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analog devices opens bespoke uk Headquarters
Analog Devices has opened the doors of its new UK headquarters office in Hayes, London, a location which will strengthen its ability to connect customers with the best engineering talent in the UK and overseas. By locating its new office in London, close to a fast Elizabeth Line link
to the city centre, Analog Devices has made itself accessible to the capital’s huge pool of talent - not only software and hardware engineers, but also a vibrant community of entrepreneurs and start-up workers, as well as skilled staff in non-engineering disciplines. Close to Heathrow airport, the new HQ office is also a convenient hub
for the company’s domain specialists located in other Analog Devices locations such as Munich, Germany, Boston, US and Limerick, Ireland. These technology and applications experts will now more easily be able to take part in UK customer meetings hosted by Analog Devices. The new office, which has a distinctly contemporary look in contrast to
the bland aesthetic commonly adopted by many engineering companies, underpins Analog Devices’ ambitious plans for growth in the UK: it easily accommodates all the staff who previously worked at Analog Devices and legacy Linear Technology offices in Weybridge and Marlow, with a
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Welcome to the August issue of Instrumentation Monthly. Sensors &
Instrumentation Live, an event described as a ‘vital and vibrant forum’ by Mouser Electronics’ Graham Maggs, celebrates its ten year anniversary this year. To mark this momentous occasion, a number of new feature areas have been introduced. In the Engineering Symposium, you can receive training from experts from market-leading companies. In the Enterprise Hub you can learn how to grow your business. Innovation in Action will see demonstrations of the best technology. Registration is free so make sure you sign up for the event when it returns to the NEC, Birmingham on 25 and 26 September 2019. Find out more about the event on page 30.
Victoria White, Editor
generous additional floating capacity to accommodate customer meetings, visits by field engineers, training facilities and an expanding staff headcount. The site of the new
office used to be a vinyl record factory at which discs from the likes of the Beatles and Rolling Stones were once pressed - a link to the UK’s long audio engineering heritage which is mirrored in the decoration of the new office. Mike Britchfield, Analog Devices’ European vice president of sales, said: “Our new UK office beautifully combines the past and the future - the site’s history as a record factory is appropriate given our many customers in the UK’s renowned audio equipment manufacturing industry. But we are also excited to be at the heart of London’s newest technology cluster, which gives us the opportunity to build our diverse, creative and talented workforce.”
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HigH-performance connectors in tHe formula student race
Three student teams from Swiss universities are competing with electric race cars they design, build and manufacture themselves. Stäubli’s ultra-reliable high-performance and flexibly configurable connectors are along for the ride. Since the initial inclusion of the electric car class in the
Formula Student event, the AMZ team (Academic Motorsports Club Zurich) from ETH, a Swiss university, have been a part of the competition — and since 2011, Stäubli’s highly compact, space-saving electrical connectors have been a part of their race cars. The EPFL (École Polytechnique de Lausanne) is also represented at the Formula Student
with its Lausanne Racing Team (LRT). In this year’s motor design, round Stäubli connectors will be implemented for their high current carrying capacity while Stäubli battery connectors are tasked with reliable power transmission without losses. Now in its fifth season, the young Formula Bern (FSB) engineering team from the Bern University
of Applied Sciences also builds and drives vehicles for the student competition, and has already qualified for the competitions in the Netherlands and Spain. They use Stäubli’s modular and vibration-resistant CombiTac connector system in their cars. The team’s electrical engineers were impressed with the custom-configurable system that is quick and easy to assemble and provides extremely reliable, efficient and robust transmission of power and data throughout the vehicle.
ec.staubli.com ams and smartsens partner on 3d and nir sensors
ams has signed a formal letter of intent to collaborate in the field of image sensors with SmartSens Technology. This collaboration complements ams’ strategic approach to further broaden its portfolio for all three 3D technologies – Active Stereo Vision (ASV), Time-of-Flight (ToF) and Structured Light (SL) – while accelerating time to market for a more differentiated set of new products. To quickly meet an expected increasing demand for 3D sensing solutions in mobile devices, the partnership’s initial focus will be on 3D Near
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Infrared (NIR) sensors for facial recognition and applications requiring a high Quantum Efficiency (QE) in the NIR range (2D and 3D). To speed up the time to market for customers,
the companies will collaborate on the development of a 3D ASV reference design to support the planned future launch of a 1.3MP Stacked BSI Global Shutter Image Sensor with state of the art QE up to 40 per cent at 940nm. This NIR sensor is a perfect addition to ams’ 3D illumination offerings, extending ams’ 3D portfolio and optimising overall system performance. The reference design will enable high
performance depth maps for payment, face recognition and AR/VR applications at a highly competitive total system cost.
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