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Farnell Demonstrates Full Range of Artificial Intelligence Products with New Technology Pages

Wed, Mar 13, 2019

Exclusive products including Smartedge Agile and Ultra96 make it easier than ever for users to build intelligence into their designs.

Farnell, the Development Distributor, announces the launch of a dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) online resource on the Farnell website. The new pages cover a variety of topics ranging from basic explanations of AI, and different types of AI applications, to descriptions of specific AI products including several ranges that are exclusive to Farnell.

Today, AI-driven analytics and real-time insights are helping industries transform their businesses in diverse sectors from logistics and healthcare to automotive and manufacturing. Farnell’s new AI technology pages will help customers to learn more about AI, explore unique AI-specific product ranges, and access support to choose the best solutions to meet their project requirements.

A key element of the Farnell AI offering is the AI Configurator: an interactive tool that allows engineers to quickly determine the most appropriate products and solutions for their AI projects. It identifies the various development boards, sensors and software that best meet the needs of the inputted application from a wide range of vendors. This enables users to select the most suitable products with confidence and obtain optimum results faster, speeding up development without the need for unnecessary and often time-consuming research.

In addition, new AI products that are exclusively from Farnell include:

• Smartedge Agile: Exclusive to Farnell, an end-to-end IoT solution to deliver AI and security at the edge. The Smartedge Agile device is a certified hardware solution embedded with a full software stack featuring edge intelligence.

• Ultra 96: Exclusive to Farnell, a platform to simplify machine learning, Ultra96 is an Arm-based Xilinx Zynq UltraScale MPSoc development board based on the Linaro 96 board specification.

“As AI technology is still at a relatively early stage in terms of its potential applications and market penetration, the scope is wide open for customers to explore various possibilities and develop new products and ideas”, says Cliff Ortmeyer, Global Head of Technology Product Marketing and Solutions Development at Farnell. “Our new AI technology pages will provide a valuable resource that users and developers can use as a starting point for their designs.”

AI technology pages and can be found on the Farnell website in EMEA, Newark website in the America and element14 website in Asia Pacific.

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Water-resistant MEMS pressure sensors meet consumer budgets

Wed, Mar 13, 2019

Water-resistant MEMS pressure sensors, the LPS33W series from STMicroelectronics, exhibit chemical compatibility, stability, and accuracy for use in applications as diverse as fitness trackers and other wearables, vacuum cleaners, and general-purpose industrial sensing.

The IPx8-rated LPS33W is protected by a viscous potting gel inside the cylindrical metal package to withstand salt water, chlorine, bromine, detergents (such as hand soap and shampoo, e-liquids) and light industrial chemicals such as n-pentane. The package lid provides high corrosion resistance, and the cylindrical form factor is easy to use with o-rings in applications that require a sealed enclosure, says ST.

The proprietary gel formula, together with the built-in signal-conditioning ASIC, ensure class-leading 0.008hPa RMS pressure noise thereby allowing outstanding measurement resolution, claims ST. Susceptibility to reflow-soldering stress during assembly is also extremely low, drifting less than ±2hPa and recovering normal accuracy in 72 hours. This is claimed to be more than twice the speed of other sensors. Temperature compensation keeps accuracy within ±3hPa over the operating range from 0 to +65 degrees C.

The LPS33W operates at just 15 microA in high-performance mode, with a 3.0 microA low-power mode and 1.0 microA power-down to help maximise runtime of battery-powered devices. A 128-bit FIFO stores up to 40 slots of 32-bit pressure and temperature data. This saves power by minimising intervention from the host microcontroller. A low-pass filter and I2C and SPI digital interfaces are also built-in.

The LPS33W is in mass production now, in a 3.3 x 2.9mm cylindrical metal case.

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Farnell Demonstrates Full Range of Artificial Intelligence Products with New Technology Pages

Wed, Mar 13, 2019

Exclusive products including Smartedge Agile and Ultra96 make it easier than ever for users to build intelligence into their designs.

Farnell, the Development Distributor, announces the launch of a dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) online resource on the Farnell website. The new pages cover a variety of topics ranging from basic explanations of AI, and different types of AI applications, to descriptions of specific AI products including several ranges that are exclusive to Farnell.

Today, AI-driven analytics and real-time insights are helping industries transform their businesses in diverse sectors from logistics and healthcare to automotive and manufacturing. Farnell’s new AI technology pages will help customers to learn more about AI, explore unique AI-specific product ranges, and access support to choose the best solutions to meet their project requirements.

A key element of the Farnell AI offering is the AI Configurator: an interactive tool that allows engineers to quickly determine the most appropriate products and solutions for their AI projects. It identifies the various development boards, sensors and software that best meet the needs of the inputted application from a wide range of vendors. This enables users to select the most suitable products with confidence and obtain optimum results faster, speeding up development without the need for unnecessary and often time-consuming research.

In addition, new AI products that are exclusively from Farnell include:

• Smartedge Agile: Exclusive to Farnell, an end-to-end IoT solution to deliver AI and security at the edge. The Smartedge Agile device is a certified hardware solution embedded with a full software stack featuring edge intelligence.

• Ultra 96: Exclusive to Farnell, a platform to simplify machine learning, Ultra96 is an Arm-based Xilinx Zynq UltraScale MPSoc development board based on the Linaro 96 board specification.

“As AI technology is still at a relatively early stage in terms of its potential applications and market penetration, the scope is wide open for customers to explore various possibilities and develop new products and ideas”, says Cliff Ortmeyer, Global Head of Technology Product Marketing and Solutions Development at Farnell. “Our new AI technology pages will provide a valuable resource that users and developers can use as a starting point for their designs.”

AI technology pages and can be found on the Farnell website in EMEA, Newark website in the America and element14 website in Asia Pacific.

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Arrow Electronics has teamed up with Shiratech to create the Body Cam 1.0

Fri, Mar 08, 2019

Arrow Electronics has teamed up with Shiratech to create the Body Cam 1.0 and Icomox development platforms for image streaming and industrial condition monitoring, respectively. .

Body Cam 1.0 is a live-streaming open platform based on a quad-core Arm Cortex-A7 processor with built-in LTE modem based on a Quectel SC20 SoC.

It contains a fully integrated 13Mpixel camera module based on an ON Semiconductor sensor, wi-fi and Bluetooth 4.1 connectivity. GNSS satellite positioning is also included.

Context awareness comes from Analog Devices’ ADUX1020 multifunction photometric sensor with gesture and proximity detection and ADXL343BCCZ 10/13-bit accelerometer. External interfaces include a two-lane MIPI-CSI2 input for a rear-facing camera, micro USB port, analogue microphone input, and Micro SD and Micro SIM slots.

Body Cam 1.0 comes with a simple one-button camera control, plus on/off and audio-volume buttons, for rapid development of smart products for baby monitoring, security surveillance, emergency services, and independent living. It is housed in a plastic enclosure that attaches to clothing for field tests.

The Icomox (Intelligent Condition-Monitoring Box) low-power platform integrates vibration, magnetic-field, temperature and sound sensors for detecting faults in a variety of industrial equipment, assets, and structures.

The selection of integrated sensors includes Analog Devices’ ADXL356 low-power low-noise vibration sensor and ADT7410 16-bit -55 degrees C to +155 degrees C temperature sensor, as well as a magnetic-field sensor and Mems microphone.

Running on the Analog Devices ADuCM4050 application processor, and featuring Analog Devices’ LTC5800-IPM wireless transceiver, Icomox offers an open sensor-to-cloud platform that combines high-performance sensing, embedded software and analytics for early failure detection, and configurable warnings and event timestamping for each sensor.

The LTC5800-IPM is a complete 2.4 GHz, IEEE 802.15.4e SoC with embedded SmartMesh IP networking software for flexible connectivity and high network reliability in challenging RF conditions often encountered in tough industrial environments.

Icomox comes with on-board analytics software for early fault detection.

Optional Cloud applications allow access to other advanced analytics capabilities.

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Farnell Demonstrates Full Range of Artificial Intelligence Products with New Technology Pages

Water-resistant MEMS pressure sensors meet consumer budgets

Farnell Demonstrates Full Range of Artificial Intelligence Products with New Technology Pages

Arrow Electronics has teamed up with Shiratech to create the Body Cam 1.0

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