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Regulars 04 Trend
The future for IoT, according to Farnell
05 Technology 08 Going Green
“Education, education, education!” By Emma Darke, Sustainability Director, TT Electronics
11 Circuit Drill
Does a short-circuit detection suit all applications?
By Sulaiman Algharbi Alsayed, Managing Director,
Smart PCB Solutions Company Features
16 Totem-pole PFC techniques and technologies for more effi cient PSUs By Yong Ang, Strategic Marketing Director, ON Semiconductor
20 Exploring 3D printing in the aerospace industry By Chris Johnson, Managing Director, SMB Bearings
22 Tundra: the feature-adaptable drone that meets future needs By Olivier Laville, Regional Sales Manager, Fischer Connectors France
24 Shifting demand for multi-layer ceramic capacitors creates a critical supply shortfall for military needs By Stephen Armstrong, Technical Writer
26 Qualifying the C standard library for use in safety-critical applications By Solid Sands software developers
28 Accuracy and precision in on-chip synchronisation By Paolo Novellini, Principal Engineer, Xilinx
30 Implementing transfer functions in LTspice
By Joseph Spencer, Field Applications Engineer, Analog Devices
36 Will competing Fieldbus technologies ever evolve into open-source architecture? By Neil Ballinger, Head of EMEA, EU Automation
12 Electronics design Developing a Mains Power Monitor with Flowcode
By Martin Whitlock, Applications Engineer, Matrix TSL
14 JESD204 standard: Verifi cation challenges in the JESD204B standard for high-speed data converters By Frank Farrelly, Product Engineering Manager, Analog Devices, and Chris Loberg, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Tektronix
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