STMicroelectronics

A new family of high-resolution Time-of-Flight sensors that bring advanced 3D depth imaging to smartphones and other devices has been introduced by STMicroelectronics.

The IIS21CLX from STMicroelectronics is a high-accuracy, low-power, 2-axis digital inclinometer for use in applications such as industrial automation and structural-health monitoring.

The capabilities of ST Microelectronics’ FlightSense time-of-flight (ToF) ranging sensors has been extended with the VL53L3CX device.

  Simplifying the design of low to mid power motor controls in the 7V-45V range, the STSPIN830 and STSPIN840 single-chip drivers from STMicroelectronics contain flexible control logic and low-RDS(ON) power switches for industrial applications, medical technology, and home appliances.

ST offers new ACEPACK 1 and ACEPACK 2 Power Modules with Six-pack and CIB (converter + inverter + brake) topologies in industrial power applications including industrial motor drives, solar panels, welding tools and power management solutions.

STMicroelectronics’ newly-released 5.0 version of the advanced Motor Control Software Development Kit (SDK) offers an improved development approach by integrating the Motor Control Workbench GUI with a workflow supporting the STM32CubeMX GUI configurator.

STMicroelectronics has further simplified development of advanced, energy-efficient motor drives on STM32 microcontrollers by harmonising the latest STM32 PMSM FOC SDK with the STM32Cube ecosystem. The move extends opportunities for engineers to build sophisticated drives for equipment such as air conditioners, home appliances, drones, building automation, industrial machinery, medical devices, e-bikes, and many others, without needing specialised experience.

This video will show you how to get started quickly with the x-nucleo development boards and the ARM mbed environment to put together an application that drives four unipolar (uni-directional) DC motors.

In this video tutorial, STMicroelectronics will review first the PowerSTEP01 applications, basic control principles, then the key differentiators of the PowerSTEP01.

This video describes how to get started with the low voltage brushed DC motor driver STM32 Nucleo expansion board.

Executed in large data centres, internet applications and services comprise hundreds to thousands of individual serves. Representing a new class of large scale machines these data centres are driven by complex and rapidly evolving workloads. Because of the concentration of powerful computing resources, power consumption is a critical factor in the total cost of ownership and maintenance of the data centre. Alessandro Zafarana, Max Picca, Osvaldo Zambetti and Pierluigi Gardella from STMicroelectronics explains.

STMicroelectronics has introduced a $35 starter kit plus a free-of-charge software algorithm to help engineers and hobbyists implement efficient vector control in a very short time for motor-driven projects such as drones, appliances, E-bikes, home-automation, health care, and industrial machinery. The widespead use of vector control could reduce global electricity consumption by 15% within 15 years.