How are component suppliers responding to the needs of high reliability markets such as the oil and gas or rail sectors? Roger Tall gives a few pointers. In the oil and gas and rail industries the need to ensure high reliability is an everyday design challenge but now more is being demanded from these systems …

High reliability has a role on trains and oil rigs

Mouser Electronics has added the product line of IEI Technology, part of the Intel Internet of Things solutions alliance. The IEI Technology embedded computer boards available from Mouser Electronics include the WAFER-BT single-board computer in the PICO-ITX form factor and supports an on-board Celeron system-on-chip (SoC) with DDR3L; VGA, LVDS, and iDP connectors. The HYPER-BT …

Mouser adds Intel IoT partner IEI Technology

Electronics Weekly is very pleased to highlight the initial sponsors for the Elektra Awards 2016. Celebrating product innovation and business success in the industry – and now in their 14th Year – the Elektra Awards are recognised as the best promotional platform to celebrate the achievements of individuals and companies across the electronics industry. And a big …

Elektra Awards 2016 gather momentum

Design done, PCB laid-out and components are sourced, but the biggest challenge is yet to come getting it manufactured. David Marrakchi describes the pitfalls to avoid You just completed your last design review, got that needed approval signature, and the finish line has never been closer, or so you think. Even after your components are …

The “Hateful Five” of PCB manufacturing


Excelera of Barcelona is a start-up aiming to bring new capabilities to sensor systems Excelera has a chip it calls a Universal Frequency-to-Digital Converter-1 (UFDC-1) – a fully digital CMOS IC, capable of measuring frequency, period, ratio, duty-cycle, and phase shift in 16 different modes, with a relative error ranging from 0.001 to 1%. “We …

Excelera enhances sensor systems

Thanks to Josh, a keen cyclist for highlighting this one, the Haiku – a gesture controlled bike assistant. Putting aside concerns over anything that distracts a cyclist – whether hands free or not – the device may be of interest if you’re of the pedalling persuasion… It’s primarily aimed at urban cyclists, and offers turn-by-turn …

Gestures control the Haiku cycling assistant

LED Engin will demonstrate its LuxiTune linear dynamic light engine at LightFair, claimed to be the world’s first Bluetooth low energy mesh-controlled tuneable white solution for linear luminaires. … what a list of caveats. End users can wirelessly configure, control and manage the luminaires. Installed in a 100 x 100mm 4foot fixture, the linear light …

Lightfair: Led Engin gets Bluetooth mesh control

Here’s trouble: a hovering, tracking drone with a 13MP forward-looking camera and a 3MP downward-looking camera. Beijing start-up Zero Zero Robotics has raised $25 million to mass-manufacture a drone called The Hover Camera. It can hover or follow someone, or something, around. Zero Zero’s founders are two Stanford PhD graduates who raised an initial $1.7 …

Here’s Trouble

In the latest LED business developments, Royal Philips has reported 3% sales growth led by the strength of LED lighting, while Current, Powered by GE has added more partners in its connected lighting push and Mitsubishi Chemical has won a red-phosphor IP battle.

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