Contents Regulars 12 Optical Isolation
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
By Professor Murat Uzam, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Yozgat Bozok University, Turkey
14 Electric Vehicles By Vicor design engineers
41 Products 42 Contact directory 43 Web locators
Cover supplied by Microchip Technology. More on pages 6-7 Features
18 How does cold weather aff ect electric vehicles? By Vivienne Kerry, Business Manager – EV Connectors, Foremost Electronics
20 The design challenges for electronic systems on board trainss By Jasmin Sommerfeldt, Mechanical and Thermal Design Engineer, Duagon
22 Designing with DC-DC converters By Ann-Marie Bayliss, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and John Quinlan, Strategic Technical Marketing Manager, Murata
26 Capacitors for railways require specialist technologies and designs By Jens Heitmann, Account and Marketing Manager, FTCAP, Mersen
28 Reaching for satellites to ensure seamless, global IoT interoperability By Fabien Jordan, CEO, Astrocast
30 AI-enabled sensor fusion improves industrial processes By Suad Jusuf, Senior Manager, Renesas Electronics
32 Designing modern medical equipment requires secure solutions By Silicon Motion design and development engineers
34 Medical device cybersecurity By Joe Lomako, Business Development Manager (IoT), TÜV SÜD
36 Making environmentally-responsible electronics
By Emma Armstrong, Group Commercial and Electronics Sustainability Director, In2tec
38 Source of two harmonic voltages that can be mutually phase shifted bipolarly By Marián Štof a, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
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