Arrow (HK Science Park) Open Lab
SOLUTION LIST
| Design ID | Release Date | Solution | Description |
| 2015E001 | Jul-15 | Cryptographic Authentication | Infineon Technologies’ SLS 10ERE is an authentication chip that offers a robust cryptographic solution, designed to assist system manufacturers to ensure the authenticity and safety of their original products, and protection of their investments against after-market replacements. It leverages Infineon’s market-leading security know-how in the accessory authentication markets. With its innovative asymmetric cryptography approach, it significantly reduces system cost whilst making a leap in security. |
| 2015E002 | Oct-15 | Sensors To Smart Control Module | The Smart Control Module (SCM) is a high level WIFI system module for the Internet of Everything (IOE). This module enables customers to add full-featured WIFI connectivity to variety of products. It also incorporates a high performance STM32F411CEUX MCU as the application processor. It is a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 RISC core operating at a frequency up to 100MHz. It features high-speed embedded memories (up to 512 Kbytes of Flash memory, 128 Kbytes of SRAM), and an extensive range of enhanced IOs and peripherals connected to two APB buses, two AHB bus and a 32-bit multi-AHB bus matrix. SCM has already built-in the network drivers, only simple APIs are needed to implement WLAN features. The onboard powerful MCU greatly simplifies system designs and minimize design effort. It supports network stack along with SSL security, enabling feature-rich internet connectivity and reliable implementation of low-cost embedded devices. |
| 2015W001 | Dec-15 | Smart Plug | The Smart Plug solution available as a reference design that customers can use the CC3200 integrated ADC for monitoring device energy consumption from a single load and control the high voltage side while SimpleLink WiFi communicates data over Wi-Fi to device on LAN and Cloud server. |
| 2016P001 | Feb-16 | AC Direct 20W Down Light | This is a direct AC line LED down light solution, which using Fairchild FL77944 together with OSRAM GW PSLR31.EM LEDs. This solution contains a minimal number of external components and works in high efficiency, high power factor and low total harmonic distortion. It can be used with different types of dimming control in a wide range of applications. |
| 2016P002 | Feb-16 | AC Direct 60W Low Bay | This is a direct AC line LED low bay lamp solution, which using 3 modules of Fairchild FL77944 together with OSRAM GW PSLR31.EM LEDs provide up to 60W output. This solution contains a minimal number of external components and works in high efficiency, high power factor and low total harmonic distortion. All the driver components and LEDs are place on one single MCPCB. It can be used with different types of dimming control in a wide range of applications. |
| 2016E001 | Mar-16 | Smart Control Module Daughter Board: Digital Barometric Air Pressure Sensor | The DPS310 is a miniaturized Digital Barometric Air Pressure Sensor with a high accuracy and a low current consumption. The DPS310 is both a pressure and a temperature sensor. The pressure sensor element is based on a capacitive sensing principle which guarantees a high precision during temperature changes. The small package makes the DPS310 ideal for mobile applications and wearable devices. |
| 2016W001 | Jun-16 | Environmental Sensor Board | The Arrow TE MS8607 TSYS01 KMA36 Sensor Board is consist of 3 pcs sensors with an Ardunio,96 board and grove interfaces in the board. MS8607 It is the novel digital combination sensor of MEAS providing 3 environmental physical measurements all-in-one: pressure, humidity and temperature (PHT). This new sensor module generation is based on leading MEMS technologies and latest benefits from Measurement Specialties proven experience and know-how in high volume manufacturing of sensor modules, which has been widely used for over a decade TSYS01 It is a single chip, versatile, new technology temperature sensor. The TSYS01 provides factory calibrated temperature information. It includes a temperature sensing chip and a 24-bit delta-sigma-ADC. The essence of the digital 24-bit temperature value and the internal factory set calibration values lead to highly accurate temperature information accompanied by high measurement resolution. It also can be interfaced to any microcontroller by an I2C or SPI interface. This microcontroller has been to calculate the temperature result based on the ADC values and the calibration parameters. KMA36 It is a magnetic field sensor utilizing the anisotropic magneto resistance effect. Therefore, the sensor is sensing the magnetic field direction rather than the magnetic field strength. The sensor contains three Wheatstone bridges rotated by 120°. A rotating magnetic field (typical strength 25 kA/m in the sensor plane) will result in three sinusoidal output signals with a period of 180°, phase shifted by 60° field angle. By use of a modified atan algorithm the field angle can be calculated with high accuracy. |
| 2016E002 | Jun-16 | NFC Door Lock Reader | The demo is for door lock solution, which combines NXP 13.56M Hz contactless NFC reader IC PN512 with a LPC824 microcontroller, makes the design very compact. It includes 3*4 keyboard, AC relay, led and beep. |
| 2016E003 | Jun-16 | Smart Control Module | It contains a Qualcomm QCA4002X-AL3X chip and also incorporates a high-performance ST Cortex M4 STM32F411CEUX MCU. SCM has already built-in the network drivers, only simple APIs are needed to implement WLAN features. The onboard powerful MCU greatly simplifies system designs and minimize design effort. It supports network stack along with SSL security, enabling feature-rich internet connectivity and reliable implementation of low-cost embedded devices. |
| 2016P003 | Jun-16 | USB Type-C DFP Board | The TI TPS25740 USB TYPE-C DFP SIDE Demo Board is an USB TYPE-C PD controller for "Provider" side (Source DFP) application demonstration, which provide the USB TYPE-C protocol by CC pin to pairing with the "Consumer" side (Sink UFP) + Current sense control + MOSFET control for output switch + Feedback control to the SMPS. The controller would be based on the pairing information to provide either 5V, 12V or 20V, current provide up to 5A. Customer can just connect few wires to change their own power supply into USB TYPE-C power supply or Charger. |
| 2016E004 | Jul-16 | Smart Control Module Daughter Board: 24GHz Radar | The 24GHz Radar module is split into an RF and a digital part. The RF part consists of the Infineon BGT24MTR11 24GHz radar MMIC and includes microstrip patch antennas for the transmitter and receiver of the module. The digital part consists of XMC4200, a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller from Infineon to sample and process the analog data from the RF frontend and configurate the BGT24MTR11 chip. |
| 2016P004 | Sep-16 | USB TYPE-C UFP BOARD | The INFINEON CCG2 USB TYPE-C UFP SIDE Demo Board is an USB TYPE-C PD controller for "Consumer" side (Sink UFP) application demonstration, which provide the USB TYPE-C protocol for pairing with the "Provider" side (Source DFP), the controller would be based on the pairing information to request a voltage, for this application output voltage from 5V to maximum output up to 20V 3A programmable. |
| 2016M001 | Oct-16 | Sensorless BLDC Household Fan 20W | BLDC fan was a new technology use in the household fan. Compared with tradition AC fan, BLDC household fan is a high efficiency, peaceful and cozy platform. In 1200rpm, the output power is about 15W. The circuit design very is very simple. It only has two main chips, so this is a cost-effective design. |
| 2017M001 | Mar-17 | BLDC Motor in Low Voltage Robotic Vacuum Cleaner | Robotic Vacuum Cleaner is an autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner that has intelligent programming and a limited vacuum cleaning system. It used 3 Cells Li-ion batteries and high speed motor. The motor speed is up to 30000rpm. It needs a high efficiency, low noise and high reliability motor control system. |
| 2017W001 | Mar-17 | BLE PWM Lighting | The nRF52832 incorporates a powerful Cortex-M4F processor with 512kB ROM + 64kB RAM. The Nordic nRF52 module has hardware PWM. This is a demo to use nRF52 true hardware PWM to control lighting for 2 colors (white and yellow) on a controlled little step. |
| 2017M002 | May-17 | BLDC Motor Control Board (150W) for Garage Door Opener | Garage Door Opener is motorized device that opens and close garage doors. Most are controlled by switches on the garage wall, as well as by remote control carried by the owner. It kited with IFX motor control IC, Gate Driver and MOSFET to her only main control board to provide stable and reliable door opener. |
| 2017E001 | Jun-17 | PM2.5 Sensor Board | The DragonBoard 410c features advanced processing power, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth connectivity, and GPS, all packed into a board the size of a credit card. HDMI connect, compatible with the 96Boards Consumer Edition specification. One 40-pin low speed expansion connector: UART, SPI, I2S, I2C x2, GPIO x12, DC power One 60-pin high speed expansion connector: 4L MIPI-DSI, USB, I2C x2, 2L+4L MIPI-CSI |
| 2017E002 | Jun-17 | Sensor Hub Demo Based on IBM Cloud | Arrow Sensor hub demo is used for collecting weather elements such as temperature, barometric pressure and then sending these data to cloud server. We can view these data anywhere by scanning an QR code with smartphones. The Demo will tell us these data: (1) Temperature, (2) Humidity, (3) Barometric pressure, (4) Ultraviolet index, (5) PM 2.5 particulates. |
| 2017E003 | Jun-17 | Smart Control Module Daughter Board: Gesture | The VCNL4035 is an integrated proximity and ambient light sensor, a driver for up to 3 external IRLED into one package. It has 16-bit resolution and includes a signal processing IC. It communicates with SCM board via I2C interface. |
| 2017P001 | Sep-17 | 200W High Bay (16500Lm) | This is a 200W lighting high bay solution, it employs Cree CXA3050A COB LED as well as high efficiency led driver with NXP SSL4120T PFC+LLC controller. |
| 2017E004 | Oct-17 | OpenCV on DragonBoard 410C | DragonBoard 410C OpenCV demo is a specific OpenCV demo, including video capture, object recognition solution that consists of USB high definition solution camera and DragonBoard 410C. This shows people face detection with real time capture. The OpenCV SDK can support C, python, Java, Cpp. |
| 2017P002 | Oct-17 | Inductive Sensing - 2D Control Knob | The LDC1614 Demo Board is an Inductive sense rotary switch with 2D control application demonstration, which use digital nixie tube to show clockwise or anticlockwise rotation and switch LEDs would be respond relatively. The board is simply constructed by a TI LDC1614, MCU, PCB Coils and power supply circuit. This can demonstrate one of the Inductive Sense applications and firmware can help to speed up the product development. |
| 2017P003 | Oct-17 | Inductive Sensing | The LDC1614 Demo Board is an Inductive sense 4Keys application demonstration, which allowed user to use the metal be the switches and LEDs would be respond relatively. The board is simply constructed by a TI LDC1614, MCU, PCB Coils and power supply circuit. This can demonstrate one of the Inductive Sense applications and firmware can help to speed up the product development. |
| 2018E001 | Jan-18 | MEMS Microphone with DragonBoard 410C | The DragonBoard 410C features advanced processing power, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth connectivity, and GPS, all packed into a board of the size of a credit card. HDMI connect, compliant with the 96Boards Consumer Edition specification. One 40-pin low speed expansion connector: UART, SPI, I2S, I2C x2, GPIO x12, DC power One 60-pin high speed expansion connector: 4L MIPI-DSI, USB, I2C x2, 2L+4L MIPI-CSI |
| 2018W001 | Feb-18 | Cloud Based Door Lock Monitoring with LoRaWAN | This door lock monitoring solution features Winext M100B-H LoRa Module and GW5000A LoRa Gateway to provide a complete solution for building a LoRa network. A microcontroller is used to detect the door lock status. The door lock status data is then transmitted by the M100B-H to a cloud server through the GW5000A gateway. A web-based dashboard shows the status of multiple door locks for monitoring or management. |
| 2018P001 | Feb-18 | Metal Touch 16-Keypad | The LDC Metal Touch 16-Keypad EVM consisted by controller board and sensors array board. Controller board includes a MCHP PIC16F1509 MCU and TI LDC1614 analog-to digital conversion. The GUI software MetalTouch was a PC-based kit for the Metal Touch solution system development. It can be calibrating your inductive metal touch button designs. The tool will show the touching status when the metal key was pressing and you can set the parameters to EVM board to fine tune the sensitivity and the pressing force, user can quickly and easily to evaluate, diagnose, and tune the metal touch designs. |
| 2018E002 | Mar-18 | Smart Car Parking Lock with LoRaWAN | The smart parking lock solution is based on LoRa technology, which users can control the parking lock up or down via cloud by mobile devices. It can be easy installed in the parking space and it is very convenience for users. |
| 2018P002 | Apr-18 | 60W USB TYPE-C PD DFP | This demo board is using the ON Semiconductor power supply solution deploy with the INFINEON CCG3PA solution to implement the USB TYPE-C + QC3.0 together in one USB TYPE-C connector. Infineon Security solution for the high-end product are ready to apply in this demo board. |
| 2018M001 | Apr-18 | 72V Low Voltage Air Conditioner Compressor For EV | In EV application, it used battery voltage to drive the Air-Conditioner. Mostly it will use 72V battery, so it needed a low voltage compressor. For this design we use STM M3 as the controller. It has internal Op-amp to simplify the circuit design. The board can support up to 3500W. |
| 2018W002 | Aug-18 | NFMI Wireless Audio | The NFMI Earbud Development Board provides a very flexible and powerful development platform for hardware measurement and software development of Truly Wireless Earbud. |
| 2018W003 | Aug-18 | Wireless Charger | This is ST 15W fixed frequency wireless charger reference design, based on ST medium power wireless charger transmitter STWBC-EPTR chip. It is a low-cost reference solution. |
| 2018P003 | Oct-18 | BMS BOARD (Automotive Grade) | This evaluation board allow user to have the fast evaluation for NXP 33771 BMS and help user to speed up the development period. The NXP 33771 AFE BMS Board is a complete solution for battery management, which have function including the Coulomb Count, Voltage and Current Monitoring, Thermal Protection, OV, UV, OC, Cell Balancing, and Diagnostics, System Self Check etc. NXP 33771 BMS Board set is for 7 to 14 cells management with CAN BUS topology communication with the master system to provide the Automotive Grade safety monitor. |
| 2018P004 | Dec-18 | eGaN FET Laser Diode Driver Module | This is a Laser Diode driver module for high frequency application (nanosecond pulse width), this module is for user to no risk to drive their own Laser Diode and testing, there is a multiple footprint for the difference type of Laser diodes including the SMD version, the module is using the EPC’s eGaN FET be the driver switch, which have the ability for high speed driving signal in nanosecond to drive the laser diode for transmission, the noise filtering circuit and the layout can guarantee the best driving performance in the Lidar application for reference. |
| 2018W004 | Dec-18 | NBIOT Wireless Parking Sensor | NB-IoT(Narrow Band Internet of Things) is a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) radio technology standard developed to enable a wide range of devices and services to be connected using cellular telecommunications bands. It is also an important connection technology in 5G time. |
| 2019P001 | Jan-19 | 10kW x2 LLC FULL BRIDGE CONVERTER EVB (SiC MOSFETs, SiC DIODEs) | This is a 10kW x2 LLC Full Bridge Converter demo board using Full Bridge LLC topology, the application would be for high-power charging system, for example the EV charger, UPS charging system etc, the demo board is for user easily to start their design the high power product with the Silicon Carbide MOSFET & Diode and for the reference, hope it can help user to shorten their product development period. |
| 2019W001 | Jan-19 | NFC Smart Lock | This reference design uses ST devices, MCU, NFC, MEMS sensor etc. Depending on the complexity of the customer’s application, STM32 M0 or M4 (pin to pin compatible) can be used for the core MCU. NFC Initiators / HF Reader ICs, including the analog front end (AFE) and a highly integrated data framing system for multi standards, are deployed. MEMS sensor is used for abnormal door hit sensing, providing alert and access blocking. |
| 2019M001 | Mar-19 | Servo Motor Control | This servo driver with industrial Ethernet solution is based on ADSP-CM408 and FIDO5200. ADI offers a complete product portfolio including data converters, amplifiers, embedded processors, iCoupler digital isolators and power management devices. The demo mainly includes power module, control module, display module. |
| 2019W002 | Mar-19 | Voice Recognition | Voice trigger is a software component that always detects trigger words set at the beginning of voice. It continuously monitors the occurrence of one of the 10 words and notifies the system on detection. This voice recognition module is based on Toshiba TMPM4G9F15FG, the CMOS digital monolithic silicon integrated circuit chip with high speed data processing capability. It includes voice input and voice output. |
| 2019M002 | May-19 | High Voltage Air Conditioner Compressor 320V 3500W for EV | In EV application, it used battery voltage to drive the Air-Conditioner. it will use 320V battery, so it needed a high voltage compressor. For this design we use SPC560 as the controller. It is automotive grade. The board can support up to 3.5KW. |
| 2019W003 | Jun-19 | Telematics Box Solution | The telematics solution is based on Infineon S6J342AFTA platform, offering superior processing power for data acquisition and management. The solution’s functional blocks also include vehicle motion sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope), WIFI+BT module providing WIFI hotspot, GPS detecting vehicle position monitoring and 4G module for communicating to cloud for remote monitoring and controlling. Users can read data and control vehicle via cloud by mobile devices. Besides, there is backup battery provides power while breaking off the main power suddenly. |
| 2019W004 | Jul-19 | Radar Lamp Post | This reference design is based on Infineon 24GHz Radar to detect vehicles whether they occupy the lay-by area. Next, there is a LED lamp with control, monitoring the power consumption, and uploading the data to cloud via LoRaWAN technology. |
| 2019W005 | Oct-19 | BLE Mesh Lighting | This reference design uses Silicon Labs BLE Mesh module, ON Semiconductor AC/DC and MOSFET, ISSI DC/DC and Lumileds LEDs. Silabs BGM13P is used for Bluetooth Mesh connectivity and generating PWMs to control the lighting. The 5 LEDs (Red, Green, Blue, Warm White and Cool White) are driven by DC/DC and AC/DC circuits. It provides ~9W for downlight applications. |
| 2020W001 | Jan-20 | MicroPython Module | MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3 programming language that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is optimized to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments. It is compact enough to fit and run within 256k of code space and 16k of RAM. Arrow MicroPython module is the idea computing solutions platform for the Internet of Things, e.g. only 2 commands to setup the board as iBeacon. |
| 2020W002 | Jan-20 | Smart IoT Energy Measurement Solution | This reference design is based on ADI mSure ADE9153A energy measurement solution to measure the energy consumption of smart IoT device. Connecting with Silicon Labs Giant Gecko MCU start kit, it shows the measuring result on the LCD display. |
| 2020W003 | Apr-20 | BLE Beacon with LoRaWAN | This reference design is based on STM’s BLE and ACsip’s LoRaWAN technology to implement indoor-positioning and objects tracking. BLE Beacons w/LoRaWAN is a new generation beacon that advertises standard Beacon message and to monitor Beacon’s battery life and motion detection to backhaul via LoRaWAN network. |
| 2020P001 | Jun-20 | 90W USB TYPE-C PD EVB | This demo board is using the ON Semiconductor power factor correction (PFC) and active clamp flyback (ACF) solution together with MOSFET to provide 90W output. Infineon CCG3PA be the USB TYPE-C PD3.0 and QC3.0 solution together in one USB TYPE-C connector, the extra two USB TYPE-A connector provided 5V 2A supply per each port for the traditional TYPE-A application in the market. |
| 2020W004 | Jul-20 | BLE Mesh Lighting with 24 & 60GHz Radar Sensing | This reference design uses Silicon Labs BLE Mesh module, Murata/Infineon Quicksilver Wi-Fi Module, Infineon radar, Jorjin radar module, RECOM AC/DC module, TE temperature sensor and relay. The system includes a gateway (Wi-Fi + BLE mesh module) and BLE mesh nodes with radar/sensor. The gateway collects all the data from each node via the mesh network to determine the on/off stage of the lightings. At the same time, this information can upload to cloud by using the Wi-Fi and reveal on a dashboard. Furthermore, it is possible to set up the system to control the lighting nodes directly by the Radar node without involving the gateway. |
| 2020W005 | Aug-20 | Automotive Matrix Lighting | The compact system solution for intelligent automotive exterior lighting integrates power drivers ASL2507, ASL2/3417, matrix LEDs controller ASL5115, MCU S32K144 together with 60pcs of LEDs. It provides high beam, low beam and turning indicators functions for car headlamp application. |
| 2020P002 | Oct-20 | Bidirectional Totem-Pole PFC Power Converter for OBC | This is a Bidirectional Totem-Pole PFC Power Converter for OBC reference design. It operates at high switching frequency with Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET to achieve high efficiency and reduction of size & weight. It may be used for high power charging systems, such as EV charger, OBC, UPS, Solar system etc. This EVB helps users to speed up SiC MOSFET system designs and shorten product development cycle significantly. This reference design works seamlessly together with the ESC “Bidirectional CLLLC DCDC Power Converter For OBC” reference design. |
| 2020P003 | Oct-20 | Bidirectional CLLLC DCDC Power Converter for OBC | This is a Bidirectional CLLLC DCDC Power Converter for OBC reference design. It operates at high switching frequency with Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET to achieve high efficiency and reduction of size & weight. It may be used for high power charging systems, such as EV charger, OBC, UPS, Solar system etc. This EVB helps users to speed up SiC MOSFET system designs and shorten product development cycle significantly. This reference design works seamlessly together with the ESC “Bidirectional Totem-Pole PFC Power Converter for OBC” reference design. |
| 2020P004 | Oct-20 | Bidirectional Power Converter for OBC | This is a Bidirectional Power Converter for OBC (Onboard Charger) reference design. It comprises of both Totem-pole PFC + CLLLC topologies. It operates at high switching frequency with Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET to achieve high efficiency and reduction of size & weight. It may be used for high power charging system, such as the EV charger, OBC, UPS, Solar system etc. This EVB helps users to speed up SiC MOSFET system designs and shorten product development cycle significantly. |
| 2020W006 | Dec-20 | Single Channel LiDAR | This is a Single Channel LiDAR demo board to demonstrate a high speed optical front end with LiDAR ToF ranging technology for distance measurement up to 50m and the LiDAR ToF architecture can be extended their application to both consumer and industrial field and even on the automotive area. |
| 2020W007 | Dec-20 | Automotive V2X Telematics Box | The Automotive V2X Telematics Box solution not only provides the functionalities related with telematics, but also C-V2X functionalities for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure(V2I) communications in active safety systems and intelligent transport system (ITS) management. The solution is based on NXP S32K144 MCU and Quectel AG35 platform, supporting vehicle health alert, remote automatic vehicle diagnostic, emergency call, as well as providing high accuracy position and data services for AP. At the same time, Quectel AG15 supports the C-V2X data services and NXP I.MX8 AP runs ITS apps and other apps. |
| 2021W001 | Jan-21 | IO-Link 8-Channel Master Hub Solution | The IO-Link 8-Channel solution is designed to demonstrate Arrow’s IOLM4P 4 ports master controller powered by STM32L431 SoC. 2 pieces of IOLM4P are used to implement this 8-channel solution. An external host based on STM32F746ZG is used to manage and control these 2 pieces of master controllers. User applications runs on the STM32F7 SoC and the complex IO-Link master stacks will be handled by the Arrow IOLM4P master controller. This solution comes with demo application showing the simplicity to connect to 8 IO-Link devices via STM’s L6360 – the IO-Link communication master transceiver IC. |
| 2021E001 | Mar-21 | AI Thermal Sensing | This demo board is to demonstrate an AI thermal sensing technology, aimed at fever detection applications. Using state-of-the-art CMOS thermal sensors, the sensor also uses ToF (Time of Flight) distance measurement sensor to compensate for temperature value. Through an RGB camera screen, thermal and RGB video can be displayed simultaneously. |
| 2021E002 | Apr-21 | Non-Contact Breathing Detection | This demo board is to demonstrate a non-contact breathing detection using a low-cost RGB camera on I.MX8M Mini platform. The key component, Eulerian Motion Magnification filter, magnifies subtle breathing motion. Combining with the help of artificial intelligent (AI) technology, it provides decent performance on human breath detection that is suitable for health care applications. |
| 2021W002 | Apr-21 | IO-Link 8-Channel Digital Input Hub Solution | The IO-Link 8-Channel digital input hub solution consists of a dual channel transceiver L6364, an Arm Cortex-M0+ MCU STM32G071 and a high-speed digital 8-channel inputs current limiter SCLT3-8BQ7. This is a non-isolated solution, it provides power supply to the system as well as the external devices directly. User applications and complex IO-Link stacks runs on the MCU STM32G071. while L6364 acts as a physical layer when the board is connected to the IO-Link master, then master can initiate communication and exchange data with the MCU. The L6364 also provides power supply to the MCU by the internal LDO, which saves the additional circuits and BOM cost. |
| 2021W003 | Apr-21 | IO-Link 8-Channel Digital Output Hub Solution | The IO-Link 8-Channel digital output hub solution is made up of three blocks: IO-Link transceiver L6364, octal high-side isolated driver ISO8200 and Arm Cortex-M0+ MCU STM32G071. It provides an affordable and easy-to-use solution for the development of 8-channel digital output modules. This is an isolated solution thanks to the embedded galvanic smart driver ISO8200. User applications and complex IO-Link stacks runs on the MCU STM32G071. While L6364 acts as a physical layer when the board is connected to the IO-Link master, then master can initiate communication and exchange data with the MCU. The L6364 also provides power supply to the MCU by the internal LDO, which saves the additional circuits and BOM cost. |
| 2021M001 | Jun-21 | Ultra High Speed Motor Driver Solution | This is an ultra-high speed motor driver solution especially for hair dryer application. It consists of STSTSPIN32 MCU which is integrated gate driver, it is good for compact design requirement. To compare with the traditional hair dryer, it provides powerful wind strength and high speed up to 110,000 RPM to become more efficient. |
| 2021W006 | Sep-21 | Long Range Low Power Wireless Video Transmission Solution | This demo solution built on STMicroelectronics STM32H7 series SoC and STM32WB55 multiprotocol wireless to form a sender and receiver unit. For sender side, video data is captured by ON Semiconductor’s MT9M114 720p CMOS image sensor SoC while voice data is captured by STMicroelectronics - MP34DT05MEMS PDM microphone. To lower the system cost and power consumption, latest BLE (stack version 5.2) technology was chosen so that high data rate transmission (max. 2Mbps) is supported. To optimize this bandwidth, video data is compressed by STM32H7’s build-in hardware JPEG encoder and then combined voice data to transmit to receiver side via STM32WB55 BLE. For receiver side, video data received via STM32WB55 BLE is decompressed by STM32H7’s hardware JPEG decoder and display to LCD/HDMI output. To increase the transmission range, an external RF Power Amplifier is used to achieve transmission range of 300 meter. |
| 2021W007 | Sep-21 | 60GHz Radar Occupancy Sensor and Signage with BLE Mesh and LoRaWAN | This reference design uses Jorjin radar modules, based on Infineon 60GHz radar, for occupancy sensing. Multiple radar devices form a BLE Mesh network with Silicon Labs BLE Mesh modules. A gateway collects the status of the occupancy sensors and light up the occupancy signage. Meanwhile, the occupancy status is uploaded to the cloud via LoRaWAN network and shown on a web-based dashboard for remote monitoring. |
| 2021W008 | Sep-21 | Arrow ADI IO-Link Master Solution | This is a 4-ports IO-Link master evaluation solution built on Arrow’s ARW-IOLM4P-STM32L4 4-port IO-Link master controller evaluation board and ADI’s LTC2874 Quad IO-Link Master Hot Swap Controller and PHY evaluation board. Two evaluation boards are interconnected to build a complete solution to demonstrate a 4-port IO-Link master hub. The master controller unit bundled with a USB-SPI controller so that a TEConcept’s control tool software can be executed on a PC and control the master controller unit via USB interface. Together with ADI’s PHY, this master hub can allow hot swap plug in any IO-Link compatible sensors and actuators. Arrow’s ARW-IOLM4P-STM32L4 4-port IO-Link master controller contains a full featured IO-Link master stack that handles the IO-Link communication with up to four independent IO-Link ports. The controller function is based on a well-defined simple telegram structure and uses the SPI-slave interface of the IOLM4P. |
| 2021E003 | Oct-21 | AI Thermal Sensing II | This demo board is to demonstrate an AI thermal sensing technology. Using state-of-the-art CMOS thermal imaging sensors and AI De-noise technology, this solution provides an 80x62 pixels thermal temperature readout with the least of noise. With the aid of the powerful STM32H747 processor, an additional AI algorithm has been used to obtain a hot zone contour temperature from the thermal image. This solution also integrates a 8x8 zones ToF (Time of Flight) sensor for distance to temperature compensation in order to further improve temperature readout accuracy. By adding a RGB camera, another AI face detection algorithm has been added to enhance the applications. |
| 2021W005 | Nov-21 | IO-LINK Actuator Tower Light | This is an IO-LINK Actuator Tower Light to demonstrate how to trigger and configure the actuator tower light through the standard IO-LINK interface. The individual LEDs can be switched individually via digital inputs parameters set by IO-LINK master. In the reference design, the L6364Q IO-LINK PHY works as a device to enable direct access to process and diagnose data, then MCU controls four channels’ status of the low side power switch IPS4260L via IOs. |
| 2021W004 | Dec-21 | IO-Link 8-Channel Master Hub with EtherNet/IP | The IO-Link master hub solution integrates a master controller STM32H743 to manage the 8 pieces of STM’s L6360 – the IO-Link communication master transceiver IC and the KSZ8863R- 3-Port 10/100 Managed Switch with PHYs.. User applications and the complex IO-Link master stacks run on the STM32F7 SoC. It is a gateway for the connection of up to eight IO-Link devices including sensors or input/output modules. The master transmits machine data, process parameters and diagnostic data to the external host controller via the integrated EtherNet/IP interface. |
| 2021P005 | Apr-22 | Bidirectional Power Converter for Energy Storage PFC | This is a bidirectional power converter for energy storage PFC reference design. It comprises of Totem-pole PFC topologies. It operates at high switching frequency with Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET to achieve high efficiency and reduction of size & weight. It may be used for high power charging system, such as the UPS, Solar system etc. This EVB helps users to speed up SiC MOSFET system designs and shorten product development cycle significantly. |
| 2021P006 | Dec-23 | Bidirectional Power Converter for Energy Storage CLLLC | This is a bidirectional power converter for energy storage CLLLC reference design. It comprises of CLLLC topologies. It operates at high switching frequency with Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET to achieve high efficiency and reduction of size & weight. It may be used for high power charging system, such as the UPS, Solar system etc. This EVB helps users to speed up SiC MOSFET system designs and shorten product development cycle significantly. |
| 2022M001 | Aug-22 | 1KW Servo Motor Control Solution | 1KW low voltage servo solution is designed on ST STSPIN32G4 platform. This shows how to realize servo speed ring, position ring, torque ring function with EtherCAT in high power and high integration. This solution utilizes the high integration of STSPIN32G4, reduced complexity and size to achieve high power density. |
| 2022P001 | Jan-24 | 3 Phase 3 Level T-Type Bidirectional Power Converter | This reference design represents a complete solution for high power three-phase Active Front End (AFE) bidirectional rectifier application based on the three level T-Type topology. Reference design topology is mostly used for industrial and electric vehicle DC fast charging applications. It features fully digital control for high performance microcontrollers providing the full control of PF, THD and power conversion control. |
| 2022W001 | Dec-22 | Battery Management System | Battery management systems (BMS) are electronic control circuits that monitor and regulate the charging and discharge of batteries. This reference design is composed of Infineon powerful automotive grade Traveo II MCU CYT2B97, AFE TLE9012D and transceiver TLE9015D. TLE9012DQU fulfills four main functions: cell voltage measurement, temperature measurement, cell balancing, and isolated communication; TLE9015D works as a transceiver to connect TLE9015D and MCU main battery controller. Besides, the solution also integrates pressure detection, RTC and system voltage and current sensing functions. |
| 2022W002 | Sep-22 | AIOT PIR Sensor Solution | AIoT PIR sensor consists of muRata PIR sensor, ST Nano power Op-amp and ST 2.4GHz Wireless MCU. Which is passively detecting human inferred spectrum movement, then amplifies the analog signal with gain 60~90dB to become digital level output signal to wireless MCU. Typical power consumption is 5uA@3.3V in this detecting circuit; For ST 2.4GHz Wireless MCU, it can operate in sleep mode with ZigBee protocol, which typical power consumption is 3uA@3.3V . As example in the picture, the ZigBee SED (Sleepy End Device) client total power is 8.3uA@3.3V in detecting mode. |
| 2022W004 | Nov-22 | Point-2-Point Wireless Video Transmission Solution | This point-2-point video transmission demo solution is built on the OpenMV Cam and STM32H7 EVB. OpenMV Cam is a small, low power, microcontroller board allowing you to easily implement applications using machine vision in the real-world. It is a highly integrated development board that includes both STMicro MCU and onsemi image sensor. And Arrow STM32WB55 multiprotocol wireless module is used for wireless transmitting and receiving audio and video data. In camera side, video data is captured by ON Semiconductor’s MT9M114 720p CMOS image sensor SoC which will convert output image in VGA YUV422 format to STM32H7 MCU. To optimize this bandwidth, video data is compressed by STM32H7’s built-in hardware JPEG encoder and then combined with voice data to transmit to receiver side via STM32WB55. And in the receiver side, video data received via STM32WB55 BLE is decompressed by STM32H7’s hardware JPEG decoder and display to LCD output. To increase the transmission range, an external RF Power Amplifier and LNA is included in the design to achieve transmission range of 300 meter. |
| 2023E001 | Jun-23 | OLED Digital Car Lights Solution | This reference design represents a complete solution for OLED digital car lights. 16 OLED driver chip L99LDLH32 are used to drive 512 dot matrix pixels, with 256 brightness steps. The Arrow/ST LOGO demonstrates the performance of display characters and dynamic patterns. |
| 2023W001 | Sep-23 | RTLS & Access (UWB) Demo | This reference design represents a solution for high accuracy real time location and access system based on UWB technology. This reference design is commonly used for Access control for building or Car, Asset/people tracking and Indoor Navigation, Industrial safety zone control, Vehicle parking system, even on Mobile VR/AR application. UWB technology uses high frequency signal to combine with AoA, PDoA and TDoA technology to give high accuracy, reliable and secure real time location solution. |
| 2023W002 | Aug-23 | USB/BLE Gamepad HID Solution | Arrow ESC has introduced a new single-chip USB/BLE Gamepad HID reference software solution utilizing STM32WB. Traditionally, support of USB HID and BLE HID required the use of two separate chipsets due to the complexity involved. However, thanks to the advanced dual-core architecture of the STMicro STM32WB55, and support of both wireless BLE interface and USB interface, it is now possible to concurrently or independently support both USB HID and BLE HID in a single wireless MCU for wired or wireless communcation. |
| 2023W003 | Aug-23 | Bidirectional USB Audio Solution | Arrow ESC has introduced a groundbreaking single-chip USB audio reference software solution utilizing STM32WB. Traditionally, support of USB audio and BLE wireless connectively required the use of two separate chipsets due to the complexity involved. However, thanks to the advanced dual-core architecture of the STM32WB55, it is now possible to concurrently or independently support USB 2-way audio, USB HID, and BLE connectivity in a single wireless MCU from STMicro. The STM32WB, equipped with a 64MHz Cortex-M4 core, can effortlessly receive 48kHz 16-bit audio from a PC as a USB speaker while simultaneously functioning as a USB microphone, enabling bidirectional audio communication. Furthermore, this remarkable chipset facilitates the concurrent operation of USB HID and BLE HID, allowing for versatile and efficient data input and output. |
| 2023W004 | Nov-23 | IOT of Monitoring Sensor Demo | This sample involves sending data from a CO2 sensor and radar sensor to the cloud and displaying it on a client dashboard. The reference design consists of the Infineon CYSBSYSKIT-DEV-01 IoT Connectivity Development Kit, XENSIV PAS CO2 wing and XENSIV 60GHz BGT60TR13C radar (MM5D91E00). The Rapid IoT connect developer kit carries a CYSBSYS-RP01 Rapid IoT connect system-on-module (SoM). It includes a PSoC 6 MCU device with two cores. The main function of M0+ core is device management, including data control and receive from sensors. The M4 core handles network processing functions,connecting the demo as a client to an MQTT broker and sending sensor data to it. |
| 2023P001 | Sep-23 | HMI for PV inverter and Energy Storage system | This reference design is a HMI (Human Machine Interface) solution to interface with Energy Storage Equipment (Like PV system with inverter / MPPT and CLLLC battery charger) through CAN bus. This HMI reference solution is composed of 5 buttons, LCD display and RTC feature. Apart from CAN-FD interface, it can also provide Ethernet, WIFI & BT and 2-way RS485 to connect to KNX or other external devices. |
| 2023P002 | Sep-23 | MPPT Interleaved Boost Converter | The MPPT (Maximum power point tracking) Interleaved Boost Converter is for PV (Photovoltaic) applications reference design. Which is an Interleaved Booster circuit with digital controlled MPPT algorithm for the Solar Power System Applications. It operates at high switching frequency with Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET to achieve low power losses, high efficiency, and reduction of size & weight. |
| 2023P003 | Sep-23 | 3 Phase T-Type Inverter | The 3 Phase T-Type Inverter is for 3 Phase Power converter applications reference design. Which is 3 Phase T-Type Topology circuit with digital controlled constant power input algorithm for the Solar Power System Applications. It operates at high switching frequency with Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET to achieve low power losses, high efficiency, and reduction of size and weight. |
| 2023E002 | Dec-23 | AI Thermal Imaging System | This solution is an advanced thermal imaging solution that combines Melexis MLX90640 32x24 far-infrared thermal sensor array with the NXP MCX-N9 series high-performance deep learning MCU. This powerful integration enables precise measurement of human or object surface temperatures with exceptional accuracy. |
| 2024W001 | Feb-24 | Matter Smart Home Demo | Matter Smart Home Demo is IPv6-based communication protocol for smart home application. It is developed and operated by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA). This Matter Smart Home Demo is based on CSA specification using STM32WB55 and STM32MP135 to develop a smart home system and this demonstration consists of 4 parts. |
| 2024P002 | Apr-24 | Bidirectional Totem-pole PFC | This is a bidirectional Totem-pole PFC paper design. It comprises of Totem-pole PFC topologies. It operates at high switching frequency with Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET to achieve high efficiency and reduction of size & weight. It may be used for high power charging systems, such as the UPS, Solar system etc. This design helps users to speed up SiC MOSFET system designs and shorten product development cycle significantly. |
| 2024P003 | Apr-24 | Bidirectional CLLLC DCDC converter | This is a bidirectional DCDC power converter paper design. It comprises of CLLLC topologies. It operates at high switching frequency with Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET to achieve high efficiency and reduction of size & weight. It may be used for high power charging systems, such as the UPS, Solar system etc. It helps users to speed up SiC MOSFET system designs and shorten product development cycle significantly. |
| 2024P004 | May-24 | Synchronous buck converter | This is a synchronous buck converter paper design. It is a typical synchronous buck topology with 4 parallel SiC MOSFET. It operates at high switching frequency to achieve high efficiency and reduction of size & weight. It may be used for high power applications, such as charging systems, solar MPPT, etc. It helps users to speed up SiC MOSFET system designs and shorten product development cycle significantly. |
| 2024P005 | May-24 | Full Bridge LLC Converter | This is a Full bridge LLC converter paper design. This is a full bridge LLC converter design with SiC MOSFET and diodes. It operates at high switching frequency to achieve high efficiency and reduction of size & weight. It may be used for high power applications, such as charging systems, solar systems, UPS, etc. It helps users to speed up SiC MOSFET system designs and shorten product development cycle significantly. |
| 2024P006 | May-24 | 1W Isolated DCDC module | This is a 1W isolated DCDC module paper design. This is a push-pull transformer driver, specifically designed for small form factor, isolated power supply. It operates at high switching frequency to achieve higher efficiency and smaller transformer size. It can be used for different applications, such as isolated gate driver power, auxiliary power, isolated power supply for CAN, RS-232. RS-485, etc. It helps users to simplify the circuit design and shorten product development cycle. |
| 2024P007 | May-24 | 2W Isolated DCDC module | This is a 2W isolated DCDC module paper design. A Fly-Buck TM converter was designed based on the standard buck converter topology by replacing the regular inductor with a transformer to produce an isolated secondary output. It can operate at high switching frequency to achieve higher efficiency and smaller transformer size. This DCDC module can be used as isolated auxiliary power, isolated gate driver power supply. It helps users to simplify the circuit design and shorten product development cycle. |
| 2024P008 | Jun-24 | DC Fast Charger | eInfochips DCFC is compact yet powerful and built on the industry’s latest technologies and safety standards. It is an ideal choice for small and mid-sized commercial and public EV charging applications such as shopping malls, parking, retail outlets and offices etc. DCFC’s design is equipped to support OCPP1.6 for flexible integration with preferred CMS software, ISO15118 for bi-directional charging support, large HMI display for ease of use and flexible connectivity options such as Wi-Fi, RFID/NFC, Gigabit Ethernet for billing & payments and remote management. DCFC can be seamlessly integrated and remotely managed via eInfochips Conxero EV - A cloud - agnostic platform that offers a smart charging mobile app for EV drivers and a web-based charger management platform for charge point operators/ service providers. |
| 2024E001 | Jun-24 | Automotive Gateway | This reference design represents a reference solution for automatic gateway application based on the NXP S32G274A. Reference design SEED-S32G is mostly used for automotive applications, such as domain controller, zonal gateway, and vehicle computer, etc. It features S32G for high performance microcontroller providing ASIL D safety, hardware security, high-performance real-time and application processing and network acceleration. |
| 2024E002 | Jun-24 | Automotive Microcontroller Board | This reference design represents a reference solution for automotive general MCU applications based on the NXP i.MX S32K344. Reference design SEED-S32K3 is mostly used for infotainment IO controller, body controller, and E-shifter, etc. S32K3 MCU has a hardware security engine (HSE) with NXP firmware which supports wireless firmware update (FOTA), and provides ISO 26262 compliant Real Time Drives (RTD) for AUTOSAR and non AUTOSAR applications. |
| 2024E003 | Jun-24 | Automotive and Industrial Microcontroller Board | This reference design represents a reference solution for both Auto and industry based on the NXP i.MX RT1176. Reference design SEED-DBS117X is mostly used for auto cluster, industrial and medical HMI, smart city, smart home, etc. NXP i.MX RT1176 boosts the ARM Cortex-M7 to 1GHz with a 400MHz Cortex-M4, financial level information security, rich peripheral resources, and low power consumption. |
| 2024M001 | Jun-24 | Motor Control with Industrial Network | This reference design represents a reference solution for motor control and industrial network based on the NXP i.MX RT1189. Reference design SEED-RT118X is mostly used for motor control, EtherCAT, and TSN. i.MX RT1180 Crossover MCUs are dual-core devices featuring an Arm® Cortex®-M7 and Cortex-M33 for high performance and real-time functionality. |
| 2024E004 | Jun-24 | Smart Care with Breathing Detection and CO2 Sensing | A smart care solution with breathing detection and CO2 sensing is designed to monitor and improve indoor air quality, particularly in environments where human presence and health monitoring are critical. This technology can detect the presence of individuals, monitor their breathing patterns, and measure CO2 levels to ensure optimal air quality and safety. |
| 2024P009 | Jun-24 | Smart Energy Meter - Single Phase 2 wire | This reference design represents a complete solution for the whole current Smart Electric Energy Meter Single Phase, solution built based on KM34Z256/KM35Z512-LQFP 100 pin (NXP) device. |
| 2024P010 | Jun-24 | Smart Energy Meter - 3 Phase 4 wire | This reference design represents a complete solution for the whole current Smart Electric Energy Meter Three Phase, solution built based on KM34Z256/KM35Z512-LQFP 100 pin (NXP) device. |
| 2024P011 | Jul-24 | 10 W SMPS for Smart Meters | This reference design represents a complete solution for power supply for Smart Meter application based on the Viper267K device from ST Micro. Design also supports backup power to NIC during power fail to support Last Gasp feature. |
| 2024P012 | Jun-24 | 15 W SMPS for Smart Meters | This reference design represents a complete solution for power supply (SMPS- flyback) for Smart Meter application based on the ICE5BR3995CZ device from Infineon. Design Supports 15W total. |
| 2024P013 | Oct-24 | Bidirectional Power Converter for Energy Storage | This is a bidirectional power converter for energy storage application reference design. It comprises of both Totem-pole PFC and CLLLC topologies. Unit can work independently as an evaluation board. And they can link by power cord work as a complete ESS solution. It operates at high switching frequency with Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET to achieve high efficiency and reduction of size & weight. It may be used for high power charging systems, such as the UPS, Solar system etc. This EVB helps users to speed up SiC MOSFET system designs and shorten product development cycle significantly. |
| 2024P014 | Sep-24 | Unidirectional PFC and Half Bridge LLC Battery Charger | This is a paper design of a unidirectional battery charger. A power converter was designed based on conventional PFC boost converter together with half-bridge LLC DCDC converter. By using SiC diodes, MOSFET and GaN transistor. It operates at high switching frequency to achieve higher efficiency and smaller transformer size; and increase the power density. This design can be used for different high power systems. For example, charger of energy storage system, battery charger for LEV and other charger applications. It helps users to speed up the circuit design of using SiC and GaN devices and shorten product development cycle. |
| 2024M002 | Dec-24 | Smart Fan Demo | The demonstration is setup by a far infrared thermal sensor to detect and indicate a heat source with LED board. When the heat source locates in the middle of the detection zone, the motor starts. And the temperature higher, the speed of motor will be higher. It throght MCU MXCA153 to receive data of temperature and let PWM to control motor that speed up the fan when temperature over the threshold. |
| 2024E005 | Dec-24 | Machine Inspection Demo | The use case described in this application note uses a conveyor belt where a camera scans the products on the belt, and a robot arm selects the correct product. The i.MX 93 continuously records the display using an USB camera and processes the captured frames to determine if the passing things are the target or not. This target recognition is done using a TensorFlow Lite neural network running on the Neural Processing Unit of i.MX 93. Once the coordinates of the target are determined, the commands are sent from the i.MX 93 into the TSN network composed of an i.MX RT 1180 TSN switch and i.MX RT 1170 TSN endpoint. Upon reception of the commands by the i.MX RT 1170, it controls the robot arm through the UART interface to touch the target. |
| 2024W004 | Dec-24 | Industrial Battery Management system(BMS) | This industrial Battery Management System (BMS) is electronic control circuits that monitor and regulate the charging and discharge of batteries. This reference solution is composed of Infineon powerful Industrial grade XMC7200, AFE TLE9018D and transceiver TLE9015D. TLE9018DQU fulfills four main functions: Cell voltage measurement, temperature measurement, Cell balancing and isolated communication; TLE9015D works as a transceiver to connect TLE9015D and MCU main battery controller. Besides, the solution also integrates pressure and gas detection, RTC and system voltage and system voltage and current sensing functions. |
| 2024P015 | Dec-24 | Stellar E Totem Pole PFC for OBC | Stellar E Totem Pole PFC for OBC demo board is using the Stellar E MCU be the controller to implement the single-phase total PFC features, they are including the voltage control, current control, PF control, protections, control algorithms, and filtering scheme. It may be used with for high power charging systems, such as EV charger, OBC, UPS, Solar power system etc…, This EVB helps users to speed up SiC MOSFET system design and shorten development cycle significantly. This reference design works seamlessly together with the ESC “Bidirectional CLLLC DCDC Power Converter For OBC” reference design. |
| 2024W005 | Dec-24 | Matter Smart Home II | Matter Smart Home Demo is IPv6-based communication protocol for smart home application. It is developed and operated by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA). This Matter Smart Home Demo is based on CSA specification using EFR32MG24 and SiWG917 to develop a smart home system and the Matter network can work with Apple HomePod which is an integrated Matter border router inside and Apple Home APP can work properly on this demo solution together with voice control through Apple Siri. |