Nothing to do with leds, but just in case you wish to support Germany in the European Football Championships to the nth degree, or have another reason for loving the German flag, how about some custom car headlight bulbs from Osram. Available soon in H4 and H7 versions, they are the Light Champion Deutschland Edition in black, …

One for football obsessives

Exiting the EU would be a risk to the UK’s engineering sector, warns Naomi Climer, president of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The UK’s main organisation representing 100,000 engineers believes that the interests of UK engineering would be best served by remaining in the EU. “Given the considerable challenges already facing UK engineering …

Brexit threatens engineering sector, says head of the IET

Spirent Communications has styled itself as a design verification test firm for connected vehicles and it is working with Aston Martin Racing. The test systems supplier is working with Aston Martin Racing during testing to evaluate accuracy and performance of GPS receivers and interference monitoring on the 2016 V8 Vantage GTE race cars. These cars …

Aston Martin Racing tests connected cars

Sunnyvale-based Diamond Systems has announced a expanded PC/104 (102x102mm) single-board computer with a mid-range CPU – from DMP, standard PC I/O, and on-board data acquisition circuitry. “The Helix SBC is targeted for low price, low performance applications.  It offers low to mid-range CPU performance, more than double that of the AMD LX800,” said Diamond. “With …

Rugged PC/104 single-board computer gets added data acquisition

Arduino is driving down the cost and complexity of embedded system development, and this means processing, sensing and communications all for €30, writes Mark Patrick. Open source hardware has been a major democratising factor in electronics design. Only a relatively short time ago, proprietary development tools were the order of the day. Trouble is, they …

Intel, NXP and Microchip love Arduino

Researchers from the University of Surrey, led by Professor Alan Dalton and in collaboration with an Oxford touch-sensor manufacturer M-SOLV, looked to alternative materials to overcome the challenges of ITO, which is suffering from supply uncertainty. Alternative materials investigated as ITO replacements have included graphene, carbon nanotubes and random metal nanowire films. This study showed …

Surrey researchers use silver as ITO replacement in nanowires

The 12,000 Intel employees being laid off will get at least eight weeks pay, some long-time employees will get a year’s pay, a proportion of of their bonuses plus at least six months health insurance, reports The Oregonian which has seen a copy of an internal Intel memo. However there is steel in Intel’s proposals …

Intel Severance Terms Laid Out

The annual PCIM show covers power electronics, intelligent motion, renewable energy and energy management. It runs from 10 – 12 May in Nuremberg, this year. For our full coverage, simply bookmark: www.electronicsweekly.com/tag/pcim PCIM 2016 – Latest News 11 May 2016 Toshiba super-junction mosfets cut resistance and noise Toshiba has announced its next generation of super-junction deep …

PCIM 2016: Your Electronics Weekly guide

Electro Rent UK will sell test equipment from Anritsu following the signing of a distribution agreement between the companies. Electro Rent already provides rental, lease, rent-purchase and rent-to-own services on Anritsu test systems. The Anritsu products the distributor will sell in the UK include a range of microwave, RF and mobile protocol cable, spectrum, and …

Electro Rent will sell Anritsu comms testers

In the latest LED business news, regulatory financial guidelines presumably are dictating the secretive actions of Philips in its attempt to divest the lighting businesses, while Osram has said it is on schedule for the LEDvance carve-out.