Drones in Agriculture: Is it the Actual Need of Farming Industry?
Agriculture was touted as one of the first industries that would leverage the rapid development of commercial-grade small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAVs) and incorporate them into its practices. Early on, the use cases for an aerial analytics platform were evident to drone solution providers, farmers, and agronomists. As a result, large numbers of drone solution providers have entered the...
IoT NCR to Play Workshop Partner in IoT India Expo New Delhi
IoTNCR, an open IoT community based out of New Delhi, is pleased to announce its event partnership with Exhibition India Group for upcoming IoT India Expo to host a workshop on IoT and design engineering. This partnership will prove to be mutually beneficial for both the parties and attendees as they are moving into the connected world.
Vinay Solanki, One...
New soft starter modules: One foot-print fits a broad range of current classes
Infineon Technologies Bipolar GmbH & Co. KG is launching Infineon Power Start designed for low voltage soft starter applications. The new module family meets the market’s needs for cost effective and compact semiconductor solutions. With its new design, Power Start focusses on reducing complexity and number of components. Customers, in return, profit from shorter development times and simplified production processes...
CX and EX series add ten new models with Rolling Shutter CMOS Sensors
Baumer expands the successful CX and EX camera series with ten new models featuring rolling shutter CMOS sensors by ON Semiconductor and Sony, including sensors from the STARVIS series. With resolutions of 5, 10, 12 and 20 megapixel, these sensors deliver low noise, low heat generation and an excellent price-performance ratio. Hence, these new models are the ideal choice...
TI expands GaN power portfolio with industry’s smallest & fastest GaN drivers
Expanding on its industry-leading gallium nitride (GaN) power portfolio, Texas Instruments (TI) today announced two new high-speed GaN field-effect transistor (FET) drivers to create more efficient, higher-performing designs in speed-critical applications such as light detection and ranging (LIDAR) and 5G radio-frequency (RF) envelope tracking. The LMG1020 and LMG1210 can deliver switching frequencies of 50 MHz while improving efficiency and...
Digital Control meets Intelligent Analog to Streamline Design
Whether it’s used as an initial introduction into embedded development, the main controller of a connected application or as an attach component to offload tasks from a larger system, the role of the 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) continues to expand. While inherently simple to understand and implement, additional hardware and software tools, such as Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs), Intelligent Analog...
Highly Efficient Controller Solutions for LED Lighting Applications from ON Semiconductor
ON Semiconductor has announced two new LED lighting controller solutions. The dimmable NCL30386 and the non-dimmable NCL30388 provide market-leading options for designers of LED lighting units such as luminaires used in office and industrial building applications.
Both devices are high power factor (PF), single stage, constant current (CC) and constant voltage (CV) primary side regulated (PSR) pulse width modulation (PWM)...
IoT Growth Drives Demand for Silicon Labs’ New Highly Integrated Power over Ethernet ICs
Silicon Labs has released two new Power over Ethernet (PoE) Powered Device (PD) families delivering best-in-class integration and efficiency for a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Silicon Labs’ Si3406x and Si3404 families include all necessary high-voltage discrete components on a single PD chip.
The new PD ICs support IEEE 802.3 at PoE+ power capabilities, flexible power conversion...
Inrush Current Limiting NTC Thermistors Withstand up to 1200 J of Input Energy & 80 A Currents
Ametherm announced a new series of inrush current limiting NTC thermistors designed to withstand high input energy of 1200 J and steady-state currents from 50.0 A to 80.0 A at 680 V. Offered in DIN-rail-mountable packages, MM35-DIN series devices are optimized for power distribution in high-power industrial and green energy applications including variable-frequency motor drives, transformers, wind turbines, large inverters, and single-...
Velankani and STMicroelectronics Collaborate on Smart Meters for ‘Make in India’ Program
Velankani Electronics Pvt. Ltd. (VEPL) , an electronics manufacturing enterprise that focuses on the design and manufacture of products that qualify under India’s Government-led “Make in India” program, has collaborated with STMicroelectronics , a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, in the design and development of Velankani’s Prysm smart meters for the India market.
The technology collaboration brings...