Introducing the new Unigraf UCD-500 DisplayPort™ 2.0 Video Converter and Analyser: a complete tool in the development and compliance testing of DP 1.4a and 2.0 devices. The UCD-500 is ideal for Broadcasting, Gaming, ASIC and AV markets.
Compliance Test Tool
The UCD-500 is built based on the existing UCD-400 – the successful product for DisplayPort 1.4 – to support customers who are looking to develop products to meet the requirements of the latest DisplayPort 1.4a and 2.0 interface.
Dolby Vision™, HDR 10 and HDR 10+
With UCD-500 the user can source HDR formats such as Dolby Vision, HDR 10 and HDR 10+ up to 16K@60Hz. Various audio formats from LPCM to compressed formats like Dolby Atmos™ are supported.
In DisplayPort Analyzer mode, UCD-500 can capture video, audio and the necessary metadata for validation of HDR and Dolby Vision operation.
The UCD-500 is an ideal tool for developers of DisplayPort 2.0 compliant ASICs and devices like PCs, graphics cards, gaming monitors and VR/AR goggles.
Key Features
DP 1.4a & DP 2.0 Link Layer CTS Tool for Sinks & Sources
Support for HDCP 2.2 / 2.3 including Compliance Testing
16K capable DP Reference Sink & Source
10 / 13.5 / 20 Gb/s Link Rates
Playback and capture Dolby Vision, HDR 10, HDR 10+ and Dolby Atmos
Introducing two new families from Digi’s cellular portfolio to address next-generation IoT connectivity and 5G needs: the TX545 and the TX64.
The TX range are designed for critical infrastructure and intelligent traffic system applications, using the new, security-enhanced Digi Accelerated Linux (DAL) operating system, making smart cities a reality. The routers feature 5Ge / Gigabit LTE (Cat 18) radios, Band 71 and CBRS connectivity, 5G readiness, and are FirstNet Ready™.
The Digi TX54 is a rugged and secure cellular router for mission critical Industrial and Transportation applications, including FirstNet Ready™ models for public safety networks. The TX54 delivers high performance ideal for mission-critical applications that require continuous connectivity, field longevity and edge computing (Python development environment). It offers FirstNet Ready™ models with single or dual cellular options, and local private subnets are bridged across public networks to safeguard privacy.
Digi TX54 Features:
FirstNet Ready™ and global models both available in single and dual cellular options
Future-built with dual-core 880 MHz MIPS processor and PCIe 2.0 internal bus
Capable of segmenting private and public data communication across dual 600 Mbps Cat 11 cellular modules
High-speed 867 Mbps 802.11ac Wi-Fi for WAN or LAN service and optional dual Wi-Fi radios
Cryptographic co-processor with secure key generation
Securely deploy, monitor and control devices with Digi Remote Manager®
The Digi TX64 is a 5G-ready, high performance cellular router with dual redundant communications (LTE-Advanced and LTE-Advanced Pro router) for complex transit and transportation systems with true enterprise class routing, security, firewall and integrated VPN. The TX64 is ideal for challenging transportation and mobile environments: internet access for passengers is managed securely and separately to the priority on board bus systems.
Digi TX64 Features:
5G-ready platform: future-built with powerful quadcore processor
Segmented private and public data communication across dual 1.2 Gbps Cat 18 (or Cat 11) cellular modules
Wired Gigabit Ethernet (4-port) for onboard systems
Video and vehicle data offload over 1.7 Gbps 802.11ac Wi-Fi backhaul
Passenger Wi-Fi over 867 Mbps 802.11ac access point
Securely deploy, monitor and control devices with Digi Remote Manager®
Please use the form below to order now or to find out more about the new Digi TX range.
Robustel is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial quality solutions for the IoT and M2M market, and are recognised for their portfolio of wireless modems, routers and gateways in forms of IoT solutions. Part of what makes their portfolio successful is the Robustel Cloud Manager Service (RCMS). RCMS was designed to provide rapid device deployment and extensive management through clear user interface and on-boarding processes, making it a flexible, secure and cost-effective way to collect, store and distribute device data.
RCMS is available as a hosted Cloud service or as a locally installed (Stack) service.
Features
Management Dashboard Central dashboard provides a clear, visual overview of all your connected devices’ statuses in one place including device data usage, performance and cost.
Zero-Touch Deployment Remotely deploy and manage your Robust devices through templates and profiles instantly without user intervention
Device Monitoring Understand your environment by identifying/preventing problems through historical/current data on individual/group devices. Get reports and alerts on network connectivity, signal quality, data usage, packet loss, and more.
SIM Card Integration Integrate with leading SIM providers to control and monitor your SIMs from a single interface through power API integrations
Remote Management Monitor, diagnose and fix remote devices through an online interface. You can also remotely configure and perform firmware updates on individual or bulk devices in seconds.
RobustVPN RCMS brings next generation hardware defined VPN solution to your fleet – RobustVPN makes creating and monitoring VPN connections simple and can integrate with popular protocols like OpenVPN.
Introducing the new EFR32BG22 (BG22) from Silicon Labs: secure Bluetooth 5.2 System-on-Chip for High-Volume IoT Products.
The SiLabs BG22 is a versatile single-chip solution for Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE), Bluetooth Mesh, and Direction Finding with sub-meter accuracy.
The industry-leading energy efficient BG22 is ideal for devices in Consumers, Smart Homes, Commercial, and/or Industrial IoT (IIoT) applications, and can extend coin cell battery life beyond 5 years.
SiLabs designed the high-performance BG22 SoCs to meet the unique requirements of high-volume, battery-powdered Bluetooth products, featuring ultra-low transmit and receive power, and a low-power M33 core.
Key features:
32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M33 core with 76.8MHz maximum operating frequency
Up to 512 kB of flash and 32 kB of RAM
Energy-efficient radio core with low activeand sleep currents
Bluetooth 5.2 Direction Finding
Integrated PA with up to 6 dBm (2.4 GHz)TX power
Secure Boot with Root of Trust andSecure Loader (RTSL)
Silicon Labs are hosting a FREE virtual, hands-on workshop to develop a secure IoT device using the Thunderboard kit.
During the current outbreak of COVID-19 and recent announcements from the government, many companies have had to adopt to the ‘working from home’ practice to ensure the health and safety of their employees whilst assuring business continuity.
Technology is remarkable is these days, allowing companies to easily adapt so easily and have the option to continue ‘business as usual’ from employees’ homes. However, it can inevitably come with security risks to your corporate and customer data, if not set up correctly. For example, home WiFi can present risks to your security compliance protocols and proprietary data.
Fortunately, there are ways to mitigate the security risks of data leakage and provide enterprise-level security at an affordable cost for businesses. One of the many options that we have are Digi’s cellular extenders. The cellular extenders that Digi offers are able to deliver connectivity in a compact, all-in-one solution that integrates with your existing corporate infrastructure and supports secure VPN tunnelling for maximum data security.
Digi also offers a cloud-based, secure central management platform: Digi Remote Manager. You can easily and safely monitor and configure your devices remotely; keeping track and protecting your vital connections, whilst ensuring compliance with security frameworks in Digi Remote Manager.
Bringing Global Communications to Embedded Platforms
In today’s totally global economy, the last thing that anybody wants is a barrier to sales when exporting their product. Quectel have now enabled companies to build globally approved products with 4G LTE CAT1 and CAT4 modems, using the EG21-G and EG25-G easy-to-use MINI PCIe cards with integrated SIM holder (optional) or solder-down modules. Both of these modules have been optimised for today’s ever expanding Internet of Things (IoT) requirements supporting Worldwide LTE CAT1 and CAT4 with UMTS/HSPA(+) and GSM/GPRS/EDGE in an easy-to-use industry standard MINI PCIe form factor. These modules support antenna diversity and on-board Multi Constellation GNSS engine; all connected via industry standard plug-in MINIPCIe & U.FL connectors. A vast range of high performance antennas to support these services are readily available from Solid State Supplies.
Regarding performance in terms of communication speed, the LTE CAT1 & CAT4 supports speeds of 10 Mbps (DL) / 5Mbps(UL) and 150 Mbps (DL) / 50Mbps(UL) respectively. These modules also support a rich set of internet protocols, industry standard interfaces and a wide range of functionalities (USB serial drivers for Windows 7/8/8.1/10, Linux, Android/eCall*). Software features include USB Serial Driver: Windows, Windows CE, Linux & Android, RIL Driver, NDIS Driver, ECM Driver*, Gobinet Driver, QMI_WWAN Driver and a comprehensive and expanding range of Protocols. TCP/UDP/PPP/FTPHTTP/NTP/PING/QMI/NITZ/SMTP/CMUX*/HTTPS*/MMS*/FTPS*SMTPS*/SSL*/FILE*
Carrier Approvals Include
TELUS (Canada), Anatel (Brazil), Deutsche Telecom (Germany), US Cellular (USA), CE RED (Europe), FCC (USA), IC/ISED (Canada), ICASA (South Africa), JATE (Japan), KC/RCM (Australia), TELEC (Japan), VERIZON (USA), AT&T (USA), GFC/IFTEL (MEXICO), NCC (TAIWAN), PTCRB (USA).
*Under Development
Please note: these are ever-expanding but are correct on the date of publication.
For further details on the Quectel EG21-G and EG25-G, call +44 (0)1527 830800 or use the form below to get in touch.
Digi has expanded on their successful System-on-Module (SoM) portfolio by introducing the ConnectCore® 8M Nano based on the NXP® i.MX 8M Nano application processor. This integrated SoM platform is designed for longevity and scalability in industrial applications featuring up to 4x power-efficient Arm® Cortex®-A53 cores and 1x Cortex-M7 core for minimal power consumption whilst maintaining high performance. The 8M Nano also features pre-certified wireless connectivity, remote management, cloud integration and a complete Linux software platform based on Yocto Project®. Along with the rest of the ConnectCore portfolio, Digi ensures a peace of mind for critical security with built-in Digi TrustFence®.
The ConnectCore® 8M Nano is suitable for a wide range of industrial, medical, agricultural and transportation applications, including Internet of Things (IoT), human-machine interface (HMI), equipment monitoring, audio/voice, edge computing and machine learning (e.g. anomaly detection).
Solid State Supplies is pleased to welcome Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) as a new addition to our product offering. EPC is headquartered in California, USA, and was founded by Dr Alex Lidow, co-inventor of the HEXFET and formerly CEO of International Rectifier.
EPC is the leader in Gallium Nitride (GaN) based power components; GaN is a wide bandgap semiconductor material which is ideally suited to displace conventional Silicon MOSFETs.
Tom Freeman, Product Manager at Solid State Supplies said “wide band gap semiconductor technologies such as GaN promise to play a key role in the green energy revolution, increasing efficiency significantly over traditional Silicon. Our partnership with EPC allows us to engage with this fast-growing market which is critical to the future of the UK electronics industry”.
The key advantages of GaN semiconductors over traditional silicon semiconductors are:
Lower on resistance giving lower conductance losses
Faster devices yielding fewer switching losses
Less capacitance resulting in fewer losses when charging/discharging devices
Less power required to drive the circuit
Smaller devices meaning less space is taken on the printed circuit board (PCB)
GaN is inherently significantly more resistant to radiation effects
“Solid State Supplies’ knowledge of the market, along with their extensive history and proven successful track record for working with customers make them a perfect partner to represent EPC’s industry-leading, off-the-shelf eGaN FET and IC product line,” commented Nick Cataldo, EPC vice president of sales and marketing.
For any enquiries, please contact Tom Freeman on +44 (0)1527 830800 or email Tom.Freeman@sssltd.com.
About EPC
EPC is the leader in enhancement mode gallium nitride based power management devices. EPC was the first to introduce enhancement-mode gallium-nitride-on-silicon (eGaN) FETs as power MOSFET replacements in applications such as DC-DC converters, wireless power transfer, envelope tracking, RF transmission, power inverters, remote sensing technology (LiDAR), and Class-D audio amplifiers with device performance many times greater than the best silicon power MOSFETs. EPC also has a growing portfolio of eGaN-based integrated circuits that provide even greater space, energy, and cost efficiency.
The AEM is an integrated energy management circuit that extracts DC or AC power from different types of ambient energy harvesters to simultaneously store energy in a rechargeable element and supply your system with two independent regulated voltages. The AEM family enables you to extend the battery lifetime and ultimately eliminates the primary energy storage element in a large range of wireless applications such as industrial monitoring, geolocation, home automation, tracking and wireless sensor nodes.
Target Applications
Geolocation
Industrial monitoring
Smart city
Smart building
Smart agriculture
IoT
Wearables
E-health monitoring
Features
Sources
Solar : AEM10941
Thermal : AEM20940
Vibration : AEM30940
RF : AEM30940Solar : AEM10941
Cold Start
3 μW @ 380 mV (typical)
150 μW @60 mV for the AEM20940 (typical)
-18,5 dBm @ 868 MHz / 915 MHz (typical)
-12 dBm @ WiFi (2.4 – 2.5 GHz) (typical)
Footprint
Down to only 7 passive components
Configureable MPPT
Configurable MPPT with 2 pin programming
70 – 75 – 85 – 90 % for the AEM 10941
50 – 55 – 75 % for the AEM 20940
50 – 65 – 80 % for the AEM 30940
ZMPTT Configuration
Constant impedance regulation for AEM 20940 and AEM 30940
Ultra-Low Power Boost
Input voltage range from 50 mV to 5 V
Efficiency up to 95 %
Integrated LVOUT LDO Regulator
Fixed voltage at 1 2 V or 1 8 V
Up to 20 mA
Power gated dynamically by external control
Primary Battery
Automatically switches to the primary battery when second battery is exhausted
Flexible Energy Storage Management
Selectable overcharge and overdischarge protection
For any type of rechargeable battery or (super)capacitor
Fast supercapacitor charging
Warns the load when battery is running low
Warns when output voltage regulators are available
Warns when the primary battery is used
Integrated Balancing Circuit for Dual-Cell Supercapacitor
In the ever-growing world of the Internet of Things (IoT), Solid State Supplies are continuously building relationships with new IoT experts to strengthen our offering of IoT solutions. We have now partnered with IQRF UK – for smarter, mesh networks.
A message from our Technical Director, Richard Bethell:
“IQRF’s Easy Radio Solutions from Solid State Supplies.
I was recently introduced to the ISM band transceiver module
range from IQRF as I’ve spent a great deal of my career in the RF Communications
module business. At first, I thought that was just a run of the mill style
module but after further investigation I was pleasantly surprised. IQRF have
done a really neat job with this module in terms of its format and usability.
Measuring 31.5mm x 14.9mm the TR72-DA on-board antenna version (also available
with U.FL connector for external antenna) the module has variants that slot
into a full size SIM holder or solder down onto the PCB, they also have a
vertical mounting version that’s very popular in the lighting industry.
Features include Spirit1 based 868/915 MHz RF Transceiver, receiver sensitivity
of -101dBm and transmit power of 10dBm (10mW) with integrated PIC MCU, offering
6 programmable I/O pins, versions with or without Ultra Low Power CMOS LDO, and
on-board status LED’s.
Operating current is low Deep Sleep 1.7uA, RF Ready 2.8mA,
TX current 8.3 to 25mA depending of the transmit level set.
Operating Voltage with on-board LDO is 3.1 to 5.3v with an
operating temperature range of -40 to 85degC.
These modules can operate in various modes, point to point,
point to multipoint or wireless mesh and all these modes support FOTA (firmware
over the air updates) or programming via their SPI port.
The module has a very complete development kit that comes in
two boxes; Box 1 includes 3 USB boards, one for programming and two rechargeable
battery powered boards as external nodes plus three TR72DA modules with
integrated antennas, a USB charger / programming cable and USB Key with
documentation. Box 2 includes I/O adaptor modules one with Potentiometer, LDR,
Temp sensor and the second relay adaptor module, both of these connect via a
strip of pins to the Box 1 RF modules. Box 2 also contains a 3rd rechargeable
battery powered remote node that can be used in a point to multipoint or mesh
configuration.
The Dev Kit is also supported by a very comprehensive IDE
with an easy to use GUI interface.
We have tested these modules with external antennas and
achieved a communication distance of 672m LOS with 10mW transmit power into two
Stealth Blade Antennas. They also worked extremely well around an old building
through multiple very thick brick walls.”
Target applications: Smart City, Building Management Systems, Street Lighting / Street Equipment, Smart Agriculture and many more.
If you would like to find out more about IQRF UK, please get in touch using the form below.
