Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd,
who has
over 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry
specialising in interconnection cable assembly.
Do you ever check what you are paying for is what you are getting? I expect most of you to say 'Of course I do'.
Well, the reality is that you probably do check that the correct quantity of product has arrived and they are the correct type of product, but how do you know that what you are buying is legal when it comes to copper cable?
A recent programme on the BBC,
Fake Britain, showed how thousands of tonnes of copper cable had been found to be illegally marked because the cable was marked as a higher AWG grade than the copper is actually on the reel.
Continue reading "Only Connect: On the quality of materials" »
Rohde & Schwarz has had a test and broadcast system business in the UK for 40 years.
In 1971, Rohde and Schwarz purchased Aveley Electric and so found itself at the heart of some of the UK's main technology milestones of the last four decades.
Continue reading "Test firm's last 40 years is a history of UK technology" »
Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd,
who has
over 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry
specialising in interconnection cable assembly.
Those clever folks at Cisco have done it again and delivered a superior product into the market way ahead of the competition.
In a recent press release Cisco gave the following details:
Cisco's 60-watt Power over Ethernet technology called Universal Power Over Ethernet (UPOE). UPOE capability is available in Cisco's Catalyst 4500E switch in what is known as endspan PoE.
Midspan PoE, on the other hand, introduces direct-current (DC) PoE into a network cabling system via power sourcing equipment such as a powered patch panel.
Continue reading "Only Connect: Cisco on a winner with Universal Power Over Ethernet" »
Welcome to the latest post in the series COMs Insider
by Bob
Pickles, Congatec UK territory
manager.
Many of us these days have one or more laptops, an iPhone or "androidy" type phone when we are on the move. And we all know just how vital it is to have access to charge up these devices!
Imagine the dilemma embedded computing designers face when designing computer systems which will be deployed to areas that may have patchy power access or no mains access at all - for example, a roadside display unit with a solar cell or turbine for power. Good battery management is absolutely essential in such conditions.
There are solutions available for battery management that go hand in hand with COM Express and Qseven technology, allowing designers to manufacture custom rugged notebooks, industrial computers, vehicle based systems, even roadside display technology...
Continue reading "COMs Insider: Energy management for mobile computing" »
Here are the top ten most popular articles on
ElectronicsWeekly.com
in the last week, with the Toshiba product portfolio, round Tablets and bending light leading the way...
See what your peers have been reading. In reverse order:
10.
Picture Gallery - Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Android 3.1)
9.
Ear simulation leads to unique hearing aid
8.
Google to buy Motorola mobile phone business
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Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd,
who has
over 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry
specialising in interconnection cable assembly.
J.P Morgan analyst sees electronic connector content growing apace across all industriesDespite all the doom and gloom out there I have decided that I will not go along with it and do everything I can to find positive stories to comment on. There is plenty of good news out there. Recently an article in TWST.com sheds some positive light on the connector industry. You can trust these guys - they really know what they are talking about!
A recent interview excerpt from The Wall Street Transcript (
TWST.com) asks Steven O'Brien, a J.P. Morgan analyst specializing in coverage of connector giants
Amphenol (NYSE:APH),
Molex (NASDAQ:MOLX) and
TE Connectivity (NYSE:TEL) about the investment outlook for these companies and their respective performance in the diversified global electronics market.
Continue reading "Only Connect: Major positives for the connector industry - J.P Morgan" »
An Engineer in Wonderland has a new home. You can find this particular entry here. If you wish to leave a comment, please do that on the new blog.
I like to keep data in one place, and for years I used a Palm III
And was mostly happy with it.
It ran for months on two AAA cells, which is my idea of good battery life, rather than two days between charges.
Then, spontaneously, the backlight came on with a buzzing noise and it erased all the data.
Once the battery was flat, it seemed to recover completely.
Continue reading "An Engineer in Wonderland - PDA woe, and where are the E Ink ones?" »
An Engineer in Wonderland has a new home. You can find this particular entry here. If you wish to leave a comment, please do that on the new blog.
There is a lot of hype in the world of high-end audio.
And few reasonable people who seem to know what they are talking about, and are prepared to burst bubbles.
One such blogger and forum sage is Northwest Audio & Video Guy
He*, has gone so far as to design his own reasonably-priced headphone amplifier to show what can be achieved without paying a fortune for nonsense.
Continue reading "An Engineer in Wonderland - A well-argued headphone amp design" »
An Engineer in Wonderland has a new home. You can find this particular entry here. If you wish to leave a comment, please do that on the new blog.
It seems like streetlight buyers are sacrificing efficiency by specifying white LEDs with high colour rendering index (CRI) - scroll way down to 'CRI: an obsession'
Which is odd, because one of the reasons for moving to LEDs is to increase efficiency, and streetlights are pretty efficient already, so you have to work pretty hard to beat them.
Continue reading "An Engineer in Wonderland - Missing the point of LED streetlights" »
One for the
Digital Life category - the BBC has completed its
crowd-sourced survey on 3G in the UK.
Its Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones begins:
When we launched our 3G survey last month we could not be sure how much interest there would be. I'm glad to say there was plenty - more than 44,000 people downloaded the Android app on all manner of devices, and data came in from the tip of Cornwall to the Shetland Islands.
Continue reading "3G for three quarters of the time - BBC survey" »
Here are the top ten most popular articles on
ElectronicsWeekly.com
in the last week, with 4G basestations, SLR shots glasses and the Apple iPad leading the way...
See what your peers have been reading. In reverse order:
10. HP to spin off PCs, kill TouchPad, buy Autonomy
9. The 70 Year-Old Dream Which Doesn't Die
8. Physics Degrees Appropriate For Engineers, says IEE
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We are happy to announce that Electronics Weekly, in association with Jonathan Lee, is now running a salary survey, taking the industry's temperature.
Celebrate excellence in the electronics industry this Christmas by partying with your peers at Elektra! 
I'm pleased to say there is a new Photo Gallery loaded onto the site - check out 