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STMicroelectronics offers a large range of products for the industrial segment like 8 to 32-bit microcontrollers, many types of memories, ASICs and application-specific products, logic ICs, analog circuits, mixed analog & digital circuits, intelligent & standard power semiconductors, sensors and many others.
ST has a strong history in the industrial segment and is committed to long product life cycles and high-end technology development. A W.W. network of competence centers is deployed to support Designers in selecting and implementing the right solutions for their applications.


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Factory Automation
STMicroelectronics provides an extensive portfolio of technologies and devices in use in factory automation systems. Complete system solutions are supported by development tools, evaluation boards and dedicated Competence Centers all around the world.

HVAC
A critical consideration in any HVAC application is the efficiency of the motor and its control. By incorporating STMicroelectronic's digital-based controllers and state of the art Power switches, the motor drive delivers optimal torque-versus-speed operation at an improved power factor. Optimised variable-speed solutions are proposed to deliver an optimized duty-cycle operation, thus reducing the cost per work done.

Home Appliance Control
Modern Appliances use an increased amount of semiconductors required for a variety of features ranging from energy efficient motors to interactive user interface. STMicroelectronics has developed a panel of ICs that address the appliance control market for all of today’s major and small appliances. By combining our high efficiency solutions with our large product portfolio, designers can implement any of their new ideas.

Home Automation
Home automation and security applications take benefits from our wide portfolio of advanced discrete technologies which are essential elements leading to the reliability, functionality and safety that are required today.

Lighting - Dimmer
The modern lighting systems allow controlling brightness smoothly to obtain more comfortable and pleasant room lighting. As a leading provider of complete lighting solutions, STMicroelectronics offers a large portfolio for wall dimmer.

Lighting - Fluorescent
Fluorescent lamps are the most widespread light source in industrial, commercial and domestic environments as a result of their impressive performance. Available in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, they feature higher luminous efficiency, better color rendering, longer lifetime and reduced energy consumption than conventional light bulbs. High-efficiency, high-frequency electronic ballasts ensure superior fluorescent lighting performances and additional energy saving while eliminating visible flicker and audible noise. Meeting the latest safety, EMI and energy regulations, ST covers the widest range of electronic ballasts, from standard to the most advanced solutions.

Lighting - Halogen
Halogen lighting is a variant of incandescent lighting which offers a warm light in comparison with that generated by fluorescent tubes, as well as greater efficiency over conventional filament bulbs. They can operate at both mains and low voltage. Electronic transformers are typically used for low voltage operations because they come with smaller dimensions, reduced weight and lower energy consumption than conventional transformers.

Lighting - HID
High-intensity discharge (HID) lamps offer better lumen efficiency, color rendering and focusing capability, as well as longer life, compared to low-pressure fluorescent lamps. Their superior performance makes them popular for hotel and restaurant lighting, shops, stadiums, street lighting, industrial and workshop lighting, office and home lighting. Electronic ballasts are preferred to electromagnetic ballasts because of increased lamp life, lower power losses, the absence of the 50 Hz flicker in the light and greater reliability resulting from the end-of-life protection.

Lighting - LED
Light emitting diodes (LEDs), thanks to their numerous advantages, are set to become the new standard source of illumination for the 21st century. As a leading provider of complete lighting solutions, STMicroelectronics offers a large portfolio of compact and efficient LED driver solutions, fully addressing the lighting market and featuring all the functions needed to ensure greater power saving.

Medical
At STMicroelectronics we are concern about the health and well being of all the people. Through innovative semiconductor components we can help Medical monitoring and diagnostic equipment maintain and improve the health of all human beings.

Metering
ST has developed complete solutions for energy meters, featuring multi-tariff billing, reactive energy measurement, power quality monitoring, Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and prepayment modules with smart card readers.

Motor Control
Smooth operation and high-efficiency are behind STMicroelectronics’ design and development of motor control solutions. Addressing universal motors, brushed motors, brushless motors, induction motors, stepper motors and switched reluctance motors, ST provides a complete solution from the power section to the driving stage thanks to its broad product portfolio.

Power Supply & Power Management
Being one of the key developers in the field of power management semiconductors, STMicroelectronics provides turnkey solutions addressing the growing demand for innovation to reach higher efficiency, higher power density and lower standby power. This is achieved thanks to its wide range of power discrete components, analog ICs and digital processors.

Robots - Industrial
Robotics is a branch of engineering that combines electronics, control systems, mechatronics, artificial intelligence, computer science and bio-engineering. A Robot is a device which includes sensors, actuators and a control system. Robots are generally classified by their purpose: a factory robot or an industrial robot performs jobs such as cutting, welding, gluing; a service robot or a mobile robot which adds to its primary tasks also movement within its working environment.

Robots - Mobile
Mobile robots are following a similar trend as to what happened to computer systems as they transitioned from mainframe computers via workstations to PCs. Today, it is possible to build small mobile robots with numerous actuators and sensors by combining the knowledge of computer engineering, information technology, cybernetics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and mechatronics*.
Mobile robots are able to move in structured and unstructured environments, and are classified as land robots, aerial robots or underwater robots.  

*Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems, Springer, ISBN: 978-3540705338.

Terminals
ST's large product portfolio offers a multitude of advanced solutions for your Point of sales (POS) developments, including graphical displays, interactive LCD touchscreens, smart card readers, attached printers and encryption key management.

Track & Trace
ST offers a wide range of RFID tags, and contactless memory products including a contactless chip reader. A full portfolio of contactless memory products is provided to match different target applications such as access control, brand protection/anti-counterfeiting, anti-theft, industrial asset tracking, electronic barcoding, logistics, low value e-purse for mass market, supply chain management, retail and ticketing. A leader in gen. 1 and 2 UHF tags, ST is committed to be at the forefront of this application segment.


 
Technology and Product Highlights
 
Product Technologies

Technology strengths and proven custom chip design capabilities are ST's key factors of success. With ST's world-class ASIC capabilities, the customer is being given the ability to personalize DSP-based super-integrated solutions for their specific applications. (More...)


Transistors

ST produces one of the industry’s broadest ranges of semiconductor products, from discrete diodes and transistors through complex System-on-Chip (SoC) devices. (More...)


Sensors
STMicroelectronics has devoted considerable research and development resources to enable the design and production of high performance, low cost sensors, which allow offering to system designers the real possibility to make their products easier to use, more functional and more reliable. (More...)

Microcontrollers
STMicroelectronics provides a comprehensive portfolio of robust 8-bit microcontrollers and high-performance 32-bit ARM-based microcontrollers with a wide range of peripherals.
Extensive support through a combination of flexible and powerful development tools, training courses, consultancy and web support, facilitate faster time to market. (More...)

Micro-electro-mechanical System
The mechanical system is based on two silicon inter-digitated comb- fingers, where a set of fingers is fixed and a set is suspended and can move in-plan under the action of a suitable force. Vibration, acceleration or rotation are measured by the change of capacitance between these movable and fixed structures. (More...)

EMI Filtering & Signal Conditioning
Integrated Passive and Active Devices created a breakthrough by combining EMI / EMC filtering, ESD protection and multiple other functions in a single tiny chip scale package. (More...)

 
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