Water must be recognized as the enabler of successful implementation of the entire 2030 Agenda as well as the Paris Climate Agreement.  

Akzo Nobel, the Netherlands-based corporation that owned the Retsof salt mine, will pay for upgrades to the area’s drinking water system.

Here are the top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with On Semiconductor, ARM, flexible ICs, driverless cars and the Raspberry Pi all figuring prominently…

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Hitachi has begun Proof of Concept (PoC) tests of passenger services using its “EMIEW3” humanoid robot. The tests will be conducted at Haneda Airport Passenger Terminal 2. Through these PoC tests, Hitachi and Hitachi Building Systems will strive to create new added value in order to enhance customer reception and guidance services in locations where …

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SSD of Reading has launchesd FLOPPYFlash providing a flash-based replacement for obsolete floppy disk drives on legacy computer-based systems FLOPPYFlash is for legacy computer-based systems and equipment in a range of industries including telecommunications, semiconductor manufacturing, industrial process control, engineering and manufacturing, power generation, oil & gas, mil/aerospace, flight simulation and post-production Offering a fast …

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I think this may be a rare sighting of that elusive beast the lesser-spotted IoT app. It’s been a long time coming but at last airlines are going to put RFID chips on luggage. For over 20 years luggage has been identified by scanned bar-codes. The RFID pioneer is Delta of Atlanta, “With a $50 …

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In 1955, North American Aviation, the company which built Chuck Yeager’s X-15 rocket plane, and morphed into Rockwell, set up a subsidiary called Autonetics. Nine years later, Autonetics was NAA’s largest division employing 36,000 people. Autonetics worked on the Minuteman missile so it was heavily into IC R&D, munificently supported by military money. In 1962, …

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Renesas and TSMC are collaborating on developing 28nm embedded flash for automotive MCUs shipping in 2017. Renesas and TSMC have collaborated closely on MCUs with on-chip flash memory since the 90nm technology generation. Four years after working together on 40nm MCU platform and production, the two companies are now extending their collaboration to develop 28nm …

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Linear Tech has introduced a dual input power prioritiser for 1.8V to 18V systems which preserves rails during brown-outs and prompts graceful shut-down on power loss. Designed to work in battery, capacitor and adaptor-powered circuits, LTC4420 is monolithic and included two 500mA 2Ω rail-switching p-channel mosfets. Crucially, there is no requirement for the back-up supply voltage to be lower …

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Diesel engines vibrate. This produces stress on the components of ships. Adaptronic systems effectively reduce these vibrations. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a simulation tool that allows these systems to be developed efficiently called The “Mechanical Simulation Toolbox“. “The vibrations are not only disturbing; they also damage important components of the ship,” says Fraunhofer’s Heiko Atzrodt. …

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