15/03/2018
Benchtop power supplies have had to evolve rapidly to provide the features needed to test PCBs integrating complex components.
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13/03/2018
With more than 2,400 companies showcasing the latest in products and services this year’s Mobile World Congress saw network providers take centre stage.
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24/01/2018
Considering Type-C validation simply as an ‘incremental’ change to your testing environment is wrong and dangerous.
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23/01/2018
Trojans aren’t restricted to the software domain; in some instances, hardware Trojans could even open backdoors in custom silicon.
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11/01/2018
As optical networks, hyperscale data centres and mobile fronthaul/backhaul networks move to higher data rates to support rapidly increasing Internet traffic demands, SerDes reference clock performance is becoming increasingly important.
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20/12/2017
Energy-efficient sensor nodes are crucial to the development of the industrial internet of things (IIoT).
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12/12/2017
Whether in the smart home or in in-car entertainment the audio market is changing rapidly. The audio industry is enjoying a sustained period of rapid growth, particularly in key audio markets like the US and UK, and audio is becoming more important as developers look to create more immersive experiences in the fields of gaming and virtual reality.
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16/11/2017
Technology manufacturers are increasingly being encouraged to think about the circular economy – the concept that materials and goods should be kept in circulation for longer rather than follow the traditional ‘linear’ model of make, sell, use, then dispose.
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15/11/2017
Given the massive spikes in power consumption incurred by microprocessors and memory when they ramp up to top speed, it is no surprise that much of the attention in circuit design is aimed at trying to find ways to keep digital power under control.
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14/11/2017
Set up in 1956 Roke Manor Research has over the past 60 years established itself as a world-class electronics engineering consultancy.
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25/10/2017
Like the technologies which sit upon them, printed circuit boards are getting smaller. While that has a positive outcome in terms of smaller products, there is a negative aspect.
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27/09/2017
At a time when the capabilities of electronic products are breaking new ground, it could be true to say that their potential is being held back by design, development and production processes that haven’t kept pace with the speed of innovation.
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12/09/2017
Engineering companies are becoming more complex as trade becomes more global, logistics grows in importance and technology becomes more advanced. All of this needs management, but for many in UK industry, the terms ‘engineering’ and ‘management’ are mutually exclusive. While engineers are good at engineering, they may not consider becoming a manager of something beyond their immediate department.
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12/09/2017
In July 2017, the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) met with partner universities and companies to celebrate and look back on the five years since its first cohort of scholars graduated in 2012.
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09/08/2017
Ethernet has come a long way since IEEE 802.3 was first published in 1980. First envisioned as a technology to connect PCs and workstations, it has gradually evolved to become the networking technology of choice for a broad range of applications across enterprise computing, data centre, wireless networks, telecommunications and industrial sectors.
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08/08/2017
With forecasts that at least 35,000 planes will be built over the next 20 years the commercial aircraft industry would appear to be in rude health.
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07/08/2017
The defence industry is facing stagnating or tightening budgets in many of its traditional key markets while, at the same time, having to adapt to changing security threats and embracing new technologies.
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12/07/2017
Lithium-ion batteries require considerable care if they are to operate reliably over a long period. Because they cannot be operated to the extreme end of their state of charge (SOC) and because their capacity diminishes and diverges over time and with use, every cell in a system must be managed to keep it within a constrained SOC.
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11/07/2017
Increasing urbanisation and growing populations mean that cities are growing at rate that many experts would say is ‘alarming’. Within a matter of just two or three years, 60% of the world’s population could be living in an urban environment, with all the challenges of energy and water supply, as well as delivering adequate transport and healthcare.
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27/06/2017
Work on Crossrail, or the Elizabeth Line, Europe’s largest construction project started eight years ago. A complex engineering project, it runs 100km from Reading and Heathrow in the west, underground across London to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. The first rail services running through central London are due to start at the end of 2018 and, once complete, the new line is expected to be able to handle more than 200million passenger journeys a year.
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14/06/2017
Electronic devices get hot, but how hot depends upon a range of factors. However, the move to smaller devices offering more functionality has increased the challenges of keeping them running at sensible temperatures.
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24/05/2017
Manufacturing industry is on the cusp of a 4th wave of transformation that holds the promise of a step change in productivity. Industrial IoT business models are being defined with increased flexibility, co-operative human-machine interaction and the use of data analytics to identify trends and dynamic system relationships that were previously hidden or inaccessible.
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24/05/2017
Version control – increasingly a de facto part of the embedded software development process – has changed a lot in the past few years. This has major implications for any organisation reviewing its version control strategies and making investments in versioning tools.
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12/05/2017
The emergence of the Internet of Things has also seen the emergence of a string of start ups which have, in their opinions, good ideas for IoT products, but who lack the technical expertise that would allow them to get those ideas to market.
One way for those companies to move forward is to work with a design consultancy; an organisation which, if necessary, can take that idea from the quintessential ‘back of the envelope’ all the way to manufacturing. But what does the consultant do when confronted with the germ of an idea?
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09/05/2017
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A colour display is hard to beat in any application and continued price erosion means it is becoming commercially viable to use graphical colour displays in a wider range of applications.
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