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.
The following list is my personal Top Ten of connectors. The connectors I have chosen are based on my experience and personal preference and no other criteria. I just like them!
1 - The D-Type Connector
2 - RJ45 Ethernet Connector
3 - IDC Connectors
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We are pleased to announce another new sponsor for the
Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2011: Harwin, the manufacturer of high reliability and industry standard interconnects and associated PCB hardware, is sponsoring the
Manufacturer Export Award.
We have announced the Elektra Awards shortlist, and for the Harwin-sponsored award these are:
Axis Electronics
IQE
Peratech
Zytronic
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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 have a soft-spot for low pin-count PICs and have used them for controlling power on several occasions.
So I was intrigued to see Microchip has added a bunch of power-ish peripherals, including a configurable logic block to its 6-20pin PIC10F, 12F and 16F families.
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Electronics Weekly in association with
Jonathan Lee Recruitment has carried out a major survey of salary levels in the UK electronics industry. The research was carried out by
Reed Business Insight, and thanks to over one thousand people who took the time to take part!
Now, in
picture gallery form, you can drill down into the data in full detail - check out the slides that slice and dice the salary and employment data we have gathered.
View the Picture Gallery - Electronics Weekly Salary Survey 2011 >>
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David Manners is out of the country at the moment, in Seville covering IEF 2011 - see
IEF2011: HP to replace flash and SSD in 2013, for example.
It will spare his blushes, then, when I unashamedly trumpet the achievement of his
Mannerisms blog in passing a mighty milestone - it has just accumulated more than two million page views on Electronics Weekly, since its launch back in ye olde days of November 2006...
A tribute, indeed to the effort he has put into his Olympic-standard, two-posts-a-day blogging!
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Here are the top ten most popular articles on
ElectronicsWeekly.com
in the last week, with Freescale choosing Scotland for R&D, venture capitalists, SG&A, and DIP switch watches leading the way...
See what your peers have been reading. In reverse order:
10. Tearing down the Nokia N9
9. LG and Osram battle over BMW, Audi LED headlights
8. Photos: The worst gadgets of 2010
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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.
Royal School of Arts post-graduate design student Thomas Thwaites sets himself the task of building a toaster from scratch.
Right from scratch: digging up raw materials in the British Isles and making everything himself.
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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.
According to a recent announcement, Silverstone race track will gain its own technical college to specialise in engineering.
Set up with Northampton University and a local college, it will be one of 13 UTCs to offer highly technical subjects to teenagers from next year.
For those of us in the highly technical business of electronics this can only be good news. There is, believe it or not, a shortage of the right type of skilled engineers and this is a great new move by the government to up-skill our workforce.
Continue reading "Only Connect: New investment in the motor industry's high-end" »
It's always nice to be nominated, so thanks to
NORA - National Online Recruitment Awards - for recognising
Electronics Weekly in its 'Best Trade Publication' category.
NORA writes:
We are extremely proud to be able to announce the Finalists for the eleventh annual National Online Recruitment Awards. Our winners will be revealed at our awards event in London on Wednesday, the 2nd of November.
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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.
Have you ever wondered what the different versions of HDMI are and if they work together and mover over which are the best cables to purchase? Thanks to our good friends at HDMI.org we have the answers.
Firstly let's start with the basics. What are the advantages of HDMI over existing analogue video interfaces such as composite, S-Video and component video?
Quality: Because HDMI is a digital interface, it provides the best quality of the video since there are no lossy analogue to digital conversions as are required for all analogue connections (such as component or S-video). The difference is especially noticeable at higher resolutions such as 1080p. Digital video will be sharper than component, and eliminates the softness and ghosting found with component. Small, high contrast details such as text bring this difference out the most.
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Don't forget to bookmark the
Toshiba Electronics Education Zone on
Electronics Weekly, providing design engineers with access to guides, whitepapers and videos -
www.electronicsweekly.com/toshiba-zoneTopics covered include ASIC, Memory, Microcontrollers, Mobile Peripherals, Optical Devices, Power, and SSDs.
We will be updating the Zone regualrly, and new entries for October include:
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Just a quick post to flag an interesting article on the site that has proved very popular over the last few days.
Through-silicon via (TSV) on chip interconnection of memory, processor and sensor elements looks the most likely route for 3D chip design,
writes Richard Wilson.
He begins:
As the complexity of system-on-chip semiconductor devices grows designers are exploring the practicality of so-called 3D chips.
3D chips can take many forms but the most practical would seem to be through-silicon via (TSV) technology which allows die to be stacked on top of one another.
A common element of all processor-based systems is memory and Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology are proposing an open interface specification for TSV-based memory technology called the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC).
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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.
Just when you thought we could not go any faster
TE Connectivity goes ahead and produces the all new and improved
InfiniBand CXP 12x QDR standard and IEEE 100 Gbps Ethernet specification.
The system offers 12 channels of 10 Gbps data rates for 120 Gbps of total bandwidth in a one-piece press-fit assembly. The TE CXP system complies with InfiniBand CXP 12x QDR and IEEE 100 Gbps Ethernet standards. It also offers a complement of fiber optic cable assemblies with CXP fiber paths to interconnect CXP transceivers to CXP, QSFP+ and SFP+ transceivers.
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Welcome another in the new series of posts featuring the excellent electronics cartoons from 
Time for another in our series of posts featuring the excellent electronics cartoons from 