
Hardware for the digital twin
Everyone is talking about the digital twin, but many companies still find it difficult to implement. Machineering wants to support users with two new hardware products.

Everyone is talking about the digital twin, but many companies still find it difficult to implement. Machineering wants to support users with two new hardware products.

RS Components set its sights on SPS IPC Drives 2017 and showed examples from robotics and the Internet of Things that were created using components from the RS catalog. There is also a new software tool that makes CE certification easier.

The entry into the SMARC business is a small paradigm shift for TQ-Systems: Until now, the company offered proprietary formats for RISC CPU modules, but now it is relying on the SMARC standard.

embedded world is developing excellently. The prospects for the embedded world Conference and the electronic displays Conference are just as excellent - as the program shows.

The 7th generation CPU (Intel Core Haswell i7) contained in the ECU-4784 industrial PC from Advantech supports Intel AMT functionality, a special version of the operating system.

Microsystems competition 'Cosima'
As part of the 'Cosima' student competition, the VDE and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research awarded two first places this year - for example to the team developing an intelligent bicycle pedal that can be used to upgrade any bike to make it smart.

Kunbus launched the 'Revolution Pi' platform - 'Revpi' for short - at last year's trade fair. Marketing and Sales Director Andreas Müller talks about the first year and what's new at the trade fair.

Extra Computer is expanding its portfolio with the Exone Workstation 4204, which is ideal for computing-intensive tasks such as design, 3D simulations, CAD and CAM applications, software development, video editing, graphic design or the calculation of ...
How big? How much power? How robust? Which housing? The requirements for IoT systems are extremely varied. By designing individual embedded applications, devices can be created that are perfectly tailored to the application.

The fanless F105D from Giada uses the quad-core Intel Celeron N3450 processor (Apollo Lake) with up to 2.2 GHz at a power dissipation of only 4 W (SDP, TDP: 6 W).

The G-Win series from TL Electronic can be flexibly scaled by the user from a range of display sizes and types, processors, features and I/O options.

With the iBase MI811, Fortec offers an SoC motherboard in the Mini-ITX form factor (170 mm × 170 mm). Equipped with Intel's embedded processors based on the Goldmont microarchitecture, the SoC has a low power dissipation of 6 W.

The credit card-sized Raspberry Pi 3B from Mass comes in a metal housing. The mini PC contains the ARM Cortex-A53 processor with 4× 1.2 GHz clock frequency, plus 1 GB RAM, a micro SD card (8 GB or larger) for the operating system and application software as well as ...

'Invent a Chip 2017' school competition
Over 2,000 students submitted their microchip ideas to the 'Invent a Chip 2017' competition on the topic of 'New Mobility'. The VDE and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) have now honored the four most original ideas in Munich.

MSC Technologies presents the 4U 19-inch industrial server Infinity S4-408-MBC612, which is based on an ATX board with Intel Xeon E5 processors and the Intel chipset C612. For very high requirements, the server can even be equipped with two Xeon E5 processors with up to ...

The SRP-3201 Bluboxx small enclosure series from EKF for CompactPCI-based computers meets industrial requirements even under harsh environmental conditions.

Microsoft has been distributing the 'Windows 10 Fall Creators Update' since today. Microsoft is focusing primarily on the new 3D features.
Windows 10 is well on its way to replacing Windows CE in the near future, because the new standardized operating system has a lot of advantages, especially in IoT times. What is missing is the deterministic behavior that enables a combination with a real-time platform.

The current head of Windows declares the "end" of Windows Mobile 10 on smartphones. The market share of Microsoft's operating system on smartphones recently fell to less than one percent.

The new Simatic IPC327E Basic IPC box PC is part of the Simatic Industrial PC portfolio from Siemens. It is designed to quickly implement applications without specific requirements for certificates, increased temperature ranges or protection classes in industrial environments.