How do high-performance analog technology and semiconductors empower new infrastructure?
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"New infrastructure" has become a hot word in China's economy in 2020. As a representative of emerging technologies and advanced productivity, new infrastructure is cultivating new momentum through informatization, using new momentum to promote new development, and forming a large-scale digital economy industry. The prospects are self-evident, so it has triggered a huge number of troops and heroes to compete. As a global high-performance analog technology provider and leading semiconductor manufacturer supporting the underlying technology of new infrastructure, ADI has deeply participated in and realized the innovative changes actively promoted by many first-line industry partners under the wave of new infrastructure and the unlimited business opportunities created by it!
▼ADI's top ten solutions for new infrastructure▼
As Cai Zhenyu, Industrial Market Director of ADI China, pointed out, "Whether it is the digital economy or the new infrastructure, ADI plays an active role in promoting and leading innovation. At present, we are increasing our support for partners in thousands of industries related to the new infrastructure. With our leading high-performance signal chain technology, we focus on building the core driving force for industry change and work with our partners to achieve innovation and change beyond all possibilities in the wave of new infrastructure."
Under the policy support of new infrastructure, emerging industries have been born and sprung up, and the digital economy characterized by digitization, networking and intelligence has been surging, bringing all-round breakthroughs to traditional industries from business structure to organizational form, from development concept to business model. New infrastructure investment will not only form a large-scale digital economy industry itself, but will also collide with traditional industries to produce immeasurable superposition effects and multiplier effects.
Under this circumstance, the demand of industry partners for analog technology that can connect the digital and real worlds has increased unprecedentedly. ADI is able to provide analog semiconductor technology as the digital entrance to traditional industries for many market segments, allowing partners to concentrate on riding the wave of digital economy without being troubled by the difficulties of underlying technologies. In addition, ADI's in-depth understanding of various application industry fields and insight into the integration of digital technologies also enable ADI to take the lead in providing a more complete one-stop solution and find the best place to use it in the industry interaction of new infrastructure. From ADI's key layout, we can also sort out some "new infrastructure" opportunities that truly reflect the actual situation of the industry.
Not only China, but the whole world is currently vigorously developing new energy and clean energy. The process of energy generation, storage, transmission, and utilization is also changing, driving the development of new intelligent power transmission and distribution and energy storage technologies. Smart grid itself is the integrated infrastructure in the "new infrastructure", providing "safe, reliable, green, and efficient" energy and power guarantee for the "new infrastructure". A large number of innovative technologies are changing this industry, such as grid-side energy storage, smart grid monitoring, smart metering, deployment of car charging piles, and so on.
The emerging energy Internet of Things is injecting "new momentum" into traditional power grids and helping them upgrade to smart grids. In the field of ultra-high voltage transmission, it is urgent to solve the problem of safe and stable transmission of energy from power generation to power consumption. In this regard, Cai Zhenyu gave an example that ADI can work with customers to monitor the swing of power lines under strong winds, the inclination of power towers on hillsides, and the temperature of substations through solutions such as MEMS IMU and integrated temperature measurement products, so as to achieve real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance of smart grid systems from all aspects, and comprehensively promote the construction of new infrastructure energy innovation models and ecological industries.
Lower cost and cleaner energy are changing our lives, and increasingly popular electric vehicles are the first to be affected. As the infrastructure for electric vehicle consumption and development, charging piles are another major focus of new infrastructure deployment. It is not just about building charging hardware equipment, but more importantly, it is about building and operating a huge charging data network to achieve efficient transmission of energy from the power grid to the car. ADI is working with leading companies to create efficient high-power DC charging pile solutions to improve the economic and social benefits of large-scale deployment.
New infrastructure solves the shortage of charging infrastructure. At the same time, stimulated by environmental protection needs and favorable policies, new energy vehicles will usher in a wave of popularization in 2020. Based on its long-term experience in automotive electrification, ADI provides solutions with lower emissions, higher efficiency, higher reliability and safety, allowing battery management, powertrain and infotainment systems to maintain high performance while becoming smaller, lighter and more reliable, promoting the early implementation of more environmentally friendly and efficient future cars.
Lithium-ion batteries are a common energy storage method for electric and hybrid vehicles. ADI provides more accurate and safer lithium battery monitoring solutions, which not only improve the reliability and safety of the system, but also provide longer driving range for vehicles. The innovative wireless BMS system establishes monitoring and tracking of the entire life cycle of batteries from production and manufacturing to warehousing and transportation, to in-vehicle battery repair and maintenance, and finally to recycling. The collected data is integrated with artificial intelligence algorithms to extend the life cycle of batteries and the entire electric vehicle, increase the residual value of electric vehicles, and ensure that electric vehicles are more attractive in the used car market, thereby empowering the electric vehicle industry.
Industrial Internet is the foundation for the development of intelligent manufacturing and can provide common infrastructure and capabilities. China has made Industrial Internet an important infrastructure of new infrastructure to provide support for industrial intelligence. It is undeniable that taking the express train of the information age of new infrastructure will undoubtedly make the main players in the industrial control system market more powerful and give birth to new economic momentum in the industrial automation market.
Unlike the daily "network", the industrial Internet is very sensitive to delays, requires compatibility with multiple protocols, harsh interference environments, and >99.999% data reliability in order to accelerate the manufacturing industry from the information age to the intelligent age. Therefore, the monitoring of the operating status of equipment on each industrial production line is very important for achieving industrial safety predictive diagnosis, flexible system configuration to achieve flexible production, etc., and ADI is almost present in all these links. "After long-term work in the field of industrial automation, ADI's technology has been widely recognized and used in the industry - from front-end detection including various sensors and signal conditioning circuits of terminal equipment, to subsequent measurement, data analysis, and microprocessor, DSP-based edge computing and industrial Ethernet connections, covering the complete signal chain, will accelerate the upgrade of China's industrial Internet under the new infrastructure." Cai Zhenyu pointed out.
As a major change point in the field of mobile communications, 5G is the leading field of the current new infrastructure. Whether from the perspective of the scale of the industry to be undertaken in the future or the technical role it plays in emerging industries, 5G is the most anticipated. In fact, major emerging industries, such as industrial Internet, Internet of Vehicles, enterprise cloud computing, artificial intelligence, telemedicine, etc., all need 5G as an industrial support. It will provide a platform for connecting a large number of sensors, edge devices and actuators for the terminal use industry.
5G infrastructure products and solutions facilitate the smooth flow of data, including data transmission and reception on 5G networks. In order to achieve the consensus goals of 5G high transmission rate, low latency, high network capacity density, etc., and install ten to a hundred times the number of channels in the same form factor and power consumption as traditional base stations, ADI has proposed a new radio architecture, software-defined transceiver, which can reduce the size of each channel in the radio by 10 times, reduce power consumption by half, and be used as a higher performance unit required to work in 5G systems.
In addition, the evolving 5G standards, increasingly complex technologies, and wider spectrum ranges pose challenges to test and measurement. ADI has been engaged in network infrastructure for a long time, accumulating a large number of core technologies from the most basic unit devices to high-performance components, and building a wide range of end-to-end solutions, which can help meet the challenges of 5G test and measurement, help local test and measurement companies develop cost-effective 5G test and measurement systems, and promote the acceleration of key 5G applications under the new infrastructure.
Smart transportation effectively integrates advanced cloud computing, data communication transmission technology, and artificial intelligence algorithms into the entire transportation management system, thereby establishing a real-time, intelligent, and efficient integrated transportation and management system that functions in a wide range and in all directions. As an important part of smart city construction, under the trend of new infrastructure construction, various regions have successively formulated and issued specific policies to gradually improve the public parking facility system, accelerate the pace of filling the gaps in urban public parking facilities, and unify cutting-edge new sciences such as smart cities, the Internet of Things, vehicle terminal systems, and electronic toll collection systems.
Cai Zhenyu listed a set of data: In 2019, more than 200 million cars have been equipped with ETC on-board units, which has opened up more application scenarios for smart transportation and created new imagination space for smart city business models. It can also move from highway toll collection to parking fees at large transportation stations, refueling services, vehicle finance and other fields. It is expected to break through the traditional parking construction and operation models, optimize the innovation ecological environment, and create a C-V2X cross-border collaborative innovation system throughout the entire smart parking industry chain.
The simple ETC system is supported by powerful roadside units (RSUs) that need to connect to dozens of signal control systems. At present, ADI's RF front-end system and single-chip transceiver solutions can effectively complete the front-end system design and implementation of ETC two-way communication, and use information technology to open up a digital closed loop of people, vehicles, roads, and networks, helping the government to achieve efficient traffic information management and promote the intelligentization of road infrastructure.
Today's technology requires large-scale data computing, storage, and networking. The accelerated development of artificial intelligence and machine learning is driving high-performance computing to new levels of performance. The increasing content flow and cloud-based services are supporting the rapid growth of hyperscale data centers. Therefore, from national government affairs to major industries, building data centers will help promote industry transformation and enable enterprises to move to the cloud, and is the Noah's Ark in the era of massive information. Perhaps you have begun to look forward to a bright future of smart life driven by efficient data centers, but data centers are considered to be one of the buildings with the most serious energy consumption. Reducing the energy consumption of data centers is crucial to reducing their environmental impact.
How to improve the energy efficiency of data centers to optimize thermal design, reduce the size and cost of power supply systems, and provide stable and reliable power supply capabilities is a major pain point in the construction of new infrastructure data centers. The difficulty of designing a high-stability power supply system with a core low voltage as low as 0.6V-0.8V and an ultra-high current of 50A-800A for various processors (ASIC, CPU, FPGA) in a small space requires top-level power supply with high reliability and high-efficiency DC-DC power conversion solutions. ADI's modular and low-noise power supply technology is the main force behind the stable power supply of these systems, which can help improve the efficiency, density and reliability of data centers. In addition, ADI's board-level power system management PSM can dynamically adjust and record the power supply of the core chips in the data center, greatly optimizing energy efficiency while maintaining reliability.
随着数据流量和物联网应用的增长,对商用卫星通信系统的需求已日趋明显,对高带宽数据访问需求也增长显著,覆盖全球的卫星互联网将成为下一个建设重点。放眼全球,Space X已在商用低轨卫星上取得阶段性成功,实现了火箭的回收重复利用,大幅度降低了发射成本;作为航天强国,今年4月发改委也明确将“卫星互联网”纳入新基建中信息基础设施建设范畴中,商用卫星部署同样有望在今年迈入快车道。
“Unlike general aerospace-grade satellites, commercial low-Earth orbit satellites are more cost-effective. They should be relatively small and easier to manufacture, which will help improve the deployment economy for partners and potential operators. At the same time, low-cost commercial satellites open the market to new participants and innovators, and the small-size, low-cost, and highly reliable integrated circuits behind them also play an important role.” Cai Zhenyu emphasized the underlying logic behind the success of the commercial satellite industry.
ADI is playing a key enabler role in all these with its high-performance signal chain products that are at the top of the global aerospace market. In addition, ADI's high-frequency transceiver platform technology can achieve a higher selectivity in the satellite communication frequency band. By leveraging its small size and low power consumption, the overall size of the transceiver can be reduced by an order of magnitude, providing a large number of solution examples for solving the next generation of satellite communication problems.
Since its establishment in 1965, ADI has experienced wave after wave of technological development. It is not only a witness to the evolution of global science and technology, but also one of the many navigators who set sail in these waves to find the "new world" of science and technology. In this wave of new infrastructure construction, ADI, as a leader in analog and mixed-signal technology, will use its professional technology to transform complex physical signals in the real world into accurate, secure, and real-time data, analysis, and insights, and realize "intelligence" based on relevant analysis and executable insights, and promote the intelligent upgrade of new infrastructure in various segments.