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DESIGN FEATURES 10 FPGAs Rev Up Motor Control System - Efficiency, Performance and Design Flexibility Electric motors collectively consume a substantial portion of global electricity. According to the research firm IHS Technology, 96 percent of a motor’s lifetime costs are represented by pure electricity costs. Regulators have imposed more stringent energy standards for them, and manufacturers are scrutinizing their sizable contribution to equipment total cost of ownership (TCO). This has led to more complex motor control designs that use sensor-based and sensorless feedback loops and advanced algorithms for more precise control and greater motor efficiency.

12 Adding Intelligence to Control There are few applications addressed by integrated electronics that don’t require some modest form of power regulation, be that a simple current/voltage supply or a more sophisticated and optimised solution.

18 Commitment phobic? Not us 19 Kinetis MCU: A low power profile In an embedded system, it is all about being more energy efficient across the application’s tasks, which can generally be broken into three phases: Initialization, Control and the Compute. To reduce power consumption the equation is simple, reduce the area underneath the curve; in essence, do more with less power and time.

20 Open source - sensor fusion 23 Distec now runs embedded DisplayPort Effortless control of TFT displays with PrismaECO-eDP controller board and LVDS2eDP interface.

24 Smart Analog / sensor technology Article 27 ASIC Redesign – The Answer for Discontinued Parts MAZeT Offers Redesign of Digital and Mixed-Signal ASICs that De-livers Long-Term Availability and Optimization.

28 Design a 15Amp DC/DC Converterin 15 Minutes The proliferation of fully integrated power modules allows power engineers to quickly design a fully functional, stable, efficient DC/DC converter that meets all system requirements. Using the XR79115 from Exar as a design example, we shall demonstrate that the design can be completed in a few minutes.

30 More efficient water meters thanks to new sensors 32 Temperature measurement in the brewing industry 45 Telenor Connexion helps Leading Light develop smart street lighting Leading Light has partnered with Telenor Connexion to develop a connected lighting solution launching in 2015. ActiveLights™ online will reduce the mainte nance cost and provide new information services that are requested by customers.

46 MAZeT – Specialists in OPTO-ASICs JENCOLOR® color sensors and systems for light control and customized signal processing through to Opto-ASIC designs and user-specific hardware solutions.

PRODUCT NEWS 8 Embedded Systems (p 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 22) (p 23, 27) Sensors (32, 34, 35, 36, 37) Active Components (p 38 - 44) Lighting Solutions/Display (p 47) Passive Components (p 52 - 53)

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INDUSTRY NEWS Altera FPGAs Help Enable Deployment of Harris Corporation’s Latest Falcon III Wideband Tactical Radio Altera Corporation announced that its 28 nm Cyclone® V field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been chosen by Harris Corporation for its newest Falcon® III wideband tactical radio.

The radio, currently in production, has been designated by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to be NSA Type-1 certified, enabling Harris to field the radio for secure voice and data communications.

Altera also announced it has successfully completed the NSA Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) Secure Implementation Guidelines (SIG) document, which provides unified government recommendations on the use of security settings in Altera FPGA and SoC products and how these products can be used most securely to mitigate security threats in system designs.

Harris Radio in a Smaller Package with Industry-Leading Longer Battery Life Faced with weight, power and battery life constraints when designing applications for demanding military field operations, Harris chose Altera Cyclone V FPGAs to implement the radio modem and cryptography functionality. Altera’s Cyclone V FPGAs offer low power, small packaging and quick time-tomarket, enabling Harris to deliver a smaller, lighter secure radio with a significantly longer battery life to soldiers in the field, ahead of the competition. For information on Altera’s comprehensive FPGA and SoC product portfolio, including FPGAs, SoCs with embedded ARM® processors, Enpirion® power control solutions and the industry’s most extensive set of military system solutions, contact your local Altera sales representative.

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EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Accelerate Wearables Development with Industry’s First Reference Design for Galvanic Skin Response Maxim Integrated’s MAXREFDES73# improves accuracy, dynamic range, and power consumption for sensing galvanic skin response in mobile medical and fitness applications.

Wearables developers can now immediately evaluate galvanic skin response (GSR) sensing with the MAXREFDES73# reference design from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. Applying GSR (measurement of skin's conductivity) is a challenge because designers need to manipulate several discrete chips and calibration software before completing the sensor design. The MAXREFDES73# integrates digital-to-analog (DAC) and analog-to digital (ADC) converters, a microcontroller with advanced power management, firmware, and an easy-to-use Android® app into the industry’s first GSR reference design. Now designers of wearables can save development and testing time, and quickly bring their mobile medical and fitness products to market. Offered in a wristband form factor, the MAXREFDES73# includes body surface temperature readings, Bluetooth® communications, and a rechargeable battery that lasts up to one week on a single charge.

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Key Advantages Fast time to market: integrates DAC and ADC signal chain components, low-power microcontroller, external Bluetooth and Android apps, and firmware components to quickly develop and test designs High accuracy: 16-bit integrated analog front-end (AFE) Low power consumption: operates for one week on one battery charge

“We based MAXREFDES73# on our award-winning MAX32600 wellness microcontroller, and are giving wearables developers a highly integrated reference design,” said Seth Messimer, Business Manager for Medical Microcontrollers at Maxim Integrated. “With all the integrated components, our customers are 80% done already, saving them design and evaluation time.”

The MAXREFDES73# reference design is available for $189 at Maxim's website and select franchised distributors. Hardware and firmware design files, as well as test data, are provided free and available online.

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Microchip Reclaims Top 8-bit Microcontroller Revenue Ranking 2014 Market Share Grows in 8, 16 and 32-bit MCUs; Breaks Into Top 10 for 32-bit

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixedsignal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, has reclaimed the number-one position in worldwide 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) revenue, according to industry analyst firm Gartner’s just-published 2014 rankings. This validates Microchip’s unwavering commitment and innovation efforts for its 8-bit PIC® microcontroller portfolio.

While many MCU vendors have deemphasized their 8-bit offerings in recent years, Microchip has continued to innovate across all of its 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit product lines. And it continues to grow market share in all three areas, according to Gartner’s 2014 report. In the 16-bit MCU market, Microchip was the fastest-growing supplier among the top 10 in 2014, growing at greater than 2X the rate of any of the other top 10 companies. Its 32-bit MCUs broke into the top 10 ranking of 32-bit MCU suppliers for the first time in 2014, based on 42.3% growth.

Win a PIC32 Bluetooth Starter Kit Win a PIC32 Bluetooth Starter Kit from EP&Dee! The PIC32 Bluetooth Starter Kit (DM320018) is a low-cost Bluetooth development platform featuring the PIC32MX270F256D MCU. This kit features a HCI-based Bluetooth radio, pushbuttons, Cree high-output multicolor LED, standard single-color LEDs, accelerometer, temperature sensor and GPIO for rapid development of Bluetooth Serial Port Profile (SPP), USB and general purpose applications.

The PIC32 Bluetooth Starter Kit provides a low-cost method for the development and testing of Bluetooth data transfer with PIC32 devices. The starter kit features a Bluetooth Radio, a combination 3-D accelerometer and temperature sensor, 16 Mb SPI Flash, an on-board debugger, five user buttons, as well as USB (Device and Host), I2S, I2C, and UART Interfaces.

“We are pleased to report that Microchip has regained the #1 position for 8-bit microcontrollers,” said Steve Sanghi, Microchip’s president and CEO. “Four years ago, it took the merger of three Japanese semiconductor giants NEC, Hitachi and Mitsubishi in the form of Renesas - to knock us off the #1 spot for 8-bit MCUs. We said at the time that we would work relentlessly to gain market share and wrest back the #1 spot. Following their merger in 2010, Renesas’ 8-bit MCU business was 41% larger than ours. In every year since 2010, we closed the gap, and in 2014 we regained our leadership position, finishing 10.5% higher than Renesas.”

8-bit PIC MCUs provide developers with an easy migration path from 6 to 100 pins, with little or no code change required. This MCU portfolio offers product families with varying levels of intelligent integration, including a host of Core Independent Peripherals, which require little to no CPU intervention, freeing the core to perform other application tasks.

Also integrated are Intelligent Analog peripherals, including op amps, comparators, ADCs, DACs and CTMUs; Human Interface peripherals for LCD displays and mTouch® capacitive sensing; and Communications channels for Ethernet, I2C™, SPI, USB, CAN and LIN (EUSARTs). The MPLAB® Code Configurator plug-in for Microchip’s IDE makes it easy to take advantage of all this integration, by generating seamless, easily understood C code for quick insertion into projects.

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The Starter kit offers an Android App, Demo code and Bluetooth Serial Port Profile stack for free to get you started. The PIC32 MCU on the Starter kit executes Microchips’ Free Bluetooth SPP stack & Demo Code to perform full-duplex data transmission over the Bluetooth link to showcase: • Color Mixing of Cree High Output Multi Color LED • Temperature Display For the chance to win a Microchip PIC32 Bluetooth Starter Kit, visit: www.microchip-comps.com/epdee-pic32bluetooth

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Intersil Announces Industry’s Most Highly Integrated Power Management ICs for Ultrabooks and Tablets Intersil Corporation introduced a pair of highly integrated power management ICs (PMICs) that enable the industry’s first credit cardsize motherboards for high-end ultrabook and tablet computers powered by 2-cell Li-ion batteries. The single-chip ISL95908 PMIC delivers eight voltage rails optimized to support subsystem peripheral power requirements for new Intel IMVP8 platforms, and the singlechip ISL95906 provides eight power rails for VR12.6-compliant systems. The devices measure 5.5mm × 5.5mm, enabling PC motherboards that are 75% smaller than previously possible using discrete switchers, inductors and capacitors.

The ISL9590x PMICs address the trend toward slimmer ultrabooks, tablets and 2-in-1 computers that offer more features and longer battery life. Both PMICs integrate a controller, power and driver MOSFETS, VTT LDO regulator, independent enable and power-good indicators, I2C interfaces, and fault protection/monitoring for eight synchronous buck regulators. They deliver 90% efficiency and integrate 2x more functionality than the nearest competitor, allowing designers to use fewer external components, including smaller, lowprofile inductors and capacitors. Now mobile computing OEMs only need three devices – PMIC, core voltage regulator and battery charger – to power up the CPU/GPU, battery, and subsystem peripherals: flash memory, USB, HDMI, audio, sensors, camera module and WiFi. The ISL9590x are the industry’s only single-chip solutions that support the Intel and Microsoft Connected Standby standard, which provides an instant-on, always-connected experience similar to smartphones. The Connected Standby low-power mode maintains Internet connectivity, email and applications while the system is asleep. Both PMICs employ Intersil’s proprietary R4 modulation technology, which delivers high light-load efficiency, ultra-fast transient response, and seamless continuous-conduction mode (CCM) and discontinuous-conduction mode (DCM) transitions.

Key Features and Specifications of ISL95908 and ISL95906: • ISL95908 provides IMPV8 regulation at 5V, 3.3V, 1.8V/2.5V, 1V, 0.975V, and 0.9V • ISL95906 provides VR12.6 regulation at 5V, 3.3V, 1.8V,1.5V, 1.05V • Eight efficient 1MHz integrated FET switching regulators • Programmable VR3 and VTT regulators for system memory, including DDR3/L/U, LPDDR3 and DDR4 INTERSIL 6

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Round Solutions' wireless 'PingPong' IoT edge node platform connects field devices to the cloud Pre-validated PingPong data exchange mechanism eases IoT integration Round Solutions, a leading engineering and service specialist for IoT technologies, has launched its wireless PingPong IoT edge node, a flexible and powerful hardware platform for connecting field devices to the cloud.

The RTOS supporting small form factor board with powerful Microchip PIC32MZ 32-bit MCU and a high-speed cellular Telit module is based on a modular hardware design principle that simplifies the integration of custom-specific applications and communication standards into a single solution platform.

Target applications range from cloud-connected oil tanks and intelligent waste bins up to cloud-connected gateway systems for manufacturing robots.

“Our PingPong platform offers software engineers an applicationready, pre-validated PingPong data exchange mechanism which eases the IoT integration of any field device,” explains Ben Hoelke, CEO of Round Solutions. “With the supplied Round Solutions Open Source PingPong Software Development Kits the platform can be configured for nearly all IoT/M2M applications, such as sensor reading, asset tracking, routers, measurement technology, telemetry and security control. Thus, Round Solutions' PingPong offers companies wanting to transfer their data to IoT cloud-servers a complete solution including software libraries and source code.”

The PingPong hardware platform offers high-speed cellular modules for the IoT connectivity as well as numerous interfaces to the field - which can also be controlled via the cloud. The standard interfaces include, for example, Ethernet, USB and CAN as well as a high-precision GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System). Developers can add various expansion cards to create a nearly unlimited number of application scenarios. Applicationready expansion cards are available for WLAN, Bluetooth, I/0, Iridium satellite communications, ISM/RF, SigFox, NFC/RFID and camera connectivity. All functions are ready for use as soon as the expansion cards are attached to the motherboard.

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Silicon Labs Introduces World’s Most Energy-Friendly USB Microcontrollers EFM32® Happy Gecko MCU Family Simplifies USB Connectivity for Power-Sensitive, Battery-Operated IoT Applications Silicon Labs introduced the industry’s most energy-friendly USBenabled microcontrollers (MCUs). The latest addition to Silicon Labs’ award-winning EFM32® 32-bit MCU portfolio, the new Happy Gecko MCUs are designed to deliver the lowest USB power drain in the industry, enabling longer battery life and energy harvesting applications. Based on the ARM® Cortex®-M0+ core and low-energy peripherals, the Happy Gecko family simplifies USB connectivity for a wide range of IoT applications including smart metering, home and building automation, alarm and security systems, smart accessories and wearable devices.

Audi Selects Microchip’s MOST150 Technology for New Audi TT Virtual Cockpit System Microchip Technology Inc. announced that AUDI AG is networking the Audi virtual cockpit system in its new TT Models using MOST® technology. Specifically, it is deploying Microchip’s OS81118 MOST150 Intelligent Network Interface Controller (INIC), which provides 150 Mbps performance, supports all MOST network data types, and includes a High Speed USB 2.0 interface (PHY/HSIC) to seamlessly connect with the virtual cockpit’s System-on-Chip processor.

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BMW Implements Microchip’s MOST® Technology to Power New BMW 2 Series Active Tourer Model’s Infotainment System A leading supplier of USB bridge chips and smart interface ICs, Silicon Labs developed the Happy Gecko family to address the rising demand for cost-effective, low-power USB connectivity solutions.

With more than three billion USB-enabled devices shipping each year, USB is the fastest growing interface for consumer applications and is also gaining significant traction in industrial automation. In today’s IoT world, developers have discovered that adding USB interfaces to portable, battery-powered connected devices can double the application current consumption. Silicon Labs’ Happy Gecko MCUs provide an ideal energy-friendly USB connectivity solution for these power-sensitive IoT applications.

Happy Gecko USB MCUs feature an advanced energy management system with five energy modes enabling applications to remain in an energy-optimal state by spending as little time as possible in active mode. In deep-sleep mode, Happy Gecko MCUs have an industryleading 0.9 μA standby current consumption (with a 32.768 kHz RTC, RAM/CPU state retention, brown-out detector and power-onreset circuitry active). Active-mode power consumption drops down to 130 μA/MHz at 24 MHz with real-world code (prime number algorithm). The USB MCUs further reduce power consumption with a 2-microsecond wakeup time from standby mode.

Like all EFM32 MCUs, the Happy Gecko family includes the Peripheral Reflex System (PRS) feature, which greatly enhances overall energy efficiency.

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Microchip Technology Inc. announced that the BMW Group is continuing to broaden the proliferation of MOST® technology in its vehicle infotainment networks, using Microchip’s Intelligent Network Interface Controllers (INICs). The BMW 2 Series Active Tourer is BMW’s latest volume car model to implement MOST technology, following the company’s wide deployment among its premium models, which began in 2001.

MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY www.microchip.com/INICs-041415a To date, more than 150 million MOST devices have been installed in over 180 car models since 2001. AUDI AG, BMW and a host of other automakers have consistently chosen this technology for their infotainment networks because it provides high-bandwidth transport and audio streaming, software downloads, Ethernet Packet/Internet Protocol (IP), Synchronous, Isochronous and Control data with zero processor overhead, and proven electromagnetic-compatibility (EMC) behavior. The MOST150 standard offers dedicated data channels with dedicated, application-specific hardware interfaces to simplify communication system designs and significantly reduce MCU software overhead. MOST technology also provides ultra-fast startup for immediate access to the vehicle’s multimedia systems.

The MOST Cooperation standards enable automotive OEMs and their Tier 1 suppliers with a proven and well-supported methodology for defining and implementing their infotainment systems, including a standard physical layer and a robust method for system management and control with superior reliability and Quality of Service (QoS). Using MOST technology also results in reduced weight for easier compliance with environmental regulations.

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INDUSTRY NEWS Altera Announces New Spectra-Q Engine for Industry-leading Quartus II Software to Accelerate FPGA and SoC Design Altera Corporation unveiled its Spectra-Q™ engine, a new technology at the heart of the company’s proven Quartus® II software, to accelerate design productivity and time-tomarket for next-generation programmable devices. The Spectra-Q engine extends Altera’s Quartus II software leadership with new capabilities that deliver unprecedented

compile time improvements, versatile and fasttracked design entry, and drop-in IP integration. Now customers can design and implement at higher levels of abstraction for significantly faster design cycles to meet the next generation of design opportunities.

Additional information on the Spectra-Q engine is available on the www.altera.com/spectraq webpage. The Spectra-Q engine features faster algorithms and allows for incremental design changes without needing to perform a full design compile The engine also features a hierarchical database that enables users to preserve placement and routing information of IP blocks while making changes in other parts of the design. This helps ensure stable designs, eliminates unnecessary timing closure efforts and reduces compile times. The new engine also includes a common high-level design compiler for better quality of results and tighter integration between the Quartus II software and a variety of different front-end tools.

Introducing BluePrint™ Platform Designer Built on top of the Spectra-Q engine is an industry first platform design tool called BluePrint that allows designers to perform architectural exploration and assign interfaces with greater efficiency.

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EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Volvo with MOST150 MOST150 Implementation in the All-new Volvo XC90 The MOST® Cooperation - standardization organization for the leading automotive multimedia network technology Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) - is pleased to announce that Volvo has integrated MOST150 into its brand new vehicle model Volvo XC90. “Proceeding on its path of success, MOSTCO celebrates the growing acceptance of the automotive network standard, now with the implementation by key carmaker Volvo,” stated Henry Muyshondt, Administrator of the MOST Cooperation.

“With Volvo, we are pleased to welcome the fourth carmaker already embracing MOST150, following Audi, Daimler, and Hyundai. Accordingly, Volvo is taking advantage of the MOST network concept, which is inherently scalable and extendable with respect to speed and the amount and characteristics of the data channels.” Along with the higher bandwidth of 150 Mbit/s, MOST150 features an isochronous transport mechanism to support extensive video applications, as well as an Ethernet channel for efficient transport of IP-based packet data. This channel carries Ethernet packets according to IEEE 802.3.

Henry Muyshondt Thus, standard TCP/IP stacks is the Administrator can be used without change. In of the MOST consequence, the latest generation of MOST provides the Cooperation automotive-ready physical Copyright: layer for Ethernet in the car.

MOST Cooperation Volvo’s all-new XC90 is the first car in its range built on

MOST150 implementation in the all-new Volvo XC90 Copyright: Volvo Car Corporation the Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) modular chassis technology developed inhouse. For seamless smartphone integration, the XC90 offers Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, which brings selected features and services familiar to smartphone users directly into the car via the center console touch screen display. Users will immediately recognize the well-known icons for their basic applications, such as phone, messages, music and navigation.

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Microchip Releases New Multizone Technology for Whole-Home-Audio and Multi-Room Applications Based on the JukeBlox® Platform

Microchip Technology Inc. announced from the Hong Kong Electronics Fair the release of its second generation multizone audio technology and a mobile app for use in whole-home-audio and multi-room applications based on the JukeBlox® 4 platform. The JB Multizone 2.0 feature enables tightly synchronized and highly robust audio streaming to multiple speakers in conjunction with the JB App, a turnkey mobile app that enables easy setup and operation of the wireless speaker.

Whole-home audio and multi-room audio systems allow consumers to group speakers into a zone to play back a common audio stream.

Consumers create multiple zones each with their own audio streams such as pop music streaming to a pair of patio speakers while the children play outside and soothing classical music to four speakers downstairs, while dinner is prepared.

JB Multizone 2.0 utilizes advanced technology to reduce audio drops found in traditional Wi-Fi® streaming applications. Wi-Fi direct eliminates the need for each speaker in a zone to connect with the access point, thereby eliminating common problems associated with overloading access points. Bypassing the access point also reduces the RF bandwidth consumed by half resulting in increased streaming quality and/or the ability to add more speakers in a zone. The addition of Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) to Wi-Fi Direct reduces source to zone speaker latency and packet loss resulting in tightly synchronized audio playback with minimal audio drops.

JB App is a complete mobile app that enables OEMs to quickly deploy a complete whole-home-audio solution without having to manage an app development project. OEMs can choose between source code for custom app development or simply rebrand the app for release to consumers. Consumers use the JB App to create and modify zones, select audio sources and easily connect the speaker to the local Wi-Fi network.

JB App source code is available at no charge and supports both iOS and Android™ platforms.

“JB Multizone 2.0 is a complete platform to quickly deliver a robust whole home audio solution to market,” said Sumit Mitra, vice president of Microchip’s Wireless Products Group. “The JukeBlox platform incorporates advanced wireless networking technology to create a first class consumer listening experience.”

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ON Semiconductor and AfterMaster Audio Labs to release revolutionary audio chip ON Semiconductor announced the release of BelaSigna 300® AM with AfterMaster HD Audio Labs, Inc., an industry-leading audio technology company based in Hollywood, CA, a subsidiary of Studio One Media Inc. (OTCQB:SOMD). The new BelaSigna 300 AM digital signal processing (DSP) chip embedded with AfterMaster technology is a ground-breaking audio solution that will dramatically enhance the listening experience on any consumer device.

Developed by AfterMaster Audio Labs in conjunction with ON Semiconductor, BelaSigna 300 AM can be easily installed by manufacturers to provide incredible sound in any device with audio capabilities. With its miniature size, WLCSP packaging, and low power usage; even small electronics such as headphones and smartphones can leverage the AfterMaster HD processing technology, eliminating the need for large or expensive hardware redesigns.

The chip will operate at 4 mA from a 1.8 V source while running AfterMaster HD’s algorithms to offer high-fidelity, studio-quality sound to audio-enabled devices and services, including televisions, headphones, speakers, mobile devices, streaming services and more. Using real-time mastering and re-mastering processing technology as well as proprietary Adaptive Intuitive Response™ mechanisms, AfterMaster HD preserves original sound quality while introducing greater depth, clarity and richness to any listening experience.

Product distribution of BelaSigna 300 AM with AfterMaster HD will be available through ON Semiconductor’s global channel and distribution network.

For pricing information, please contact your local ON Semiconductor sales office. More information including documentation and development tools is available at www.onsemi.com/belasigna AFTERMASTER ON SEMICONDUCTOR www.epd-ee.eu |

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FPGAs Rev Up Motor Control System Efficiency, Performance and Design Flexibility Electric motors collectively consume a substantial portion of global electricity. According to the research firm IHS Technology, 96 percent of a motor’s lifetime costs are represented by pure electricity costs. Regulators have imposed more stringent energy standards for them, and manufacturers are scrutinizing their sizable contribution to equipment total cost of ownership (TCO). This has led to more complex motor control designs that use sensorbased and sensorless feedback loops and advanced algorithms for more precise control and greater motor efficiency.

Authors: Jason Chiang, Sr. Marketing Manager, Industrial and Ted Marena, Director, FPGA/SoC Marketing, with Microsemi (www.microsemi.com)

Motor designers also must support changing industrial control standards and technologies while providing critical system features that ensure safety, scalability and reliability. Meeting the twin goals of energy efficiency and enhanced system-level capabilities requires adequate processing power for algorithm processing along with flexible and scalable system architectures. Non-volatile, secure and low-power flash-based system on chip (SoC) FPGAs meet both challenges by delivering the necessary horsepower with a combination of both inherent and layered security and reliability with protected communications for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and the ability to quickly and easily scale from small-footprint to feature-rich custom motor designs in a variety of multi-axis or high-RPM applications.

The Challenges While traditional designs use simple scalar control, high-efficiency motors use FieldOriented Control (FOC) across all torque and speed ranges to significantly improve efficiency. Because it is current-controlled, FOC also optimizes power-inverter circuitry and the motor footprint depending on application requirements. It uses feedback looping, with or without sensors, and sophisticated algorithms to regulate key motor behaviors including speed, position or angle, torque, current, and flux. While microcontrollers (MCUs) and DSPs have traditionally been used for algorithm processing in singleand dual-axis designs, their processing capa10

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bilities aren’t keeping up with growing multiaxis or high-rotation motor performance demands. Adding to the challenge, motor control efficiency is rarely the only concern, especially in connected factories where today’s Internet of Things (IoT) environment poses critical requirements for secure communications – something that flash-based FPGA architectures are ideally suited to address.

On the power electronics side of motor control designs, there is also a migration from insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) devices to silicon carbide (SiC)

power MOSFET devices. SiC solutions provide higher bandgap for improved cooling (and therefore enable the use of smaller and cheaper heat sinks), greater thermal conductivity to drive higher power densities, and higher switching frequencies (greater than 100kHz) which result in smaller magnetics at the inverter stage. This, in turn, contributes to lowering the customer’s TCO. On the control side, higher switching frequencies are where DSPs and MCUs don’t fare well.

Some DSPs may optimize a few channels for high-frequency switching, but they still lack

Figure 1: An example of a flash-based SoC FPGA architecture that can be used for motor control and monitoring functions.

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the ability to quickly adapt to changing requirements, and to add more pulse width modulation (PWM) channels to control the power electronics stage (in fact, this is often offloaded to an FPGA). ASICs and ASSPs have the same flexibility and scaling challenges.

Flash-based FPGAs offer greater performance than MCU/DSP-based solutions for high-speed, low-latency algorithm processing, while enabling the integration of additional system functionality to further improve TCO. Designers can use the flashbased FPGA to go beyond what MCUs/DSPs can support when scaling to higher switching frequencies and more PWM channels to match the power electronics.

Figure 1 shows a solution where a flashbased SoC FPGA with an ARM® Cortex-M3 microcontroller can be used for motor control and monitoring functions. The FPGA fabric is used for hardware acceleration of motor control functions to improve performance, and for design flexibility. Motor control algorithms can be offloaded to the FPGA for faster parallel processing, with intelligent partitioning to ensure that all communications protocols in the microcontroller subsystem can be handled with zero impact on the motor control algorithm calculations that are running in the FPGA. Capping off today’s FPGA solutions are modular suites of plug-and-play IP blocks tailored for implementing all necessary mathematical motor models. Developers can determine which IP blocks to hardware-accelerate in the FPGA fabric so they can meet the full range of algorithm processing challenges. These solutions ensure low-power operation while enabling developers to optimize their systems for reliability, safety and security using a simplified design process that speeds time to market while providing the flexibility and scalability to meet evolving needs.

Low-Power Operation FPGAs used for motor control design must reduce both static and total power, especially at high frequencies and temperatures. FPGAs that feature an embedded single-transistor flash cell offer an advantage as compared to alternatives that use a six-transistor SRAM cell that must be configured from an external ROM during power-up. The latest flashbased FPGA solutions also use a comprehensive approach to minimizing power that encompasses process technology, architecture and the design of configurable logic, as well as embedded features including a hardened M3 MCU, 5G SERDES, DDR2/3, TSE,

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DSP blocks, and special power modes. This approach results in 50 percent lower total power and 10 percent lower static power than SRAM-based FPGA solutions.

Reliability, Safety and Security In general, an FPGA is more reliable than a microcontroller for implementing motor control and network functions where deterministic timing is important. While there can

hardware to ensure precise torque output, and easily integrated to create task-specific modules. Each block facilitates sharing of common FPGA resources for the most efficient chip utilization (see Figure 2).

The IP suite also includes all basic building blocks, including Clarke and Park transformations, proportional integral (PI) controllers for control loop feedback, and space vector PWM (SVPWM).

Figure 2: IP blocks facilitate sharing of common FPGA resources for the most efficient chip utilization. be milliseconds of timing variability in a Flexibility and Scalability microcontroller, there are a few nanosec- A modular IP suite also simplifies customization and scaling to support different combionds or less in the FPGA. The best choice for security is flash-based, nations of multi-axis motors or high-RPM rather than SRAM-based FPGAs, because solutions, while meeting evolving regional they store configuration information on-chip technology standards. The more compact in non-volatile memory - the bit stream is the IP blocks (i.e., less than 10,000 logical elenever exposed at start-up. They also provide ments for the entire suite), the more headimmunity to single event upsets (SEUs) that room there is to support integration needs. change configuration SRAM contents. Some An IP suite running on an FPGA can be scaled flash-based FPGAs can also serve as root-of- to drive from two brushless DC (BLDC)/steptrust devices with key storage capability to per motor channels to a six-axis solution, or to protect hyperconnected industrial IoT sys- extend motor performance beyond 70,000 tems from cloning, tampering and other mali- RPM, depending on requirements. One way cious attacks. These FPGAs address security to scale to multi-axis FOC control is to timeneeds with features like a physically unclon- division-multiplex each FOC loop within the able function (PUF) from which the Private device so each of the motors can be individuKey in a Public/Private Key scheme can be ally controlled for different reference speeds derived for implementing M2M authentica- and torque requirements. Everything is impletion using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). mented in the FPGA fabric, leaving the microOther features include cryptographic acceler- processor subsystem available for running a ators, a random number generator, hardware communication protocol stack, providing the firewalls to protect CPU/DSP cores, and human-machine interface, or other tasks.

Differential Power Analysis (DPA) counter- Designers of electric motors must meet enermeasures that, together, allow security to be gy mandates while ensuring systems can scale layered as needed throughout the system to and adapt. Flash-based SoC FPGAs provide an increasingly attractive alternative to DSPs, protect the hardware and data.

MCUs, ASICs and ASSPs, combining the necDesign Simplicity through A Modular essary processing horsepower with hardware Approach and software programmability plus broad Modular and performance-oriented IP options for accelerating and intelligently parblock suites enable algorithms to be imple- titioning functionality. Flash-based FPGAs add mented with plug-and-play simplicity. the benefit of inherent security, and can serve Designs can easily be ported across multiple as the root of trust for secure IoT communicaplatforms to speed time to market. All IP tions in the connected factory ￭ blocks are tested in simulations on actual www.microsemi.com www.epd-ee.eu |

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Adding Intelligence to Control There are few applications addressed by integrated electronics that don’t require some modest form of power regulation, be that a simple current/voltage supply or a more sophisticated and optimised solution. However, with an increased focus on efficiency at every level it is becoming common to extend the simple to include some form of intelligence. Even a relatively unsophisticated control algorithm can deliver performance benefits such as reduced power consumption, while with a little more effort any device can now include more advanced features such as maximum power tracking, refined battery charging, environmentally aware settings and improved fault tolerance.

This is a perfect scenario for low-cost microcontrollers, even the smallest device is now powerful enough to execute complex algorithms, while providing machine- and humaninterfaces. The ability to accommodate some form of standardised communication interface, such as SMbus, LIN or Ethernet adds another level of value.

Author: Joseph Julicher, Engineering Manager, MCU08 Applications, Microchip Technology Inc.

Risk & Reward A ‘low risk’ method of making power smarter is to simply monitor the supply using an MCU and relay the parameters it measures to a back-system over some form of communication interface. This approach needs minimal additional components and design effort; typically restricted to adding some method for sensing the voltage, current and perhaps temperature. Monitoring other parameters, such as duty cycle or supply frequency will allow more sophisticated control over power-specific features including voltage levels.

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modifying its functionality based on decisions made through measuring critical parameters. It offers a simple way to increase efficiency and is a task that can be handled by a wide range of microcontrollers; serial interfaces effectively enables an MCU to modify the functionality of the power supply based on monitored parameters.

A further benefit of this approach is that the power supply itself remains under the control of the SMPS ASSP, which means the design team need not have any specific power supply design knowledge beyond understanding the parameters available for modification, and the affect of that; the key

control theory remains the domain of the SMPS engineer.

The next step along the implementation curve — and one that offers potential cost savings — is to integrate the SMPS ASSP and MCU functionality in to a single device. It is increasingly possible to achieve this in a high-performance MCU that is closely integrated to a fast sampling ADC; an approach that affords a fully digital, all-software implantation. Of course, this approach incurs the need for greater SMPS design expertise, and the overall performance will be related to how much processing power the MCU can deliver (often limited by system-level power requirements).

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The Hybrid Approach The middle-ground between the two scenarios described above is what some term the Hybrid Approach. In this case, a mixed-signal controller which integrates the necessary analogue peripherals are, again, fully integrated and one such device is the PIC16F753. This device features an operational amplifier, slope compensator, DAC, comparators and PWM controller in a single 14-pin MCU. Each of the peripherals is programmable, allowing them to be combined in a variety of ways to create a large number of current mode power supplies. As they are software-controlled, configuration is dynamic, allowing it to adapt to changing power supply conditions. This could see the device configured to operate as a hysteretic controller with a simple firmware feed-forward regulator when in standby mode, but allowing the supply to be quickly reconfigured for continuous current mode at a different operating frequency when more power is demanded.

Because the supply’s control resides entirely within the MCU there is no need for additional components to be added later in the design cycle, which has the added benefit of both simplifying the design and lowering the component count. Furthermore, as the solution is fully integrated the firmware has total visibility of the power supply parameters without significantly changing the design process, while the communications and intelligence interface can be developed and verified by the power supply engineering team.

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A typical power supply based on the PIC16F753 is shown in Figure 1; most implementations are minor variations of a common SMPS configuration. The Complementary Output Generator produces a complementary output with a programmable deadband from rising and falling inputs, while the CCP is configured to produce a programmable frequency rising edge. The comparator, C1, produces the falling edge when the current exceeds the output of the slope compensator. www.epd-ee.eu |

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Figure 3a The CCP and C1 can be combined to create a maximum duty cycle, which is needed by some topologies such as boost, flyback and SEPIC. The operational amplifier, OPA, is used to provide feedback and compensation, while the DAC is used to provide the Op Amp’s reference (although the Fixed Voltage Reference, FVR, can also be used if programmable levels are not required). The slope compensator can be reset by the comparators or the COG, and it uses a programmable current sink to decay a pre-charged capacitor (in this case, the charge level is set by the OPA).

This is a relatively simple configuration and Figure 2 shows an example of it operating as a boost supply regulating current in a LED string. The flowcharts in Figure 3a through 3c depict the levels of intelligence that can be added once it has been configured, allowing it target a range of applications.

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Conclusion The addition of intelligence to a power supply has far-reaching benefits and can either be achieved simply, by adding an MCU, or more comprehensively by using a more capable, fully integrated solution such as a high-performance dsPIC or mixed-signal MCU that integrates all the performance and peripherals needed to realise a sophisticated single-chip SMPS. However it is delivered, smart power has the potential to impact significantly on electrical device operation and — more importantly — efficiency. With today’s highly capable, low-cost and fully integrated solutions, adding intelligence has never made more sense. ￭ The Microchip name and logo, MPLAB, dsPIC and PIC are registered trademarks of Microchip Technology Inc. in the USA and other countries. PICkit is a trademark of Microchip Technology Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective companies. www.microchip.com Figure 3c 14

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DIN rail DC-DC converters offer a wide input and noise immunity for industrial applications XP Power announced the DDC15 and DDC30 series of low profile 15 Watt and 30 Watt DIN rail format DC-DC converters. The range is designed to offer additional voltages in DIN rail power systems, provide isolated outputs & noise immunity or support battery powered or battery backed applications. The single output converters accommodate the wide 4:1 input range from 9 – 36 VDC suiting a 12 or 24 VDC nominal input. Both series are available with a choice of a 5, 9, 12, 15 or 24 VDC nominal output. Additionally, the DDC15 model is available with a 3.3 VDC output. Input to output isolation is 1500 VDC.

Occupying less DIN rail space than similar units available on the market, these slim compact convection cooled units measure just 91 x 56.5 × 18mm for the DDC15 and 91 × 56.5 × 35 mm for the DDC30.

Capable of operating over a wide temperature range from – 40 to + 70°C, the DDC series delivers full power up to +50°C and suits use in most environments where the applications require extended operating temperatures.

The DDC15 and DDC30 converters have internationally recognized safety approvals for UL508 (industrial control equipment), and IT approvals per EN60950-1 A12:2011 and IEC60950-1 +A1:2009 .The units also meet the Class B EN55022 specification for both radiated and conducted emissions without the need for any additional filtering components saving both extra cost and footprint. The front panel hosts two LEDs that provide indication of DC input status along with access to screw terminals for input and output connections. The DDC30 front panel includes a potentiometer for output voltage adjustment.

The DDC series provides convenience for the system designer in accommodating additional supply voltages from a single DIN rail installation rather than having to incorporate multiple power supply formats.

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SiBEAM Captures world’s first 60GHz millimeter-wave smartphone Design win in LeTV’s Flagship Smartphone, Le Max UltraGig SiI6400 WirelessHD® Transmitter Validates Company’s Leadership in Low Power Millimeter-Wave RF on CMOS Solutions for Battery Operated Devices SiBEAM Inc., a pioneer and leader in millimeter-wave technologies for wireless communications, today announced a key UltraGig™ design win with Letv’s Le Max smartphone. Featuring SiBEAM’s UltraGig SiI6400 transmitter, Le Max is the world’s first smartphone offering 60GHz millimeterwave wireless video technology in volume production. Le Max was announced in mid-April 2015 and it establishes a new benchmark for low power millimeter-wave design in mobile device form factors. Le Max will be available for purchase starting in June. The inclusion of SiBEAM’s wireless technology in the device expands the consumer content experience for Letv’s film, television, and gaming services to mobile consumers. The UltraGig SiI6400 transmitter is a single-chip solution that integrates network processor, RF transceiver, and in-package antennas, offering Full HD quality with near-zero latency for immersive entertainment and gaming.

“SiBEAM’s 60GHz millimeter-wave wireless expertise is unparalleled and their video technology gives consumers a seamless, interactive experience from the phone to the TV,” said Yukuan Ding, Product Director at Letv. “As wireless connectivity becomes increasingly important to consumers, Letv will continue to offer products with innovative technologies that enhance the consumer experience.”

Leshi Internet Information and Technology Co. is China’s leading Internet content and entertainment provider, offering Internet, movie and TV content as well as Internet TVs and settop boxes. The company launched its first smartphone, a bezel-less device, earlier this year.

“We are thrilled to see our wireless technology included in the world’s first 60GHz smartphone,” said David Kuo, senior director of marketing for SiBEAM. “The Letv’s Le Max design win is not only a key milestone for the wireless industry, but also showcases SiBEAM’s leadership in millimeter-wave advancement and fulfilling the promise of gigabit wireless experience for consumers worldwide.”

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High-Side Switch Boosts Throughput and Channel Density; Reduces Dissipation and Footprint

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. addresses the need for higher throughput, smaller footprint, and lower power in industrial automation with the MAX14900E digital output switch.

This eight-channel integrated circuit (IC) provides up to 70x faster speed, uses over 20% less power, and occupies 40% less space than existing solutions - all factors required in today’s faster, more localized, smaller end products. It is controlled by an eight-bit parallel interface, or via a standard Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) which is also used for configuration and monitoring. Multiple devices can be daisy-chained to support additional I/O points via the single SPI interface, requiring only three isolators for all channels to provide further savings in cost, board space, and power. The serial mode includes cyclic redundancy checking (CRC) for assured data integrity, as well as global and per-channel diagnostics for remote system monitoring.

Maxim offers both a complete reference design (MAXREFDES63#) as well as an evaluation (EV) kit with special prototyping features. The creditcard-sized reference design integrates the MAX14900E, a microcontroller, isolated I/O port, power supplies, UART, and USB port to simplify incorporating the device into the final OEM product design, as well as provide a means for quick evaluation.

Key Advantages • Low power; high voltage: The eight digital channels require just 3mA (maximum) of supply current; operates from a wide supply range of 10V to 36V and thus compatible with the 24V rail of many factory systems.

• High speed and drive: With an input-to-output propagation delay of 0.3usec (typical)/0.8usec (maximum), it can support fast switching rates of up to 100kHz in push pull configuration. On-resistance, a critical factor in static power dissipation is just 85mΩ (typical) and 165mΩ (maximum). It can drive current loads up to 850mA; outputs can be used in parallel to achieve even higher drive-current rating.

• High integration and space savings: Housed in a tiny, 48-pin 7 mm × 7 mm QFN package; uses significantly less board space.

• Data integrity: Offers per-channel and global diagnostics/monitoring via its SPI port, while users can access the I/O via an eight-bit parallel port. The serial link includes CRC error detection for enhanced data-link integrity.

MAXIM INTEGRATED www.maximintegrated.com

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Altera Speeds IEC 61508-compliant Designs with Certified 28 nm FPGAs, SoCs, and Toolflows Altera Corporation announced the availability of the latest version of its Industrial Functional Safety Data Package (Ver. 3), www.altera.com/solutions/industry/industrial/ applications/automation/functional-safety.html - for systems designers using Altera field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The safety pack provides TÜV Rheinland-certified toolflows, IP and devices including Cyclone V FPGAs, enabling faster time for market for industrial safety solutions to IEC 61508 up to Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3).

Under industrial safety mandates, industrial equipment must be certified to ensure electrical, electronic or programmable electronic systems that carry out safety functions meet industry-standard safety guidelines.

Generally, such products must fulfill requirements of the IEC 61508 standard to safety integrity level 3 (SIL 3), and meet the ISO 13849 standard to performance level category 4 (PL e Cat 4.)

In addition, as the complexity of safety designs increases, the need to provide advanced safety functions and to integrate safety functionality with the application, has led to the need for advanced certified toolflows, such as Altera Safety Design Partitioning toolflow, offered in this latest version of the Functional Safety Data Package.

This partitioning toolflow gives designers the ability to separate the safe and non-safe portions of the design, allowing user updates of the non-safe portion with minimal safety re-certification effort.

Altera-based Board from NewTec Now Available Altera, also announced the availability the Cyclone V-based SafeFlex Functional Safety board from partner NewTec GmbH, which was demonstrated at the SPS IC Drives event in Nuremberg, in November, 2014 and satisfies the requirement for IEC 61508 to SIL 3in addition to ISO 13849 to PL e Cat 4.

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Commitment phobic?

Not us

By Michael Haight Michael Haight is in business development for the Microcontrollers Division at Freecale

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”

– Woody Allen So then, can a microcontroller product line be immortal? Of course not, but many engineers wish they could continue to purchase the same microcontroller in perpetuity. And while not eternity, the proof of this desire is exemplified by some components of our MCU portfolio still selling in production for more than 25 years. Clearly, engineers value supply assurance or steady production availability for an extended period.

The reasons vary.

For some, their products are expected to be sold in the market unchanged for many, many years. For others, launching a product to market requires passing stringent certification and safety tests. Any changes later to the system components would require costly re-certification.

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For many, the adage “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” applies. To address this need, Freescale created the Product Longevity program – making a broad range of devices available up to 15 years.

Longevity, in this use of the word, refers to the minimum lifetime commitment that Freescale makes. Not to be confused with product reliability that indicates how long a component can be expected to operate in a system, longevity refers to the minimum duration from component introduction that customers can expect to continue purchasing the component that is compatible with their system design.

Understanding a component’s longevity is a key device selection criteria for a new system design.

So while not immortal, Freescale endeavors to perpetuate the lifetime of our customer’s products through the long-term supply of essential components.

Take a look at the Product Longevity site at www.freescale.com/productlongevity and browse the list of devices that we plan to produce (and the terms and conditions for each) for at least 10 years, and in some cases 15 years.

So, there you have it: we’re not afraid of commitment. ￭ www.freescale.com

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Kinetis MCU: A low power profile

By Justin Mortimer, Kinetis MCU product manager

In an embedded system, it is all about being more energy efficient across the application’s tasks, which can generally be broken into three phases: Initialization, Control and the Compute. To reduce power consumption the equation is simple, reduce the area underneath the curve; in essence, do more with less power and time.

This is achieved by being best-in-class in not just one of these phases, but in all three.

Our ever-changing world of electronics Electronics have made great strides since the first radio receiver/transmitter, a.k.a. the “walkie-talkie,” was introduced by Motorola in 1940. Since then, rapid advancements and breakthrough innovations continue to impact the way we interact with our world.

We’re surrounded by embedded processors and sensors in battery-operated mobile devices like phones, tablets and other “smart” electronics. Ultimately, our world is driven by embedded software that constantly collects and interprets data to make real-time decisions. As consumers, we expect extremely high performance from our devices, and the growing expectation is that each product release will bring more functionality, longer battery life, lower prices, a better software experience, and a product safer for our environment. As the number of battery-operated devices increases, the importance placed on the embedded system to meet those requirements is that much greater. If you’re a design engineer, you know this all too well, which is why you will be glad to hear that the Kinetis MCUs are built around these requirements, especially power efficiency.

Kinetis microcontrollers are driving low power, even lower In the past, integrated circuit manufacturers were pushed to deliver products with greater performance and integration.

Today, expectations have been raised.

Energy efficient appliances, electric vehicles, LED lighting and televisions started the trend, but devices are getting much smarter: they are starting to make autonomous decisions without human intervention. Smarter integration, performance efficiency and creative solutions to solve the low power challenge have become a top priority for the integrated circuit manufacturers.

The Kinetis MCUs have been built around reducing power consumption and will continue to differentiate themselves from other MCUs on the market.

Driving down power consumption, one device at a time Here are just a few low power techniques integrated into the Kinetis portfolio, which help to reduce power consumption.

• Low power boot: Optimized for the lowest power during the boot process by providing non-volatile control bits to set default chip clocking upon device power up • Smart clocking: Scalable performance, as needed to meet application needs, through various clock sources and multipliers to set the clocks for peripherals or CPU, across all power modes • Ultra-efficient processing: Real-time control and computation through the use of the world’s most efficient processor cores, the ARM® Cortex®-M, supplemented by Freescale proprietary hardware accelerators • Flexible low power modes: Numerous power modes to power gate memories

and peripherals, allowing for dynamic and static power optimization that fits a wide range of use cases • Autonomous, low power peripherals: Precious energy savings by enabling strategic peripherals to operate, and function with decision making capabilities, in power down modes, so that time spent sleeping can be extended Kinetis MCUs can make a difference, and will be there to help when milliamps make a world of difference Today’s embedded systems are not like the hardware-driven systems of our past. They are more complicated applications, with real-time tasks that include harvesting data from sensors, computing algorithms and making informed decisions. These applications require hardware that balances performance with power, but more so than ever, they require advanced software development. And as we move deeper into this new world, the need for power efficient devices is growing. The innovation driving the Kinetis portfolio is fueled by the desire to design microcontrollers that consume less power, offer flexible power modes, smarter peripherals, and tightly integrated software and enablement solutions. To keep up on what the team has been working on, you can check out Freescale.com/lowpower. As new power efficiency updates are made, we’ll share it here on the Embedded Beat ￭ www.freescale.com www.epd-ee.eu |

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Open source sensor fusion

By Michael Stanley Michael Stanley manages the systems/algorithms team within Freescale’s Sensors Solutions Division.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve updated you on the status of Freescale’s sensor fusion efforts (One-stop-fusion-shopping at freescale.com/sensorfusion). We haven’t been idle. We’ve added support for FRDM-KL46Z boards and for Kinetis Design Studio IDE. The Sensor Fusion Toolkit for Windows has been expanded with new and improved features. We’ve updated our user manual and vastly upgraded the content in the sensor fusion data sheet.

enabling re-use) allowing its users to focus on development of next generation functions. Freescale seeded the effort by contributing our sensor fusion library, documentation and source files for Windows and Android-based visualization tools. We’ll be expanding these offerings in coming months.

Steve Whalley, MIG chief strategy officer, added that “Analog Devices and NIST have already come on board, and PNI Sensor Corp. will contribute three algorithms: quaternion to heading pitch and roll; heart rate monitoring using PPG sensor; and step counting. We also fully expect other MIG member companies to add further algorithms to AIC over the next 30 to 60 days, providing a rich baseline algorithm capability to assist developers with sensor fusion solutions.”

There have been a few sensor algorithm libraries on the web. But they were generally limited in ability or via license restrictions.

Corporate acquisitions of Sensor Platforms, Movea and others earlier this year have taken a number of commercial offerings out of the general market. The AIC makes professional level solutions available for everyone else. Visit the MIG Open Source Sensor Fusion site to register and gain access to GitHub based code, documentation and tools. In the spirit of full disclosure, my team and I authored much of the material currently on the site, so if you have suggestions, please feel free to send them my way.

We’ve added a community support page at community.freescale.com/community/sensors/sensorfusion. But the really big news is that we’ve taken the entire sensor fusion library open source. It’s FREE. We got a lot of requests for less restrictive licensing terms and easier license checking in the code.

We fixed both by eliminating all license checks, supplying the entire library in source form (no more node locked binaries) and switching to a very flexible BSD license file. Source files must retain the Freescale copyright, but you are free to use the code with any set of sensors or MCUs, at no cost what-so-ever.

This is Freescale’s way of encouraging broad adoption of sensor fusion-based techniques, regardless of who your supplier is.

Which leads me to…

AIC also opens the door for companies to provide professional support options, which Freescale plans start offering this month.

The company will be making a bundled sensor fusion development kit (FRDM-SFUSION) available for purchase this month.

The kit is offered at a suggested resale price of $170 USD and includes Freescale’s FRDM-K64F, FRDM-FXS_MULTI-B boards pre-programmed with sensor fusion software compatible with our standard Sensor Fusion Toolbox for Windows.

This week, at the MEMS User Group Executive Congress in Scottsdale AZ, executive director Karen Lightman, announced the MIG Accelerated Innovation Community (AIC). The AIC is intended to facilitate sharing and adoption of algorithms for sensor fusion and analytics, shortening time to adoption, and (by

I’m really excited about taking our fusion library open source. I’m already seeing faster adoption, and I’m looking forward to other contributors reviewing and adding to our work products, and adding their own. It’s a fun time to be in the sensor’s business ￭ www.freescale.com

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Also available is a premium software development support package that includes a private portal with up to 50 hours support at a price of $10,000 USD. For more information, please visit www.freescale.com/FRDM-SFUSION.

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Ericsson converter brings unparalleled high power capability to highly demanding data networks Ericsson has introduced a new DC/DC converter module based on the company’s innovative and proprietary power topology known as Hybrid Regulated Ratio (HRR) technology. The latest member of the PKM-NH series, the PKM4817LNH has been optimized for parallel operation to power 2200W boards in extreme-data-demand applications in the datacom industry.

Offering 800W of power per unit, up to three PKM4817LNH modules can be connected in parallel to achieve a total deliverable power of 2200W. Parallel mode uses Droop Load Sharing, which means the output voltage has a typical droop characteristic, whereby the output voltage slightly decreases when the load is increasing, while staying within system voltage limits.

Ericsson’s advanced HRR topology combines two power-control methods – voltage-regulation and ratio-regulation – and guarantees high performance across the 45V to 60V input voltage ranges commonly used in datacom systems that are powered by front-end rectifiers. HRR offers excellent response to line and load transients and guarantees the output voltage will remain stable and immune from voltage deviations that are due to power disturbances on the system bus. This means it retains intermediate bus voltage integrity within the tolerance band required by power system architects.

Patrick Le Fèvre, Marketing and Communication Director, Ericsson Power Modules, says: “The ability to operate these advanced highpower-density DC/DC converters in parallel meets the increasing need in the datacom industry for ever higher power with boards now reaching 2kW. The combination of Ericsson’s HRR technology and the ability to easily parallel these new modules makes it possible to deliver the necessary high-density power required in extreme data traffic applications.”

Available in a quarter-brick format with a footprint of 57.9 x 36.8 x 11.4mm, the PKM4817LNH operates with an input voltage range of 45V to 60V and delivers an output voltage of 10V-11V at 80A within the operational system voltage between 51V and 60V. Below 50V, in regulated-ratio mode, the output voltage self-adjusts for optimal operation and secures a stable voltage of 9.0V to 11V, even if the system bus voltage delivered via the front-end rectifier is operating abnormally.

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Toshiba Launches Application Processor Development Platforms for Wearable and IoT Devices New HDK and SDK designed to increase product development efficiency Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a Hardware Development Kit (HDK) and Software Development Kit (SDK) that together form a development platform for the TZ1000 ApP LiteTM series. Suitable for wearable and IoT devices the TZ1000 series application processors enable activity level monitoring as well as taking a pulse and checking heart rate.

Toshiba is supplying IoT device developers with the HDK and SDK since May 7th, and is also conducting a trial campaign that offers a limited quantity of reference boards and the development environment free of charge.

The TZ1000 series devices integrate a sensor, a processor, flash memory, and a Bluetooth® Low Energy controller in a single package. The series is designed to provide single-device solutions for measuring, processing, saving and communicating the data required for wearable and IoT devices.

The development environment includes a HDK embedded with the TZ1001MBG processor and a biometric sensor board that measures pulse waves and the heart’s electrical activities.

The SDK includes driver software that controls each component incorporated in TZ1001MBG, middleware that measures activity and pulse waves, and application software that controls the overall system.

The platform is supported by recommended development tools, including Keil® MDK-ARM and IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM. The kits will allow users to evaluate and develop software in an environment closer to their final products and to optimise use of the application processor for specific applications. The development environment will contribute to reduced design man-hours and shorten time-to-market.

Toshiba aims to further strengthen the TZ1000 series line-up with the development of software algorithms to measure weak biological signals, like pulse waves and the heart’s electrical activities, as well as environmental data such as temperature and humidity.

TOSHIBA ELECTRONICS EUROPE www.toshiba.semicon-storage.com

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Distec now runs embedded DisplayPort Effortless control of TFT displays with PrismaECO-eDP controller board and LVDS2eDP interface Distec - leading German specialist for TFT flat screens and system solutions for industrial and multimedia applications – presents the autonomous TFT controller board PrismaECO-eDP, the latest member of the proven Prisma family.

power consumption,” says Matthias Keller, COO Components at Distec. “This concerns particularly the medium sizes since the eDP interface is available in all current Intel and AMD chips, especially in the notebook / ultrabook area. Therefore eDP replaces LVDS officially on PC platforms this year.”

In addition to PRISMAeco-eDP the range of Distec’s intelligent eDP solutions includes the small LVDS2eDP interface. Integrated in the customer’s existing design, it simply converts the existing LVDS interface to eDP. Thus the customer may keep his controller solution but still use one of the modern, sleek full-HD displays (eg. 12.5").

Matthias Keller is COO Components at Distec GmbH

Cost-effective, space-saving and powerful multimedia card PrismaECO-eDP

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“In modern TFT displays with full HD resolution, manufacturers are focusing more and more on embedded DisplayPort (eDP) as an input interface because compared to LVDS the eDP standard enables higher data rates and improved EMI performance at optimized

PrismaECO-eDP features an HDMI and a DisplayPort input. It controls TFT displays quickly and easily via dual-lane eDP interface and supports a resolution of currently WSXGA (1600×900) to WUXGA

(1920×1200). The brightness of the backlight can be controlled via Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) or analog voltage, but can also be adjusted automatically to ambient light conditions by using an optional ambient light sensor.

A particular advantage of PrismaECO-eDP is the fact that it can be adjusted individually to the requirements of the application.

The exclusive configuration software ChandlerRover enables for example port selection, timing, EDID programming and many other settings. This is particularly useful for system integrators who can adjust the PrismaECO-eDP individually for each customer. Your configurations and OSD menu settings can be downloaded from the EEPROM of the controller board and easily be transferred to other boards. This allows for a quick serial production of precisely configured TFT controller boards for various applications. Thus, the PrismaECO-eDP is the universal basis for custom projects with different TFT displays.

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Distec‘s PrismaECO-eDP-controller board and LVDS2eDP interface board enable comfortable control of TFT displays with eDP interface Copyright: Distec GmbH

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Smart Analog / sensor technology Article The world of industrial automation is entering the fourth industrial revolution. A paradigm shift in which rising awareness of energy efficiency, environmental concerns and regulations, qualitative productivity and operational health and safety, contribute to the continued growth of machine to machine (M2M) technology. “Smart production” will become a norm in the manufacturing engineering sector, where intelligent machine systems, through networks interconnectivity will be capable of managing industrial production processes independently from human intervention, thereby making the “Internet of Things” a reality.

Author: Bruno Nelta, Industrial & Communications Business Group Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH

The M2M communications are made possible with the use of industrial instrumentation comprising of intelligent sensors capable of capturing events (such as temperature, location, consumption, levels, movement etc.) and relaying the data over a network (wireless, wired or hybrid) to an applications (software program) that translates the captured event into meaningful information that can be analyzed and acted upon.

Looking closer into the intelligent sensor system structure, the sensor (or transducers) are connected to one or more microcontroller units (MCUs) that are at the core of embedded system. The sensor’s output goes to the MCU’s input. The MCU processes that incoming signal and executes control functions accordingly. Depending on the application and situation, the sensor’s signal might cause the MCU to execute tasks predefined by the user. The purpose of a sensor is to detect or measure, while the purpose of the MCU is to execute control in accordance with the incoming information.

When used together and properly interfaced, these components function as "detect and control" electronics, enabling greater functionality, convenience, safety and efficiency in embedded sensors systems.

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ronment, or delivered in a format incompatible with the one required by the MCU. Almost all MCUs have built-in analog-todigital converter functions (ADCs or A/Ds) for translating analog sensor signals into a digital format. But those ADCs have restricted capabilities; for instance, they generally accept only a limited range of input voltages. To boost these signals to the level required by the MCU, or perform the necessary bridging (adaptation) function to implement signal compatibility between the transducer and the MCU, an Analog Front End (AFE) is necessary. Furthermore, the transducers’ output may contains too many unwanted frequencies. This noise must be removed before the analog signal is converted to digital. The AFE solution employs low-pass filter circuitry to block out highfrequency noise and/or high-pass filter circuits to remove lower-frequency noise.

Until recently, analog circuits were typically designed manually by trial and error, which required a considerable amount of time and experience to complete a design, in some cases up to a year. Engineers today in the fast developing industry, are looking for solutions enabling them to reduce the development time of their analog circuit, and release their products faster to the market. To answer the needs, a new type of AFE

design approach was needed, which is easy to apply, flexible, quick and effective.

After carrying out large scale investigation into analog circuit for sensors, the analog experts in Renesas’ R& D labs have perfected proprietary Smart Analog circuitry and development tools that can significantly reduce the time and effort engineers must expend to develop new AFEs. Using the programming side from the MCU, Smart Analog, makes use of the MCU to control the design of analog circuit, adjust its structure and its characteristics into a sensor application.

Smart Analog circuits are designed at a computer screen using configurable designed operational amplifier circuits that greatly reduces the design time.

As a sensor equipped system uses different type of transducers, for many different purposes, each of these sensors must have its own analog circuit. Renesas Electronics therefore designed a platform that enables the user to design the most basic analog circuit to the more advanced Op-amp based topologies, by selecting and combining appropriate types of Op-amp.

The AFE Engineer is able to get his development projects up and running quickly and easily, with the powerful GUI-based sensor

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configuration software tool that enables “on the fly�, i.e. while system is operating, configuration and simulation of the analog frontend. The designer can easily, via simple mouse operation at the screen of a personal computer or work station, select the wiring and connections between the analog

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trans-impedance converter/amplifiers, noninverting amplifiers, inverting amplifiers, differential amplifiers, or summing amplifiers.

The chip can be custom-configured to implement a range of signal amplification gains and it provides an adjustable span of signal voltage offsets (see Figure 1).

(with sync detection), single-channel lowpass filter with variable cutoff frequency, single-channel high-pass filter with variable cutoff frequency, high precision 16-bit or 24-bit Delta-sigma A/D converter with builtin AUTOSCAN sequencer and programmable gain instrumentation amplification.

Figure 1: Customized examples of the configurable amp in the Smart Analog IC blocks, change gain values or do offset tuning, and adjust other parameters. This greatly simplifies sensors calibration or debugging and can reduce the overall design lead time between 3 to 8 months significantly lowering development costs.

Additionally, the single-channel generalpurpose amp in the AFE can be configured to implement a single-channel high-impedance instrumentation amplifier.

This type of differential amplifier is essential for interfacing to high-impedance sensors

Compared to the classical discrete approach, component count can be reduced by as much as a factor of ten, allowing for a much smaller overall footprint.

Additionally, the power-on/off feature of each block of Smart Analog subsystem

Figure 2: High-impedance instrumentation amp built from the AFE chip’s 3-channel configurable amplifier The Technology offers customizable multiple single-channel general-purpose amp blocks can be used to produce tailored I/V

such as piezoelectric types (see Figure 2).

Other elements found in the Smart Analog blocks portfolio are single-channel amp

yields significant savings in power consumption, in some cases as much as 20 percent.

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The Smart Analog platform approach is particularly versatile and convenient. It can be implemented in two ways. One method based on a Smart Analog IC, which is a single-chip silicon die implementation of an AFE. System engineers insert it into the embedded control system to connect the transducer to the MCU. The other one applies a Smart Analog MCU, a device that combines both AFE and MCU chips into a single, integrated package.

The Smart Analog MCU combines a Smart Analog IC and an MCU into a space-saving, single-package device simplifying the design of sensor-based embedded control systems. Its internal MCU can be used to optimize the sensor compatibility of the AFE chip, as well as to control that chip’s signalinterfacing characteristics. Due to this unique combination of capabilities, the Smart Analog MCU is the only AFE solution that can handle the different outputs from diverse types of voltage, current and differ-

ential-output sensors. It provides enough connection terminals to accommodate all the sensors typically needed, eliminating the traditional requirement to have a separate AFE circuit for each sensor. The Smart Analog MCU helps shrink the circuit board, while simultaneously decreasing system component counts and costs.

The reconfigurable characteristics of Smart analog, means that Engineers now have a field programmable solution which can be used to plan sensor sensitivity loss over time. Existing AFE design approaches make it necessary during the manufacturing process to perform manual trimming to compensate for variations in sensor characteristics. By contrast, a Smart Analog MCU automates this process with the implementation of automatic self-correction features.

Thereby cutting system production and commissioning costs, while increasing the sensor-based system’s operating lifetime Using the new Smart Analog solutions, engi-

Renesas Electronics Europe Launches its Stream it!

Kit for H.264 Encoding and Streaming in Real Time Renesas Electronics Europe, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of its “Stream it!” kit, a complete evaluation platform for H.264 encoding and streaming in real-time. The new kit includes all the hardware, software components and demonstration programs manufacturers need to start development of cost-optimised video surveillance systems, video door phones, access control and intrusion detection systems. Renesas’ new “Stream it!” kit enables designers of advanced security and multimedia applications to develop scalable systems with the shortest time-to-market, reduced component count and optimised PCB footprint. The “Stream it!” kit comes pre-loaded with the H.264 Encode and Stream demonstration, but can also run two additional streaming demonstrations included in the kit. For developers of industrial sensor and home automation systems, the “Stream it!” kit can be used to log sensor status information, while sharing the collected data on a web server. For streaming applications targeting the consumer segment, internet radio MP3 files can be streamed to the “Stream it!” kit, decoded and played over headphones. In the pre-loaded video streaming demonstration, a CMOS camera module is connected to RZ/A1L’s Capture Engine Unit and captures video in YUV format. The video stream is subsequently encoded using H.264 technology with up to 40 fps. RTP packets are streamed using FreeRTOS and the UDP/IP stack and played on the PC side VLC player.

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neers can readily select the configuration and main features of the AFE they require and, thereafter, change those selections as often as necessary. This flexible design capability significantly reduces the time that otherwise would be necessary for component selection, board design, and parts procurement. Now the AFE portion of the systemdevelopment process can proceed much faster and more efficiently.

Smart Analog technology represents a new innovative platform for AFE design contributing to the implementation of enhanced features into intelligent sensors, with the added values of downsized systems, shortened design cycle and lowered system cost. By saving cost and time, the new customizable semiconductor devices enable sensor manufacturers, acting in the development of smarter factories, to create products that otherwise might be too expensive to produce or take too long to bring to market ￭ www.renesas.com

Renesas Electronics Improves Energy Efficiency with Precision Control Solution for Home Appliances, Industrial and Office Equipment Renesas Electronics continues to develop embedded solutions that contribute to a reduced energy footprint. The company introduced the RX23T Group of microcontrollers (MCUs), designed to enable highly precise control of inverter circuits employed in energy-efficient electric home appliances, industrial machinery, and office equipment. Based on the fast RX core, the new 32-bit MCUs are ideal for building high-performance inverter control systems for applications such as DC motor control in energy-efficient electric home appliances such as refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and fans; entry-level to midrange industrial equipment such as general-purpose inverters, electrical tools, and drones; and office equipment. The functions are optimized for inverter drive control, including the inclusion of an on-chip floating point unit (FPU) that reduces code size and development time both by 30 percent. Energy efficiency regulations have become stricter in many countries in recent years, expanding to include entry-level and mid-range energy-efficient electric home appliances and industrial equipment. System designers in these price-competitive markets are looking for new approaches to achieve the reduced power consumption desired within increasingly constrained budget requirements for energy-efficient, cost-attractive products.

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ASIC Redesign – The Answer for Discontinued Parts MAZeT Offers Redesign of Digital and Mixed-Signal ASICs that De-livers Long-Term Availability and Optimization MAZeT GmbH, specialized in the development and custom production of embedded systems and optoelectronics, devised a redesign strategy for digital and mixed-signal ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) as an answer to discontinued parts.

With this move, MAZeT is guaranteeing the future operability of existing electronics developments.

“ASICs offer significant benefits compared to standard ICs,” explains Dr. Fred Grunert, Managing Director of MAZeT. “An electronics concept geared towards a specific application contains precisely the required function range, which consequently reduces costs and results in a compact solution. The electrical properties are also improved. On the downside, parts are only available for approx. six to eight years, and stock-keeping is limited to no more than two years. To help companies struggling with these issues, MAZeT developed the redesign solution. A redesign increases availability and also makes it possible to further optimize the ASIC.”

A mixed-signal ASIC contains digital modules as well as an analog part of variable size. The redesign effort is reduced by using analog or digital IPs, a database that is as complete as possible, comprehensive and detailed documentation of the ASIC, as well as a testing environment. When implementing a concrete redesign order for a mixed-signal ASIC, MAZeT eliminated the weaknesses of the original ASIC: For example, the previous 0.6 μm CMOS technology was replaced by 0.35 μm CMOS technology, which will be available over the long term. The entire pin assignment was retained despite the improved redesign, allowing the existing printed circuit boards (PCB) to be still used.

Prerequisites for ASIC Redesign Successful ASIC redesign is subject to several conditions. The more of these are met, the lower the design risk, development time, and redesign costs. The top priority is to provide a technical description including a requirements specification, circuit plan,

high-level language description, netlist, and data sheet in order to ensure functional compatibility. The testing vectors and environment are essential for delivering the proof of functionality needed for series production. What is also important is the description of the dynamic behavior as the logic elements such as gates, flip-flops, memory etc. of a new semiconductor technology often exhibit different delay times and the analog transistors display a different electrical behavior, i.e., they represent different models. Other prerequisites include the testing program for the circuit tester, precise documentation of the ASIC’s electrical functions, the electrical characterization of the input/output behavior, the supply voltage concept, the ESD and EMC concept, as well as the GDS2 data set.

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MAZeT is designing the new ASIC to be compatible to the original ASIC both in terms of its functionality and connection options, keeping follow-up to a minimum. The semiconductor technology is selected based on the premise that it is available over the long haul. MAZeT thus demonstrates that an ASIC redesign can be a highly efficient alternative.

Digital and MixedSignal ASICs There are purely digital and mixed-signal ASICs. As concerns the redesign of digital ASICs, various methods are available, such as, for instance, maskprogrammable and standard-cell technology or replacement with a programmable logic module.

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Design a 15Amp DC/DC Converter in 15 Minutes

By Alan Elbanhawy, Principal Applications Engineer, Exar

The proliferation of fully integrated power modules allows power engineers to quickly design a fully functional, stable, efficient DC/DC converter that meets all system requirements. Using the XR79115 from Exar as a design example, we shall demonstrate that the design can be completed in a few minutes.

Exar’s XR79115 is a synchronous step-down 15Amp fully integrated DC/DC converter that requires no control loop compensation because it employs a proprietary emulated current mode Constant On-Time (COT) control scheme.

Design Procedure Step 1 Select the Soft Start Capacitor Place a capacitor CSS between the SS and AGND pins to program the soft-start, as shown in Figure 1.

CSS can be calculated using the equation: CSS = TSS × 10μA / 0.6V Where: CSS = Soft start capacitor value in μF TSS = the soft start time of your choice Step 2 Select the DCM/CCM Mode The DCM/CCM mode is based on the control signal EN/MODE as

shown in Figure 2.

If EN/MODE = 2V-2.8V -> CCM mode If EN/MODE ≥ 3.1V -> DCM/CCM mode Step 3 Program the On–Time The On–Time TON is programmed via the resistor RON shown in Figure 1 according to following equation: RON = ((VOUT /fSW × η) - VIN × 25 × 10-9) / 2.85 × 10-10 Where: VOUT = Output Voltage fSW = Desired Switching frequency η = Conversion Efficiency VIN = Input Voltage Figure 1: Typical Application Schematic

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Figure 2: DCM/CCM Mode Selection Step 4 Calculate the Over–Current Protection (OCP) If the load current exceeds the programmed over–current IOCP for four consecutive switching cycles, then the power module will enter hiccup mode.

The OCP current limit is calculated via the resistor RLIM shown in Figure 1 according to following equation: RLIM = (IOCP × RDSON + 8mV) / ILIM Where: RLIM = Resistor value for programming IOCP IOCP = Over-current threshold to be programmed RDSON = 5mΩ = MOSFET rated on Resistance Program the Output Voltage Step 5 Program the Output Voltage Use an external voltage divider feedback network as shown in Figure 3 to program the output voltage VOUT. Where: R1 = R2 × ((VOUT / 0.6) -1) CFF = 1 / (2 × π × 80KHz × R1) RFF = 0.015 × R1

IRMS = IOUT × √((VOUT / VIN) × (1 - (VOUT / VIN))) Step 7 Select the Output Capacitors Before starting this step, determine the maximum load current step you expect to encounter ΔIOUT, and the maximum voltage droop acceptable VDROOP. Typically the most important factor when determining the output capacitor value is the acceptable droop voltage during the transient response.

Calculate the value of the output capacitor using the formula below.

COUT = (KC x ΔIOUT) / (VDROOP × fSW) Where: KC = constant between 2 and 5 ΔIOUT = Maximum current step VDROOP = Maximum droop voltage fSW = Switching frequency Select ceramic capacitors with a ripple current rating greater than the RMS current.

IRMS = (1 /(2 × √3)) × (VOUT × (VINMax-VOUT)) / (0.56 × 10-6 × fSW × VINMax" )

Figure 3

Step 6 Select the Input Capacitor Before starting this step, determine the acceptable input ripple voltage VPP. Then calculate the minimum acceptable capacitor value using the formula below.

CIN(MIN) = 1 / (((VPP / IOUT) - ESR) × 4 × fSW) Where: CIN (Min) = Minimum acceptable input capacitor value VPP = Acceptable peak–to–peak input ripple voltage ESR = Equivalent Series Resistor of the selected capacitor IOUT = Output load current Select a ceramic capacitor with a voltage rating that matches the input voltage VIN with a 30% safety margin. The capacitor’s ripple current rating must be greater than the RMS current.

Where: VOUT = Output Voltage VINMax = Maximum input voltage fSW = Switching frequency Online Assistance For additional assistance, please refer to the following web pages on Exar’s website.

• CAD CAE Library: www.exar.com/common/content/default.aspx?id=10330 • Complete evaluation board offerings: www.exar.com/evaluationboards Conclusion The steps outlined in this article allow a power system engineer to quickly calculate all the necessary external components to design a world class DC/DC converter ￭ Exar, XR and the XR logo are registered trademarks of Exar Corporation.

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More efficient water meters thanks to new sensors

Higher precision at lower energy consumption – those were the Spanish manufacturer Mirakonta’s requirements when developing a new premium water meter.

The focus of the project was on the sensor and Rutronik was on hand throughout to offer the company support.

The water meter needed to measure the water flow precisely with a battery-operated, radio-controlled counter. The sensor is positioned behind a 6 mm-thick glass panel in a housing made of stainless steel or aluminum, and the magnet is housed in an ethylene glycol antifreeze solution. A further sensor which detects the presence or absence of a magnetic field is used for tamper evidence purposes. In addition, this can also function as a configuration switch for determining the time for the communication of the measured values to the remote readout device. The data are transmitted via radio link to a remote readout device, which collates them.

Mirakonta had previously used a reed switch as a water flow meter, but this didn't always deliver precise consumption values.

A new sensor model would not only need to determine more accurate values, but also meet the increasing demands on energy efficiency. For support with this task, the manufacturer turned to Rutronik.

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Mirakonta has already been working closely with the distributor for five years.

“In the past, we would have chosen a magnet sensor with low energy requirements for this type of application,” explained Thomas Kepcija, Product Sales Manager Sensors at Rutronik. “This time, however, Mirakonta’s requirements on the energy consumption were so strict that those models simply couldn’t comply with them. As such, the new development from Honeywell Sensing and Control came at just the right time.”

The sensor specialist launched the industry’s first anisotropic magneto-resistive (AMR) nanopower sensor. With an energy consumption in the nano range (360 nA) and high sensitivity of typically just 7 Gauss, it satisfies both criteria.

Durable and ultrasensitive Compared with other magnetic technologies, magneto-resistive sensor ICs offer a number of advantages: They are smaller, more durable, and more reliable than reed switches, but still offer the same sensitivity and are in the same price range. As such, they are ideal for battery-powered applications, which function with a very low energy consumption and a large air gap, and for which it was only possible to use reed switches up until now.

Compared with Hall-effect sensors, the increased sensitivity of the nanopower sensor ICs of typically 7 Gauss and maximum 11 Gauss makes it possible to use them with an air gap twice as large.

“In addition, they take up less space and reduce costs, as smaller, weaker magnets can be used.

Engineers are also afforded more design flexibility, as, thanks to the extreme sensitivity, they can work with higher tolerances when it comes to the magnetic activation of the sensor,” summed up Thomas Kepcija.

Rutronik provided Mirakonta with detailed technical data and sent sample items within just a few days for testing of the new sensor. The tests showed: the new sensor mastered all the challenges with flying colors. This positive result paved the way for developing the new water meter.

Nicolas Roche, the product manager at Honeywell, is convinced that the nanopower range will give Mirakonta a new impulse, “In Mirakonta’s case, this improves the monitoring while reducing the energy consumption and ultimately the costs. In addition, the life span of the battery corresponds to that of the sensor and it was possible to eliminate the shortfalls of older technologies like the failure or gradual loss of stability of the switches. All this makes the sensor a ￭ game-changing, sustainable product.”

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Temperature measurement in the brewing industry DEVICE DESCRIPTION Resistance thermometer with clamp-on technology for tightening strap installation, type series GA2620 Hygienic temperature measurement, no contact with medium, for pipe diameter > 57... 200 mm • • • • • • • •

The LABOM resistance thermometer with clamp-on technology – the alternative to conventional invasive temperature measurement in a pipe

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Measuring system patented High accuracy, fast response Quick and cost efficient installation No welding, no interruption of process, consequently no dead zones No additional isolation required Measuring resistor 1 × Pt 100, 3-wire circuitry, class A Measuring range: -20°C up to + 160°C Measuring insert can be recalibrated, replaceable; the installation arrangements are unchanged Ex-protection: TÜV 08 ATEX 554093 X Option: 4... 20 mA transmitter

Hygienic temperature measurement with no contact with medium Precise measurement technology - with no dead zones - meets standards in the food industry Beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage in Germany and many other countries. Constantly high microbiological quality is a key success factor in the brewing of beer. Temperature - as a critical process parameter - is monitored during the entire brewing process. The LABOM resistance thermometer with clamp-on technology is an excellent solution for this challenging process environment.

It meets the criteria and requirements relating to hygiene regulations, accuracy, easy and flexible installation and price.

The solution: The LABOM resistance thermometer with clamp-on technology for tightening strap installation, model series GA2620.

Your benefits: The LABOM resistance thermometer with clamp-on technology is ideally suited for temperature monitoring and process control for sterile applications in the food industry. With the flexible tightening straps, the probes can be adapted for different pipe cross-sections, and can be retrofitted for existing plants.

As the sensor is mounted on the outside of the pipe, there are no dead zones, gaps or reduced flow conditions. The cleanability of the plant is not affected.

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Contrinex C12 Series: save space, keep performance The new C12 series of photoelectric sensors from Contrinex offers reflex, through-beam and background suppression types in a subminiature cubic housing.

The very small dimensions of these sensors enable installation wherever space and optical opening are limited. Despite their size, all C12 sensors have long sensing ranges. In particular, the background suppression type has a sensing range up to 120 mm and sensitivity adjustment by a 3-turn potentiometer.

Your advantages: • Subminiature housing: 7.7 × 21.8 × 13.5 mm3 or 7.7 × 27.5 × 13.5 mm3

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with 3-turn potentiometer • Excellent background suppression characteristics • 45° angle cable outlet for easy installation

Application: robotics The C12 series is perfect for installation on moveable parts in any robotics application.

The small visible light spot and long sensing ranges mean that every moveable part, however small or inaccessible, can detect its own position or the presence of an object.

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PRODUCT NEWS Robust Sensors for position / inclination / angle measurement

SENSORS Leuze RSL 400: Area and access guarding was never so simple and efficient!

Tape Extension Position Sensors POSITAPE • Measurement range 0...20000 mm • Analog, 4...20mA, SSI, CANopen, J1939 • Protection class IP68/IP69K

Magnetostrictive Position Sensors POSICHRON • Measurement range 0...5750 mm • Analog, 4...20mA, SSI, CANopen, J1939 • Protection class IP64 up to IP67

Magnetostrictive Position Sensors POSICHRON • Measurement range 0...5750 mm • Analog, 4...20mA, SSI, CANopen, J1939 • Protection class IP67/IP69K

Angle Sensors and Encoders POSIROT • 360° angle sensor • Non-contact, no wear • With external position magnet • Protection class up to IP67

Inclination Sensors POSITILT • 1/2 axes inclination sensor, ±180°, ± 60° • In MEMS technology • Analog output, CANopen, J1939 • Protection class IP67/IP69K

Inclination Sensors POSITILT • 1/2 axes inclination sensor, ±180°, ± 60° • Analog output, CANopen, J1939 • Protection class IP67

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It has never been easier to use a safety laser scanner than with the new RSL 400 from Leuze. In spite of exceptional performance characteristics, mounting, alignment and operation are unmatched in this segment.

• Separate connection unit with integrated cable management for uncomplicated mounting • Large, plain-text display with electronic spirit level for simple alignment • Integrated Ethernet interface for full network connectivity • Sensors are demonstrably very robust against dust thanks to high resolution • “Sensor Studio” software for fast configuration with just five mouse clicks Purchase one – get two - RSL 400 With the new RSL 400 safety laser scanner, we have set a new standard worldwide in the supreme discipline of safety sensor technology. With our decades of experience, we have succeeded in developing a device that uses clever detailed solutions to – in many cases – perform two tasks simultaneously.

FLEXIBLE Two autonomous protective functions The device offers two independent protective functions and thereby acts as two single laser scanners. You save yourself one device!

HIGH-PERFORMANCE 270° scanning angle / operating range of 8.25 m Its large scanning angle in combination with large operating range enables reliable safeguarding, even at corners

and edges. As a result, a second laser scanner is not needed in many cases.

USER FRIENDLY Intelligent connection unit The simple mounting of the safety laser scanner is based on a separate unit with integrated cable management.

This unit also makes possible faster device upgrades or sensor replacement without electronic and mechanical realignment.

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Label detection with Leuze forked sensors • • • •

Scaleable types of forked sensors – you only pay for what you really need!

Easily visible marks – fast changeover to new labels safes costs due to the reduction of time Slim line design – allows space and cost reduced design of your machines 10 kHz switching output frequency – your machines will be faster, more reliable and more precise regarding to exactly placed labels and high performance output

Leuze Series GS 61 – reliable function comes along with a favorable price

Leuze Series GS 63 – advanced line for high level availability

Leuze GSU 14C – the solution for every label application

• Use sensors with potentiometer without any tool – save time and use it in an easy way • Sensor with teach in function – fast and easy. Save your time and money during start-up. Errors and costs will be reduced to a minimum level • Lockable teach button – eliminates needless costs caused by non professional use by the operator • Professional industrial design with IP 65 protection will bring your maintenance costs down.

• Teach button – fast and easy. Fastest start-up and change over will reduce down time and save your money • Teach function – the sensor will immediately be in an optimized operation range. No down time due to errors with the adjustment. The function of the machine will become independent from the operator.

• ALC Auto Level Control – the sensor will compensate for pollution and different structure of the material.

ALC avoids costs for down time and cleaning periods • The sensor that always works – successful teach means successful functionality. Any error in use and adjustment will be signaled at once. Down time and changeover time will be reduced to a minimum level!

• Userfriendly - metal body in food design and parameter store for 30 different labels.

• Works with any kind of labels – Clear on Clear is no longer a problem. Changeover time and costs are as low as possible.

• Easy Teach – teaching also works with very thin materials. Start-up time and costs as low as possible.

• ALC Auto Level Control – the sensor will compensate pollution and different structure of the material. ALC avoids costs for down time and cleaning periods • Operation mode is signalized by LED – one look says that everything is ok.

Tool identification Area: Robot workplaces Duty: Bar code, Presence inspection, 2D-code, Orientation detection, Quality control, Dimension, contour, volume Business sectors: Machine tools Leuze LSIS 412i smart camera • Fast setup of tests by means of configurable software via standard web browser • Storage of camera and illumination settings in the program (incl. motorized adjustment of focus position) • Image preprocessing functions, such as smoothing and filtering • Test for presence, completeness, type, position and angle • Position and rotational compensation (360°) • Automatic brightness adjustment • Statistical data • Image memory for process-, error- and reference images • Real-time clock for date and time stamp • User management with password protection

Leuze LPS 36 line profile sensor • For the measurement of moving objects and the creation of 3D information • Calibrated system, measurement value display in mm • Measurement range: 200 – 800 mm • Length of laser line: max. 600 mm • Measurement data transfer via Fast Ethernet • Optional incremental transmitter input • Measurement time: 10 ms

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Medium-voltage current transformers for indoor usage from GMW Current transformers are special transformers for the proportional transformation of high currents into directly measurable values. Their construction and physical operating principle enables a galvanic separation of the primary circuit from the measured circuit, thereby providing a protection for sequentially connected instruments in the event of a fault.

GMW’s Medium-voltage current transformers for indoor application, which are converting multiple primary currents proportional and in-phase into measurable and standardized secondary currents.These transformers are fully resin-hardened in polyurethane and are serving apart of their main function as a current transformer as well as a bus bar support.

Current transformers for indoor application, 7.2kV, 12kV and 17.5kV

Primary switchable support type current transformers for indoor application, 7.2kV, 12kV and 17.5kV – Narrow type according to DIN 42600

Current transformers for indoor application, 24kV – Narrow type according to DIN 42600

Voltage transformers for indoor usage, 7.2kV; 12kV; 17.5kV and 24kV – Narrow, small and large type according DIN 42600

Reliable switching for public transport with Contrinex sensors Customer value • Exceptional reliability in a harsh outdoor environment • Automatic operation with optimal space utilization • Elimination of switching errors during year-round operation • Significantly reduced maintenance costs Advantages of through-beam Contrinex sensor LLK-3030-00#-502 When a trolley bus reaches a road junction, wire-switches, installed on the overhead conductor cables, control its direction of travel. Switches may be in the default “straight-through” position or in “turnout”

position. As a bus passes a switch in turnout position, a sensor mounted on the overhead cables detects the presence of the current collector. The control system then resets the switch to the default position.

• All-electronic device with sensing range up to 12,000 mm • Large sensing range available in physically small sensor • Exceptional resistance to vibration during operation, IP67

Electronic Differential Pressure Switch from Tecsis The new electronic differential pressure switches Tecsis S1510 have a robust measuring system and can be used for system pressures up to 16 bar.

The integrated electronics convert the measured values into switching signals and electrical output signals. The 3½ digit LED shows the actual measuring values.

The differential pressure switch is particularly characterised by its high measuring accuracy of typically 0.8% (max. 2.5%) of the adjustment range. The switching points and switching function can be programmed easily.

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The 3-button operation ensures the simple setting of the output signals and measurement parameters (scaling, damping, zero point stabilization, zero balance, characteristic curves conversion).

• Tel. +40 256-201346 • office@oboyle.ro • www.oboyle.ro

PRODUCT NEWS

SENSORS

High Accuracy ATEX-Certified Magnetostrictive Sensing Device

Ultra-compact, low-power USM-MEMS-VOC sensor module enables rapid measurement of air quality

MTS Sensors introduces a new robust, high performance magnetostrictive position sensor, using its innovative Temposonics® technology. The ET sensor is very well suited to deployment in applications with high temperature environments. It can deliver up to 0.005mm resolu-

Unitronic presented for the first time at the trade show SENSOR +TEST 2015 in Nuremberg, a low-power USM-MEMS-VOC sensor module that enables an especially rapid detection of different volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air. The Unitronic Sensor Module (USM) has small dimensions of only 15 × 17 × 3 mm. It is equipped with a high-precision, long-term stable TGS 8100 miniature Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) sensor from Figaro and reacts within less than 8 seconds to the release of harmful gases. The current consumption in continuous operation is less than 14 mA. The USM-MEMS-VOC is designed for a supply voltage

tion when used in combination with a suitable controller.

Industrial facilities dedicated to pressboard production or the processing of steel/iron need instrumentation that provides maximum safety and reliability, regardless of difficult working conditions. The new ET product offering significantly extends

the supported temperature range of the MTS E-Series, with the ability to precisely determine exact positions even at 105°C temperature levels. This small rod sensor can be integrated directly into a cylinder, with rod length options covering 50mm to 3000mm. It exhibits linearity deviation of less than 0.02% (full scale).

ET sensors have liquid ingress protection in accordance with IP68. Furthermore, ATEX certification for hazardous areas is available. These devices are equipped with a start/stop interface. They also have the capacity for sensor parameters to be automatically uploaded.

A 316L stainless steel variant can be specified if needed.

MTS SENSORS www.mtssensors.com

High Accuracy, Heavy Duty Magnetostrictive Position Sensors MTS Sensors unveils the new TSeries of magnetostrictive linear position sensors. These high resolution devices, which are based on the company’s proprietary Temposonics® technology, are optimized for use in hazardous working environments, where they might be exposed to flames, caustic substances and

potentially explosive atmospheres (such as chemical plants, offshore oil/gas rigs, etc.). They are the first linear positioning sensors in the industry to meet safety integrity level (SIL) 2 standards. In addition, they are fully compliant with ATEX and IECEx Zone 0/1, Zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 21 and Zone 22 safety certifica-

tions covering the protection types “flameproof” and “increased safety”. T-Series devices are supplied in an all stainless steel design. Alternatively a highly corro-sion-resistant stainless steel version is available. These devices can withstand shocks of up to 100g, vibrational force of up to 15g (for frequencies from 20 Hz to 2000Hz). When operating at 60°C, their mean time to failure (MTTF) figure is 100 years and have an extensive operational temperature range covering -40°C to +85°C (+185 °F) in certain models and can cope with pressures of 350 bar (5000 psi) static. Protection from liquid ingress is assured thanks to these devices’ IP66, IP67, IP68, IP69K and NEMA 4X compliance. They also offer a high degree of immunity to electro-magnetic radiation, in accordance with IEC/EN 61326-2-3 (Class B).

MTS SENSORS www.mtssensors.com

of 1.8V. As a result of its low current consumption and small size, the sensor module is especially suited for use in batteryoperated applications. A PWM signal for analog interpretation, three digital outputs, a UART interface, automatic base-level adjustment and automatic

humidity/temperature compensation by means of an optional external sensor makes it easy to integrate the USMMEMS-VOC into a wide range of applications.

UNITRONIC AG www.unitronic.de

PIL Launches P43 Long Range UltraSonic Sensors PIL announces the availability of its new P43 ultrasonic sensors to measure distances. Applications include object recognition for agriculture and fluid levels, distance measuring for trucks and loading ramps, level sensing in dusty conditions, parking lot detection/barrier monitoring as well as a variety of other industrial and manufacturing applications.

The PIL P43 ultrasonic sensors provides the industry’s greatest range – from 250 mm to up to 6000 mm. M12, M18 and M30 dimensions are available - with or without thread or cubic housing. Highly accurate, it provides a small sound cone shape, two integrated internal LED’s for echo justification, and analog internal sensors – no need for digital translation and no loss of accuracy. The P43 provides a standard analog 0-10V / 420mA output and two switching outputs. In addition to these fixed settings, the P43 series can

be programmed via Teach-In for various other custom settings.

Ultrasonic sensors use an ultrasonic transducer to send and receive sound waves. Specially coded ultrasonic signals are transmitted in a set pattern.

After being reflected from the object to be measured, the signals are received by the sensor and decoded. The recorded time of flight is temperature compensated and converted to distance data.

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PRODUCT NEWS Power Integrations Simplifies Design of Industrial PSUs for 440VAC Line Input Power Integrations announced a new reference design (DER-479) demonstrating an industrial power supply using the company’s LinkSwitch4TM family of CV/CC primary-side regulated (PSR) switcher ICs with a 1200 V bipolar junction transistor (BJT). The design supports 440 VAC line inputs and features three outputs which combine to provide up to 11 W of highly accurate constantvoltage DC power.

LinkSwitch-4 controllers feature an adaptive base and emitter switched drive scheme to boost switching performance and increase efficiency.

The advanced switching technique is especially beneficial in high-voltage applications as it reduces slow turn-off switching losses and eliminates BJT failures due to secondary breakdown, improving the reverse-bias safe operating area (RBSOA) and system reliability. Additionally, the LinkSwitch-4 controller’s primary-side regulated sensing methodology eliminates expensive and unreliable optocouplers, replacing them in the feedback loop with a simple transformer winding. The design uses just 50 mW under no-load conditions while maintaining a fast transient response. The 65 kHz operating frequency minimizes transformer size, reducing system cost and PCB footprint.

LinkSwitch-4 devices also compensate for a number of factors including: transformer inductance tolerances; input line voltage variations; cable voltage drop; and external component temperature variations.

Comments Silvestro Fimiani, senior product marketing manager at Power Integrations: “Power supplies for high-voltage systems such as three-phase meters and motor drives can be challenging to develop – efficiency, reliability and component count often suffer in such designs. By pairing the LinkSwitch-4 controller with a 1200 V BJT, the designs become very straightforward and extremely reliable.”

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ACTIVE COMPONENTS Toshiba Launches New -40V P-ch Power MOSFET for Automotive Applications Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a new -40V P-ch MOSFET ideal for use in automotive applications such as reverse battery protection and motor control. The TJ200F04M3L offers an improved design which is capable of reducing conduction losses. It will conform to the AECQ101 automotive standard qualification requirements.

This new power MOSFET achieves class leading low ON-resistance by mounting a chip fabricated with Toshiba’s U-MOS VI trench process in a TO-220SM (W) package, which utilises a Cu (copper) connector. The low ON-resistance of the new product contributes to

reduced conduction losses in electronic devices.

The TJ200F04M3L offers absolute maximum ratings of VDSS = - 40V, ID = - 200A and RDS(ON) Max = 1.8mΩ at VGS = 10V. The power MOSFET is

capable of operating at a maximum channel temperature of 175°C. TOSHIBA ELECTRONICS EUROPE www.toshiba.semicon-storage.com

Informative technical guide to the changing world of power supplies XP Power announced the publication of The Essential Guide To Power Supplies. Written as a technical guide for equipment design engineers and specifiers of power supplies, the 156page guide is a reader-friendly reference for understanding all major aspects of AC-DC power supplies, DC-DC converters and their integration into today’s electronic equipment. The guide outlines recent changes in legislation for safety and energy efficiency, including the new requirements for CE marking, the latest Level VI energy efficiency specification and the EU Code of Conduct. In addition, the guide gives details on the new IEC 62368 standard that replaced IEC 60950 in 2014.

According to Gary Bocock, the guide’s author and XP Power’s Technical Director, “The guide will be valuable to equipment designers at any level of experience. It combines an overview of basic power terms and concepts and indepth design considerations for AC-DC power supplies and DC-DC converters.”

Drawing on best practice and industry trends, the guide outlines methods of

maximising the efficiency, reliability and lifetime of power supply products. These are incorporated in the green mode topologies and power supply de-rating sections.

The Essential Guide To Power Supplies

is supplemented by technology editorials that provide practical information on understanding efficiency, cooling without a fan, removing heat from sealed enclosures and selecting power supplies for LED lighting applications.

XP POWER www.xppower.com

PRODUCT NEWS New high-speed A/D converters from Microchip feature high integration low-power 14-/12-bit, 200 Msps stand-alone ADCs Microchip announces two families of new high-speed A/D converters: the MCP37DX0-200 and MCP372X0-200 families.

These families feature 12- and 14- bit pipelined A/D converters with a maximum sampling rate of 200 Mega samples per second (Msps). The 12- and 14-bit devices feature high performance of over 67 dB Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and over 96 dB Spurious Free Dynamic Range (SFDR). This enables high-precision measurements of fast input signals. These families operate at very lowpower consumption of 338mW at 200Msps including LVDS digital I/O for the 12-bit devices and 348mW for the 14-bit devices.

Lower power-saving modes are available at 80mW for standby and 33 mW for shutdown.

The MCP37DX0-200 and MCP372X0-200 include various digital processing features that simplify system design, cost and power usage for designers. These families also include decimation filters for improved SNR and phase, offset and gain adjustment. Data is available through the serial DDR LVDS or parallel CMOS interface and configured via SPI. An integrated digital down-converter is included in the MCP37DX0-200 family making it ideal for communications applications. The 12-bit devices include an integrated noise-shaping requantizer which enables users to lower the noise within a given band of interest for improved accuracy and performance. These families are targeted for applications in the communications markets such as base stations, test equipment, and IF receivers, among others.

The MCP37DX0-200 and MCP372X0-200 are supported by Microchip’s MCP37XX0-200 14-bit 200 Msps VTLA Evaluation Board (ADM00652) priced at $450.00, and MCP37XXX HighSpeed ADC Data Capture Card (ADM00506) priced at $599.00.

The MCP37DX0-200 and MCP372X0-200 families are available now for sampling and volume production in 124-lead VTLA packages.

MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY www.microchip.com/MCP37DX0-200-MCP372X0-200-Page-051115a

ACTIVE COMPONENTS Exar Releases New 40V PowerBlox Family Exar Corporation introduces a new line of 40V switching regulators to add to its popular PowerBlox™ family of DC/DC converter products. The XR76203, XR76205 and XR76208 are synchronous step-down regulators supporting point-of-load (POL) supplies of 3A, 5A and 8A, respectively. The devices are designed to provide a wide 5V to 40V input voltage range while providing excellent transient response and output accuracy over the entire voltage range using Exar's proprietary emulated current mode Constant On-Time (COT) control loop. These devices deliver power to a wide range of industrial and networking equipment typically powered by well regulated 24VDC, classical telecom 18V to 36V or 24VAC supplies.

With a proprietary emulated current mode COT control scheme, the XR76203, XR76205 and XR76208 provide extremely fast line and load transient response using ceramic output capacitors. They require no loop compensation, simplifying circuit implementation and reducing overall component count. The control loop also provides 0.07% load and 0.15% line regulation and maintains constant operating frequency. A selectable power saving mode allows the user to operate in discontinuous mode (DCM) at light current loads, significantly increasing the converter efficiency. A host of protection features, including overcurrent, over-temperature, short-circuit and UVLO, helps achieve safe operation under abnormal operating conditions.

“The new line of 40V PowerBlox regulators follows the recent releases of the 40V XR75100 synchronous controller and XR77129 universal PMIC and shows Exar’s commitment to its industrial customer base,” said Jon Cronk, Exar’s director of marketing for power products. “Exar's proprietary emulated current mode architecture sets it apart from competition in terms of load and line regulation and transient response. The common 5mm x 5mm package size allows designers to easily scale across a wide range of power levels.”

The XR76203, XR76205 and XR76208 are available in RoHS compliant, green/halogen free, space-saving 30-pin 5mm x 5mm QFN packages. The XR76203, XR76205 and XR76208 are priced at $1.85, $2.30 and $2.90, respectively in 1,000-piece quantities. For more information, visit www.exar.com/powerblox.

Summary of features: • Integrated controller, drivers, bootstrap diode and MOSFETs • Wide 5V to 40V input voltage range • Patented constant on-time control • Stable with ceramic output capacitors • Exceptional line/load regulation EXAR

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PRODUCT NEWS 1200 V Dual-Channel Gate-Driver Core from Power Integrations Eliminates Opto-Couplers Power Integrations launched its 2SC0115T2A0-12 dual-channel gate-driver core for 90kW to 500kW inverters and converters. Leveraging SCALE™-2+ integrated circuit and isolated transformer technology for DC/DC power and switching signal transmission, the new driver core improves system reliability and performance by eliminating the need for an opto-coupler. The driver core’s reinforced electrical isolation targets systems with a

working voltage of 900V, which is typical for 1200 V IGBT modules and complies with the PD2 and OV II requirements of IEC 60664-1 and IEC 61800-5-1. The 2SC0115TA0-12 gate-driver core supports modules up to 2400 A and switching frequencies of up to 50kHz. With a footprint of 53.2 × 31 mm and a profile [height?] of just 13 mm the 2SC0115TA0-12 gatedriver core is the most compact industrial unit of its type available. The highly integrated SCALE-2+ chipset uses about 85% fewer components than competing products and includes short-circuit protection by Vce-sat monitoring and independent supply-voltage monitoring from both the primary and secondary side. The new gate-driver core includes Soft Shut Down (SSD) protection for applications with low stray-inductance. For more demanding environments the 2SC0115TA0-12 supports full Advanced Active Clamping (AAC) to control the IGBT voltage overshoot during turn-off.

Each of the two output channels is electrically isolated from the primary side and the other secondary channel.

Comments Michael Hornkamp, senior director of marketing for high-power products at Power Integrations: “The 2SC0115TA0-12 gate-driver core is an ideal platform for 600 V and 1200 V IGBT modules in medium power applications such as general purpose drives, UPS, photovoltaic inverters and medical applications, especially those with challenging, fast-switching requirements.”

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ACTIVE COMPONENTS Toshiba Introduces New Four Pin TO-247 Package for DTMOS IV-H Power MOSFETs Toshiba Electronics Europe has introduced a new four pin TO-247 MOSFET package targeting power factor control for high power Smart Power Stage (SPS). The new package is equipped with high speed DTMOS-H chips with low QGD to optimise switching behaviour.

In conventional three pin TO247 packages, parasitic induction at the source pin causes increased losses with increasing switching frequency. With the new TO-247 4L package an additional source signal terminal is separated as a ‘Kelvin source’. By using this source pin, di/dt and switching efficiency can be increased. Compared to a three pin solution, the switching loss E(on) will be reduced by the new four pin solution by about 15%. The DTMOS IV-H chips are made using Toshiba’s Deep Trench technology that delivers

lower ON resistance (RDS(ON)) at higher temperatures, compared to conventional super junction MOSFETs. It also offers reduced turn-off switching losses (EOSS) than previous technology generations. The combination of

smaller increases in RDS(ON) at high temperatures and reduced EOSS provides higher efficiency for power supplies and assists designers in minimising system size.

TOSHIBA ELECTRONICS EUROPE www.toshiba.semicon-storage.com

XP Power’s latest 1W DC-DC converters offer a wider temperature range and increased isolation XP Power announced three SIP packaged 1 Watt DC-DC converters with both single and dual output models.

Aimed at applications requiring a high performance DC-DC converter, the products feature industry standard pinouts and offer an increased efficiency, higher isolation, and a wider operating temperature range than previous products.

The ITA, ITB and ITV series converters provide an unregulated output in a small, industry standard, plastic cased SIP-7 package, allowing drop in replacement capability for improved performance without redesign. ITA and ITB series converters feature 1,500VDC input / output isolation, with the ITV boasting an isolation of 3,000VDC. With their small size, the most important application areas for the converters are in mobile, portable and wireless products or indeed when isolation or DC-DC voltage conversion is needed in any product. Such products are used in automation and process control, broadcast, fixed telecom, instrumentation, networking/datacom/com-

puting, mobile comms and transport industries.

Measuring in at a small 19.5 x 6.0 x 10.0 mm (0.76 x 0.24 x 0.39 inches) the converters offer a good power density of 14 Watts per cubic inch. They

take up less PCB space allowing designers more room to add extra features, alternatively they can reduce the overall size of the end product.

XP POWER www.xppower.com

PRODUCT NEWS Microchip’s new dsPIC33EP “GS” family is optimised for digital power applications Microchip announces the 14-member dsPIC33EP “GS” family of Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs). The dsPIC33EP “GS” family delivers the performance needed to implement more sophisticated non-linear, predictive and adaptive control algorithms at higher switching frequencies. These advanced algorithms enable power-supply designs that are more energy efficient and have better power-supply specifications. Higher switching frequencies enable the development of physically smaller power supplies that offer higher densities and lower costs. Compared with the previous generation of DSCs, the new dsPIC33EP “GS” devices provide less than half the latency, when used in a threepole three-zero compensator, and consume up to 80% less power in any application.

This new dsPIC33EP “GS” family includes advanced features such as Live Update Flash capability, which is especially helpful for high-availability or “always-on” systems. Live Update can be used to change the firmware of an operating power supply, including the active compensator calculation code, while maintaining continuous regulation. Variants from this new digitalpower-optimised DSC family are available in the industry’s smallest, 4 x 4 mm UQFN package for space-constrained designs.

View a brief presentation: www.microchip.com/Presentation-051215a Other key features of this family include up to five 12-bit ADCs with as many as 22 ADC inputs, providing total throughput of 16 Mega samples per second (Msps) with a 300 ns ADC latency.

The dsPIC33EP “GS” devices include 12-bit DACs for each of the four analogue comparators, for higher-precision designs. The two on-chip programmable gain amplifiers can be used for current sensing and other precision measurements. Including these advanced analogue amplifiers on the device reduces the number of external components required, thereby saving cost and board space.

These features, combined with the overall high performance of the dsPIC33EP “GS” family, make it well suited to a wide range of applications including: computing & telecoms AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies; industrial solar inverters, LED lighting, HID lighting, battery chargers, projectors and welders; and automotive LED and HID headlights and DC/DC converters; among others.

MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY www.microchip.com/dsPIC33EP64GS506-051215a

ACTIVE COMPONENTS Intersil’s Latest PowerNavigator™ GUI Speeds Digital Power System Design, Validation and Monitoring Intersil Corporation unveiled PowerNavigator™ version 5.2, a free, downloadable graphical user interface (GUI) that helps system designers quickly configure, validate and monitor their power supply architectures. The new features included in PowerNavigator 5.2 enable a high degree of power supply optimization.

Combined with the drag-and-drop GUI interface, PowerNavigator 5.2 makes it straightforward to change features and functions of a digital power supply design without writing a single line of code.

The PowerNavigator 5.2 software GUI allows for configuration and monitoring of Intersil’s portfolio of PMBus™-enabled digital power products, including digital regulators, controllers, multiphase devices, power modules, and digital power monitors. Using a PC, USB interface and a few mouse clicks, designers can configure and change any parameter, telemetry or rail sequencing for their digital power supply. Intersil’s PowerNavigator version 5.2 includes three new innovations:

• PowerMap adds more real-time information to the power rail blocks, such as device name, phase count, output voltage, output current, PMBus addresses, and current sharing capability. This additional information helps users more quickly visualize their system. PowerMap’s realistic system level view, with zoom-in/out and scrolling, replicates a system with multiple power rails delivering point-of-load current to ASICs, processors, DSPs or FPGAs. • Rail Inspector quickly guides users through the power supply parameters set up. Rail Inspector brings up rail name and shows the number of devices, device address and status, as well as important supply parameters: input voltage, switching frequency, output voltage, and load current. Device options include clock synchronizing, sequencing, and current sharing. Users can then load and save configuration files in both text and hex formats.

• RailScope simplifies system validation, giving users the ability to plot all device telemetry – such as input voltage, output voltage, output current and temperature – for up to four rails at a time.

RailScope’s system logging feature automatically logs telemetry and fault data for later analysis.

To download the PowerNavigator 5.2 GUI, watch a tutorial video and begin a design, visit: http://www.intersil.com/powernavigator.

To learn more about digital power, download our whitepaper.

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PRODUCT NEWS Power-monitoring IC from Microchip adds advanced features for high-accuracy power measurement in commercial and industrial designs Microchip announces the addition of a new member to its power-monitoring IC portfolio, the MCP39F511. This highly integrated and accurate single-phase power-monitoring IC, designed for the real-time measurement of AC power, combines the most popular power calculations with unique advanced features, making it ideal for use in highperformance commercial and industrial products such as lighting and heating systems, smart plugs, power meters and AC/DC power supplies.

View a short video on Microchip’s metering products: www.microchip.com/Metering-042115a.

To address industry requirements for better accuracy across current loads, additional power calculations, and event monitoring of various power conditions, the MCP39F511 power-monitoring IC provides all of the popular standard power calculations combined with advanced features. The import and export of active energy accumulation, four-quadrant reactive energy accumulation, zerocrossing detection and dedicated PWM output have now been integrated on-chip, along with the ability to measure active, reactive and apparent power, RMS current and RMS voltage, line frequency, and power factor.

Allowing for more accurate power measurements, which is critical in higher-performance designs, this new device is capable of just 0.1 % error across a wide 4000:1 dynamic range. Additionally, its 512 bytes of EEPROM allow operating-condition storage. The MCP39F511 also includes two 24-bit delta-sigma ADCs with 94.5 dB of SINAD performance, a 16-bit calculation engine, and a flexible two-wire interface. A low-drift voltage reference, in addition to an internal oscillator, is integrated to reduce implementation costs.

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ACTIVE COMPONENTS Toshiba Launches 1080p Full HD CMOS Image Sensor for Industrial Applications New CIS type image sensor produces crisper images even when recording in high contrast light conditions Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced that it will start mass production of a new CMOS image sensor with a 1/3 inch optical format and full HD (1080p) resolution. The TCM3232PB meets the requirements for high resolution, high-speed frame rate and high fidelity images needed for industrial use, and is suitable for applications in security and surveillance cameras, monitor cameras and driving recorders.

Employing Toshiba’s innovative HDR (High Dynamic Range) function, this new sensor, gives 108dB of dynamic range and is optimised to capture clear images without distortion even in

high contrast light conditions. The sensor also allows video to be captured in full resolution at 60fps to create natural, smooth footage.

The TCM3232PB is housed in a compact PBGA (plastic Ball Grid Array)

package, measuring 10mm x 10mm, and will be entering production at the end of April 2015.

TOSHIBA ELECTRONICS EUROPE www.toshiba.semicon-storage.com

IKEA Furniture Features IDT Wireless Charging The International Furniture Retailer is Selling Innovative Furniture and Home Accessories with Embedded Wireless Power Transmitters Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®) announced that IKEA chose IDT’s wireless power transmitters to embed in its furniture and accessories for convenient wireless charging of enabled portable devices. IDT’s P9030 magnetic induction transmitters are embedded in new IKEA products including side tables and lamps. The products will soon be available in stores throughout North America and Europe.

In addition to the furniture, IKEA has developed a line of charging pads as well as a wireless charger that consumers can build into furniture themselves— all built around the IDT wireless power semiconductor.

“IKEA revolutionized the furniture industry, and it continues to prove itself an innovation leader with the integration of IDT wireless charging transmitters into its products,” said Arman Naghavi, IDT’s vice president of Analog Power

Technology. “The company’s adoption of our Qi technology underscores the traction we’re seeing as the wireless power ecosystem continues to expand.”

The P9030 transmitter complies with the Wireless Power Consortium’s

(WPC) Qi standard, delivering a 5W single-chip solution in a compact package. IDT wireless power transmitters and receivers have also been designed into smart phones, phone accessories, wearables and charging stations.

INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY www.idt.com

PRODUCT NEWS Murata launches ultra compact rotary position sensor Murata announced what is believed to be the world's smallest rotary position sensor. Measuring just 4.0 × 4.5 × 2.0 mm the SVM4 series is approximately an eighth of the size of Murata's previous position sensor the SV03. Despite its miniscule dimensions the SVM4 exhibits a linearity of ±2% and suits a wide variety of space-constrained applications such as finger-joint controllers in humanoid robots or to provide angular control in very compact spaces such as in radio-controlled model and game console controllers. The effective rotational angle is 240° and with a useable temperature range from - 40°C to +85°C can be used in most operating environments.

Other potential applications for the SVM4 include use in wearable devices such as headsets and hearing aids or as a lens/iris feedback sensor in compact digital cameras.

Mass production is scheduled to commence during August 2015.

MURATA www.murata.com

Toshiba Launched 4500V 1200A IEGT Module Toshiba Electronics Europe has launched a high – current 4500V, 1200A power module for use in rail traction, industrial motor control, renewable energy systems and electricity transmission and distribution applications.

The MG1200GXH1US61 PMI (plastic case module IEGT) integrates an Nchannel IEGT (injectionenhanced gate transistor) and a fast recovery diode (FRD) into a standard package with a footprint of just 140mm × 190mm.

Designed to be used at much higher currents in the 4500V module class, the new module will also save energy, space and weight in high-power switching converter/inverter and motor control designs.

The MG1200GXH1SU61 offers an isolation voltage rating of 6000 VAC (rms for one minute) and can handle a peak turn-off collector current of 2400A. Collector power dissipation (at 25°C) is 4000W. An operating temperature range of -40°C to +150°C ensures compatibility with the extended temperature environments that characterise high voltage applications.

TOSHIBA ELECTRONICS EUROPE www.toshiba.semicon-storage.com

ACTIVE COMPONENTS Digi-Key Spotlights its New TechZones; At-A-Glance Technical Content Simplifies Online Part Selection for Design Engineers Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Electronics, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, announced its new and improved online TechZones, as part of a recent series of web site updates. The TechZones are designed to give design engineers an at-a-glance aggregate view of new products, technical resources and application-specific content.

This week, Digi-Key will debut its newest and most comprehensive TechZone – Lighting Solutions - at LIGHTFAIR in New York City.

Digi-Key’s TechZones include: • Lighting Solutions • Energy Harvesting Solutions • Microcontroller Solutions • Power Solutions • Sensor Solutions • Wireless Solutions The new TechZone provide engineers with an ata-glance aggregate view of product information and highlights, videos, articles, suppliers, reference designs and industry-specific solutions. The easily accessible information saves customers time, making it easy to access products, solutions and technical content directly related to their projects. Localized versions of the new TechZones are accessible on all of Digi-Key’s global websites.

Lighting Solutions TechZone The featured Lighting Solutions TechZone features a compilation of new product content and an easy-to-use component selection tool. The new features of the page include the Product Selector, LED Modules and Light Engines guide along with a comprehensive view of all industry suppliers. New products and component information from all Digi-Key lighting component manufacturers is easy to access in one convenient location versus residing only in the Supplier Marketing Centers.

New features include: • The central aggregate collection of all Lighting Solutions organizes content by manufacturer, application and component type, making it easy for engineers to access the most relevant products and solutions.

• The LED Modules and Light Engines sections offer the most up-to-date and innovative supplier LED modules and engines.

Modules and engines take product development to the next level by simplifying design and reducing cycle time, allowing fixtures and luminaires to be introduced into the market at a faster pace • Digi-Key’s Lighting Product Selector allows the opportunity for designers to quickly browse and locate components to develop solid-state fixtures and luminaires. Categories include LEDs, drivers, optics, thermals, interconnect and protection devices.

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PRODUCT NEWS Microchip introduces EtherCAT® slave controller With integrated PHYs for industrial Ethernet and Internet of Things applications Microchip announces the LAN9252 stand-alone EtherCAT® slave controller with two 10/100 PHYs. This highly integrated device’s dual 10/100 Ethernet transceivers support both fiber and copper, along with cable diagnostics capabilities. The LAN9252 supports traditional Host Bus and SPI/SQI™ communication, along with standalone digital I/O interfaces, providing system designers the flexibility to select from a wide range of microcontrollers when implementing the real-time EtherCAT communications standard.

Additionally, the LAN9252 reduces system complexity and cost for developers using EtherCAT in factory-automation, process-control, motor/motion-control and Internet of Things (IoT) industrial-Ethernet applications. Technology research firm ARC Advisory Group is forecasting Ethernet’s doubledigit growth for use in industrial networks, partly fuelled by applications in the emerging IoT segment.

With EtherCAT technology’s “on-the-fly” processing and use of standard Ethernet cabling, Microchip’s LAN9252 slave controller offers the high level of integration and cost optimisation required for current and future industrial applications.

Fully compliant with the EtherCAT standard and interoperable with all EtherCAT systems, the LAN9252 EtherCAT slave controller includes 4 Kbytes of Dual-Port RAM (DPRAM) and three Fieldbus Memory Management Units (FMMUs). The LAN9252 also features cable diagnostics support that allows field service technicians to rapidly and effectively diagnose line faults and provides for fibre connectivity. This EtherCAT slave controller is available in commercial, industrial and extended industrial temperature ranges, in low pin-count and small body size QFN and QFP-EP packages.

The LAN9252 EtherCAT slave controller is available now for sampling in 64-pin QFN and QFP-EP packages.

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ACTIVE COMPONENTS IDT Teams with Blu Wireless to Unite Wireless Charging and WiGig Data Transmission Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®) announced its collaboration with Blu Wireless Technology to demonstrate integrated wireless charging with ultra-fast 60 GHz WiGig® data transmission, a combination that will enable consumers to charge their phones and tablets while streaming the highest quality 4K HD video and photos to their televisions and computers - all without the need for cords.

The collaboration will team IDT’s expertise in wireless power with Blu Wireless’s know-how in WiGig, which allows devices to communicate wirelessly at multi-gigabit speeds. The single-module technology targeted by the companies will, for example, enable consumers to wirelessly charge their devices while cordlessly transmitting uncompressed video of 1080p directly to their HDTV. WiGig technology uses the 60 GHz

band to deliver 7 GHz bandwidth. A synchronization of data on a portable device that today would take two hours and use up nearly a third of a battery’s charge can be completed, with WiGig, in just 45 seconds and consume only 2 percent of the charge.

IDT’s semiconductors are enabling

wireless charging today in a quickly growing ecosystem of applications that includes smartphones and accessories, wearables and furniture.

IDT www.idt.com

u-blox tiny surface-mount GNSS global positioning module supports all satellites and concurrent operation u-blox announces the CAM-M8C, a small, low profile GNSS positioning module with an integrated wideband chip antenna for reception across the entire L1 band. The module offers simultaneous GNSS operation for GPS/GLONASS, GPS/BeiDou, or GLONASS/BeiDou to deliver accurate, jamming-resistant and reliable positioning anywhere in the world. Featuring industry-leading sensitivity, the CAMM8C integrates a u-blox M8 satellite receiver, crystal oscillator, SAW filter and low-noise amplifier. It also has an input for an external active antenna and when using this option the internal antenna acts as a backup. Thanks to its novel antenna design the module maintains its performance regardless of physical orientation. This makes the product highly suitable for mobile applications with frequent change of bearing.

The CAM-M8C is footprint compatible with u-blox UC530 and UC530M mod-

ules, providing an easy upgrade path.

To further accelerate design and development, an evaluation kit, the EVKM8CCAM, offers a quick way to become familiar with the CAM-M8C module and assess its performance in specific applications. The u-blox M8 GNSS receiver antenna module is delivered in u-blox Professional Grade and is qualified to JEDS47 and ISO16750 stan-

dard: “Road vehicles – Environmental conditions and testing for electrical and electronic equipment”. The product is manufactured in ISO/TS 16949 automotive-certified production sites, ensuring the highest quality and reliability.

U-BLOX www.u-blox.com

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LIGHTING SOLUTIONS

Telenor Connexion helps Leading Light develop smart street lighting Leading Light has partnered with Telenor Connexion to develop a connected lighting solution launching in 2015. ActiveLights™ online will reduce the maintenance cost and provide new information services that are requested by customers.

Leading Light is an innovator within climate-smart lighting solutions. The energy efficient solutions are used by municipalities, utilities and companies, helping these to achieve environmental goals while at the same time creating a safe environment. By partnering with Telenor Connexion, an IoT focused extension of Telenor Group, one of the world’s largest telecom companies, Leading Light is provided an end-to-end service, Telenor Cloud Connect, ranging from solution design to operations.

Telenor Connexion has worked together with Leading Light to optimize everything from hardware design, information management and end user experience.

Leading Light connected lighting solution Djurgarden, Sweden Source: Leading Light

“Hardware design, data communication and application development are all critical parts in the solution. Partnering with Telenor Connexion has helped us reduce development time and also provides us with a solid foundation for new innovative services”, says Niclas Perkman, CEO at Leading Light.

The understanding of the complete solution is vital in the operations phase, where Telenor Connexion will host and support the lighting solution as well as ensure that it evolves over time.

“We are very happy to be able to support Leading Light in developing this connected lighting solution”, said Marie Gustavsson, Regional Sales Manager Nordics at Telenor Connexion. “The energy efficient solution, and the environmental goals it supports, really taps into one of our core business values: sustainability. By using and exploring new ways of smart technology we can develop sustainable solutions with minimal impact on the environment.”

ActiveLights™ connected lighting solution Source: Leading Light

Leading Light connected lighting solution Sotenas, Sweden.

Source: Leading Light

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OPTO-ASICs

MAZeT – Specialists in OPTO-ASICs JENCOLOR® color sensors and systems for light control and customized signal processing through to Opto-ASIC designs and user-specific hardware solutions MAZeT GmbH presented new products and innovative sensor solutions in the fields of LED light, process analytics, quality control, and color measurement in hall 12, booth 386 at the SENSOR+TEST trade fair, which was held from 19 to 21 May 2015 in Nuremberg, Germany.

The JENCOLOR® sensors contain photodiodes combined with structured interference filters. Typical features include high operating frequency, parameters with long-term stability within a specified temperature range, low-tolerance spectral transmission, and operating temperatures above 100°C. The sensors can be delivered as electronic components or as part of application-specific modules and devices. User-specific solutions for hardware, firmware, software, and support in the calibration of user-specific solutions also form part of the MAZeT service package.

Requirements for Opto-ASICs – high sensitivity and age-resistant Packaging is a priority with Opto-ASICs. The properties it offers need to ensure the seamless processing in the manufacturing process of an electronic module and guarantee the functional features for the entire lifespan. More than 50,000 operating hours are required for the LED light application in particular.

High sensitivity, bandwidth, ADC resolution, and spectral selectivity are parameters that can play an important role especially in the application areas of process instrumentation and color measurement.

The many different functions offered by the serial interface of the sensor signal amplifier enable optimal adjustment to the various customer applications and processes for recording readings.

MAZeT has been a successful provider of Opto-ASICs and embedded systems for several years. At this year’s trade fair, the company will use selected demonstrators to present the capabilities of its LED light color control and how to determine spectral footprints of fluids composed of highly varied substances.

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application requirements by varying the spectral filter characteristics. These application-specific hyperspectral sensors offer the chance to explore new application areas with cost-efficient, spectrally resolved optical point sensors.

MAZeT provides solutions for line and matrix sensors with low complexity for spatially resolved optical sensors. These can be adjusted according to the customer’s requirements on request. The pixels can be combined with spectral filters if this function is required.

At the trade fair, Opto-ASIC specialists from

A further application scenario is in the area of quality assurance and process instrumentation.

It is possible to quickly expand the analyzable spectral range in the NIR range (< 1000 nm) and the UV range (> 250 nm) at any time (for example, by adjusting the filter characteristics) and at low cost.

Figure 2: Customized packaging The electronic sensor components are always delivered in the familiar design of the MMCS6CS hyperspectral sensor.

Figure 1: Programmable sensor amplifier with SPI port MAZeT have advised interested customers on the options in terms of technology, costs, and development time for their project on site.

Spectral data gains increasing importance MAZeT offers hyperspectral sensors as standard electronic components for the VIS range. A development kit is available in several different versions to support the customer. The data logging and evaluation software ensures rapid start-up of the sensor evaluation board and allows the customer to efficiently work on the solution for his defined task.

The JENCOLOR® hyperspectral sensors are particularly well suited to calculating the spectral footprint of transparent fluids with a continuous spectrum.

Customized signal analysis MAZeT also offers integrated signal processing ASSPs to complement its JENCOLOR® sensors. The MAZeT product line ranges from programmable, multi-channel transimpedance amplifiers, right through to signal amplifiers with an I2C or SPI port.

A key functional component of the new generation of signal amplifiers are the analog-todigital converters, which are tailored to the requirements of the JENCOLOR® sensors.

These signal amplifiers need to reliably capture photocurrents from multiple power sources at the same time and convert them in high resolution. MAZeT provides a measurement value resolution for this of up to 20 Bit (20 fA/LSB to 5 nA/LSB). The absolute dynamic is greater than 1:1,000,000.

MAZeT www.mazet.de

PRODUCT NEWS

Lighting Solutions / Display

Lumileds LUXEON 5258 LEDs for Directional Lighting Applications Now at Mouser Mouser Electronics, Inc., the global authorized distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, is now stocking the LUXEON 5258 LEDs from Lumileds. Engineered to serve as a single 4.8 mm optical light source, the LUXEON 5258 is a multi-die package LED that provides precise beam control and high luminance from a single package. These LEDs use a 5258 surface mount package, and are available in 24V and 96V options for a variety of directional LED lighting applications. The Lumileds LUXEON 5258 LEDs, available from Mouser Electronics, feature a single 4.8mm optical light emitting surface (LES) that provides high-flux and high-efficacy, improving the quality of light while avoiding the showerhead effect common with distributed, multi-die solutions. The devices are offered in two voltage versions of either 24V or 96V, and are available in warm white color temperature ranges of 2700K

and 3000K. The color rendering index (CRI) of the LUXEON 5258 is rated at 80, and the devices offer hot-color targeting to ensure that the LEDs are within color target at ANSI application conditions of 85°C. All the LUXEON 5258 devices are also

binned with either a single 3step or 5-step MacAdam ellipse to ensure color uniformity, and are compatible with low cost and high efficiency drivers.

Lumileds LUXEON 5258 LEDs offer some of the best efficacy and flux metrics in the market today, providing superior reliability and droop curve over other competing solutions.

MOUSER ELECTRONICS www.mouser.com

The latest in passive cooling technology DSL (Datasound Laboratories Ltd.), sole UK distribution arm of Aplex Technology Inc., reveals the latest in passive cooling technology with their Intel Core i7 processor based fanless Panel PC's, the APC3x19. The front IP65 protected APC-3x19 Panel PCs, specified for 0-50°C operation contain absolutely no moving parts reliability and longevity, the key stones of industrial and embedded computing, are satisfied with ease. For ultimate reliability the APC-3x19 Panel PCs also natively support RAID. Widely self-configurable, clients can specify their own DDR, SSD and pre-installed OS preferences, even expand the I/O themselves utilising the inbuilt PCI or PCIe x16 expansion slot. With display sizes of 15"24" 1080P, the ability to cus-

tomize the APC-3x19 Panel PC to do exactly what OEMs, system integrators and industrial end customers want is the icing on the cake. Customers achieve their own unique I/O functionality and exact connector loca-

tions via multiple I/O easy install peripheral modules or DSL design services.

Aesthetical customizations with company branded bezel colour and company logo are further design options as well as the bezel material.

DSL www.dsl-ltd.co.uk

EVERLIGHT exhibited complete LED component portfolio for lighting and automotive applications at LIGHTFAIR 2015

EVERLIGHT ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. demonstrated its comprehensive portfolio of LED components for lighting and automotive applications at LIGHTFAIR International, May 5-7. Highlights at the EVERLIGHT Booth #1329 included the High Efficiency LED EAHE 5630 (0.2W) and the Ultra Warm White LED EAHP 3030 (1.0W) and color choice LED solutions for general lighting as well as existing popular packages available in all colors for horticulture lighting.

EVERLIGHT's EAHE 5630 (0.2W) achieves 180lm/W for high efficiency tube applications and has found its way as a preferred LED into many other applications such as downlights.

At a cool white temperature of 5700K, 187lm/W is achieved.

The new EAHP 3030 series (1W) provides a very warm 2200K that replicates the color temperature of traditional incandescent or halogen lighting. This is ideal for decorative and accent lighting.

EVERLIGHT's popular Shuen, 3535 and 2835 packages are now available with all colors and are perfectly suited for horticulture lightings. Furthermore, there will be a sneak preview of upcoming, soon to be announced EAHP5050 and EAHP9595 packages, primarily intended for high lumen density applications.

EVERLIGHT ELECTRONICS CO. LTD. www.everlight.com

New LMH2+ LED Modules from Cree with 30% better performance MSC Technologies is offering Innovative LMH2+ with unprecedented combination of 125 lumens-per-watt Efficacy and 90 CRI in a Small Form Factor. The LMH2+ is the only LED module that allows lighting manufacturers to achieve a system efficacy of 100 lumens-perwatt with high light quality.

Featuring elements of Cree’s innovative SC5 Technology™ Platform, the groundbreaking efficacy of the LMH2+ drives new applications, enables smaller luminaires and lowers system cost. The LMH2+ allows lighting manufacturers to address more challenging installations such as those with space constraints or higher ambient temperatures.

The LMH2+ is a drop-in upgrade for LMH2-based designs, pro-

viding an immediate boost in performance compared to the previous generation. Like all LMH2 modules, the LMH2+ delivers the same efficacy across all color temperatures.

Lighting manufacturers can also leverage existing ecosystems, tooling and optic design elements to accelerate time to market and lower design cost. In addition, UL® rating will be available for maximum and nominal currents to provide more driver options and design flexibility.

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INDUSTRY PRODUCT NEWS

Information Launched in April Do you need various products at a high level quality? Do you want a single provider for a wide range of technical products, which at the same time can offer you offline or online technical support free of charge? If you want all the above and more like orders without threshold value in a short amount of time, you can choose with confidence the only authorized dealer of RS in Romania.

Aurocon COMPEC is the solution for your needs, giving you the option to choose more than 550.000 products from over 2.500 manufacturers, being the optimum choice for a wide range of technical products for several industries.

With an extensive range available in stock, reliable service and support, Aurocon COMPEC make it easy for you to find and buy whatever you need. Whenever you need high-quality parts on time and on budget, you can count on us.

Designed around the needs of your business, our suite of free eSolutions helps you do away with non-value added activities and maintain more control over the purchase-to-payment cycle.

At Aurocon COMPEC, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re committed to accelerating the find, design and buy process and we dedicated to providing greater savings, value and assurance whenever you buy from us.

On our website, you can find details about each product including the technical data sheet, prices, information regarding product availability or several methods of packaging and shipment.

We rely on 20 years of experience and on our qualified personnel so we can guarantee the best products and high quality services at competitive prices, based on customer feedback. We put at your disposal all of this so that you can place the order very easy by email, phone, fax or online on our user friendly website.

In concordance with this we present you a few information with what we launched in April.

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MKP1848C series

MKP1848C 15ÎźF Polypropylene Film Capacitors, through-hole

Ideal for inclusion in industrial power applications - Battery Chargers, Motor Drives, Renewable Energies Inverters, UPS. MKP1848S series

MKP1848S 20ÎźF Polypropylene Film Capacitors, through-hole

Use in Battery Chargers, LED Street Lighting, On Board Chargers (EV/HEV)

AY2 series AY2 Series through-hole Dielectric Ceramic Capacitors

Available in industry-standard packaging for small batch runs. Now reduced in price.

20 LHE Series 20LHE Series Linear Hall effect position sensor

RoHS compliant with a long operational life - ideal for designing into switches and indicators for harsh environments.

In add new automation and control devices form Lovato brand.

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Motor Protection SM1 series motor protection circuit breakers

Features an integrated magnetic trip indicator which avoid closing operations during short-circuit conditions and preventing risk of damage and down-time.

Miniature Circuit Breakers

P1MB series miniature circuit breakers

Quick, snap-on mounting on DIN rail. We offer this full range of popular items direct from stock.

GX series GX series rotary switches

Long life and high breaking capacity, quick and easy to install. Great value when compared to other major brands.

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INDUSTRY PRODUCT NEWS From great opportunities in Test and Measurement range, we add several products from various brands, like: BRANDS NAME

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PRODUCT DETAILS Each model is multi-functional with integrated basic spectrum analyzer, Wave Inspector Navigation, MSO, serial and parallel bus triggering and analysis, and digital voltmeter. Optional instrument upgrade and application modules can be bought at the time of the initial scope purchase or at any time afterwards.

RS No. 797-3324 797-3346 797-3337 797-3334

Mfr. Part No. MDO3054 MDO3014 MDO3034 MDO3024

Barth Elektronik

New technology mini logic controllers, the size of a match box, ideal for embedding in small, stand-alone machines or vehicles.

It is easy to program and mount, economical with kow power consumption.

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The latest release of SIMATIC CPU’s, offering faster processing of the control programme, and ethernet networking interface with central access via the IP-address of selected modules – diagnostics and control anytime, anywhere!! Market-leading technology for machine and panel builders developing process automation systems.

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PASSIVE COMPONENTS

New miniature Low Power TCXO/VCTCXO launched by IQD Housed in a small 2.0 × 2.5 × 0.8mm ceramic package, IQD’s new IQXT-260 series of digitally compensated TCXOs, employs an analogue ASIC for the oscillator and a high order temperature compensation circuit that provides a smoother signal. With a maxi-

mum current consumption of only 2mA, the IQXT-260 offers stabilities down to ±0.5ppm over an operating temperature range of -40 to 85°C with a clipped sinewave output. Operating from 1.8 to 3.3V, the new range is available in three versions: TCXO, VCTCXO & TCXO with enable/disable function,

all across a frequency range of 10 to 52MHz. The version with the enable/disable option only requires a standby current of typically <0.01μA, which is ideal for battery operated equipment. As frequency bands such as 2.4GHz become overcrowded and the bandwidths need to be narrower, the precise signal and tighter frequency stability of a TCXO solution is ideal plus frequency slope and perturbation specifications can be customised to suite application requirements. The IQXT-260's high stability, low power consumption, small footprint and powerful compensation method makes this new TCXO ideally suited for demanding GPS mobile applications including Portable Navigation Devices as well as Wi-Fi, WiMax, WLAN and Ethernet applications.

IQD FREQUENCY PRODUCTS LTD www.iqdfrequencyproducts.com

New Vishay Intertechnology Thick Film Chip Resistors Deliver High Voltages to 500 V in Compact 0805 and 1206 Case Sizes Vishay released a new series of thick film chip resistors designed to meet the demand for high voltages in industrial and medical applications while saving valuable PCB space. Vishay Draloric RCV e3 devices offer high limiting element voltages of 400 V and 500 V in the compact 0805 and 1206 case sizes, respectively.

With their high voltages, RCV e3 series resistors can replace multiple standard devices of the same size to save placement cost and board space in power supplies, battery chargers, vacuum tubes, and converters. The RCV0805 e3 and RCV1206 e3 feature operating voltages of 400V and 500V, respectively; power ratings of 0.125W and 0.25W; insulation voltage > 500V; and high-temperature operation to +155°C. The devices offer tolerances of 1 % and 5 %, TCR of ±100 ppm/K and ± 200 ppm/K, and a resistance range from 100kΩ to 10MΩ.

VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY www.vishay.com

Vishay Intertechnology PLTT Precision HighTemperature Thin Film Chip Resistor Now Available in Automotive-Qualified 0603 Case Vishay announced that its PLTT precision high-temperature thin film chip resistor is now available in an AEC-Q200 automotive-qualified 0603 case size.

Providing a greater than 100 °C extension over conventional chip resistors, the Vishay Dale Thin Film PLTT 0603 features a wide operating temperature range from -55°C to +230°C, a low absolute TCR down to ± 5 ppm/°C, and laser-trimmed tolerances down to ± 0.02 %.

With stable film and performance characteristics of 0.5% ppm at +175°C for 2,000 hours at 50% of rated power, the resistor released today is optimized for the low-noise single-signal processing required to compensate for low offset and temperature drift in high-temperature automotive environments, such as exhaust sensing. The device will also deliver reliable performance in down-hole applications, high-precision oil and gas exploration, and telecommunications and industrial equipment. The PLTT 0603 provides a wide resistance range from 250Ω to 150kΩ, with nonstandard values available. The devices feature very low noise of < -30 dB, a low voltage coefficient of 0.1 ppm/V, power dissipation ratings from 150mW to 1W, and 75V to 200V maximum working voltages.

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PRODUCT NEWS Vishay Intertechnology Releases Super Red, Red, Amber, and Yellow Ultra-Bright LEDs in Compact SMD Packages With Dome Lenses Optoelectronics group of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has introduced a new series of super red, red, amber, and yellow ultrabright LEDs in compact untinted surface-mount packages with dome lenses. Utilizing the latest ultra-bright AllnGaP on Si chip technology, the Vishay Semiconductors VLD.1235.. series delivers the industry's highest brightness with luminous intensity to 35500 mcd.

With their high brightness and small 2.3 mm by 2.3 mm by 2.8 mm footprints, the LEDs released today are the perfect choice for reliable performance in a wide range of applications, including traffic signals and signs, interior and exterior lighting, and indicators and backlighting for audio and video equipment, visible light barriers, appliances, and industrial equipment.

Available in gullwing and reverse gullwing versions, the devices offer high luminous flux and incorporate larger chip sizes to withstand drive currents up to 70 mA. The LEDs offer a narrow ± 11° angle of half intensity and withstand ESD voltages up to 2 kV in accordance with JESD22-A114-B. The devices are luminous- and color-categorized per packing unit.

VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY www.vishay.com

Vishay Intertechnology Ultrasoft Recovery FRED Pt® Gen 4 Ultrafast Diodes Reduce Conduction Losses and Increase Efficiency Vishay Intertechnology introduced 28 new 600V and 650V FRED Pt® Gen 4 Ultrafast recovery diodes optimized for high-frequency converters in power modules, motor drives, UPS, solar inverters, and welding machine inverters. Offered as die in wafer form, Vishay Semiconductors “H” and “U” series devices offer ultra-low forward voltage and reverse recovery charge to reduce losses and increase efficiency, while their extremely soft turnoff behavior minimizes overvoltages under all switching conditions. The devices released today are designed for use as antiparallel diodes in combination with Vishay's new Trench insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs). Together, the Ultrafast diodes and IGBTs provide low EMI and plug-and-play reliability for single- and three-phase inverters, as well as full- and half-bridge DC/DC converters. The “H” and “U” series devices can also be used as stand-alone components for power factor correction (PFC) circuits, boosters, choppers, and secondary-side rectification. Designed to minimize conduction losses in medium-speed circuits, 600 V “U” series diodes feature extremely low forward voltage down to 1.4 V for 600 V devices and 1.48V for 650V devices. Optimized to deliver high speeds for higher-frequency applications, “H” series diodes offer reverse recovery times down to 25ns with low typical forward voltages down to 1.65V for 600V devices and 1.74V for 650V devices.

VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY www.vishay.com

PASSIVE COMPONENTS LEM new IT xx5 series provides exceptional accuracy over wide temperature range of 40°C to +85°C LEM extends its range of high-accuracy current transducers, announcing the new series of IT xx5 transducers for non-intrusive and isolated nominal measurements of DC, AC and pulsed currents from 60 A to 600 A. The range includes 4 new models: IT 65-S, IT 205-S, IT 405S and IT 605-S. These new models offer an extended operating temperature range of -40 to +85°C, compared to the +10 to +50°C temperature range of previous IT models, allowing their use in a wider range of applications, including high precision power supplies, medical equipment, calibration units, precision and high stability inverters, power analysers and metering.

These new models provide the high performance of fluxgate technology based transducers across the extended temperature range, delivering extremely high accuracy with linearity over temperature range better than 12 ppm, and a low offset over temperature range between 36 to 400 ppm (according to the model). The fast response time to di/dt step changes is less than 0.5 μs, due to a precise and consistent winding process.

The IT xx5 series has been designed to operate from a bipolar +/-15 V DC power supply and will accommodate round primary conductors of 26 and 30 mm diameter, depending upon the model used. In addition to their normal current output, the transducers offer an additional output indicating the transducer state (low or high output levels) and an external LED showing normal operation.

The new IT xx5 range is also fully compatible with the previous LEM IT range, fitting the same footprint. These transducers can be easily retrofitted into old installations while maintaining the various compact sizes for each current range and a variety of panel mounting topologies (flat or vertical), without compromising the high insulation level provided between the primary and measurement circuits.

The transducers are CE marked and are covered by LEM’s five-year warranty.

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Key points: Closed-loop Fluxgate transducers measure DC, AC or pulsed current from 60 A up to 600A Exceptional accuracy over the temperature range from 0.004% to 0.04 % of IPN Wide operating temperature range from -40 to +85ºC Very low offset over temperature range up to 400 ppm Excellent linearity over temperature range up to 12 ppm Variety of panel mounting topologies

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