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04 Trend 05 Technology 08 Circuit Drill


By Sulaiman Algharbi Alsayed, Managing Director, Smart PCB Solutions


10 EMC


By design engineers, REO UK, and Dr Min Zhang, EMC consultant, Mach One Design


12 System Security By Hector Tejero, Solutions Architect, Arrow Electronics


14 Electric Vehicles By Vicor design engineers


40 Products 42 Contact directory 45 Web locators


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18 Energy harvesting for the IoT edge By Huw Davies, CEO and Co-Founder, Trameto


22 No batteries, no wires – only energy harvesting required By Markus Bachmeyer, Sales Manager, ZF Group


24 Ensuring EV battery pack reliability at the cell interconnect level By John Govier, Sales Director, and Jim Rhodes, Technical Sales Director, Inseto


26 Developing 3D interfacing for consumer applications


By Jason R. Williamson, Vice President of Marketing, Altia


28 VR and AR displays are fi rmly on their way By IDTechEx market analysts


30 New technologies continue to support growth in the display market By Sai Kiran Vaddi, Senior Analyst, and Shrikant Mahankar, Associate Manager, Semiconductor and Electronics, MarketsandMarkets


32 Meeting the challenges of drone design By Joost de Ruiter, CEO and owner, High Eye


34 Electronics companies looking to the future


By Norio Nakajima, President, Murata


38 2023: another challenging year, but the downturn will not stall the distributors By Chris Breslin, President, Farnell


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IN THIS ISSUE: • Energy harvesting • Batteries • Displays • Avionics • Distribution


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