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electronica Nov 2014
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Hall.Stand A6.243
Renesas: RL78/G1G MCUs
reduce system costs
Renesas Electronics Europe is expanding its
safety and efficiency support for home appli-
ances and tools with the innovative new RL78/
G1G Group of microcontrollers. In comple-
ment to its current brushless DCmotor control
MCU offerings, Renesas delivers power-effi-
cient performance with shorter development
time and up to 40 percent lower system costs,
in a small but powerful single-chip solution for
appliances like advanced electric fans, electric
tools, and food processors, and many other
applications that require fine motor control.
Hall.Stand A5.115
Toshiba: online design tool simplifies
power part selection and system design
Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced an
online design tool that helps engineers to anal-
yse the performance of components for the
power stages of embedded designs and improve
overall system effectiveness and efficiency. The
Toshiba Semiconductor Web Simulator enables
users to simulate MOSFET performance under
various voltage and temperature conditions, and
to analyse their switching waveforms in AC/DC
and DC/DC converter applications using differ-
ent topologies such as full-bridge, flyback and
Hall.Stand A5.115
Sierra Wireless: InMotion solution
deployed for automatic vehicle location
Sierra Wireless announced that the Regional
Transportation District in Denver, Colorado
has deployed InMotion Solutions to support
mobile broadband access for automatic vehicle
location and smart card fare payments aboard
more than 1,100 buses in its fixed route fleet.
Denver’s Regional Transportation District
(RTD) is one of the top 20 public transit agen-
cies in the United States, providing services to
residents across an eight county metro area
DFI: microATX industrial
motherboard supports 10 COM
DFI presents the HD332-H81, a new micro-
ATX industrial motherboard in its cost-ef-
fective Intel H81 product line. The new
microATX embedded board with LGA 1150
socket is powered by the 4th generation Intel
Coreprocessor family delivering a 5~15%
CPU performance increase over previous
generations. The enhancements in CPU
performance, media and graphics capabili-
ties, security and power efficiency make this
embedded board well suited for a variety of
market segments, such as medical, retail,
Hall.Stand A6.510
MSC: 17” industrial display from
Innolux, ideal for outdoor applications
MSC Technologies is now selling the recent-
ly-launched series of Innolux G170J1-LE1
displays with WUXGA (1920x1200) resolu-
tion. This display stands out due to its suit-
ability for industrial applications, which is an
unusual characteristic for display monitors
of this size. The new G170J1-LE1 is ideal for
use with medical devices, outdoor vending
machines and industrial controls in harsh
environments.
Hall.Stand A6.520
IBASE: outdoor digital signage player
for harsh environment application
IBASE releases the SI-32-N outdoor digital
signage player integrating an R-452L APUs to
deliver high processing performance coupled
with discrete-class Radeon HD 7600 graphics
performance. Designed for outdoor and auto-
motive digital signage applications, the rug-
ged and compact SI-32-N is built to withstand
vibration and silently operate with a wide
voltage input range of 12V~24V.
Hall.Stand A6.228
Elmos signs distribution
agreement with Silica
Silica has signed a distribution agreement
with mixed-signal specialist Elmos Semicon-
ductor, authorising SILICA to sell and support
their full range of Interface, Sensor, Power
and Motor Control products across Europe.
The addition of Elmos to Silica’s linecard
brings with it a host of extremely attractive
products. In particular these include Smoke
Detectors, BLDC Motor Driver and KNX. Sil-
ica’s approach to market is characterised by
the provision of expert technical support and
the Elmos line is no exception.
Hall.Stand A6.107
Freescale drives IoT innovation with
gateway based on QorIQ LS1 processor
Freescale Semiconductor introduced an
exceptionally versatile and reliable Internet
of Things gateway reference design support-
ing a broad array of IoT applications includ-
ing building/home management, smart
cities, networked industrial services and
other applications where performance and
reliability are critical. The production-ready
reference design, named the LS1021A IoT
gateway, is engineered to shorten design
cycles and speed time to market for OEMs.
Additionally, the offering’s remarkable versa-
tility allows IoT service providers to replace
multiple boxes with a single, low-cost unified
appliance.
