Piezoelectric Energy Harvester – Mide Technology

Converts normally wasted mechanical energy in the form of vibrations into usable electrical energy. It uses the piezoelectric effect to generate energy from Vibrations.

Piezoelectric Energy Harvester - V20w

Some sources are Machinery in Oil and Gas drilling to refining. Machines in Industry and Manufacturing. Wind, Tide, streams also can be harnesses with small fixtures, jigs or devices for vibration sensor arrays.

Applications - Wireless Sensors and small instruments need a way to recharge their lithium cells or even supercaps. Using solar and vibration harvesting, enough power can be derived to power efficient electronics. Recharge small computers and tablets.

From - Mide Technology

They are specialists in smart engineering materials technology. They create state-of-the-art solutions to uncommon engineering challenges. They are also a Engineering Service and design, develop, and test a turn-key custom prototypes.

Fagor Electrónica - EMS and Semiconductors

Fagor Electrónica - EMS and Semiconductors

Fagor Electrónica is a European company that develops and manufactures electronic components. Its main plant is located in Mondragón (Guipúzcoa).

They manufacture Discrete semiconductors like Power diodes and thyristors. They also design remote data management systems and radio communications solutions. They also have Systems for digital and analogue TV.

EMS (Electronic Manufacturing Services) Division

A lean, flexible company, excellent in terms of quality and service, with a focus to innovation.

Circuit Innovations electronics design

Circuit Innovations electronics design

PCB manufacturing, prototype development

"Circuit Innovations provides a number of key functions in the design and development of electronic products, software and printed circuit boards. We are able to assist you in all aspects of design, taking your original idea and developing it into a commercially viable product. Our designs utilise the latest in technology including PIC Microcontrollers, single and double-sided PCB designs and surface mount technology.

Provide us with the schematic diagram for a circuit and we can design a suitable printed circuit board for you including any particular requirements or constraints on the size and shape of the PCB. We can also produce PCB's for items featured in construction articles in electronics magazines."

fuzzyTECH - Fuzzy Logic and NeuroFuzzy

"Professor Lotfi Zadeh, the inventor of fuzzy logic, contends that a computer cannot solve problems as well as human experts unless it is able to think in the characteristic manner of a human being."

fuzzyTECH - Fuzzy Logic and NeuroFuzzy

Recent Successful Fuzzy Logic Applications in Industrial Automation - by Dr. Jörg Gebhardt and Constantin von Altrock

"The fuzzyPLC is programmed by an enhanced version of the standard fuzzy logic system development software fuzzyTECH from Inform Software. fuzzyTECH is an all-graphical, design, simulation, and optimization environment with implementation modules for most microcontrollers and industrial computers."

Designing Mixed Analog Chips and Circuits

These are some updates on Analog and Mixed Design pages online. A/D Converters are important because the world is full of mainly analog signals and parameters. Processing, Filtering, Analyzing and Computing data is best done by software (firmware).

These days the term of firmware can only be used for very small devices. This is because we have more memory, flash and computation ability in tiny footprints. So even a mini gadget can have a Tiny OS sometimes even a Virtual Machine. What is a VM it is is a OS in a OS. Java, .Net.

Time-interleaved Analog-to-digital Converters

TIADCs and TI-ADCs an Article by Dr. Christian Vogel.

"The idea of a time-interleaved ADC (TIADC) is to use a system of M parallel channels, which alternately take one sample (time-interleaved sampling). Thereby, the sampling frequency of one channel does not need to fulfill the Nyquist criterion; however, when in the digital domain all samples are merged into one output sequence the overall sampling frequency fulfills the Nyquist criterion"

The Designer's Guide Community - A Guide to Simulation & Modeling for Analog & RF Circuit Designers

A Site where analog, mixed-signal and RF circuit designers come to learn about simulation, modeling and design. There are a number of very practical papers on simulation and modeling on the Analysis, Modeling, and Theory pages. A collection of useful example models can be found on the Verilog-AMS page.

Designing Analog Chips by Hans Camenzind

Hans Camenzind book on Analog CMOS design is a good reference for students and covers Power Electronic concepts like Switching Regulators and Low Drop-Out Regulators. The Delta-Sigma Converter A/D and Zero-Crossing Detectors on Mixed Design. Communications circuits like Timers and Oscillators . Phase-Locked Loops and Filters too.

Web Studio is a powerful HMI SCADA software

Using a browser from any Thin Client PC or Tablet view Status, Annunciations, Alarms and monitor online history data. Visualize data for Analysis or Tuning. Monitor real time process parameters to optimize the plant production.

Now plants have to be energy conscious and keep in mind the environment health, like air and water. Most important is a consistent yield of a job which is within stated quality and reliability. Worker/Plant safety is also a part of process quality and cost effectiveness..

Web Studio is a powerful HMI/SCADA software

Some Nice Features

Security: Multi-levels of application security. Easily restrict application access.

Reports: Create and E-mail concise reports in RTF, XML, PDF, CSV, and HTML file formats (via remote connection). Store reports internally, or automatically download to a remote location via new FTP configuration interface.

Scalable: Reduce development costs by easily scaling projects from one interface/operating environment to another.

Industrial control and Networking – Freescale

Wired and wireless industrial communications protocols and human machine interface. Motorola Semiconductors became Freescale. You may recall that some rugged Mosfets, Bridges and Drivers were developed by Motorola Semiconductor. The Factory Automation have the resources reference to integrate this expertise of high-reliability electronics into your process control systems.

Industrial control and Networking - Freescale

Battery-operated mobile robots, to high-performance processors that control leading factory robots and vision systems. Control and motion in service robots for dangerous, strenuous or repetitive tasks (handling warehouse inventory, assisting nurses, security,construction, mining, industrial cleaning, waste handling, firefighting, rescue.