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Industry 4.0 and IoT improve manufacturing
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t Smart Factory Expo, HARTING is demonstrating its range of automation solutions for improving the
efficiency of manufacturing logistic processes based on the concepts of Integrated Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT) (Stand SO17). HARTING’s approach to smart manufacturing is based on the addition of intelligence to manufacturing processes with the aim of achieving a high level of connectivity, visibility, awareness, and adaptability at all stages in the supply chain. By enhancing users’ processes with RFID technology, HARTING makes it possible to implement solutions that deliver real profitability gains without the need for re-engineering already proven, stable manufacturing processes. The two key elements of HARTING’s approach are machine-to-machine communications and manufacturing logistics. Machine-to- machine communications is typically concerned with the transmission of information obtained from the monitoring of production equipment to improve diagnostics and to enable effective preventative maintenance.
Harting 01604-827500
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for Arm will enable developers to quickly and easily create powerful connected applications based on the new module. The LPC54018 MCU-based IoT module includes support for Amazon FreeRTOS and provides a seamless Wi-Fi
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connection to Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling developers to create secure, cost-effective IoT solutions. The module offers unlimited memory extensibility, a root of trust built on the embedded SRAM physical unclonable functions (PUF) and on-chip cryptographic accelerators. Thanks to the easy-to-use software libraries of Amazon FreeRTOS, cloud on-boarding and over-the-air device management is made easy. Now available for this IoT module are development tools from IAR Systems, which provide leading code optimisation technology and extensive debugging functionality coupled with professional technical support offered globally. Thanks to outstanding speed optimisations, IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm and the included IAR C/C++
Compiler generate very fast and efficient code. With the shortest possible execution times, it is the ultimate choice for development of high-performance, low-power applications such as new innovations built on this new IoT module. To enable extensive debugging and profiling, the toolchain includes features such as complex code and data breakpoints, runtime stack analysis, call stack visualisation, code coverage analysis and integrated monitoring of power consumption. Through add-on tools for static analysis and runtime analysis, developers gain complete code control.
More information about IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm is available at
www.iar.com/iar-embedded- workbench/tools-for-arm/
IAR Systems +46 18 16 78 00
Semtech’s Low-Power SX128x 2.4GHz transceivers, available from Mouser, deliver integrated long-range RF for IoT
with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, is now offering the SX128x 2.4 GHz transceivers from Semtech. Part of Semtech’s SX1200 line of ultra-low- powerwireless transceivers, the SX128x half-duplex radio frequency (RF) transceivers are able to withstand heavy interference and transmit over long ranges, and are one of the first of their kind to integrate time-of-flight functionality for a broad range of RFand Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
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The Semtech SX128x 2.4 GHz RF transceivers, available from Mouser Electronics, integrate a +12.5 dBm
analog front end, power distribution, a modem with three modulation options, a packet engine for transmission or reception processing, and digital interface and control. The power distributionstage offers voltage regulation through an integrated low-drop out (LDO) regulator or a high-efficiency step-down DC-to-DC converter, which engineers can select depending on the application requirements. The digital communication interfaces include SPI, UART, and a set of general-purpose digital input and output (DIO).
Each of the onboard modem’s modulation options (LoRa, FLRC, and FSK) allows the SX128x devices to perform robust and reliable wireless communications with point-to-point wireless links that can support custom protocols with configurable data rates up to 2 Mbits per second. In addition, the SX1280 features a Ranging Engine, a long-distance functionality that permits time-of-flight measurement between a pair of LoRa radios for tracking applications.
Mouser 01494-467490
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ouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor
3D printing of rigid PCB series
combined with flexible conductive connectors in a single print
subsidiary, Nano Dimension Technologies., has successfully 3D printed a series of multi-layered rigid PCBs, connected through printed flexible conductive connections. This process provides a solution to traditional production limitations in the electronics industry, such as continuous transfer of conductors between circuits, loose contacts, size of connections between the circuits as well as fabrication of multi-layered flexible material. This enables the bending of the PCB so that it can be combined with curved and complex geometrical products. The company has filed a patent application with the U.S.
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Patent and Trademark Office for the materials that are printed in this process, as well as for the printing process itself. The printed materials include unique conductive ink with exceptional flexibility properties, as well as a dielectric-material ink that enables rigidity and flexibility.
Nano Dimension
www.nano-di.com
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ano Dimension, a leader in the field of 3D printed electronics, announced today that its wholly owned
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IAR Systems enables development of comprehensive new IoT module from NXP
f software tools and services for embedded development, announces tool support for the new LPC54018 MCU- based IoT module from NXP Semiconductors. Using the leading development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench
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