The Nasdaq Helsinki-listed global engineering firm Poyry has won the owner’s engineer services contract for Shoaiba 4 desalination plant in Saudi Arabia.

If you are a novice to rotary encoders for human-machine interface, there is a potential pit-fall. Otherwise called quadrature encoders, they deliver two-bit gray-scale binary on rotation, with the phases of the two square-waves at 90° – hence quadrature. Being Gray, it is posible to determine which direction the shaft is being rotated by looking …

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Nexperia, the former Standard Products division of NXP, has announced three miniature TVS diodes.

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Western Digital has offered to withdraw from the bidding for Toshiba in return for a better deal in its existing jv arrangements, reports Reuters. The move also means, presumably, that WD will drop its legal objections to the sale to anyone else. WD had argued that its jv deal gave it the legal right to …

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A smart meter wireless comms device that supports both Sigfox and IEEE802.15.4k radio standards has been introduced by Lapis Semiconductor, part of the Rohm Group. Designated the ML7404, the chip will be supplied with the protocol stack for IEEE802.15.4k as open-source from partner stack vendors. Hardware BPSK modulation reduces load on the host microcontroller. The …

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Imec has profuced two 5G building blocks –  a SAR ADC operating in the below-6GHz frequency bands (4G/5G) and a 60GHz front-end RF phase shifting and on-chip transmit-receive switching. 5G mobile networks, promise massive connectivity through much higher data rates, lower latency and lower battery consumption than current 4G standards. To realize this, frequencies below …

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Chip sales grew 24% in July compared to July 2016 and grew 3.1% compared to June 2017,  reports the SIA July 2017 sales were worth $33.6 billion compared to the July 2016 total of $27.1 billion and the June 2017 total of $32.6 billion.u All major regional markets posted both year-to-year and month-to-month increases in …

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The LTC3779 is a high efficiency (up to 99%) 4-switch single inductor synchronous buck-boost DC/DC controller that operates from input voltages above, below or equal to the regulated output voltage. Its 4.5V to 150V input voltage range is designed to operate from a high input voltage source or from an input that has high voltage …

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Engineers at the University of New South Wales have invented an architecture for quantum computing that operates without precise atom placement and allows qubits to be placed hundreds of nanometres apart while remaining coupled. Fabrication should be easily within reach of today’s technology, according to the team, led by Professor Andrea Morello of the University …

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ULEMCo, the company leading the use of ultra-low emission hydrogen-fuelled commercial vehicles in the UK, has just completed the first hydrogen fuel conversion for a UK commercial waste company. Oxfordshire-based Grundon Waste Management selected ULEMCo to carry out the hydrogen diesel dual-fuel conversion for one of its waste disposal trucks. ULEMCo has previously retro-fitted a …

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