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BOFA International is continuing its upward curve into 2018 with two new appointments. The global leader in industrial fume and dust extraction technology has recruited Torsten Faass to the role of general manager covering Germany, Austria and Switzerland, while David Thompson joins the business development team in the UK. Torsten …

Swiss automobile manufacturer Rinspeed presented its new concept vehicle “Snap” at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2018 in Las Vegas – with Rinspeed AG once again relying on innovative HARTING technology. The family-owned company provided rapid-charge technology to quickly charge the “Snap” with electricity in an environmentally-friendly manner. …

Thalia Design Automation has announced a significant expansion of its analogue design engineering capabilities, with the opening of a new engineering centre in Hyderabad, India. The new facility will initially be staffed by five experienced analogue designers and EDA (electronic design automation) development engineers; based on current levels of customer demand, …

Conrad Business Supplies has announced the immediate availability of a new network troubleshooting tool from Ideal Industries Networks Division. The new NaviTEK NT is a network tester for troubleshooting and maintenance of active and passive copper and fibre networks. Incorporating an improved graphical interface NaviTEK NT allows network technicians to pinpoint and …

SARA‑R412M is the world’s smallest multi-mode LTE Cat M1, NB-IoT (NB1), and quad-band 2G solution to offer global configurability in a single hardware version    u‑blox, a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, today announced the SARA‑R412M, an LTE Cat M1, NB-IoT, and quad band 2G (EGPRS) …

Toshiba Electronics Europe released the TCR3UG series of small package, low-dropout (LDO) regulators with an output current of 300mA, that are suitable for power management of IoT modules, wearable devices and smartphones. Design engineers always need to consider the trade-off between the quiescent bias current, the ripple rejection ratio and …

Rohde & Schwarz will be presenting its T&M instruments with the tagline “Oscilloscope innovation. Measurement confidence”. Tests on electronic circuits have shown that these instruments significantly increase measurement reliability. Highlights include the new embedded oscilloscopes with a 10-bit resolution and large memory depth. New, high-precision power rail probes and an …

Analog Devices announces the Power by Linear LTC7106, a PMBus I2C controlled precision bidirectional current DAC designed to adjust the output voltage of virtually any DC/DC regulator. Through its PMBus compatible interface, the LTC7106 receives a 7-bit serial code and converts it to a bidirectional (source, sink) output current. When …

British animation studio, Aardman have used an extremely high accuracy rotary table to help film their new movie, ‘Early Man’. With cameras constantly getting smaller, Aardman- the four times Academy Award winning creators of films such as Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep Movie and Chicken Run – needed to …

Introducing a performance of 100 mW, LG Innotek, industrial partner of LASER COMPONENTS, sets new standards for single-chip UVC LEDs. The manufacturer states that this development is two years ahead of current industry forecasts. So far, experts had assumed that similar output powers would not be achieved until 2020. Optimised …