Employed for temperature maintenance on process lines and for frost protection to exposed pipes, vessels and other equipment

Regenerate energy back into mains supply under braking without need for intermediate storage, resistive dumping or additional power bridges

The gears are precision fabricated from engineering plastics, and feature a tooth profile that has been developed to minimise noise generation

Richard Lambert was editor of the Financial Times newspaper until 2001, and from June 2003 he was one of the nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England

Finding the right candidates to drive the semiconductor industry forward is not as straightforward as it used to be.

It is no accident that printed circuit board (PCB) design was one of the first electronics design tasks to which computer technology was applied in an effort to automate the process.

Processor designer AMD is backing an organisation that aims to make its parts redundant. AMD is the first sponsor for OpenFPGA, a non-profit consortium developing high performance computing by running algorithms directly on FPGAs rather than processors

Suppose a backlight designer wants to use hemispherical bumps on a light-guide to uniformly illuminate an LCD panel.

Compared with the current proliferation of more than a dozen different computer on modules (COM) concepts, CompactPCI and CompactPCI Express are founded on solid, and worldwide accepted standards that are observed by more than 100 manufacturers.

Green Hills Software has significantly enhanced its MULTI embedded software development environment with a high speed target system prototyping simulator that a helps debugging, as well as a static source code analyser and distributed project builder to improve the quality and reduce the time to develop code.

The new conga-B945/64 sets a new performance standard for COM Express embedded computer modules.

Design tool developer Altium has added a range of new capabilities to its Designer environment that handles both FPGA and board designs.

One point relating to all PCB manufacturing processes, including selective soldering, is becoming increasingly clear: the use of manual production methods in any phase of production is rapidly declining.

Virginia Panel Corporation has released a versatile, hybrid connector called iCon.

Hundreds of thousands of pounds are being wasted needlessly in PCB production due to contaminants entering the production line.

The MMCX connector range has been developed further to demand for even smaller connectors and is considered as the next step in 50ohm micro miniature co-axial connectors.

The market for mobile TV is potentially huge, with millions of units predicted to ship in the next few years. Semiconductor giants and startups are eyeing the market

The process of selecting a connector becomes critical when the application involves sealing the connectors against various environmental conditions, such as salt mist in an oceanographic project, or vacuum in physical instrumentation.

Over the past five years, there has been an explosion of growth in the portable electronic industry with consequent opportunities for manufacturers of radio frequency (RF) components.

Frost & Sullivan says that electronic non-contact flow meters will steadily replace traditional mechanical devices in the European market