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• September 1935: Class A4 locomotive enters service

  25-09-2018 17:52
  
  The dry tone of The Engineer’s coverage of the 1935 launch of a new high-speed train service from London Kings Cross to Newcastle belies the significance of what now marks a major moment in the history of UK rail technology.
  Silver Link – the first of the Class A4 locomotivesWhilst the majority of the article (based on details supplied by the London and North Eastern Railway Company (LNER) – focusses on the Silver Jubilee train) launched to commemorate the twenty-five-year reig
  
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• 60V dual boost converter self-cascades to over 200V

  25-09-2018 17:22 via electronicsweekly.com
  Analog Devices has announced a two-phase boost controller whose phases can be arranged in multiple topologies, including one in which the output of the first channel can feed the input of second channel allowing output voltage to exceed several hundred volts. Called LTC7840, each output works with its own external mosfet. There is no option for a ...
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• Imagination and GF combine for BLE and Zigbee on 22nm FD-SOI

  25-09-2018 15:38 via electronicsweekly.com
  Imagination and GloFo are to collaborate on baseband and RF solutions for BLE and Zigbee. The combination uses Imagination’s Ensigma connectivity IP on GF’s 22nm FD-SOI process. Imagination has joined GF’s FDXcelerator Partner Program. Ensigma on 22FDX provides a complete IP solution comprising analogue RF/AFE as a hard macro complete with a fully synthesizable baseband ...
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• Renesas and Alibaba link up for IoT

  25-09-2018 13:53 via electronicsweekly.com
  Renesas has  announced an alliance with Alibaba’s IoT developers to accelerate the growth of China’s IoT market. The collaboration includes embedding AliOS Things IoT operating system (OS) in the Renesas RX65N/RX651 microcontroller (MCU) lineup, expanding online sales channels, and Renesas joining Alibaba’s IoT ecosystem. Following the recent launch of the 16-bit RL78 MCU Family supporting ...
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• This week’s poll: New Prosperity Partnerships aim to boost industry-focused UK research

  25-09-2018 12:58
  
  This week’s poll focuses on the announcement of seven multi-million pound Prosperity Partnerships that establish research collaborations between industry and universities.
  Perovskite specialist SME Oxford PV is leading one of the prosperity partnerships
  Take Our PollThe EPSRC has announced a second round of Prosperity Partnerships: five-year projects to investigate topics of national and global importance co-funded by government and industry, with the research areas identified by business
  
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• Health on the Wrist

  25-09-2018 12:54 via electronicsweekly.com
  Continuous monitoring of health parameters by wrist-based devices is enabled by Maxim’s Health Sensor Platform 2.0. This  rapid prototyping, evaluation and development platform, delivers ECG, heart rate and body temperature to a wrist-worn wearable. Data can be stored on the platform for patient evaluation or streamed to a PC for analysis later. The data measurements ...
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• Australian nanofilter promises rapid access to clean water

  25-09-2018 11:55
  
  A nanofilter designed by a team in Australia is claimed to clean dirty water over 100 times faster than current technology.
  A liquid metal droplet with flakes of aluminium oxide compounds grown on its surface. Each 0.03mm flake is made up of about 20,000 nanosheets stacked together (credit: RMIT University)The technology from RMIT University and University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers is said to harness naturally occurring nanostructures that grow on liquid metals.
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• Toshiba sampling 4-channel PA for auto audio

  25-09-2018 11:51 via electronicsweekly.com
  Toshiba is sampling a 4-channel power amplifier for automotive audio applications that claims to be highly resistant to the power surges typically found within vehicle electronics. The chip delivers 50W of output power per channel into a 4Ω load. The device includes built-in mute and standby functions as well as protection functions such as offset detection ...
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• Last week’s poll: Is government taking industry Brexit warnings seriously enough?

  25-09-2018 11:20
  
  70 per cent of respondents to the The Engineer’s latest poll believe that government isn’t taking industry’s Brexit warnings seriously enough. Talks in Salzburg have left the UK and the EU at an impasse that currently points Britain toward a no-deal withdrawal from Europe.
  PM Theresa May doesn’t necessarily want this, and neither do senior figures in industry who have expressed concerns about losing tariff-free access and frictionless trade with Europe.
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• 3D becomes dominant NAND type

  25-09-2018 11:00 via electronicsweekly.com
  3D NAND has become the dominant flash type, reports Digitimes. Micron’s 3D output is 90% of its total NAND output. Samsung’s  3D NAND manufacturing is 85% of its total NAND chip output. Toshiba’s 3D NAND output is 75% of its NAND output. Hynix’ 3D NAND output is 60% of its total NAND output. The price ...
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• Spinal cord stimulation helps paralysed patients stand and walk again

  25-09-2018 10:41
  
  Research groups in the US have demonstrated how implanted spinal cord stimulation technology could help patients recover from catastrophic spinal injuries.
  In one such development, a team from the Minnesota-based medical research centre the Mayo Clinic and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has used an implanted spinal cord stimulator to help a man paralysed from the chest down since 2013 regain his ability to stand and walk with assistance.The 29 year old patient, Jered Chinnock,
  
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• NXP adds to LDMOS RF power transistors

  25-09-2018 10:00 via electronicsweekly.com
  NXP has introduced new RF power transistors designed for smart industrial applications, featuring 65 V laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor(LDMOS) silicon technology. With more power density, a lower current level and wider safety margins than previous RF power solutions, 65 V LDMOS enables more integrated and reliable Industry 4.0 systems. The MRFX series of 65 ...
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• FlexLogix eFPGA in design for GF 14nm

  25-09-2018 07:27 via electronicsweekly.com
  FlexLogix says its EFLX4K Logic and DSP eFPGA IP cores are now in design for the 14nm process at GloFo’s New York fab. Boeing is the first company to license the EFLX4K eFPGA 14nm cores. eFPGA can also be ported to any fab so manufacturing can be in a location preferable to the customer. An eFPGA ...
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• Pickering Interfaces adds microwave multiplexers

  25-09-2018 06:33 via electronicsweekly.com
  Pickering Interfaces of Clacton-on-Sea has launched new four and six channel LXI 50Ω microwave multiplexers in 1U and 2U rack-mount form factors. The 60-801/60-802 high-performance microwave switches feature excellent RF characteristics and repeatability to within 0.01dB. A choice of up to 16 multiplexer banks with any combination of 6GHz, 18GHz, 26.5GHz and 40GHz bandwidths can be ...
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• Research Council announces Prosperity Partnerships

  25-09-2018 02:37 via electronicsweekly.com
  Seven new Prosperity Partnerships projects that will build links between the UK’s research base and leading industry partners such as AkzoNobel , AstraZeneca, Oxford PV, Google, Rolls-Royce, Tata Steel, and Weir Group will be unveiled today by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). This EPSRC £20.4 million investment has leveraged in £16.8 million ...
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