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A robust family of silicon carbide semiconductor devices from Wolfspeed is available with design support from Richardson RFPD. According to Wolfspeed, the E-Series line of SiC MOSFETs represents the industry’s first automotive-qualified, PPAP-capable and humidity-resistant MOSFETs.

Pre-Switch has announced that its soft-switching IGBT and silicon carbide gate driver architecture, including the Pre-Drive3 controller board, powered by the Pre-Flex FPGA, and RPG gate driver board, can reduce the cost of solar inverters. The two-stage architecture delivers the same switching loss performance as a five-level design, resulting in reduced cost, control complexity and BOM count.

An important aspect in engineering is tackling the issue of human induced vibration, which is when vibrations are caused by pedestrians walking. Although swaying or unstable structures may spring to mind, the effects of human induced vibrations are pretty minor, such as discomfort in walking.

With its LMS4000, SICK has developed its most powerful and accurate 2D LiDAR sensor to date for materials handling and intralogistics applications, even at high speeds, in low ambient light or when goods, packages or parcels are matt black or glossy.

Two new families of 2A to 12A microBUCK synchronous buck regulators featuring wide input voltage ranges from 4.5V to 55V (SiC476/7/8/9) and 4.5V to 60V (SiC466/7/8/9) have been introduced by Vishay Intertechnology.

The UCC23513 from Texas Instruments is an opto-compatible, single-channel, isolated gate driver for IGBTs, MOSFETs and SiC MOSFETs, with 4.5A source and 5.3A sink peak output current and 5.7KVRMS reinforced isolation rating. The high supply voltage range of 33V allows the use of bipolar supplies to effectively drive IGBTs and SiC power FETs.

Following recent news that insolvency in the manufacturing sector is at a five-year high, a leading materials handling expert in the UK is urging businesses to look beyond Brexit and examine the other factors fuelling today’s manufacturing woes. Midland Pallet Trucks believes that while Brexit is undoubtedly playing a part, there are other issues currently affecting manufacturing that are being overlooked due to politics.

Steve Rogerson reports from October’s Digi Health UK conference in Manchester.

SICK has extended its innovative family of 3D snapshot vision sensors with the launch of the SICK Visionary S stereo camera, enabling precise, high-speed capture of 3D colour images for integration into robot guidance and quality inspection applications.

A Dutch solar car team from University of Twente and Saxion Hogeschool has selected silicon carbide (SiC) devices from UnitedSiC ahead of a major solar racing challenge in October. UnitedSiC provided product samples of their FAST Series of SiC FETs to Solar Team Twente, which they selected on the basis of superior performance.