The Next “Automation Age”: How Semiconductor Technologies Are Changing Industrial Systems and Applications

ESSCIRC 2022- IEEE 48th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 DOI:10.1109/ESSCIRC55480.2022.9911230

D. Arrigo, C. Adragna, V. Marano, Rachela Pozzi, Fulvio Pulicelli, F. Pulvirenti

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A profound transformation is making the industrial world more technically advanced and sustainable: the “Next Automation Age.” The changes are driven by demand for increased safety for both personnel and equipment in factories, higher levels of intelligence in processes, and greater flexibility and efficiency. Newer semiconductor technologies like wide-bandgap silicon carbide and gallium nitride, combined with advanced digital control architectures, can deliver significantly higher power densities and conversion efficiency than conventional silicon technologies. Advances in smart power BCD process technologies, with embedded phase-change memories, can facilitate transitions from analog to digital control improving power conversion and motor-control applications. Embedded on-chip, galvanic isolation extends or supersedes earlier-generation system-level protections with superior intrinsic safety and robustness. At the same time, it protects users from electric shocks while delivering exceptional power and high-speed data transfer rates across isolated barriers. These are just some of the innovations emerging from an industrial electronics sector striving to meet the smart industry trends of the current and foreseeable sustainable future.

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下一个“自动化时代”:半导体技术如何改变工业系统和应用

一场深刻的变革正在使工业世界在技术上更加先进和可持续:“下一个自动化时代”。这些变化是由对工厂人员和设备安全性的提高、过程中更高水平的智能以及更大的灵活性和效率的需求驱动的。较新的半导体技术，如宽带隙碳化硅和氮化镓，结合先进的数字控制架构，可以提供比传统硅技术更高的功率密度和转换效率。智能电源BCD工艺技术的进步，嵌入式相变存储器，可以促进从模拟到数字控制的过渡，改善电源转换和电机控制应用。嵌入式片上，电流隔离扩展或取代较早一代的系统级保护具有优越的固有安全性和稳健性。同时，它保护用户免受电击，同时提供卓越的电力和高速数据传输速率跨越隔离的障碍。这些只是工业电子行业为满足当前和可预见的可持续未来的智能行业趋势而出现的一些创新。

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