Desalination capacity of 3.7 million m3/d was added globally in the year to June 30, 2016, representing a 16 per cent rise on 3.2 million m3/d of new capacity added the previous year.

SCS Engineers was selected to provide on-call services for capital improvement projects at the Riverside Regional Water Quality Control Plant.

Quell Corporation has improved attenuation in its flexible EMI filters with the introduction of a ‘+’ version of its EESeal range. EESeal+ has EMC filter components embedded into a silicone rubber, made to match the size, shape and pin configuration of the connector to be filtered. Transient suppressors can also be included. “EESeal+ technology has lower …

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Texas Instruments has introduced what it claims are the industry’s first precision nano-power op amps. LPV811 consumes 450nA (typ) and offers 370µV (max, +/-60μV typ) offset, while offset in the dual LPV812 is 300µV. If more offset can be tolerated, there are even lower current versions – see below. The op-amp family is aimed at …

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The driverless car thing has caught the world’s imagination and is especially beloved of governments who seem to believe that it is the panacea to many of the headaches associated with human drivers – crashes, excessive road construction, medical expenses, demands on police time, demands on emergency services, pedestrian casualties, noise, pollution etc. But you …

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Renesas Electronics and Escrypt, part of Bosch, are to create high-level hardware-software security for protecting automotive electronic control units (ECUs). It consists of Renesas’ RH850/P1x-C series of automotive safety microcontrollers with Escrypt’s CycurHSM security software stack. The MCUs combine: functional safety, security, and vehicle control networking. “In the autonomous-driving era, in-vehicle infotainment, vehicle-to-vehicle [V2V], and …

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Renesas and Intersil are an almost perfect strategic fit, says Renesas CEO Bunsei Kure. “Only 6% of Intersil’s sales are in Japan, Intersil has nothing in logic while 75% of Renesas’ business is in logic, and Renesas is strong in automotive while Intersil is strong in industrial,” says Kure. Owning a US analogue company is …

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At Electronica we caught up with Linear Technology’s Todd Reimund, director of corporate marketing. The discussion covered smart design for analogue and power. Thank you to Todd for his time.

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At Electronica we caught up with JAE’s Maria Plutz, Distribution Account Manager, and Erik Troger, Distribition Manager. We discussed the latest USB Typ-C and industrial connectors, with Erik and Maria giving an introduction of JAE and JAE products. Thank you to Erik and Maria for their time.

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The long-held industry dream of the universal memory is not the way the industry is actually going – instead the memory business is fragmenting into a horses-for-courses diversity. “Everyone is looking for a universal memory but it’s more like the world is going for specialty memories – phase change, resistive RAM, nano-RAM – there’s not …

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