APEC: Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) has introduced the EPC91121 motor drive inverter evaluation board, built around the Gen-7 EPC2366 40V eGaN power transistor. Measuring 79x80mm, the EPC91121 is engineered for rapid prototyping of advanced motor drive architectures in applications such as drones, robotics, industrial automation, handheld power tools and other compact electromechanical systems where high efficiency and power density are ...
The 4Kp30 multi-sensor camera reference design is by Altera and designed for its Agilex 5 FPGAs. It uses industry-standard MIPI connectivity: D-PHY and MIPI CSI-2 for the FPGA interface and Altera’s FPGA AI tool for smart camera development to develop glass-to-glass edge vision for smart cameras, with real-time 4K AI interference. The MIPI interface supports up to 2.5Gbps per lane ...
A new reference design by Vishay, and available from DigiKey, uses its eFuse resettable fuse with TrenchFET mosfets. It is designed for projects where semiconductor-based resettable fuses replace mechanical relays and traditional (non-resttable) fuses. Typical design applications will be 48V e-mobility projects – battery management systems, EV testing and solar installations as well as industrial and home automation, industrial and ...
Maxim has a unveiled a camera reference design to demonstrate artificial intelligence embedded in space-constrained battery-powered edge devices. MaxRefDes178# “is a cube camera reference design based on the MAX78000 and MAX32666 microcontrollers to help AI at the edge device designers to accelerate their proof-of-concept to the market phase,” according to the company. Measuring 41 x 44 x 39mm, inside are a pair ...
Arm is working on a 65nm low-voltage low-power Cortex-M33 processor called Mono, and it needed a low-power voltage reference to detect when the battery is getting low – Mono is for battery-powered sensing nodes, it has been demonstrated keyword spotting from a single alkaline cell at 1classification/s. The spec is: Cortex M33 CPU with DSP and SIMD extensions 128kbyte ROM 16kbyte SRAM ...
ST is aiming at compliant 3 phase watt meters with an evaluation kit built around the STPMS2 double channel 24bit second-order ΣΔ modulator. Called EVALSTPM-3PHISO, it measures through a voltage divider and current shunt for each phase. “Sensing circuitry and PCB layout are optimised to maximise signal-to-noise ratio for accuracy,” said the company. The STPMS2 oversamples signals using a 4MHz clock ...
Analog Devices has released a reference design for a smoke alarm that meets UL 217 8th edition, along with an arduino-compatible evaluation kit. Built around the recently released ADPD188BI optical smoke sensor, it comes with a “data package for algorithm development including more than 1,000 smoke data sets taken at UL-217 certified facilities,” according to ADI. Intended for battery power, 3.8 ...
Maxim is measuring blood oxygen, ECG, heart rate, body temperature and activity data in its third generation of wearable health monitor reference design, this time entirely wrist-worn. Called Health Sensor Platform 3.0 (aka MAXREFDES104#), it comes in a ready-to-wear wrist form with algorithms to provide heart rate, heart-rate variability (HRV), respiration rate (RR), SpO2 , body temperature, sleep quality and ...
NXP and drone software company Auterion are to co-develop high-reliability integrated hardware and software for the commercial unmanned aerial systems industry. “With the development of regulations and the increased number of autonomous systems in the field, the requirement for components and software that are certifiable and the ability to deploy intelligence on the edge is becoming more and more important,” ...
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has announced the availability of performance enhancements and application reference designs for its Sensai (stylised sensAI) stack. Sensai is designed to help OEMs develop AI and ML experiences for smart devices with power consumption measured in mW. Performance enhancements include support for more compact neural network models and deeper quantization support to accommodate larger models for processing ...
