Val-Matic’s check valves are suitable for potable water, abrasive slurries and corrosive chemicals with a wide range of metallurgies, seating materials and accessories.
Hydraulic network modeling
New, free versions of the TdhNet hydraulic network model for water distribution systems and the TdhNetAPI provide for unlimited network sizes, Epanet file compatibility and SqLite database storage for data and results.
System-wide monitoring
The Sentinel™ PRO remote monitoring system can interface with any water/wastewater processing equipment that uses a programmable logic controller (PLC) with Modbus sensors.
Desalination and water reuse markets continue to recover
The international desalination market has shown a third year of continued growth following a slowdown in the mid-2000s…
Leti cuts noise from image sensors
French lab Leti has teamed up with imaging firm Pyxalis to commercialise technology that lowers readout noise for image sensors to 0.5 electron noise and improves low-light image sensing capabilities. Dubbed ‘Owly-eyed’, it is based on a patented electrical pixel readout architecture that can be integrated in image sensors, which Pyxalis will offer it in …
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LEDs come in rainbow colours
OMC says it can now produce a rainbow of LED backlight colours, including magentas and blue-greens. Previously the only way to achieve non-standard LED colours was to use RGB colour mixing, which involves three times as many chips, complex wiring and requires drive circuitry to control the relative channel levels. OMC’s Active Reflector Technology uses …
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Cambridge Nanotherm expands manufacturing
Thermal interface firm Cambridge Nanotherm has expanded manufacturing to meet demand for LED thermal substrates. Its technology is a thin electrically insulating coating with high thermal conductivity for metal cored PCBs (MCPCBs). “Our MCPCBs offer designers a distinct thermal advantage. Demand for our solutions has therefore been strong, and we’re currently engaged with most of …
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Electronica 2016: Kit for fast TFT displays from Renesas
Renesas Electronics will be demonstrating its latest design kit for a thin film transistor (TFT)-based human-machine interface (HMI) at the Electronica exhibition in Munich later this month. The kit is based on the firm’s 32-bit RX71M range of 240MHz microcontrollers which have up to 4Mbyte on-chip flash memory, 552kbyte on-chip RAM. Intended as a starter guide to create graphical user interfaces, which …
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TI adds FRAM microcontrollers with 2-256kbyte of non-volatile memory
Texas Instruments is aiming at sensing and measurement with two low-power additions to its non-volatile FRAM MSP430 microcontroller family. MSP430FR5994 microcontrollers have 256kbyte of FRAM and DSP capability from the firm’s low energy accelerator (LEA) which computes fast Fourier transforms (FFTs), finite impulse response (FIR) filters, infinite impulse response (IIR) filters and other maths functions. …
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A nice circuit board tribute to Forrest M. Mims
Check out this rather nice idea: its a circuit board tribute to Forrest M. Mims, the American magazine columnist, and author of the popular Getting Started in Electronics and Engineer’s Mini-Notebook series of instructional books.
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