Contents
Regulars 04 Trend
06 Cover Story By PCB Way
08 Technology
46 SPE 6-part series - Article 3: What Is Necessary for Facilities To Implement Single Pair Ethernet? By Ruud Van Den Brink, product manager industrial communications and Manuel Ruter, senior principal engineer
48 Products 49 Buyer’s guide 50 Contact directory 51 Web locator
Cover story by PCB Way, More on pages 6-7 Features INTERCONNECTIONS
18 Advanced Interconnections Corp. launches new family of board to board connectors featured at Electronica 2024
By Advanced Interconnections, a leading designer and manufacturer of off -the-shelf and custom interconnect solutions for the electronics industry
AEROSPACE, MILITARY & DEFENCE
20 Ensuring reliability and performance in military technology
By Mark Baptista, Internal Applications Engineer, PEI-Genesis
22 Collaborate to innovate
By Jerry Sanham, Business Development, Director at Microwave and mmWave subsystem manufacturer Filtronic
ENCLOSURES
24 What to consider when specifying and buying quarter turn locks
By Gary Miles, Managing Director, FDB Panel Fittings EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
26 Driving Innovation with SoM Solutions and customised carrier boards By Alex Munden, Embedded Business Development Manager, FORTEC UK
28 AAEON’s PICO-MTU4: The world’s fi rst Intel Core Ultra Pico-ITX Board
By Impulse Embedded, leading provider of Industrial computing systems and solutions
TEST & MEASUREMENT
30 ReeR’s EOS and MICRON light curtains keep vertical storage carousels safe and measured By Mark Weymouth, Managing Director, PLUS Automation
32 5G NTN: Non-terrestrial networks for 5G mobile communications By Reiner Stuhlfauth, Rohde & Schwarz
INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS
36 Exploring the world of Agricultural Robots By Mark Patrick, Director of Technical Content, EMEA Mouser Electronics
POWER
39 Can you drive GaNFETs with a DC-to-DC Controller originally designed for Silicon MOSFETs? By Kevin Thai, Applications Manager, Analog Devices
42 Customised standard: the best combination for an optimised power solution? By Steve Dodson, Engineering Services Manager and Hafi z Khalid, Product Marketing Director, XP Power
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