Top Lessons Learned: Industrial Automation Webinar Series

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Top Lessons Learned: Industrial Automation Webinar Series

Transcript of Top Lessons Learned: Industrial Automation Webinar Series

Top Lessons Learned: Industrial Automation Webinar Series

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Isolation

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“The Application Engineer showed me a great demo on how their evaluation board is easy to use, and will let me quickly test the isolation in my design.”

“I didn’t think about the impact the latency of an isolation device can have on a heavily loaded industrial network.  The lower latency of the Si88xx can allow me to reduce the time I reserve for all nodes to respond in a system.”

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“Industrial applications typically have concerns over noise created by or interfering with a system.  It was great to learn about the negligible EMI properties and 100kV/us noise immunity of the Silicon Labs CMOS-based isolators.”

“The isolated power supply provided by the Si88xx family is sufficient for my design.  I will be able to eliminate the complex discrete isolated power supply I needed to design.”

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Bluetooth

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“I was surprised that the BT121 and WT41 provide Bluetooth solutions for ranges beyond 500m line-of-site.  Range is important in our application and we like the benefits that Bluetooth provides as far as connecting to existing devices: Phones, Tablets, Laptops.”

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“The BT121 appears to provide what I need in my design.  The Bluetooth Smart Ready provides the range and bandwidth, but also has some of the low energy benefits of Bluetooth Smart.”

“The Demo of how to use BGScript™ gives me the confidence that this can work in our application.  I need the module to perform some very specific functions, and I think BGScripts can accomplish them while still being autonomous.”

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Motor Control

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“I liked to hear that the EFM32HG and WG products were designed to accommodate BLDC or FOC design requirements.  The small package of the EFM32HG specifically looks interesting for a FOC motor with space limitations.”

“The BLDC motor control reference design is impressive.  An 8-bit device in small packages that comes with full hardware and software support in a complete reference design.  Nice!”

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“I have been working to eliminate the sensors from our motor control.  This webinar provided a couple solutions that may work for our design.”