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electronica 2024 Wrap-Up

Nov. 21, 2024
Check out our coverage of technology and products at electronica 2024.

The electronica 2024 trade show, held in Munich, Germany, was once again one of the largest gatherings of electronic technology and product vendors in the world. With the show now in the rearview mirror, our editors who covered it, including Editor-at-Large, Alix Paultre, offer up some of the product highlights.  

New Technology

These are some of the new products and technologies that stood out at the show. 

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Processors

AI-Enabled RISC-V Cores Target ASIL B Automotive Apps

The MIPS P8700 RISC-V core, which implements a RISC-V ISA, aims at ASIL B and ISO 26262 functional safety.
Renesas
Renesas mixed-signal 'baby-FPGAs'
Analog

Renesas Introduces AnalogPAK Mixed-Signal Baby-FPGAs

Four new members were added to the AnalogPAK programmable mixed-signal IC product family: the SLG47011, SLG47001, SLG47003, and automotive-grade SLG47004-A.
onsemi
Wurth's passive components database added to onsemi's power-loss model generator
Power Supply

Collaboration Advances High-Accuracy Virtual Design of Power Apps

A power-loss model generator was updated with passive components to more accurately model designs and accelerate time-to-market.
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Automotive

“8-in-1” Integration Proof of Concept Targets EV E-Axles

Renesas, in collaboration with Nidec, developed the first “8-in-1” proof of concept for E-Axle systems that will help simplify electric-vehicle design. It controls eight functions...
Lake Shore Cryotronics
Lake Shore Cryotronics' Source Measure Units Optimized for Testing Emerging Nano/2D Semiconductor Devices.
Test & Measurement

SMU Optimized for Testing Nano/2D Semiconductor Devices

Lake Shore Cryotronics' SMU module for its M81-SSM instrument brings laboratory-grade, low-level measurement capabilities to a benchtop instrument.
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CAD modeling
EDA

Over 3,500 New CAD Models of Interconnect Solutions Arrive to Help Speed Design

SnapMagic and Harwin teamed up to bring a vast array of downloadable CAD models, PCB footprints, and component libraries to engineers.

New Products

These are some of the new products announced at or just before the show. 

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Processors

Multicore Micro Targets Software-Defined Vehicle Tasks

Infineon's AURIX TC4Dx hex core TriCore SoC handles ASIL D automotive requirements.
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Wireless

Virtual Antenna Supports Multiple Standards @ mwrf.com

Ignion's virtual antenna technology, featuring a small footprint, supports a variety of standards.
NXP Semiconductors
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Power

NXP’s Novel Battery Junction Box IC Enhances EV Pack Monitoring

The MC33777 combines critical pack-level monitoring functions into a single device for faster, safer, and more reliable EV battery management.
Power Integrations
PI's 1,700-V InnoMux-2 multi-output power-supply ICs target an array of applications
Power

GaN Process Brings SiC-Level Efficiency to 1,700-V Multi-Output Switcher

Power Integrations’ gallium-nitride power-conversion devices rated for 1,700 V marks yet another incursion on markets that, until now, were best served by products fabricated ...
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Analog

Tiny Non-Reflective RF Switch Pushes to 50 GHz

Solid-state RF switches continue to advance their performance contour in both electrical specifications and physical size.
Lake Shore Cryotronics
Lake Shore Cryotronics' Source Measure Units Optimized for Testing Emerging Nano/2D Semiconductor Devices.
Test & Measurement

SMU Optimized for Testing Nano/2D Semiconductor Devices

Lake Shore Cryotronics' SMU module for its M81-SSM instrument brings laboratory-grade, low-level measurement capabilities to a benchtop instrument.
Continental
Power test for power electronics
Power

Oscilloscope Probes for Power Test Reinforce RF Isolation

The latest isolated oscilloscope probes from Tektronix use robust isolation to measure the fast-changing currents in power electronics based on SiC and GaN.
About the Author

William G. Wong | Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

You can send press releases for new products for possible coverage on the website. I am also interested in receiving contributed articles for publishing on our website. Use our template and send to me along with a signed release form. 

Check out my blog, AltEmbedded on Electronic Design, as well as his latest articles on this site that are listed below. 

You can visit my social media via these links:

I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.  

I still get a hand on software and electronic hardware. Some of this can be found on our Kit Close-Up video series. You can also see me on many of our TechXchange Talk videos. I am interested in a range of projects from robotics to artificial intelligence. 

About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces

About the Author

James Morra | Senior Editor

James Morra is a senior editor for Electronic Design, covering the semiconductor industry and new technology trends, with a focus on power electronics and power management. He also reports on the business behind electrical engineering, including the electronics supply chain. He joined Electronic Design in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

About the Author

Andy Turudic | Technology Editor, Electronic Design

Andy Turudic is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design Magazine, primarily covering Analog and Mixed-Signal circuits and devices. He holds a Bachelor's in EE from the University of Windsor (Ontario Canada) and has been involved in electronics, semiconductors, and gearhead stuff, for a bit over a half century.

"AndyT" brings his multidisciplinary engineering experience from companies that include National Semiconductor (now Texas Instruments), Altera (Intel), Agere, Zarlink, TriQuint,(now Qorvo), SW Bell (managing a research team at Bellcore, Bell Labs and Rockwell Science Center), Bell-Northern Research, and Northern Telecom and brings publisher employment experience as a paperboy for The Oshawa Times.

After hours, when he's not working on the latest invention to add to his portfolio of 16 issued US patents, he's lending advice and experience to the electric vehicle conversion community from his mountain lair in the Pacific Northwet[sic].

AndyT's engineering blog, "Nonlinearities," publishes the 1st and 3rd monday of each month. Andy's OpEd may appear at other times, with fair warning given by the Vu meter pic.

About the Author

Cabe Atwell | Technology Editor, Electronic Design

Cabe is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design. 

Engineer, Machinist, Maker, Writer. A graduate Electrical Engineer actively plying his expertise in the industry and at his company, Gunhead. When not designing/building, he creates a steady torrent of projects and content in the media world. Many of his projects and articles are online at element14 & SolidSmack, industry-focused work at EETimes & EDN, and offbeat articles at Make Magazine. Currently, you can find him hosting webinars and contributing to Electronic Design and Machine Design.

Cabe is an electrical engineer, design consultant and author with 25 years’ experience. His most recent book is “Essential 555 IC: Design, Configure, and Create Clever Circuits

Cabe writes the Engineering on Friday blog on Electronic Design. 

About the Author

David Maliniak | MWRF Executive Editor

In his long career in the B2B electronics-industry media, David Maliniak has held editorial roles as both generalist and specialist. As Components Editor and, later, as Editor in Chief of EE Product News, David gained breadth of experience in covering the industry at large. In serving as EDA/Test and Measurement Technology Editor at Electronic Design, he developed deep insight into those complex areas of technology. Most recently, David worked in technical marketing communications at Teledyne LeCroy. David earned a B.A. in journalism at New York University.

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