New Electronics has partnered with leading intellectual property law firm D Young & Co LLP to offer guidance to companies on how to protect their IP. In this issue, Anthony Albutt, a partner with D Young & Co LLP, explores the Patent Box and provides a reminder of what's on offer from the Chancellor and how you should approach it.
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Research has long shown that plants respond better to particular wavelengths of light, specifically in the 400 to 500nm (blue) and 600 to 700nm (red) spectra. Now, the advent of high output, low power, more affordable LED modules configured at specific wavelengths is beginning to revolutionise the horticulture sector.
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Ethernet is making inroads into the industrial sector as system builders and manufacturers look to improve communications between machines and with the back office systems which run their operations.
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When mobile phones were used only to make voice calls and to send texts, the communications world was a much simpler place. But things have changed. Mobile phones have got smart and many people now use them as their main communication device, not only making voice calls, but also downloading and uploading videos to and from social media sites and ...
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The electronics industry's genius for miniaturisation at the transistor level is famous. But ingenuity has also been applied to other elements and today's battery designs now provide high energy capacity in surprisingly small packages.
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For many years, we interfaced with our computers using a keyboard and a mouse. But the arrival of touchscreen technology has changed all that. Today, many of us will use touch as the main way to interact with our devices.
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Every electronic product or system needs a clock to keep it working at the level of performance which its designers intended. And there's a number of approaches available, ranging from humble quartz crystals operating at 32.768kHz, to very high frequency devices at the other end of the scale.
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The Skills Show 2012, held last month in Birmingham, acted as a remarkable showcase for the UK's young engineers
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New Electronics has partnered with leading intellectual property law firm D Young & Co LLP to offer guidance to companies on how to protect their IP. In this issue, Anthony Albutt, a partner with D Young, looks back over the year.
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For 15 years, the Sophia Antipolis Microelectronics Forum (SAME) has encouraged and supported start ups and there is fierce competition to be accepted into the event. "Start ups are an essential part of a successful cluster ecosystem," said Intel's Stephan Klingler, organiser of the 2012 start up panel. "It is often the start ups that bring new ...
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It has been a continuing trend over the last few decades that electronic devices at the leading edge are designed to be as complex as the manufacturing technology allows. But while the level of device complexity is increasing, so too is the possibility that the parts will not operate entirely as the designer intended.
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The electronics industry has been searching for an auto ID solution that can more than traceability. Ideally, such a technology could become the backbone for product lifecycle management.
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Despite the apparent trend towards using other platforms, asics remain a popular method of integrating functionality into a single device and achieving cost and performance benefits.
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The dictionary definition of 'neutral' includes 'not taking part or giving assistance' and 'of no particular kind, indefinite', which might not sound particularly promising if what you are looking for is a particle enabling you to probe precisely the ultimate constituents of matter. But that is exactly what the atom's electrically neutral ...
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Whether your application is focused on wireless communications or instrumentation, the performance bottleneck is often the dynamic range of the a/d converter.
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Programmable logic is one of the first technologies to be manufactured on the latest process node. In the past, fpga developers have taken advantage of this to bring larger capacity devices to market as soon as possible in an effort to meet the needs of leading edge customers.
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Using a dsp based technique called vectoring to cancel crosstalk, the performance of very high speed digital subscriber line 2 (VDSL2) technology can be pushed close to its theoretical limit.
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Front panel I/O functionality has been typically been fixed on 3U and 6U form factor cards and changing this functionality meant redesigning the cards – which can be an expensive undertaking. While the advent of PMC and XMC modules has allowed configurable front panel I/O, these modules use much of the 3U and 6U carrier card area.
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There are very few companies in the fast moving world of electronics that can celebrate 75 years of serving customers with much the same philosophy their founders foresaw.
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The investment in securing registered intellectual property (IP) rights is all well and good, but the reward comes from the exploitation of that right. Many rights holders exploit their IP directly by using the patent or by affixing the trade mark to their goods. Others seek rewards from allowing third parties to use their IP, which is where the ...
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The incidence of counterfeit electronic components is increasing rapidly. IHS reported in May that incidents of counterfeited parts amounted to 1363 in 2011, a record level. As each incident can include thousands of individual parts, IHS noted that this adds up to '12 million [counterfeit components] over the past five and one quarter years. This ...
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How easy is it to design a camera that can read or that can decide whether a person's eye is open or shut? This is an important question for design engineers, since computer vision is set to become a required function in many applications which today contain no cameras.
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Oscilloscope measurement automation has become imperative for timely and accurate debug and validation. In many cases, the number and complexity of tests demanded by a technology standard or application prohibit any attempt at manual measurements. For example, the DisplayPort compliance tests require 312 different test conditions at eight waveform ...
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It's a truism that the earlier you fix your design, the cheaper your final outlay will be. This is particularly relevant when specifying connectors, which are often overlooked or left to the last minute. Interconnect manufacturers and distributors agree that there are significant advantages to considering connectors as early as possible in the ...
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With a relentless push for smaller, faster and quicker devices, aerospace could well be the most demanding market for electronics. Interconnect solutions are not immune from this drive and can be key components in offering much needed space and weight savings on aircraft. As more multimedia technology finds its way into the cabin, there is greater ...
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