Industrial Electronics

Industrial IC revenue grew by 1% in Q1 to $7.7bn , says IHS. Q4 had seen a 3% decline year-on-year.

Altera has announced the availability of a fully verified EtherCAT (Ethernet for Control Automation Technology) protocol intellectual property for Altera FPGAs. This is a result of a collaboration between Altera and Softing Industrial Automation of Germany, for a licensing structure that is intended to give developers access to Industrial Ethernet protocols with “no upfront license fees, no per-unit royalty reporting ...

Weald Electronics has a family of heavy-duty circular connectors designed for use in harsh or hazardous environments where high resistance to vibration and the ingress of liquids is required. Built around a heavy duty brass shell, LMG brass circular connectors are environmentally sealed from IP67 to IP69K and can come as standard with between two and 26 contacts in 19 ...

The Han HMC industrial connector series from Harting combines the capability for more than 10,000 mating cycles with protection against harsh environmental conditions. Designed for use in the medical and test engineering sectors, the series consists of Han B HMC housings, Han HMC connector inserts with crimp connection in four different versions, Han HMC crimp contacts in two sizes, a ...

Linear Technology has introduced a 45V LDO that indicates over-load and low-load (open circuit), die temperature and allows an associated microcontroller to calculate power dissipation in both the regulator and the load. Called LT3055, the basic specs are 2-45V in, 0.6-40V at up to 500mA out, and 350mV drop-out at max current. “A single capacitor at the REF/BYP pin provides ...

The industrial IC market sank 5.4% in 2012, with the eight leading suppliers of industrial ICs suffering revenue declines ranging from 0.8% to over 20% in 2012, says IHS

Business activity from industrial projects gives me cautious optimism for the growth of the business in 2013, writes Peter Hannon UK managing director of Harting

Allegro MicroSystems Europe's A1128 field-programmable, unipolar Hall-effect switch is designed for high-temperature automotive and industrial applications

Renesas has announced a series of industrial Ethernet communication chips with support for multiple communication protocols. Called R-IN32M3, the devices have their real-time operating system (RTOS) function implemented hardware using...

Rohm Semiconductor is using its systems expertise to bring a number of new product technologies to the European market