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04 Trend 06 Technology 10 EMC


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12 Circuit Drill


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14 Electric Vehicles By Vicor design engineers Cover supplied by Rochester Electronics. More on pages 8-9 Features


18 Powering the consumer electronics market and its future growth By Shankar Khatkale, Team Lead – SEO, Graphical Research, and Debojit Acharjee, freelance Software Engineer


21 Building an uninterruptible power supply for home devices By Simon Bramble, Staff Engineer, Analog Devices


24 Standards are key to reducing the risk of consumer IoT attacks By Alex Leadbeater, TC CYBER Chair, ETSI


26 Qualifying the C Standard Library for safety-critical automotive applications By Marcel Beemster, CTO, Solid Sands


29 Demanding vehicle road tests require high- performing sensors By Glenn Wedgbrow, Business Development Manager, Micro-Epsilon UK


32 The semiconductor industry should change its practices to prevent future chip shortages By Richard Barnett, CMO, Supplyframe


34 Solenoid valves regulate pressures in critical aerospace systems By The Lee Company engineers


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