Historically, industrial field sensors were and still are in many cases analog. They include a sensing element and some way to get the sensing data to a controller. Data was unidirectional analog.

The use of IO-Link as a communication protocol in industrial plants has seen remarkable expansion over the past several years. The total number of installed IO-Link nodes reached 51.6 million by the ...

Thanks to the rise of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the number and type of sensors deployed on factory floors is growing and in search of a streamlined way to communicate and share data, ...

Designers of industrial-automation applications have many viable choices for sensor-related signal conditioning and network connectivity, each with a variety of attributes. Among these is IO-Link, a ...

As the digital transformation of industry drives advances in plant floor Ethernet technology, some automation professionals are wondering about the effect this could have on existing network ...

An experienced circuit-design EE once clarified his view of the hierarchy of IC-vendor design support: High-performance, feature-rich ICs were good, application circuits were better, but complete ...