STMicroelectronics hosts premier Industrial Summit in Shenzhen

Specializing in Good Energy and Good Industrials for a sustainable future

STMicroelectronics, a worldwide semiconductor chief serving clients throughout the spectrum of electronics purposes, will host the Industrial Summit 2024 on October 29 on the Futian Shangri-La Lodge, in Shenzhen, China.

Recognizing the numerous challenges posed by local weather change, ST has persistently demonstrated its unwavering dedication to sustainability. The Firm is devoted to enhancing energy density and effectivity by way of its cutting-edge options, main the way in which in the direction of decreased carbon emissions and a sustainable future.

The Industrial Summit is a top-notch expertise showcase that highlights the breadth and depth of ST’s industrial merchandise and options. Into its sixth version, this 12 months’s occasion continues the overarching theme of “Powering Your Sustainable Innovation”, with a deal with Good Energy and Good Industrials for a sustainable future.

Guests will hear insightful keynotes and 28 technical displays from ST, its clients and companions, and may discover over 150 demonstrations focusing on three predominant market segments: Automation, Energy & Vitality, and Motor Management. Moreover, the occasion will function 6 showstoppers developed in shut collaboration with ST’s clients and companions, presenting revolutionary applied sciences, options, and merchandise within the areas of rising demand from the tip markets, together with Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN), energy provide for AI knowledge middle, Excessive Energy Thermal Administration system, Automation Manufacturing Line, the Photo voltaic-Storage-Charging Integration demo, and varied options from the Ecosystem Companions of ST.

Showstopper and demo highlights

ST’s 25+ Years of SiC Management: ST brings worth to its clients by way of mastery of the complete silicon carbide (SiC) worth chain, from R&D, substrate, epitaxy, and wafer fabrication to meeting and packaging of energy discretes and modules. At this 12 months’s Industrial Summit, the SiC showstopper will show ST as a worldwide SiC chief in market, innovation and manufacturing, with a broad portfolio of STPOWER MOSFETs and diodes tailored for key industrial and automotive purposes. Guests will get a complete overview of the event and manufacturing of SiC gadgets, from powder to the tip product.

ST’s cutting-edge SiC MOSFET and diode portfolio, complemented by STGAP galvanic remoted drivers, delivers excessive effectivity, reliability, and efficiency in several packages. Will probably be demonstrated on the Summit by way of varied reference designs for vitality storage and energy provide for AI servers, in addition to different high-power purposes.

 Subsequent-Era Information Middle Infrastructure from Megawatt to Gigawatt: The AI and knowledge communications sectors, presently liable for 4% of worldwide carbon emissions, are projected to achieve 14% of emissions by 2040. Adopting warmth restoration, liquid cooling, HVDC (Excessive Voltage Direct Present), high-efficiency PSUs (Energy Provide Unit), and new power-semiconductor applied sciences can additional scale back energy consumption.

Speedy developments in energy expertise, together with by way of new semiconductor supplies like SiC and GaN (Gallium Nitride) pushed by STGAP galvanic isolation gate drivers, will assist additional average the expansion in vitality demand from knowledge facilities. Highlighting ST’s capabilities is a 5.5 kW energy provide for AI knowledge facilities utilizing SiC for higher effectivity and higher energy density. As well as, with STPOWER MDmesh M9/DM9 sequence super-junction energy MOSFETs, ST units a benchmark for the 600V/650V super-junction expertise combining best-in-class efficiency with exceptional ease of use. Tailor-made for each hard- and soft-switching topologies, the MDmesh M9 and DM9 sequence are perfect for AI server knowledge facilities. Furthermore, the STM32G4 microcontrollers convey intelligence and superior management to our energy options, permitting us to raised handle energy distribution and adapt to fluctuating masses in real-time.

As well as, transitioning to HVDC infrastructure can additional improve data-center effectivity by decreasing transmission losses and vitality consumption. ST’s SiC expertise, paired with superior packaging, allows HVDC programs to excel in high-temperature environments.

Excessive-Energy Thermal-Administration Methods: The demand for high-power cooling options is quickly rising throughout varied sectors, pushed by important progress in HVAC (Heating, Air flow, Air Conditioning) programs, AI knowledge facilities infrastructure administration, and grid-scale battery vitality storage.

ST gives a complete set of high-power cooling options to handle differentiated energy ranges and architectures. At this showstopper, ST will showcase its newest 10kW Industrial Compressor answer, which innovates utilizing one single STM32G4 microcontroller (MCU) to regulate a number of capabilities, together with three-phase PFC Vienna, FOC (Area Oriented Management) motor management, Nano Edge AI predictive upkeep, and KNX. This answer additionally delivers strong and dependable efficiency with ST’s 1200V IGBTs and SiC diodes, plus STGAP galvanically remoted gate drivers. Additionally, two different options will likely be featured at this showstopper­­: the 7kW triple FOC and interleaved PFC, and 4kW Twin FOC and Interleaved PFC. These options guarantee environment friendly and dependable efficiency to satisfy totally different buyer specs for warmth pumps and industrial air-con, based mostly on ST’s SLLIMM Clever Energy Modules, and Energy Administration and Analog ICs

Automated Meeting Line System: This groundbreaking automated meeting line system is the primary of its variety at ST and represents the biggest demonstration on the Industrial Summit 2024. An unprecedented factory-automation system underscores ST’s complete ecosystem of companions and in depth system-level experience in embedded programs. This demo encompasses a complicated automation system that integrates 3 robotic arms, which talk exactly with an AGV (Automated Guided Car) to switch objects working on an MTS (Maglev Observe System) pushed by 7 ST twin motor servo drive options. All these elements are managed by an ST Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), navigating by way of a wide range of requirements comparable to Codesys, EtherCAT, Profinet, Sub-1G, IO-Hyperlink, and extra. This demo is additional enhanced in collaboration with Siemens automation options, enabling seamless integration just like the PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) and HMI, which displays accuracy, reliability and precision.

This spectacular system demonstrates all main ST applied sciences for automation programs, together with STM32 MCUs for HMI (Human Machine Interface), STM32MP1/2 Microprocessor Items (MPUs) for PLC processing, and all kinds of analog merchandise like IPS (clever energy switches) for management. The system additionally covers totally different connectivity applied sciences for each wired (comparable to IO-link) and wi-fi, the place the ST ultra-low energy MCUs can convey added worth in battery life.

Lastly, ST applied sciences embrace Industrial sensors (comparable to ToF proximity sensors, MEMS and IR sensors, IMUs, accelerometers, vibrometers, strain sensors), ST25R for RFID learn/write and Industrial actuators for the robotic arms, and the large 14 PMSM linear motors are effectively coated by ST gate drivers and movement management ICs, vast LV and HV MOSFETS, IPS, Energy administration IC, and all this requires good safety gadgets for each enter (CLTxx) and output (SMAJxx). In complete, greater than 500 ST gadgets are utilized throughout varied HMIs, PLC controllers, drivers, RFID readers, gateways, connectivity gadgets, sensors, servo motors, and different elements.

Options from Ecosystem Companions: To sort out the varied challenges of the extremely fragmented industrial market, ST is collaborating with expertise leaders, key industrial clients, and ecosystem companions to speed up progress and meet native market wants. Past the main highlights above, extra demos showcasing collaborations between ST and its ecosystem companions will likely be featured, together with the Carbon Administration options from ST’s buyer Sungrow iCarbon, the Photo voltaic-Storage-Charging Integration Digital Vitality Administration answer from ST’s distributor WT Microelectronics, and a number of improvements from Joint Labs between ST and a few main Chinese language universities.