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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26/04/2017
The risks and pitfalls of bringing a product to market on time and within budget are legion yet, as the IoT helps to lower the barriers associated with the deployment of new technology, a growing number of start-ups are looking to take their ideas to market.
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26/04/2017
“The electronics marketplace is changing,” according to Dan Smalley, project manager at Camden Boss, as the IoT, wearables and products such as the Raspberry Pi open new areas for electronics applications.
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25/04/2017
Software is the ‘soft underbelly’ of embedded systems, where the smallest error can compromise security. To eliminate such vulnerabilities, security must be designed into code from the ground up and be addressed throughout the project – and all code must be tested to make sure it works as expected.
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12/04/2017
Up to 80% of a company’s document information can be contained in different or separate formats – such as Word, Excel, pdf and AutoCAD – according to Jurate Venskeviciute-Buciene, chief marketing officer at DocLogix, a specialist in document and process management.
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29/03/2017
Mission critical servers and communications equipment must continue to operate, even as circuit boards and cards are plugged-in or pulled-out for maintenance and capacity adjustment.
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07/03/2017
To ensure wireless product designs can deliver superior system performance it's essential that vendor reference designs are followed as closely as possible, as Krisztián Kovács explains
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11/01/2017
In the digital era, successful economies and businesses will be creative, innovative and economically diverse, driven by the generation and use of ‘Big Data’ created by computers, sensors and other digital devices, networked systems and improved analytics.
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10/01/2017
As the Internet of Things develops, embedded devices are being deployed in environments where attackers can take advantage of source code level security vulnerabilities. Embedded software developers should, therefore, understand the different kinds of security vulnerabilities – and code injection in particular.
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