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• Southampton sub team works with Igus for gearbox gains

  12-12-2018 18:15
  
  A team of young engineers from Southampton University is working with Igus to improve the gearbox of its underwater sub.The Southampton University Human Powered Submarine Society (SUHPS) was founded in 2014 to compete in the International Submarine Races (ISR), created to encourage young people to fill the shortfall in marine engineers. Each team designs and builds a unique flooded submarine from scratch to compete in the races every year. The pilot (a single scuba diver) pedals and steers the s
  
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• Jacarem signs franchise for EDAC connectors

  12-12-2018 18:02 via electronicsweekly.com
  Connector distributor and cable assembly manufacturer, Jacarem, has signed a franchise distribution agreement with interconnect specialist, EDAC. The latter provides card edge, rack and panel, RJ45 and telecomms jacks, USB and FireWire, waterproof connectors and PLCC sockets. MH Connectors, which manufactures connectors, hoods and covers, is also part of the EDAC group. The D-sub hoods ...
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• 600V super-junction mosfets optimised for soft switching

  12-12-2018 17:49 via electronicsweekly.com
  STMicroelectronics’ MDmesh M6 600V super-junction transistors are aimed at medium-power resonant and hard-switching converter topologies. There are 37 part numbers covering 13 to 72A, with threshold voltage optimised for soft switching, suiting the transistors LLC resonant converters and boost-PFC converters. Rds(on) to as low as 36mΩ. For hard-switching topologies, the capacitance profile is claimed to enhance ...
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• Putting the boot into Industry 4.0 education

  12-12-2018 17:35 via electronicsweekly.com
  Students in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at University College Dublin can learn production technologies for Industry 4.0, or the smart factory, with hands-on experience via an automated factory demonstration unit, donated by Maxim Integrated Products. The football factory demo was popular at exhibitions around Europe, where it was used to showcase the ...
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• Gyrfalcon launches AI accelerator with eMRAM.

  12-12-2018 15:00 via electronicsweekly.com
  Gyrfalcon Technology, the 11-month-old Milpitas specialist in AI accelerator ICs, has announced commercial availability of a 22nm ASIC with embedded MRAM called the LightspeeurÒ 2802M. Gyrfalcon claims the chip is the industry’s first AI Accelerator to use MRAM. The chip has a density of  50 F and and a read speed of 45-60ns. It has 40MB of memory, which can support ...
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• What to expect from the budding quantum industries

  12-12-2018 13:40
  
  Dr Rhys Lewis, director of the Quantum Metrology Institute (QMI), outlines the various quantum industries expected to benefit from this new technological frontier.For many, quantum technologies are synonymous with quantum computing. But quantum technologies are much more than this, and many are much closer to becoming commercial products.
  Quantum technologies harness the surprising properties of single atoms, electrons and photons, and how they interact. The behaviour of quantum systems gives r
  
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• Passive solar heat device could be hygiene boon in remote regions

  12-12-2018 13:03
  
  Using solar heat to turn water into superheated steam without optics, MIT discovery hopes to enable sterilisation and provide clean drinking water
  Hygiene is a persistent problem in remote regions of poorer countries. Medical facilities require sterilisation, and clean drinking water is often in short supply. A device developed by MIT engineers has the potential to provide both, using only the sun as a power source.
  The suspended heating device being tested at MIT, where it generated steam at 14
  
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• Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2018 Attendees – The after-party (III)

  12-12-2018 12:45 via electronicsweekly.com
  Check out the last of our Elektra Awards 2018 galleries, featuring the the after-dinner party.
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• Bionic bumblebee backpacks to collect data for IoT smart farms

  12-12-2018 12:45
  
  Researchers at the University of Washington have developed tiny sensor-loaded bumblebee backpacks to collect data as the insects go about their day on farms.
  (Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington)The bionic backpacks weigh just 102 milligrams, with rechargeable batteries making up the bulk and around 30 milligrams left over for sensors and memory storage. Temperature, humidity and light intensity readings can all be made, but onboard data is severely limited to around 30 kilobytes. The ba
  
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• Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2018 Attendees – The awards dinner (II)

  12-12-2018 12:22 via electronicsweekly.com
  Check out our gallery of Elektra Awards guests – can you spot yourself or your colleagues among this year’s party people? More to follow shortly.
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• Compound semiconductor Catapult gets CTO, and likely location

  12-12-2018 12:22 via electronicsweekly.com
  A CTO has been appointed for the fledgling Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult growing in Cardiff. It is Martin McHugh, who most recently headed up business and technology development for Microsemi’s (now part of Microchip) advanced packaging business. “He brings with him a wealth of technology experience having worked in technical and commercial roles with responsibilities covering the ...
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• Compound semiconductor Catapult gets CTO

  12-12-2018 12:22 via electronicsweekly.com
  A CTO has been appointed for the fledgling Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult growing in Cardiff. It is Martin McHugh, who most recently headed up business and technology development for Microsemi’s (now part of Microchip) advanced packaging business. “He brings with him a wealth of technology experience having worked in technical and commercial roles with responsibilities covering the ...
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• Folding drone holds promise for search and rescue applications

  12-12-2018 11:43
  
  An experimental folding drone, able to retract its arms during flight and make itself small enough to fit through narrow gaps and holes, could have great potential for search and rescue operations it is claimed.
  When faced with a narrow passage, the drone can switch to a “H” shape, with all arms lined up along one axis. (Image: UZH)Developed by a team from the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich and the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL (Ecole polytechni
  
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• LED for crop scanning

  12-12-2018 11:31 via electronicsweekly.com
  Osram is aiming at farmers, horticulturists and viticulturists with a broad-band near-infra-red LED for in-field reflection spectroscopy. “One of the most important decisions that farmers and vineyard owners have to make involves getting the timing right for the harvest,” it said. “Simply scanning fruit or cereal crops with the near-infra-red LED installed in a smartphone ...
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• Toshiba adds to dual H-bridge motor driver ICs

  12-12-2018 11:04 via electronicsweekly.com
  Toshiba has added to its line-up of dual H-bridge driver ICs for DC brushed motors and stepping motors. The TC78H653FTG delivers the low voltage (1.8V) and high current (4.0A) essential for motor-based equipment powered by dry-cell batteries such as mobile devices, electronic products for the home and USB drives. The chip suitable for applications including ...
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• Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2019

  12-12-2018 10:09
  
  February 5th to 7th 2019 | Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre | Farnborough, Hants
  Southern Manufacturing & Electronics returns to Hall 1 at Farnborough International, Hampshire from February 5th to 7th 2019. Over 800 exhibitors from around the world will participate, making it the UK’s largest annual engineering show. Entry is free, there’s free on-site parking and a free technical seminar programme running continuously over the three days of the show.
  
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• Power trends according to GaN Systems.

  12-12-2018 09:52 via electronicsweekly.com
  GaN Systems identifies four trends for the power industry in 2019. Electric Vehicles and Autonomous-Driving Vehicles Mobility as a Service (MaaS) will gain more mind share. Change in the social relationship between individuals and vehicles will continue to move from individual ownership to convenient on-demand use. On-demand itself will start to evolve to increasingly include fleets ...
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• 2018 SEMI equipment sales hit record $62bn but set to fall 4% in 2019

  12-12-2018 07:28 via electronicsweekly.com
  Sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment are projected to increase 9.7 percent to $62.1 billion in 2018, says SEMI, exceeding the historic high of $56.6 billion set last year. The equipment market is expected to contract 4.0 percent in 2019 but grow 20.7 percent to reach $71.9 billion in 2020 – an all-time high.   ...
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• Imec makes progress on GAA transistors

  12-12-2018 07:26 via electronicsweekly.com
  Imec reports significant progress in process enabling the introduction of gate-all-around (GAA) transistors with vertically stacked nanowires and nanosheets for the N3 technology node. Results include improved Si GAA devices, better understanding of strain engineering in Ge nanowire pFETs, and a comprehensive understanding of reliability and degradation mechanisms of nanowire FETs. GAA MOSFETs are promising ...
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• Mouser signs MonoDAQ

  12-12-2018 07:25 via electronicsweekly.com
  Mouser has signed the data acquisition products specialist MonoDAQ to a global distribution agreement. The MonoDAQ product line  includes four data acquisition products. The MonoDAQ-U-X data acquisition tool is designed to help engineers with daily measurement tasks, serving as any of several discrete tools, such as a strain gauge amplifier, thermocouple interface, and voltage input, with ...
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