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04 Trend 06 Technology 10 Circuit Drill
By Sulaiman Algharbi Alsayed, Managing Director, Smart PCB Solutions
12 EMC
By design engineers, REO UK, and Dr Min Zhang, EMC consultant, Mach One Design
14 Optical Isolation
By Professor Murat Uzam, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Yozgat Bozok University, Turkey
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20 Overcoming thermal challenges in high-power, high-frequency transformer designs By Andrea Polti, Global Product Manager, Magnetics, Murata
23 Hybrid vehicles to benefi t from new type drive module
By Mersen electronic system design and development engineers
26 Latest developments in battery technology By Volker Schumann, General Manager for Battery Sales, Toshiba Electronics Europe
28 Minimising touch in a post-Covid world By Richard Bethell, Technical Director, Pacer, a Solid State Supplies company
30 Hanover Displays harnesses cobots to test display panel PCBs in-house By Omron Field Application Engineers
32 Optimising racing car performance remotely By Robert Badcock, CEO, Mantracourt
34 Sensors for semiconductor manufacturing and quality control By Glenn Wedgbrow, Business Development Manager, Micro-Epsilon UK
40 Using simulation to tune PID controllers By Dogan Ibrahim, Electronics Consultant Engineer and academic
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