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• IBM emerging technology specialist to speak at IoT Design 2016

  24-06-2016 16:59 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  We are very pleased to announce that IBM will be presenting a paper at the IoT Design 2016 event, organised by Electronics Weekly.
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• TDK adds to DC-DC converter series

  24-06-2016 15:39 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  TDK Corporation has added two models to the TDK-Lambda i6A series of step-down, non-isolated DC-DC converters. The i6A4W is capable of supplying currents of up to 20A, and the i6AN allows the creation of negative voltages delivering currents up to 8A. Both can be used in conjunction with the previously announced 14A rated i6A series ...
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• RAEng MacRobert award goes to Blatchford’s smart rosthetic leg

  24-06-2016 15:24
  The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded its top innovation prize, the MacRobert Award, to a team of engineers which has developed the world’s most advanced commercially-available prosthetic lower leg.
  The Linx smart lower-limb prosthetic reduces users’ fatigue and increase their confidence and ability to tackle a variety of terrain and activitiesProf Saeed Zahedi, Nadine Stech, Andy Sykes, David Moser and Rob Painter, who all work for Basingstoke-based clinical rehabilitation eq
  
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• RAEng MacRobert award goes to Blatchford’s smart prosthetic leg

  24-06-2016 15:24
  
  The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded its top innovation prize, the MacRobert Award, to a team of engineers which has developed the world’s most advanced commercially-available prosthetic lower leg.
  The Linx smart lower-limb prosthetic reduces users’ fatigue and increase their confidence and ability to tackle a variety of terrain and activitiesProf Saeed Zahedi, Nadine Stech, Andy Sykes, David Moser and Rob Painter, who all work for Basingstoke-based clinical rehabilitation eq
  
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• Last week’s poll: Are you in or out?

  24-06-2016 13:05
  
  Readers of The Engineer did not reflect the national poll for membership of the EU, narrowly backing remaining within the Union.
  The results of our poll, which had 1,364 respondents, were almost exactly the reverse of the national result, with 53 per cent backing remaining within the EU and 43 per cent backing Brexit. Just 4 per cent of respondent were undecided.
  Uncertainty is still dominating the picture nationally, with Sterling and shares both losing value steeply on the markets and Prime Mi
  
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• Brexit: UK reminded to implement EU Directive on EMF

  24-06-2016 13:00 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  The EU has reminded member states that they are required to implement EU occupational health & safety directive 2013/35/EU on electromagnetic fields in national law no later than 1 July 2016. Despite the Brexit vote, it is expected that this EU Directive will be implemented in the UK. Directive 2013/35/EU defines minimum regulations for the ...
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• Industry calls for stability and safeguards following Brexit vote

  24-06-2016 12:40
  
  As the news of the UK’s vote to leave the European Union sinks in, organisations representing the engineering and manufacturing sectors have been calling for as much stability as possible in the coming months, while research institutions having been trying to quell panicConcerned over the futue for UK trade, they also called for the government to strive to safeguard as many of the trading advantages the UK enjoyed from its EU membership s possible in its negotiations to sever ties with the
  
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• Brexit: electronics supply chain can get through this, says ECSN head

  24-06-2016 11:49 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  The electronics supply chain is strong enough to get through the period of business uncertainty which will follow the UK decision to leave the EU, says Adam Fletcher, chairman, ecsn. The head of the body which represents UK electronic component distributors and suppliers believes the sector should  “keep its heads down” and try to continue ...
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• Brexit: Tech sector must play its part to prepare, says techUK

  24-06-2016 10:23 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Julian David, CEO of techUK, representing the technology and IT sector has said that the UK vote to leave the EU was not the outcome that the majority of techUK members were hoping for. “It opens up many uncertainties about the future. However, the UK tech sector will play its part in helping the UK ...
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• ARM and Marvell develop ARMADA networking board

  24-06-2016 09:27 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  ARM and Marvell have developed the ARMADA 8040 networking community board, targeting OpenDataPlane (ODP), OpenFastPath (OFP) and ARM network functions virtualization (NFV) ecosystem communities. The board is based on a quad-core ARM Cortex-A72 processor and includes full CPU and I/O virtualization, an advanced networking packet processor and rich state-of-the-art connectivity. Collaboration with the software ecosystem ...
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