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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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IN THIS ISSUE: • IIoT


• Medical • Rail • EMC


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