Contents Front End Anglia aims for £100 million in five years AWS Group celebrates 10th anniversary of Slovak facility


Faster-than-forecast growth in electronic components market Interview


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Design considerations for military systems and how to mitigate 8 component supply issues


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CCL - celebrating 20 years serving the electronics manufacturing 12 industry


Adam Chinery, managing director at CCL (Computer Components Ltd), and Gayle Paterson, account director, Buzzword Tech, discuss the company’s 20-year anniversary and find out how CCL play an active role in supporting Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Electronic Manufacturing Service Providers (EMS) customers, enabling them to get a financial return on the excess component inventory that they may hold


EDA Heatsink design and selection - the ultimate buying guide


electrical engineering Wireless Electronics


The best batteries for Bluetooth beacons What’s new in remote conttrol technology?


Connectivity for the home: the growing consumer adoption Embedded


Secure software foundations for Industry 4.0 The falcons are landing


Advantech now offers this ultra-scalable eco-system on the Thin Mini-ITX form factor on the basis of latest AMD embedded SoC processor families, codenamed Merlin Falcon, Brown Falcon, Prairie Falcon


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Simply follow these 10 easy steps from GD Rectifiers to find your perfect heatsink High-speed design and XSignals - pushing the boundaries of


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For Bluetooth beacons, batteries are an essential design consideration, with their form factor and chemistries playing a big role in the design’s success


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Arun Subbarao, vice president, Engineering & Technology at Lynx Software Technologies, talks about the security challenges with software foundation for Industry 4.0


27 Spotlight On A spotlight on LDD Technology


The spotlight this month falls on Malcolm Locke, MD of LDD Technology, providers of outsourced electronic design


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Enclosures EMC shielding in enclosures


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David Wall, chairman, Kemtron Ltd talks about different EMC options for enclosures Boxed in? Eight reasons to think again about enclosures


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Hitaltech managing director Andy Fitzer talks enclosure design, the value of being an RS Components partner, and why treating the humble enclosure as a component in its own right is key to speeding up production and lowering costs


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Putting the card before the horse… why early enclosure selection 33 ensures efficient product design


Test & Measurement Wearable Electronics Prolonging the battery life of wearable devices is crucial if


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Test and measurement innovations: a behind-the-scenes look at 36 the making of the new Tektronix 5 Series MSO mixed signal oscilloscope


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they’re to be more widely accepted Mark Patrick, Mouser Electronics, talks about the challenges of making batteries in wearable devices last longer


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