Front End
Just what the UK plc needs more of - David Cameron visits LPRS
Deeply Depleted Channel technology offers breakthrough in power consumption
The slumbering bear begins to stir 8
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Power Management Product News
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This month: Enpirion launches the newest member of its power IC portfolio; a new family of high input voltage DC/DC converters from GAIA and the latest power management family from STMicroelectronics
Battery strength gets a boost 24 Scientists have developed a new battery technology that could see batteries used in cellphones stay charged for more than a week and then take just 15 minutes to recharge. CIE finds out how
Southern Electronics 2012 Holding a mirror to UK electronics
CIE takes a look at next month’s Southern Electronics in Farnborough
Switch Technology Market Review Relapse or recovery in 2012?
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From slowing global trade to the continuing sovereign debt crisis in Europe the outlook for 2012 is anything but certain. Neil Tyler spoke to a number of companies to find out what they expected to see in 2012
Distribution 14-15 Investing in ecommerce
Neil Tyler speaks with RS Component’s Keith Reville about the company’s new ecommerce site and its plans for the future
Give us the tools
How did DesignSpark help provide Celeritous with open source designs?
Sub-Assemblies 16-17 Getting a grip on the security market
Sony Image Sensing Solutions talk to Neil Tyler about key trends and issues in the global security market
Wireless Technology Safe and Sound
Going wireless
Martin Poppelaars looks at the business case for wireless connectivity and considers the benefits and trade offs that exist between different complex wired solutions
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Most mobile communications equipment employs radio-frequency technology in some form, but RF can be problematic. Steve Cranstone looks at how infra-red can provide a better alternative
20 16 15 14 The benefits of antimicrobial components
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Stuart Hutchings outlines the potential uses and value to design engineeres of a new breed of ‘antimicrobial’ component
Interconnection 34-37 Seeing the light
Herbert Endres looks at the advantage of using active optical cable assemblies
Product News
FCI introduces a sealed squib connector for pedestrian safety systems; Harting adds three new models to its Fast Track Switching family and Molex is first-to-market with the Mizu-P25 miniature waterproof connector
EDA & Development Rise of the software engineer
Speeding up embedded application development is not just a case of writing code quicker, as Magnus Unemry explains
RFID 40 Product News
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Agilent and Lime Microsystems unveil a new method of testing advanced wireless systems and Atmel develops a LF RFID IC for animal identification applications
Who? What? Why? Where? When? & How? 46 From coffee to beer
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Great technology but the people element always lets it down, as Steve Rogerson finds out
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