Undergraduate students demonstrate good EMC design techniques

A group of undergraduate students recently proved that good EMC design techniques, as outlined in EMC Standards’ “good EMC PCB design” textbook, prevent project delays, risks and costs. A practical laboratory exercise for undergraduate students was taken from: “Teaching EMC using an EMC demonstration unit”, a paper submitted for the 2018 APEMC/IEEE symposium in Singapore. ...

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Small system-on-module adds HDMI to quad ARM cores

SudoProc  is a quad-core HDMI-capable solderable system-on-module from Slovenian firm Sudo. Measuring 65 x 40 x 4.3mm, its processing centres around quad ARM Cortex-A14 CPUs (Rockchip RK3288), 4Gbyte DRAM (LPDDR3) and choice of on-board flash (eMMC4.5) between 32 and 256Gbyte. “Most Systems on Modules on the market aren’t solderable by default,” said Sudo. “This is ...

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Harwin appoints specialist in socially responsible supply chain

With the growing importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the sourcing of raw materials, connector and shielding manufacturer Harwin has appointed Ottawa-based regulatory software and services firm Assent Compliance. Assent will be involved in carrying out any required investigations across Harwin’s global network of suppliers with regard to RoHS and REACH environmental directives, as ...

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Electric vehicle-to-grid charging project gets go-ahead

Aston University, and Birmingham-based design consultancy ByteSnap Design have been awarded a two-year collaborative project to develop a communications and control platform for UK’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The project called VIGIL (Vehicle-to-Grid Intelligent Control) will develop and an off-vehicle system that controls how, when and the rate at which electric vehicle batteries are charged/discharged ...

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Small Robot Company brings Rachael to Hong Kong

Small Robot Company of Shropshire, the agri-tech start-up, will showcase its prototype Rachael robot at the GREAT Festival of Innovation in Hong Kong. Rachael has all the core technology needed for the company’s  forthcoming Tom, Dick and Harry arable farmbots. This includes autonomy, geolocation, obstacle avoidance, navigation and the ability to accurately position objects on a ...

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In-house APs to take 30% of smartphone sockets in 2018

In-house-developed apps processors by Apple, Samsung, and Huawei (Hisilicon) will take almost 30% of the smartphone AP market in 2018, says Digitimes Research. Digitimes Research reckons that  total shipments of smartphone APs will grow 1.5% on year to 1.67 billion units in 2018, and to 1.77 billion in 2021. Qualcomm will remain No.1 with MediaTek ...

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EU to present plan for taxing digital companies later today.

Later today the EU is to produce a plan for taxing large digital companies. These companies have been avoiding paying taxes on profits because they can establish their European  HQ in low-tax areas. So today the EU  will propose a flat 3% tax on turnover on companies with European revenue over €750,000. The tax is ...

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Rohm has hi-fi power supply ICs for hi-res playback

ROHM has availability of high-fidelity power supply ICs optimized for audio devices requiring high-resolution playback. The BD372xx series are the first audio power supply ICs to combine leading-edge analog and sound reproduction technologies. In addition to integrating a newly developed fast response error amp circuit and low-noise architecture, multiple parameters that were shown to affect ...

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Infineon MIPAQ tuned for energy storage and smart grid

Infineon has optimised its high power intelligent power module (IPM) MIPAQ Pro for the fields of energy storage and smart grid. Additional features are higher power density, true real time junction temperature detection and secure authentication. An upgraded smart protection and greater design flexibility drastically reduce efforts for the powerstage development and the running system. ...

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