PRODUCT SHOWCASE
ElectroneX rescheduled to April 2022
Following the ongoing situation
with COVID-19 in NSW and other
states, a decision has been made to
reschedule ElectroneX – the Electronics Design & Assembly Expo at Rosehill Gardens from 5-6 April 2022.
Noel Gray, Managing Director of
show organiser AEE said:
We were hopeful that we would be
able to stage the show in November
but it has become apparent that until
the vaccination rates reach a high
level and states and business can
open up again, we had no choice but
to move the event to 2022.
Whilst there may be a relaxing of
restrictions and travel by November,
for the safety and wellbeing of our
exhibitors, visitors and staff we consider it was better to take a cautious
approach and move the Expo and
SMCBA conference to next year. The
majority of other Expos in NSW have
also had to reschedule to 2022 and it
has been a challenging time for the
exhibition and event Industry.
Last held in Sydney in 2018, the
Expo was almost sold out and exhibitors have been very supportive of the
move to April next year.
ElectroneX is Australia’s major dedicated high-tech event that showcases
new technologies, components, contract manufacturing services, manufacturing equipment and supplies
and solutions for the electronics and
manufacturing industries. Alternating
between Melbourne and Sydney, over
1000 senior decision makers attend
including design engineers, electronic and general engineers, technical engineers and management that are
involved in design, service or utilise
electronics in manufacturing.
Visitors can register for free to attend
the Expo in April next year at www.
electronex.com.au
Australasian Exhibitions
and Events Pty Ltd
Suite 11, Pier 35-263 Lorimer St
Port Melbourne VIC 3207
Tel: (03) 9676 2133
mail: ngray<at>auexhibitions.com.au
Web: www.auexhibitions.com.au
Easy-PC PCB design suite version 25 released
Number One Systems has announced
the release of Easy-PC version 25, with
over 25 new technology features based
on user requests from professional PCB
designers.
Easy-PC is packed with time saving features providing everything
required to easily create schematics,
PCB layout, and manufacturing outputs, making the task of PCB design
much quicker. A set of libraries is also
included, as is a component search
engine with over 15 million parts
available to download and use for free.
A few of the new enhancements
found in version 25 of Easy-PC
include:
• Differential Pairs with length
matching are now supported in
Easy-PC.
• Vias can be specified as ‘tented’. A
tented via is one that is covered with
solder resist during the manufacturing stage.
• New Design Rule Checks have
been added to enhance the checking
of the design so that errors can be rectified at an earlier stage.
• Resize Shape enables shapes to
be replicated and resized. The resizing can be both larger and smaller than
the original shape selected.
For the additional 25+ Easy-PC
enhancements found in version 25,
go to https://www.numberone.com/
latest-version
Easy-PC with integrated schematic
capture and PCB Layout starts at $457.
Number One Systems
https://numberone.com/
sales<at>numberone.com
Rugged silicon carbide power solutions now available at 1700V
Microchip has expanded its silicon carbide portfolio with a family of
high-efficiency, high-reliability 1700V
silicon carbide Mosfets and power
modules.
Microchip’s 1700V silicon carbide technology is an alternative to
silicon IGBTs. This new silicon carbide product family allows engineers
to move beyond IGBTs. It uses twolevel topologies with reduced part
counts, greater efficiency and simpler
control schemes. Without switching
limitations, power converters can
be significantly reduced in size and
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weight, freeing up space, or extending the range and operating time of
battery-powered commercial vehicles
– all at reduced overall system cost.
Features include gate oxide stability,
excellent avalanche ruggedness and
parametric stability. A degradationfree body diode eliminates the need for
an external diode with the silicon carbide Mosfet. A short-circuit withstand
capability comparable to IGBTs allows
them to survive harmful electrical
transients. A flatter RDSon curve over
junction temperature from 0 to 175°C
enables the power system to operate
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at greater stability than other
silicon carbide Mosfets that
exhibit more sensitivity to
temperature.
Other Microchip silicon
carbide products include
schottky barrier diodes at
700V and 1200V, available in
bare die and a variety of discrete and
power module packages.
Microchip Technology Inc.
Unit 32, 41 Rawson Street
Epping 2121 NSW
www.microchip.com
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