Plans to withdraw from Europe’s single market and customs union shouldn’t present problems for electronic component suppliers, says the ECSN

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Fully transparent segmented displays are available form Beneq of Finland. Pictured is the Tasel-branded ELT15S technology demonstrator. “Tasel displays combine the rugged and reliable build of thin-film electroluminescence with the unique freedom of designing a completely transparent display,” said the firm. “It is ideal for consumer electronics, architectural use and other fields where viewing experience and …

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Mentor Graphics has introduced an ISO 26262 qualification programme for its tools and embedded software for use safety-critical designs and verification flows at all criticality levels up to and including ASIL D. Called the Mentor Safe programme it includes the Nucleus SafetyCert real time operating system, the Volcano Vstar Autosar operating system and BSW stack. It also includes ISO 26262 …

Read full article: Mentor certifies RTOS for automotive designs

“Once, during a period when cash was short, we decided not to spend any money on keeping up the landscape around our Santa Clara plant,” recalls National Semiconductor CEO Charlie Sporck in his book SPINOFF. “The grass grew tall and Bob Widlar had one of his crazy inspirations. He bought a sheep and tethered it …

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A majority stake in Cambridge Graphene, a spin-out company from the University of Cambridge, has been acquired by UK-based firm Versarien. Cambridge Graphene develops inks based on graphene and related materials using processes developed at the Cambridge Graphene Centre. The spin-out company has commercialised graphene inks for novel technology applications. Cheltenham-based technology firm Versarien says it …

Read full article: Cambridge deal creates major graphene centre in the UK

Here’s another competition for you – element14 launches a wearables design challenge called ‘Safe and Sound’.

Read full article: Safe and Sound wearables challenge tackles personal safety

The top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3, Brexit, STEM education and watches all figuring prominently.

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Noise in nanoscale photonic and plasmonic amplifiers could be modelled following research at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

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Amazon Redshift now supports Zstandard (ZSTD) column compression encoding, which delivers better data compression thereby reducing the amount of storage and I/O needed. With the addition of ZSTD, Amazon Redshift now offers seven compression encodings to choose from depending on your dataset.

Membrane technology company Hydranautics has launched two spiral wound reverse osmosis membranes for industrial and demanding municipal water and re-use applications.