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Future Tech Day: Montreal, QC, Canada

Driving Innovation for Tomorrow

June 15th, 2023

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Event Overview

This event allows you to get a deep dive into the latest technologies and innovations of tomorrow. See what’s to come, new product introductions, and all sorts of market updates to keep you up to speed.

  • In-depth tech presentation from 4 key suppliers  
  • Choose to expand your knowledge from 4 key suppliers of YOUR choice! 
  • Supplier Fair; opportunity to meet with 16 focus suppliers specific to the Montreal market
  • Learn from industry-leading sales, marketing and engineering experts 

Training Certificate

Your hours spent at this event will count towards your OIQ training hours. Please reach out to the event specialists on site for more details!

*Up to 6 hours of certification.

Course Descriptions

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Dive into the latest trends in smart home technology for connectivity and sensors with Infineon. Take part on an IoT discussion covering Infineon’s newest offerings in new matter protocol, WiFi 6, and Bluetooth. In addition, you’ll go into how the brand’s microcontrollers can help enable and make the most of these technologies.  

We will also go over: 

  • Best security measures against hackers, cloners and over the air updates 
  • Incorporate sensor technologies such as 
  • Radar for presence detection 
  • Cap Sense for touchscreen 
  • Microphones 
  • Gas sensors like Co2  
  • Pressure sensors for Glass Break Applications 

Course title updated from: Latest in connectors, sensors, and antennas 

Get in-depth insights, introductions and reviews from some of TE’s newest connectors, sensor and antenna offerings suitable for many markets.  With TE Connectivity’s broad offering, there is a connectivity solution for every customer and application. 

We will go over: 

  • Connector solutions: TE Connectivity is the world leader in connector solutions.  TE will review some of their newest products offering robust solutions for improving connectivity in critical technology systems  
  • Antenna Offering: TE Connectivity’s broad portfolio of antennas includes products designed for cellular, broadcast, navigation, RFID, IoT, DAS, mmWave, and more.  
  • Sensor Product: Our technologies enable measurement capabilities such as pressure, temperature, position, vibration, photonics, force, and humidity.  TE Connectivity offers an unmatched portfolio of intelligent and efficient sensor types covering many applications, from patient monitoring and treatment to industrial automation applications. 

Stay tuned for more details on Panasonic wireless connectivity, motion sensing, and energy management switching information session. 

On this session, we’ll go into the world’s most advanced and highest volume GaN devices in production. Company experts will showcase the Power Integrations’ PowiGaN products and explain how GaN switches will dominate high voltage power conversion. There are 11 families that incorporate PowiGaN switches. These include the InnoSwitch3 and InnoSwitch4 flyback switchers, LYTSwitch-6 LED driver, HiperPFS-5 power factor correction controller IC with integrated switch, and MinE-CAP bulk capacitor miniaturization IC families – with more families coming soon. 

This session aims to bring the audience to a new level of understanding about possibilities revealed by PowiGaN switches – from the latest target applications to device operation, evaluation and design advantages.  

Take away the confidence to design with reliable and robust GaN for your application, backed with the tools and support needed to make your winning solution a success. 

Join Microchip experts as we go over how MCUs, MPUs, and FPGAs work in conjunction to offer a continuum of performance needed at the Intelligent Edge. The edge requires power efficiency, pervasive security and exceptional reliability to offload expensive cloud accesses. Microchip offers what other FPGA suppliers can’t. 

In addition, we’ll go over the use of C to H tools (SmartHLS) in conjunction with AI/ML tools (VectorBlox). 

Join Renesas experts as we go deep into Edge AI and TinyML software that combines advanced signal processing machine learning and anomaly detection on every Renesas MCU/MPU  

In this training event we will cover:  

  • What is Reality AI  
  • How end point intelligence can be easily implemented in your product offerings  
  • Solutions developed for the industrial maker  
  • HVAC  
  • Motor Control 

Explore ST’s MCU and connectivity solutions while we go over the knots and bolts of how to keep your IoT device secure. 

Nexperia is moving forward with new technologies and products to help our customers design high efficiency power circuits in a wide range of applications. In this session, we will cover:  

  • Energy Harvesting and Battery Life Optimization for IOT applications 
    • Energy harvesting technology for rechargeable battery applications 
    • Battery life optimization for coin-cell powered devices 
  • Power MOSFET Application Tips for 40 – 100V Systems
    • Application Specific for DC-DC conversion, inductive load switching, battery isolation, and hot-swap  
    • Thermal efficiency with enhanced packaging technology 
    • The “Universal” PowerSO8 footprint to enable multi-source compatibility 
  • WBG and High Power Solutions: choosing the right technology for your design 
    • SiC Diodes: benefits and target applications 
    • E-Mode and D-Mode / Cascode GAN devices: What’s the difference? 
    • IGBT, SiC, and GAN: what’s the best fit for your application 

Dive into American Zettler’s company overview and product portfolio overview with a focus on relays, magnetics, and displays.  

onsemi has been supplying the automotive industry with inductive position sensor ASICs for the past 25 years, recently shipping its 1 billionth sensor. Applications include Automotive “drive-by-wire” systems, such as accelerator pedal sensing, steering and torque sensing, as well as actuators for pressure boost and turbos. Now onsemi is unleashing this technology to the Mass Market, both Industrial and Automotive.  

This class will discuss the benefits of inductive position encoding vs. optical and magnetic. We will dive into a technical discussion of “how Inductive position works”, as well as reviewing both automotive and industrial applications and markets. We will specifically review the NCS32100 Industrial Inductive Position Sensor and highlight its “Dual Sensor” technology exhibiting world class Position Accuracy of + 50 Arcsecs or 13.8 milli-degrees. We will also review the NCV77320 Inductive Position Sensor for the Automotive Market rated for an operating temperature range of -40C to 150C.  

This event also includes a live product demonstration of onsemi’s Inductive Positioning technology.   

Join MPS experts as we go over the broadest power and analog portfolio in the market with solutions focused on reducing power consumptions, increasing efficiency and everything in between.  

We will go over:  

  • Low IQ power management, integrated devices and BMS solutions for Portable/IOT markets 
  • Nano Power Buck converters 
  • Linear and Switching Chargers 
  • Low IQ smallest-in-market power modules 
  • Diverse solutions for midrange industrial/consumer including thermostat, Cameras, Small drones and robots etc 
  • Multi-topology converters 
  • Multi-cell count BMS 
  • USB power solutions 
  • Integrated motor drivers and position sensors 
  • Power solutions for larger Industrial (including UPS / Inverters) and Robotics 
  • Wide Vin Buck converters 
  • Isolated Gate drivers, Digital Isolators and Current sensors 
  • Motor and Gate Drivers 
  • Multi-Cell BMS and Front Ends 

Get expert insight with Vishay experts as we dive into the best and latest passive products to assist in your power designs. 

In this class, we will cover: 

  • Inductors and Magnetics 
  • Standard product / Semicustom and Custom Solutions 
  • Planar Transformers 
  • Current Sensing 
  • Power Metal Strip capable of handling milliamps to hundreds of Amps 
  • Super Low TCR 
  • Resistors 
  • High Power, High Voltage, Pulse proof, RF, load Dump 
  • NTC, PTC  
  • Capacitors  
  • Film, Tantalum, Ceramic (Both Multilayer and Disc), Electrolytic 

Explore Diodes’ latest Power Management, Power Discrete, and USB-C solutions. Diodes portfolio expanded offer of dicrete, analog, mixed signal and logic products is ideal to lead the edge of the next generation in design.  

We will go over:  

  • Power Management: Examine the latest products from Diodes’ innovative, power efficient and cost-effective line of Synchronous DC-DC Converters and Ultra-low quiescent current LDOs. In addition, we will explore the Power Management Tree providing customer solutions with superior performance in small packages to allow energy-efficient power system designs.   
  • Power Discrete: Explore the Diodes MOSFET product portfolio with a focus on power FETs supporting industrial and automotive applications, High Side IntelliFETs, package innovations and roadmaps.   
  • USB C Solutions: Focus on high-speed interface concentrating on USB type C, signal integrity, as well as power delivery.  That will encompass USB 2 up to USB type C.  

Explore what NXP has to offer to make the next design of your edge device smarter, more secure and connected with its widest range of edge processing product portfolio.  

In this session, NXP will cover: 

  • Next generation general purpose MCU platform with machine learning acceleration 
  • GHz performance MCU – i.MX RT 
  • Leading edge MPU with the upcoming i.MX9 series 
  • System solutions with NXP MCUs and MPUs 

Stay tuned for more details on Pulse Electronics Power Magnetics, Ranging from mW to Several kW information session. 

Agenda

Time Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4
7:30 to 8:15

Welcome breakfast

8:15 to 8:30

Welcome address

8:30 to 10:00
American Zettler – Relays, magnetics, and displays
Vishay – Passive Components for Power Management
MPS – Power and Analog for the applications of tomorrow
Renesas – Reality AI for Real Time Analytics on Renesas MCUs/MPU
10:00 to 10:30

Supplier Fair

10:30 to 12:00
Pulse Electronics – Power Magnetics, Ranging from mW to Several kW
onsemi – Inductive Position Sensors for Industrial and Automotive Applications
NXP – System Solutions for Rapid Change in the Connected World
Hirose – Smaller, Faster, Reliable, Rugged and more Powerful Connector Technology
12:00 to 1:00

Lunch & Supplier Fair

1:00 to 2:30
Nexperia – Power Management: from Milliwatts to Kilowatts
STMicroelectronics – Securing your connectivity with STMicroelectronics.
Power Integrations – High-Efficiency AC-DC GaN Solutions
Panasonic – Enabling the Future of Wireless Connectivity, Motion Sensing, and Energy Management Switching
2:30 to 3:00

Supplier Fair

3:00 to 4:30
Microchip – FPGAs as Edge Compute Platforms
(Updated) TE Connectivity – Latest in EV High Power, High Voltage Sealed Connectors, High Speed Data Connectivity, SPE and Coax
Diodes Incorporated – Power Management is Everywhere
Infineon – Smart Home Technology: Connectivity, sensors, and security
4:30

Closing remarks and prize ceremony

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