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Features - Analogue

- Immersive Innovation Hub experience from Digi-Key Electronics (20/06/2022)
  
  Innovative web experience provides an interactive simulation of a modern engineer’s workshop.
- Manufacturing & Engineering Week ready for lift off (07/06/2022)
  
  This week sees the launch of the first Manufacturing & Engineering Week at the NEC, Birmingham – a showcase of all that is innovative & exciting about UK industry.
- Editor’s comment: UK engineering & manufacturing needs – and deserves – its own festival… (02/06/2022)
  
  I’ve been thinking a lot lately about live events – from both a work & personal perspective. During the pandemic & multiple lockdowns, I missed live music, theatre & sport – and I’m happy those things have now opened back up. From a work perspective, I visited Southern Electronics & Manufacturing at Farnborough earlier this year & UKEmbedded a few weeks ago...
- How to select the best power solution to optimise RF signal chain phase noise performance (01/06/2022)
  
  Today’s RF (radio frequency) systems are becoming more & more complex. This added complexity requires the best performance across all system metrics, such as stringent link & noise budgets. Ensuring proper design of the entire signal chain is critical. An often-overlooked section of this signal chain is DC power. It plays an important role in the system, but can also introduce unwanted effects.
- Line up announced for 2022 Tektronix Innovation Forum – inc. keynote from Google roboticist (31/05/2022)
  
  Virtual conference offers access to Tektronix & industry experts sharing the latest thinking on cutting-edge technologies.
- SEMI Europe urges swift adoption of European Chips Act (30/05/2022)
  
  SEMI Europe, industry association for the electronics manufacturing & design supply chain in Europe, today urged swift adoption of the European Chips Act, inviting discussion on the legislation with the European Parliament, Member States & the European Commission. The Act aims to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness & resilience in semiconductor technologies & applications, while enabling the region’s digital & green transition.
- NMITE adds fast-track BEng Integrated Enginering degree to expand offering for prospective students (25/05/2022)
  
  Newly launched higher education institution for innovative engineering education, NMITE, which last year (September 2021) welcomed its first students onto its MEng Integrated Engineering course, has confirmed it will now also offer a Bachelor’s degree. From September 2022, NMITE will accept entries for its fast-track BEng programme, described as the “natural partner” to its existing MEng qualification.
- M&E Week skills survey shows that UK’s manufacturing & engineering sector needs to work harder to attract new talent (24/05/2022)
  
  A recent study from trade show organisers, Nineteen Group, carried out for its forthcoming Manufacturing & Engineering Week event, has shown that 78% of UK industrial companies are finding it either harder or much more complex than usual to find the employees they need.
- NI deploys vehicle fleet for ADAS research, improved workflow & data management (20/05/2022)
  
  These vehicles will put advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to the test using real-world scenarios to validate safety & performance, addressing top engineering workflow challenges.
- Manufacturing & Engineering Week offers full programme to inspire, inform & entertain (19/05/2022)
  
  Manufacturing & Engineering Week (at Birmingham NEC, 8-9 June) will be a celebration of British engineering, a two-day festival of innovation that will showcase the very best that UK industry has to offer, while also providing knowledge, inspiration & a touch of entertainment.
- Design your future at Design Engineering Expo 2022 (17/05/2022)
  
  With innovation at its core, Design Engineering Expo 2022 is the perfect place for forward thinking design engineering professionals to gain insight into new technologies, learn how to improve efficiencies & gain inspiration for ideas they can implement into their workplace, to put them ahead of their competitors & form part of their future strategy.
- Innovative ‘smart socks’ could help millions living with dementia (09/05/2022)
  
  ‘Smart socks’ that track rising distress in the wearer, using discreet embedded sensors & AI, could improve the wellbeing of millions of people with dementia, non-verbal autism & other conditions that affect communication.
- Strong demand & allocation continue to drive European semiconductor distribution in Q1 2022 (06/05/2022)
  
  Electronics industry trade body, DMASS (Distributors’ & Manufacturers’ Association of Semiconductor Specialists) reports first quarter 2022 growth of 43.5% in semiconductors & 35.7% in interconnect, passive & electromechanical components. Shortages continue, but order situation becomes lighter. Ukraine war impact limited so far, but poses a risk for near-term future.
- RS demonstrates commitment to innovation in British manufacturing with Make UK membership (05/05/2022)
  
  Electronic components distributor, RS Components (RS) has joined a community that works to champion & celebrate UK manufacturing & manufacturers by becoming a member of national trade body, Make UK, the manufacturers’ organisation.
- Digi-Key Electronics now offers Google Pay & Apple Pay (03/05/2022)
  
  First high service electronic component distributor to offer the digital payment methods.
- Farnell partners with champion sailor-engineer to reimagine nautical autopilot (03/05/2022)
  
  Members of the element14 Community invited to share ideas for innovative solutions to help champion competitive sailor & design engineer to redesign his nautical autopilot.
- Editor’s comment: War in Ukraine means supply chain woes are set to continue… (02/05/2022)
  
  I’ve written about both global & local electronics industry supply chain issues in these pages several times over the last couple of years – and with good reason, as a confluence of factors has uncovered the gaps in the system we have come to rely on...
- Using PXI to build a high-performance MEMS microphone testing system (01/05/2022)
  
  The demand for increasing microphone signal quality from handheld mobile devices has led to the development of microphone signal processing technologies such as: HD audio; active noise cancellation; beamforming; directional reception; stereo sound field reconstruction; and speech recognition.
- “Onshoring” semiconductor chip production is a red herring, says new report (25/04/2022)
  
  The UK should double down on its competitive advantage in R&D and IP to create a secure semiconductor supply chain, according to a significant new semiconductor report from Imagination & Global Counsel.
- element14 launches Op-Amp-a-Palooza Design Challenge (05/04/2022)
  
  Community members have the chance to win an op-amp kit to complete their projects.

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