JTAG Technologies and Altium combine to offer the circuit board designer the capability to assess the JTAG/boundary-scan testing resources on their design before committin

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Design firm Plextek completes a proof of concept project with the MoD to create an immersive skills training system for trainee tank drivers and pilots

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Thanks to the Raspberry Pi Organisation for this one, highlighting the use of a Pi to help with automated weaving…

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As part of a major tariff restructure, changes to the price of water and power in Abu Dhabi are set to change again from the beginning of next year…

Vishay’s VCNL4100 is an IR proximity sensor that works up to 1m, and includes an ambient light sensor.

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Thermal PCB company Cambridge Nanotherm has introduced a Six Sigma PCB fabrication route with Elvia PCB Group. “Aimed at the most demanding and heavily regulated industries such as aerospace and automotive, applying the six sigma process ensures 99.99966% of all steps to produce a part are statistically free of defects. In other words, only 3.4 …

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The Imagine Blue Awards aim to highlight “the work and imaginations of creators, developers, designers, and students using Bluetooth technology”

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There was once a CEO of an ambitious semiconductor start-up company targeted on making microprocessors, DRAM, SRAM and E2PROM. The CEO was of the opinion that it was a particularly good time to start a chip company because the technology had finally stopped zig-zagging all over the place and it was now absolutely clear that …

Read full article: Fable: The CEO Who Thought NMOS Was here To Stay

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology comes up with a way to build durable gold wires onto flexible, thin plastic film.

Read full article: Pores stop gold wires cracking in membrane for medical wearables

With IoT devices and smart city data projects starting to be implemented, there is an urgent need for an IoT search engine, says the University of Surrey

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