter protected for output overvoltage, output undervoltage, output overpower and output short-circuit. This reference design, based on STMicroelectronics semiconductors, helps designers to develop adapters with a short bill of materials in order to obtain a cost-effective and fast design.

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PicoScope 6000E 8-Channel 500MHz Mixed-Signal Oscilloscopes

The PicoScope 6000E series brings very high speed performance to an 8 analog channel, 16 digital channel oscilloscope with 5GSa/s sampling and 4GSa deep memory.

Saelig Company, Inc. has introduced the PicoScope 6000E Series 8-channel 500MHz Oscilloscopes, which provide 8 to 12 bits of vertical resolution, 5GSa/s sampling rate, and 4GSa memory, allowing these scopes to display single-shot pulses with 200ps time resolution.  The two models in the 6000 series are the PicoScope 6804E with 8-bit A/D resolution and the PicoScope 6824E with 8, 10, or 12 bits “FlexRes” resolution. Both models can operate with an extra 4 bits of resolution with the enhanced vertical resolution software feature — a digital signal processing technique built into PicoScope 6. These oscilloscopes offer 8 analog channels, plus 8 or 16 optional digital channels when using the plug-in TA369 MSO pods, enabling accurate time-correlation of analog and digital channels.

Both 6000E models include a 14-bit 200MS/s arbitrary waveform generator (AWG). Its variable sample clock avoids the jitter on waveform edges seen with fixed-clock generators and allows the generation of accurate frequencies down to 100μHz. AWG waveforms can be created or edited using the built-in editor, imported from oscilloscope traces, loaded from a spreadsheet or exported to a .csv file.  The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface and hardware acceleration ensure that the display is smooth and responsive even with long captures.  PicoScope 6 software includes decoders for many serial protocols.

With up to a million points, PicoScope’s FFT spectrum display has excellent frequency resolution and a low noise floor. A click of a button will display a spectrum plot of the active channels, with a maximum frequency of up to 500MHz.  Using a 4K monitor attached to the controlling PC, PicoScope 6 software can display more than ten times the information of ordinary oscilloscopes.  PicoScope software also supports dual monitors, allowing instrument control and waveforms displayed on one, and large data sets from serial protocol decoders or DeepMeasure results on the second monitor.

An optional Pico Oscilloscope Probe Positioning System holds a circuit board firmly, as well as positioning probes hands-free for up to eight probes simultaneously. Probes with compression tips make contact with points of interest on a PCB and remain in contact while measurements are taken with PicoScope software.

The 6000E’s 8 analog channels have the timing and amplitude resolution needed to reveal signal integrity challenges such as glitches, runts, dropouts, noise, distortion and ringing.  This Series gives the waveform memory, resolution and analysis tools needed to test today’s high‑performance embedded computers and next-generation embedded system designs.  The 6000E oscilloscopes are ideal for design engineers working with signal processing, power electronics, mechatronics, and automotive designs, and for researchers and scientists working on multi-channel high-performance experiments in physics labs, particle accelerators, and similar facilities.  Supported by the PicoScope 6 software, these devices offer an ideal, cost-effective package for design, research, test, education, service, and repair.

Made by Pico Technology, Europe’s award-winning test and measurement manufacturer, the PicoScope 6000E oscilloscopes are available now from Saelig Company, Inc. their USA technical distributor.

The URU Key, a Biometric FIDO2 Authenticator For Safe Web Navigation

Since the internet remains quite vulnerable to security breaches, new measures have been taken to ensure that users are able to safely interact and navigate it in no time. Earlier last year, a new security model called the FIDO2 WebAuthn (Web Authentication) that helps to eliminate all forms of password theft and replay attacks was developed by the big tech companies and accepted for recommendation by the W3C Consortium. The FIDO2 WebAuthNtechnology which has much higher security than passwords was built to help users log in to their online accounts with their mobile phone, biometrics or FIDO security keys instead of having to always remember the many passwords that they have used for different sites.

Taking it further, Electrical Engineer Andrew Ovcharov, last summer started working on developing his own FIDO2 Authenticator, the “URU Auth” derived from the abbreviation “You Are You”.

The URU key, about the size of a small flash drive, is a custom standalone wireless biometric FIDO2 WebAuthN Authenticator which uses a fingerprint scanner for authentication on WebAuthN-enabled websites. Instead of having to use mobile devices, users can power their URU key, scan a registered fingerprint and interact easily with WebAuthN web applications.

Ovcharov has been working on the URU key for about six months now and the project has successfully gone through the major developmental stages.

”…I have built a prototype board for the authenticator device, the fingerprint scanner was connected and the fingerprint image was acquired. The security chip was connected and communicated. Now all the small pieces work together as one device and the device starts to get a shape. I can hold it in my hand, I can confirm the authentication request and it makes me absolutely happy how it goes”, says the engineer.

The URU key, for now, features an ESP32 Pico D4 microcontroller for the wireless transfer of data, the GROW R300 fingerprint scanner for registering fingerprints, a few LEDs, connectors for programming and user feedback, and the ATECC508a security chip which implements the FIDO2 WebAuthN.

Ovcharov is putting more work into the project as he is currently experimenting on power options to make the device really autonomous while keeping it lightweight and pretty small.

The project’s progress is being documented beautifully on Ocharov’s website. You can follow the page to learn more about the device.

3DPAS – A 3D printed stand for your Peak Atlas product

Peak Electronic Design Ltd has designed a 3D stand for their popular Peak Atlas Instruments. The stand makes the instrument sit on an angle (30°) view on top of your bench for easy reading and handing. This has been designed by Jez Siddons of Peak Electronic Design Ltd , directly using the CAD data for the Peak Atlas enclosure, so it fits like a glove and is easy to fit or remove. It also has sprung beams that allow for easy fitting. The company was kind enough to release the design so you can print your own stand. So, you can either purchase a printed stand for £9.00 or print your own by downloading the design files.

This is supplied in two parts with screws for your assembly. Price is preliminary and subject to change, as Peak says and if you purchase it, it will be printed in PLA or PETG and an unspecified color.

source: https://twitter.com/peakatlas

SMARC modules make new 3.5-inch boards scalable

After its successful entry into the 3.5-inch SBC market in the middle of last year, congatec is now introducing a new carrier board in this standardized footprint, which impresses with a socket for Arm based SMARC modules. Its I/Os are optimized for use with congatec’s entire NXP i.MX8 module portfolio and it comes in 12 different processor configurations. Considering that the ARM processor world is traditionally characterized by proprietary designs, this 3.5-inch board design is a step further towards commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) available standard boards and systems, offering fastest time to market. OEMs can implement them in their system solutions without any hardware development effort, using the large ecosystems of standard form factors. Rapid customization of I/Os is another benefit of such a modular design and most suitable for any small or medium sized project.

“Our new modular 3.5-inch carrier board makes Arm designs also increasingly attractive for small industrial lot sizes, which until now have been dominated by x86 technology due to a lack of suitable ARM products. And since customer-specific designs can be implemented faster and more cost-effectively with modular boards, this COTS platform is also an ideal basis for custom designs of NXP i.MX8-based systems,” said Martin Danzer, Director Product Management at congatec.

The new conga-SMC1 3.5-inch board not only features a SMARC socket for scalable processor performance, but is also optimized for MIPI cameras, which can now be connected directly and without any additional hardware. Thanks to two MIPI-CSI 2.0 connectors, it is even possible to develop systems that provide three-dimensional vision and can therefore also be used for situational awareness in autonomous vehicles. Combined with processor-integrated support for artificial intelligence and neural networks, this COTS platform offers everything developers need for smart vision systems. Comprehensive software support with precompiled binaries completes the new COTS offering.

congatec expands 3.5-inch offering to NXP i.MX8 processors

The feature set in detail

The new conga-SMC1 3.5-inch board is scalable in 12 performance steps from the most powerful i.MX 8QuadMax processors to the i.MX 8M Mini processors in 14 nm technology and the low-power i.MX 8X processors. On a footprint measuring just 146×102 mm, the conga‑SMC1 offers dual GbE, 5x USB and USB hub support as well as SATA 3 for external hard drives or SSDs. For specific expansions, the board offers a miniPCIe slot as well as an M.2 Type E E2230 slot with I2S, PCIe and USB, and an M.2 Type B B2242/2280 with 2x PCIe and 1x USB. An integrated MicroSim slot for IoT connection is also provided, next to specific embedded interfaces such as 4x UART, 2x CAN, 8x GPIO, I2C and SPI. Displays can be connected via HDMI, LVDS/eDP/DP and MIPI-DSI. The board further offers two MIPI-CSI inputs for camera connection. I2S sound can be implemented via audio jack. As they come with SMARC sockets, the new 3.5-inch conga-SMC1 can be equipped extremely flexibly with any of the 12 new NXP i.MX 8 based modules. In terms of software, congatec offers precompiled binaries with a suitably configured bootloader, appropriately compiled Linux, Yocto and Android images, as well as all required drivers that are available to congatec customers on GitHub.

More information about the new conga-SMC1 3.5-inch board can be found at: https://www.congatec.com/en/products/accessories/conga-smc1smarc-arm.html​​​​​​​

Altium Accelerates IoT and AI Hardware Development through Geppetto and Seeed Collaboration

All the prototyping tools you need in Geppetto workspace on SEEED platform

Altium, announces that Seeed, the IoT hardware enabler, has embedded the Geppetto electronic design application into its Seeed platform.  Seeed users can now go straight from creating a design, to manufacturing a working printed circuit board in just one session.

Geppetto is a ground-breaking cloud-based design tool that allows anyone to design electronics. Until now, Gumstix was the only company using Geppetto to create and manufacture custom electronics.  Now users can create Geppetto-based designs and have them manufactured by Seeed. A hardware design can be completed in minutes, and ready to ship from 7 – 20 working days.

“Exciting new electronics are being conceived by programmers who are putting their innovative software in specialized devices,” said W. Gordon Kruberg, M.D., head of Modular Hardware, Altium, LLC.” We are thrilled to be working with Seeed to put Geppetto’s power of authorship and design in the hands and minds of this new generation of makers.”

Geppetto Key Capabilities:

  • Custom Web-design tool – embedded directly into the Seeed ecosystem, Geppetto provides a simple drag and drop design platform for all levels of designers enabling them to quickly build production-ready prototypes for IoT and AI applications.
  • Design to Build – Geppetto allows Seeed users, makers or professional engineers, to design custom hardware from the Seeed component library. The Board Builder is a menu driven application that allows users to rapidly populate a Geppetto board, making the design/prototype process trivially easy.
  • Rapid Manufacturing – Seeed can manufacture and deliver custom hardware directly, or with partners.

About Geppetto

Geppetto® is a free online design tool that lets almost anyone create electronic device designs. Hardware design can be created in minutes, complete with BOM documentation and pricing. Users can create multiple projects and go straight from a design to a production ready order in one session. To learn more about Geppetto’s web design tool integration into Seeed visit  http://geppetto.seeedstudio.com/

About Altium

Altium LLC (ASX:ALU), a global software company headquartered in San Diego, Calif., is accelerating the pace of innovation through electronics. From individual inventors to multinational corporations, more PCB designers and engineers choose Altium software to design and realize electronics-based products. Products include Altium Designer®, Altium Concord Pro™, Altium 365®, Altium NEXUS®, CircuitMaker®, CircuitStudio®, Octopart®, and TASKING®. To learn more about Altium, visit www.altium.com.

About Seeed

Seeed provides the latest open hardware for IoT, AI and Robotic systems, and help developers scale new applications.  Founded in 2008, Seeed is based in Shenzhen with branch offices in the EU, US and Japan.  By partnering with top tech providers, we speed up the application of new technologies across industries.  By enabling global developers to solve real-world problems, we encourage collaboration for a sustainable future. Visit www.seeed.cc for more information

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