Search Results for :: Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/ Electronics Design & Components Tech News Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:04:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/wp-content/themes/ew/images/logo.gif Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/ 125 75 Electronics Design & Components Tech News Is anyone working on a pesticide sensor? https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/engineer-in-wonderland/is-anyone-working-on-a-pesticide-sensor-2024-08/ https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/engineer-in-wonderland/is-anyone-working-on-a-pesticide-sensor-2024-08/#respond Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:04:25 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=846900 We got to hear of a citizen science project recently, where volunteers regularly sample a river and its tributaries to gather water quality information. Nitrates, for example, are...

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]]> https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/engineer-in-wonderland/is-anyone-working-on-a-pesticide-sensor-2024-08/feed/ 0 Ed Goes For Free Space Optics https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/ed-the-serial-ceo/ed-goes-for-free-space-optics-2024-08/ https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/ed-the-serial-ceo/ed-goes-for-free-space-optics-2024-08/#comments Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:01:48 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=846592 Free space optics for processing, not interconnect, is an area which seems ripe to me from an investor’s point of view, Ed confides to his diary. It seems...

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]]> https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/ed-the-serial-ceo/ed-goes-for-free-space-optics-2024-08/feed/ 2 First trial on British Army vehicle for high-powered laser weapon https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/first-trial-on-british-army-vehicle-for-high-powered-laser-weapon-2024-07/ https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/first-trial-on-british-army-vehicle-for-high-powered-laser-weapon-2024-07/#respond Tue, 30 Jul 2024 05:06:33 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=845700 UK scientists and engineers have successfully fired a high powered laser energy weapon from a British Army combat vehicle for the first time. The ground-breaking test was conducted...

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]]> https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/first-trial-on-british-army-vehicle-for-high-powered-laser-weapon-2024-07/feed/ 0 Axiom to design and build connected smart thermostat https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/manufacturing/axiom-to-design-and-build-connected-smart-thermostat-2024-07/ https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/manufacturing/axiom-to-design-and-build-connected-smart-thermostat-2024-07/#respond Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:46:14 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=845441 Axiom Manufacturing Services is setting up to make a smart Internet-connected thermostat for Switchee “a British technology company that works with over 130 social housing providers”, said Axiom....

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]]> https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/manufacturing/axiom-to-design-and-build-connected-smart-thermostat-2024-07/feed/ 0 Dual-band patch-in-patch GNSS antenna is 4mm thick https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/products/rf-microwave-optoelectronics/dual-band-patch-in-patch-gnss-antenna-is-4mm-thick-2024-07/ https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/products/rf-microwave-optoelectronics/dual-band-patch-in-patch-gnss-antenna-is-4mm-thick-2024-07/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:22:27 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=844016 Taoglas has inset one antenna inside another to cover GNSS L1 and L5 with a 35 x 35 x 4mm surface-mount device – which is optimised for use...

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]]> https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/products/rf-microwave-optoelectronics/dual-band-patch-in-patch-gnss-antenna-is-4mm-thick-2024-07/feed/ 0 Viewpoint: Could global politics reignite the spark for UK electronics? https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/viewpoint-could-global-politics-reignite-the-spark-for-uk-electronics-2024-06/ https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/viewpoint-could-global-politics-reignite-the-spark-for-uk-electronics-2024-06/#respond Wed, 19 Jun 2024 05:06:30 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=843115 Colin Tucker, chairman of Novocomms, thinks a rise in global political uncertainty and a new administration in Downing Street, could provide opportunities for the UK electronics industry. Back...

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]]> https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/viewpoint-could-global-politics-reignite-the-spark-for-uk-electronics-2024-06/feed/ 0 CML announces Ka-band GaN power amplifier https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/cml-announces-ka-band-gan-power-amplifier-2024-06/ https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/cml-announces-ka-band-gan-power-amplifier-2024-06/#respond Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:17:13 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=843111 ...RF input and output ports nominally matched to 50 Ω and integrated DC blocking capacitors. Drain and gate feed decoupling capacitors suitable for QPSK type modulation are incorporated into the...

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]]> https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/cml-announces-ka-band-gan-power-amplifier-2024-06/feed/ 0 Drive for brushed and brushless dc motors to 1.8kW https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/products/emech-enclosures/drive-for-brushed-and-brushless-dc-motors-to-1-8kw-2024-02/ https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/products/emech-enclosures/drive-for-brushed-and-brushless-dc-motors-to-1-8kw-2024-02/#respond Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:37:35 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=835550 ...783722), it is a four-quadrant device that can drive and brake in both direction, controlling speed and torque, with field-oriented control (FOC) as well as acceleration and velocity feed-forward....

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]]> https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/products/emech-enclosures/drive-for-brushed-and-brushless-dc-motors-to-1-8kw-2024-02/feed/ 0 Plant-like autonomous robot responds to light, builds itself a stem https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/research-news/plant-like-autonomous-robot-responds-to-light-and-gravity-as-it-builds-itself-a-stem-2024-01/ Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:35:58 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=834186 Researchers in Italy have made a robot that grows like a plant. Named FiloBot, it is the work of the Bioinspired Soft Robotics Laboratory at the Fondazione Istituto...

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]]> Cadence offers academia PDK for open source 130nm SkyWater process https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/eda-and-ip/cadence-offers-pdk-for-open-source-130nm-on-skywater-2023-11/ https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/eda-and-ip/cadence-offers-pdk-for-open-source-130nm-on-skywater-2023-11/#respond Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:25:30 +0000 https://www.electronicsweekly.com/?p=830020 A PDK for the SkyWater open-source 130 nm process will be available in the Cadence VLSI (very large-scale integration) Fundamentals Education Kit. The kit teaches students how theories...

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