2015 power industry concern five technology trends

                     2015 power industry concern five technology trends

2015-2-27

Polaris Transmission and Distribution Network News: Greet  the dawn of 2015, we need to take the time to evaluate and predict the  technical challenges and breakthrough innovation in the coming year will  appear. Passed  with many strategic customers, partners, universities and technical  experts to explore TI product line, we believe TI will play a strategic  role in a number of important technology trends. These  technology trends are driving the development of the automotive and  industrial and other markets, and in this process, TI engineers will  help address the unique challenges in the field of semiconductor  technology, and the use of advanced technology to improve our lives.

2015 five major technology trends:

1- Internet of industrial things:

While  the business model of Things in consumer applications is still in its  development stage, many industrial enterprises have begun to use  sensors, machines and equipment for large-scale interoperability and  data analysis. The  technology is the key to achieving these sensors, connectivity,  efficient energy management, as well as ultra-low power analog front end  and embedded processors. In the past few years, mobile devices greatly promoted the popularity of integrated MEMS sensors. In  contrast, industrial enterprises has been through an expensive,  high-performance sensors to ensure the safety of complex industrial  systems, high quality and efficient. With  the enhancement of the performance of embedded sensors deployed in  industrial, robotics, automotive, commercial, and residential automation  applications large sensor networks are gradually popular. Many  factory complex diagnostic and prognostic applications can also benefit  from the large-scale deployment of networking sensor. Industrial  interoperability sooner than expected began to use massive machines to  communicate with the machine; and as all-IP Ethernet becomes more  secure, reliable, network interconnection industrial and automotive  applications in the field of this technology will be widely used . Such  as isolation, electromagnetic interference (EMI) Robust circuits and  systems, as well as organic low-power wireless connectivity technologies  can help to solve the problem will become an effective means. With the rapid development of these technologies in the field of industrial networking will soon become a reality.

TI's  product portfolio includes most of the key technologies and innovative  industrial wireless or wired network needs, such as for industrial  sensing and measuring the high differential isolation interface,  integrated analog front end with intelligent sensors, ultra-low power  wireless links, embedded intelligent power management processor and many  other high-precision analog front ends.

2- Semi-autonomous vehicles (cars, robots, unmanned aerial vehicles):

Intelligent transport ready for the arrival of the heyday. Due  to the rapid development of semiconductor technology, a lot of sensing  and processing capabilities of advanced technology is becoming  widespread but close to the people, and after, these technologies are  mostly used only expensive military and scientific fields. Advanced  driver assistance system is equipped with twelve high-definition  cameras, radar and ultrasonic sensors, laser radar and appears to  provide unprecedented safety and convenience, and for the more advanced  automatic driving experience laid the foundation. Until  recently UAV military and entertainment applications is still fresh in  the transaction, but now has become a similar security, surveying,  agriculture, and many other new applications in the growing commercial  tools. Robotic  applications so far mainly used in industrial workshop, complete with  high reproducibility, ease of control tasks, without any human  intervention. Meanwhile,  medical facilities, consumer products assembly lines and warehouses  deployed robots require smaller, lighter and highly intelligent robots.

TI  in motor drive, strong product portfolio and innovative positioning  sensors and accurate battery management can play a key role in a whole  new generation of intelligent autonomous vehicles.

3- Small radio equipment: the next major force behind the construction of communication infrastructure

Currently, more than two-thirds of the digital data from the mobile device user to use and produce. 2014, for the growing mobile data applications need to accelerate the deployment of 4G LTE networks. However, the growth of mobile data is beyond the capacity of many macro base stations. Therefore,  many infrastructure manufacturers and operators have been studied less  than 1 watt transmit power and antenna with a large number of small  radio (mass MIMO), to provide LTE and Wi-Fi capabilities to coordinate  with macro base station. In  the next two years, the hot light and indoor environments RF deployment  will most likely accelerate to 5G standard (this standard is still in  the definition phase) as the basis for the development of large-scale  heterogeneous radio coverage. Lightweight radio should have a low cost, ease of installation and low power consumption.

Such  as Power over Ethernet, high power amplifiers, high-performance  processors and integrated wireless technology is a key part of the  future light radio IP block.

4- Smart power and High voltage:

Power management is still one of the fastest growing opportunity in the semiconductor industry. More  and more applications are dependent on intelligent power management to  achieve efficient power generation, distribution and consumption. Including  consumer products, including many off-line charger has a wide  application of intelligent power management feature that allows  connected devices to exchange their energy and power needs to improve  efficiency. In  addition, the power management server and data center is in a rapid  development stage, thus providing greater efficiency in a variety of  high dynamic load conditions.

Motor  drives, fast charger, hybrid electric vehicles, AC / DC power converter  circuit and semiconductor products, such as high-voltage equipment  needs for intelligent drives is growing. In addition, GaN and SiC as new devices are becoming more mature, and play an important role in high-voltage applications.

5- Isolation - the key to high-pressure environment of communication:

Protective  isolation technology has to offer, noise immunity and reliability  become increasingly important for many industrial, automotive, medical  and offline applications. For  high-voltage drives, industrial measurement and monitoring, and the  gate drive Industrial Ethernet is one of the many applications of this  technology. Achieve  hundreds of megabits per second or higher data transfer rates, and  ensure efficient and robust trends for the high voltage surges in many  industrial applications become more and more common in the fence. In  addition, the data and power transmission through the barrier of  technology has been applied in the gate drive and industrial sensors.