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Regulars 04 Trend
Can 3D printing help the global semiconductor shortage?
05 Technology 12 Circuit Drill
Optimising the smallest negative power supply circuit
By Sulaiman Algharbi Alsayed, Managing Director, Smart PCB Solutions Company
14 Going Green
Meeting renewable energy targets By Martyn Williams, Managing Director, COPA-DATA UK
Features
24 Piezo dynamic force measurement in semiconductor manufacturing By Robert Hillinger, Business Development Manager, Kistler Group
26 How LiDAR enables depth sensing in automotive applications By Joseph Notaro, VP – Worldwide Automotive Strategy and Business Development, ON Semiconductor
30 LED technology innovations continue to march on
By Francois Mirand, EMEA Technical Director, Future Lighting Solutions, a division of Future Electronics
33 MicroLED and other displays By IDTechEx research staff
36 High-density compute and connectivity drive the development of the CS connector By Michael Akinla, Business Manager Central Europe North, Panduit EMEA
16 JESD204 standard:
Physical layer performance metrics for a JESD204B transmitter
By Jonathan Harris, Applications Engineer, Analog Devices
20 Embedded design Using Tracealyzer to evaluate Python algorithms in Linux By Mohammed Billoo, MAB Labs
52 Products 54 Contact directory 55 Web locators
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38 Design considerations for EMI-resistant and blind-mate connectors By Shaun Findley, European Director of Product and Purchasing, and Jakub Kosinski, Product Manager, PEI-Genesis
41 Multifunctional confi gurations for cell cabinets By Transtector Systems technical staff
42 Industrial enclosure cooling – air vs liquid By Karl Lycett, Product Manager for Climate Control, Rittal UK
44 Optocouplers can challenge other isolators By Marián Štof a, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
48 Selecting the right load bank By Andrew Keith, Group Product Development Director, Cressall Resistors
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