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Features - Embedded

- Gas detection techniques using pyroelectric sensors (01/10/2021)
  
  Gas detection is an essential aspect of many industrial & commercial applications, covering many potential sources, including carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide & several anaesthetic gases. Most of us have detectors in our homes to protect us from smoke & carbon monoxide. Other applications include measuring carbon dioxide expelled, termed capnography, for medical diagnostic purposes, air quality measurement in smart buildings & commercial portable gas analysis detectors.
- Show preview: Green light for productronica 2021 (01/10/2021)
  
  It’s been a tough 18 months for industry trade shows & live events, with most having to cancel or postpone events through the pandemic & global lockdowns, and many offering digital alternatives.
- Make UK & Next Gen Makers launch innovative Engineering Apprenticeships Employer Kitemark (30/09/2021)
  
  Make UK, the manufacturers’ organisation, has partnered with skills & recruitment support platform, Next Gen Makers to develop a ground-breaking Engineering Apprenticeships Employer Kitemark, which will recognise companies who achieve a best practice benchmark, thus endorsing them as an exemplary employer of apprentices.
- Fingerprints & Infineon achieve ‘impossible’ world-first with biometric payment cards (29/09/2021)
  
  Fingerprint Cards collaborates with Infineon to achieve ‘impossible’ by enabling biometric authentication to be executed solely in the Secure Element. Technological leap delivers high performance, increases security, reduces costs & simplifies integrations.
- New vaccine temperature smart indicator from Timestrip (29/09/2021)
  
  Smart indicator avoids wastage of vaccine supplies – especially invaluable as the rollout of COVID-19 vaccination programmes progresses during the coronavirus pandemic.
- Analog Devices’ wireless BMS helps Lotus Cars redefine mobility in its electric vehicles (23/09/2021)
  
  Semiconductor firm specialising in sensing, data conversion & signal processing, RF & power management, Analog Devices (ADI) has announced that renowned British performance brand, Lotus Cars is planning to incorporate ADI’s wireless battery management system (wBMS) in its next-generation electric vehicle (EV) architecture.
- New "Potentially Genius" YouTube video series from Tomorrow Lab & Digi-Key Electronics (15/09/2021)
  
  Monthly video series follows the design process to solve everyday problems at hyperspeed.
- Mouser examines impact of 5G & edge computing on intelligent transportation systems in latest EIT episode (15/09/2021)
  
  Semiconductor & electronic component distributor explores industry trends around 5G & edge computing for intelligent transportation systems in the next installment of the 2021 series of its electronic technologies multimedia content programme.
- LIGENTEC & X-FAB collaboration creates Europe’s largest capacity foundry service for integrated photonic circuits (14/09/2021)
  
  Strategic partnership will address rapidly growing demand for next generation silicon photonics across a broad range of industry sectors & high-tech applications, including communications, quantum technologies, LiDAR & biosensing.
- Supply chain industry experts' panel to discuss global semiconductor shortage (09/09/2021)
  
  Global Semiconductor Alliance, ASE, Inc., Arrow Electronics & Silicon Labs to address what’s ahead via EETimes-moderated ‘Works With 2021’ panel...
- Cadence & Samsung accelerate 3nm mixed-signal silicon (08/09/2021)
  
  Samsung & Cadence co-develop Mixed-Signal OpenAccess-ready PDKs that enable seamless implementation & verification of mixed-signal designs for data centres, networking, 5G, mobile, industrial & automotive applications.
- Semiconductors & chip design vital for UK innovation, according to Imagination manifesto (07/09/2021)
  
  Semiconductors represent a strategic industry ripe for UK leadership, according to a manifesto published today by Imagination Technologies, putting innovation at the heart of the UK’s future competitiveness & prosperity.
- Interconnects, sensors & antennas required for IIoT explored in new eBook from Amphenol & Mouser Electronics (06/09/2021)
  
  Electronic components distributor, Mouser has announced a new eBook in collaboration with interconnect, antenna & sensor specialist, Amphenol Corporation, highlighting the many applications of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies, as well as the technical challenges in developing IIoT solutions.
- Editor’s comment: High expectations for COP26… (03/09/2021)
  
  In a few short weeks, the UK will host the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (aka COP26) in Glasgow. Originally scheduled to take place in November 2020, COP26 was postponed for 12 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- EPDT September 2021 issue (inc. Embedded & Energy features + EMS Outsourcing supplement) now available online (02/09/2021)
  
  This month’s issue, now available in print or digital editions, contains features on Embedded technologies and Energy applications, plus the latest edition of EPDT's twice-yearly Electronics Outsourcing supplement.
- Amazon, Google, IKEA, Schneider Electric & more join speaker roster at Silicon Labs’ ‘Works With 2021’ (02/09/2021)
  
  Keynote speakers from these industry leaders will discuss interoperability, security & future of IoT in industries, cities & smart homes at this online IoT conference.
- Viewpoint: Don’t sacrifice engineering principles in a pandemic (01/09/2021)
  
  Times in business are tough, no two ways about it. But as Colin Funnell, Development Engineer at embedded systems expert, Hitex reminds us here, many engineers are lucky enough to be able to do the majority of their work on a computer from home – and still have new work coming in. We’re also fortunate to live in an era of high-speed connectivity – without which, the majority of home-working would simply not be possible.
- Viewpoint: Opening up – implications for the electronics industry (01/09/2021)
  
  After over a year of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, the UK recently took another step forward in its journey out of the coronavirus pandemic. As the country adapts to a new way of life once more, we're likely to witness significant shifts in people & firms’ behaviours. And with increased digitisation & demand for electronics across almost all sectors, the electronics industry stands to continue its upward trajectory after recent events.
- Next steps to carbon neutrality (01/09/2021)
  
  According to a new Carbon Brief analysis, UK greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 were 51% below 1990 levels, largely down to the country’s COVID slowdown. These figures mean the UK is now halfway to meeting its target of net-zero emissions by 2050. However, emissions are likely to rebound as the economy recovers...
- Leading-edge embedded edge server technology (01/09/2021)
  
  Next-generation data centres are behind everything in today’s connected world – from cameras to automated factories. In this article, high performance computing specialist, AMD explains how its new AMD EPYC Embedded 3000 processors are designed to address the increasing computing, I/O, memory & security demands for workloads at the embedded edges in many different industrial fields.

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