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    Tech Highlights @ electronica 2024

    Dec. 16, 2024
    Check out our coverage of technology and products at electronica 2024.
    Related To: Electronic Design

    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.  

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    Inside Electronics

    Thoughts and Observations from electronica 2024

    What stood out at electronica 2024? Alix Paultre attended the event and weighs on the overall atmosphere and key products on display.

    New Technology

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

    Subthreshold IC Solution Promises to Reduce Power Consumption
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    Subthreshold IC Boosts Low-Power Device's Battery Lifetime

    Nanopower’s nPZero architecture can cut power consumption dramatically, increasing battery life while enhancing system monitoring functionality.
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    EV Wire Harnesses: Dealing with the Complexity

    An advanced on-board signal- and power-distribution network can simplify the complexity of an EV’s wire harness.
    Pico Technology
    The PicoScope 9404A SXRTO blends high-bandwidth sampling technology with the usability of modern real-time oscilloscopes.
    Oscilloscopes

    Oscilloscope Delivers 25-GHz Bandwidth on Four Channels

    The PicoScope 9404A SXRTO is a hybrid instrument that offers high-bandwidth sampling technology.
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    Next-Gen Analog and Mixed-Signal Platform Goes Modular

    The Treo Platform features a modular architecture to accelerate development of intelligent power management, sensor interface, and communications solutions.
    Pickering Electronics
    Pickering’s Series 125 is the industry’s smallest DPST reed relay.
    Electromechanical

    Two-Pole Reed Relay Claimed as Industry’s Smallest

    According to Pickering, its latest Series 125 is the industry’s tiniest DPST reed relay, switching up to 1 A, 20 W in a 5- x 5-mm pitch.
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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.
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    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.
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    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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    Memory

    Portable Memory System Fits in Tiny Footprint

    With portable memory tokens and mating receptacles, the Mini-Bar series provides embedded systems designers with a robust memory key solution.
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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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    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.

    New Development Kits

    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. 

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    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. 

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    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.

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    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.

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    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. 

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    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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