Front End
Sentec and OnStream partner to bring
Mobius smart meters to UK A return to growth
Adam Fletcher urges the adoption of improved industry opportunity tracking systems
PCIM 2010 Review
Growing in the wind
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At PCIM, power electronics companies will be putting their minds together to find ways of making renewable energy more efficient. Steve Rogerson reports
EMC & Circuit Protection 12-15
Interconnection
Filling the void
How has the newly expanded APD circular connector range from ITT been designed to meet the needs of off-road and industrial applications?
Making the right choice
ON Semi’s Rob Ashton reviews and compares some of the protection products available to system designers
Going plasic
An emerging class of conductive thermoplastic EMI-shielding materials promises cost-of-ownership savings for product designers and manufacturers
Profile: Contract Manufacturing
Onwards and upwards
Batteries & Fuel Cells
Getting clever
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John Boston, Managing Director, Custom Interconnect Ltd (CIL) talks to Neil Tyler
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Steve Knoth looks at how a shunt charger system can harvest power from previously unusable low-current sources
Seeing the wood despite the trees
20
Choosing the right non-inverted conversion method for battery-powered systems
An alternative to chemical batteries
22
Back-up doesn’t have to mean batteries. Martin Brown examines an alternative to chemical batteries - ultracapacitors
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Frequency Control
Enhanced performance
Clive Green looks at the E8000, an innovative GPS controlled frequency and timing source which can significantly enhance the performance of timing applications
MPUs & MCUs
Home run
EDA & Development
A dose of reality
Rob Irwin considers whether reality could be the new simulation frontier
Sub-Assemblies
Product news
A round-up of this month’s product releases including: a new surveillance camera from Plextek and Verbatim looks to enhance the LED experience
Who? What? Why? Where? When? & How? 42
A not so sophisticated electronic bag tracking system 42
Solar powered bras and a nightmare journey to Munich. Just a run-of-the-mill month for Steve Rogerson then
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Power Management
Product News
From a new range of medical power supply units from TDK-Lambda to XP Power’s new ECP40 series, we look at the latest product releases
ICs & Semiconductors
Taking security to the ‘max’
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Mike Ward explains how laser ablation can be
used to help put you on the road to safety
against copy-cat designs and prudent production quality control
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