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• David Parker, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration

  15-06-2016 17:58
  
  Man on a mission: David Parker talks to Andrew Wade about his deep space ambitions
  David ParkerDirector of human spaceflight and robotic exploration, ESAEducation
  1984 BSc Hons in aeronautics and astronauticsat Southampton University
  1989 PhD in wind tunnel magnetic suspension technology at Southampton University
  Career
  1990 Joined British Aerospace Space Systems as a guidance, navigation and control engineer
  1991 Promoted to head of liquid propulsion systems
  1995 Appointed head of guidance navi
  
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• Xilinx adds dual-core to Zynq

  15-06-2016 16:36 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Xilinx has added streamlined dual-core members to the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family of devices. The new dual-core “CG” family members expand the Zynq MPSoC portfolio scalability, to include dual application and real-time processor combinations. The CG devices will be supported on the Vivado Design Suite, version 2016.3 in Q4 2016. Customers can start designing today ...
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• TIny fanless industrial PC has 4k video

  15-06-2016 16:15 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  CL100 is a mini industrial computer from US-based Logic Supply that can drive a  4k display. Based on Intel’s NUC motherboard size, it has Braswell processor. The all-metal enclosure is around 50mm tall, and is vent-less, keeping dust out of its interior, which increases reliability. “The CL100 is the product of years spent working with embedded ...
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• Nissan developing bio-ethanol fuel-cell system

  15-06-2016 12:51
  
  In a claimed first for the automotive sector, engineers at Nissan in Japan are developing developing a Solid Oxide Fuel-Cell (SOFC)-powered system that runs on bio-ethanol electric power.The new system features an e-Bio Fuel-Cell with an SOFC power generator. SOFC is a fuel cell utilising the reaction of multiple fuels, including ethanol and natural gas, with oxygen to produce electricity with high efficiency.
  The e-Bio Fuel Cell generates electricity through the SOFC (power generator) using bio
  
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• The necessity of invention

  15-06-2016 12:21
  
  Stuart NathanFeatures editorEngineering saves lives and makes them better, and the varied and inspired inventors of crucial technologies are the best advertisement for the profession
  It’s been one of those occasional periods where event has crowded on event. It must be the weather or something. I seem to have spent an inordinate amount of time in airports recently and have become distressingly familiar with the EasyJet inflight menu (my recommendation is: don’t).
  Last week took me t
  
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• Europe to expand hydrogen vehicle project

  15-06-2016 11:54
  
  The number of hydrogen-powered vehicles across Europe is set to increase dramatically with the expansion of the H2ME (Hydrogen Mobility Europe) project, first unveiled in September 2015.
  (Credit: ITM Power)Announced this week, H2ME 2 will involve the deployment and operation of 1,230 fuel cell vehicles, as well as the addition of 20 extra hydrogen-refuelling stations (HRS) across the continent. The €100m project will bring together 37 partners from across Europe, and is backed by the Fuel C
  
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• Updated: Micro-sequencing crams 8051 into tiny FPGA space

  15-06-2016 11:50 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Californian start-up MicroCore Labs has announced an 8051 soft processor core, four of which will fit into 1227 LUTs on a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA. The core is called MCL51. “Because it is based on a microsequencer, this four-core demonstration is even smaller than a single soft-core gate-based 8051,” the company founder, known simply as Edward, told Electronics ...
  Updated: Micro-sequencing crams 8051 into tiny FPGA space
  
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• Egil about to land

  15-06-2016 11:14 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Egil, ARM’s next Mali video processor due later in the year, has been designed to optimise performance between the various IP blocks through use of bandwidth saving technologies such as ARM Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC), writes ARM’s Roger Barker. AFBC can be implemented across the entire range of multimedia IP within an SoC and, depending ...
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• Power analyser – Make sure you don’t blow it

  15-06-2016 11:08 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Sam Foster describes the best way to use a power analyser to characterise inrush currents and properly size fuses. In the development of different technologies, many engineers encounter and have to deal with inrush currents to their devices. 

The reality of inrush current and the meaning of an I2t measurement will be discussed. Also, an ...
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• NXP gets regulatory approval for RF Power sale

  15-06-2016 10:00 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  NXP has had its sale of its RF Power unit to Jianguang Asset Manangement (JAC Capital) from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The divesture of the RF Power business was a condition for NXP’s merger with Freescale Semiconductor. Earlier this week NXP and JAC Capital announced they had agreed the ...
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