Saudi Arabia is to increase the proportion of desalinated water produced by private operators from 16 to 52 per cent by 2020.
Stormwater pond retrofits in Clackamas County, OR, assisted by Opti technology
Retrofits to continuously monitor and adaptively control stormwater flows.
Premier Farnell sold to Datwyler
Datwyler of Switzerland is to buy Premier Farnell for £792 million. “Both companies share very similar strategic values and are highly complementary in terms of product range, distribution channels and geographic footprint,” says Premier Farnell. The combined group is expected to have £1.3 billion revenues. The two companies employ 4,900 people. Datwyler, with a market …
Weightless SIG joins ETSI
The Weightless SIG is partnering with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). In a move to consolidate the LPWAN space the Weightless SIG will offer its Weightless-N standards activities into the ETSI LTN initiative within TG28, ensuring that all those interested in UNB solutions are represented in a single forum. ETSI is a globally accepted …
Result: Reader survey on European Union Referendum
Should the UK stay in the EU or leave? Electronics Weekly asked for your views. Ahead of next week’s European Union Referendum, we analyse the results of our reader survey.
Surge-rated, 24V transient protection on seven lines
Semtech has introduced a 7-line surge-rated, 24V transient protection array for protecting industrial interfaces against transient voltage threats. The µClamp2417P offers a 10A (8×20µs waveform) surge immunity level in a small 2.6 x 2.6mm QFN package. It can be used for protecting industrial data interfaces from electrical transient threats including electrostatic discharge (ESD), electrical fast …
Microwave power amplifier comes on line at Aspen
Aspen Electronics is selling RF and microwave solid state power amplifiers designed for both commercial and military applications from US firm Exodus Advanced Communications. Exodus products feature LDMOS, GaN, GaAsFET discrete and chip and wire hybrid modules with amplifier designs covering octave through decade frequency ranges from 0.01MHz to 40.0GHz – with power levels exceeding …
Four channel remote temperature sensor works to -40°C
Microchip has introduced a four channel temperature sensing IC for use with remote sensing diodes. Called MCP9904, it has advanced features such as resistance error correction as well as beta compensation, the latter to support CPU diodes requiring the BJT/transistor model – those on 45nm processes, for example. “Beta compensation eliminates temperature errors caused by …
5G goes to 60GHz and multiport, testers need to adapt
With 5G mobile communications expected to run on networks operating in the 60GHz millimetre-wave band, Jean Pierre Guillemet describes a technique for testing multi-port broadband components up to 145GHz Although vector network analysers (VNAs) are available for carrying out tests at very high frequencies from several gigahertz up to the terahertz range, the more common …
One week to go – Functional Test Webinar
There’s just one week to go until the first Electronics Weekly webinar, which involves Test & Measurment – Combining the Power of Functional Test and Embedded System Access