The other week I returned from the excellent Embedded World exhibition in Nuremberg which in my opinion is now one of Europe's best electronics exhibitions and ranks right up there with its Munich-based rival Electronica which happens later this year. But coul...

By Paul Whytock | 09-03-2016

Although newer technologies have replaced electromagnetic relays in some applications, electromechanical relays still have a lot to offer. These robust and versatile relays suit high voltage applications or those that require galvanic isolation between termina...

By Martin Keenan | 02-03-2016

Embedded World Exhibition, Germany: Electronic design engineers must be able to perform complex measurement tasks quickly and accurately and making its debut at the show was Rohde & Schwarz' R&S RTO2000, a fast and compact lab oscilloscope for multi-do...

By Paul Whytock | 25-02-2016

Embedded World Exhibition, Germany: A wireless-focused Gecko family of multiprotocol system-SoCs designed to provide flexible connectivity options for Internet of Things (IoT) devices has been launched here at the Nuremberg show by Silicon Labs. The SoCs integ...

By Paul Whytock | 24-02-2016

Embedded World Exhibition, Germany: Dissipating sufficient heat from small packages is a long-standing design challenge but industrial systems engineers may well be interested in an IO- Link dual-channel transceiver that dissipates the lowest heat in what Maxi...

By Paul Whytock | 23-02-2016

Often the unsung heroes of electronic design, passive components are present in every piece of electronic equipment from consumer electronics to electric vehicles to spacecraft. Though not often lauded as ‘game-changing’ like semiconductor devices, passive com...

By Adam Chidley | 18-02-2016

The integrated development environment (IDE) technology sector is a pretty crowded and competitive area of business these days and new systems entering it need to have some attention grabbing features rather than a meaningless list of shameless superlatives th...

By Paul Whytock | 17-02-2016

Designing medical equipment? You’ll need a power supply, but not just any power supply will do. The regulations in this area are strict to ensure patient safety. Thankfully, the most pertinent information can usually be found on a power supply’s datasheet. Her...

By Philip Lechner | 15-02-2016

Prototyping by its very definition needs an engineering environment that quickly and accurately validates design ideas and a new series of development boards from chip company STMicroelectronics could provide that. With the introduction of what it describes as...

By Paul Whytock | 09-02-2016

A new world record conversion efficiency of 13.2% for an organic photovoltaic OPV multi-junction cell for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity has been achieved by research and development teams at Heliatek, a spin off from the Technical Universi...

By Paul Whytock | 08-02-2016

What is said to be the world’s first hardware virtualised GPU products have been announced by US semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Called the AMD FirePro S-Series GPUs with multiuser GPU (MxGPU) technology, this hardware-virtualised GPU archi...

By Paul Whytock | 02-02-2016

A platform to create technologies vital for the millimetre wave (mmWave) radio spectrum is being built by the New York University (NYU) Wireless research centre. The development of mmWave radio spectrum technologies is an imperative to launching the next ultra...

By Paul Whytock | 29-01-2016

Looking back at 2015 you have to say that from an electronics perspective that was not as boring year. The semiconductor business went through some dramatic changes. Smaller process nodes are coming to the fore, next generation semiconductor materials such as...

By David Somo | 27-01-2016

Mass-production of the LQP02HQ series of film-type high frequency chip inductors in the ultra-compact 01005 size has started say manufacturers, Murata. Because of the trend toward increased multiband capability and increasingly sophisticated functions, the con...

By Paul Whytock | 26-01-2016