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Electronics professionals identify their top design trends for 2020: extending battery life, 5G & sustainability

Top 15 stories on EPDT in September 2019...

Editor's comment: Perfect storm batters UK manufacturing...

2019 winners of Create the Future Design Contest congratulated by principal sponsor, Mouser

EPDT October 2019 issue (inc. Sensor & Automotive features) now available online

Using ferroelectric memory to enhance reliability of automotive systems

- Delivering continuous lane-accurate positioning for autonomous driving (01/10/2019)
  
  Today’s state-of-the-art, single-band GNSS receivers fulfil accuracy requirements for V2X, ADAS & autonomous driving in ideal open-sky conditions. But to reliably serve these use cases everywhere, all the time, they need to overcome their limitations in urban & other challenging environments.
- Sensors: the unsung heroes of digital transformation (01/10/2019)
  
  As the digital economy has grown over the last few decades, data has become a key commodity – to be captured, funnelled through wireless networks & processed by high-performance supercomputers into valuable intelligence that can be shared & displayed across numerous interconnected devices.
- The future of electronics production on display at productronica 2019 (01/10/2019)
  
  This year, it’s the turn of productronica to pack the halls of Messe München in Munich, Germany, from November 12-15. Alternating annually with its larger sister expo, electronica, productronica claims to be the world’s leading trade fair for the electronics production industry.
- Bringing BBC micro:bit to millions of students across the globe via Farnell STEM programmes (19/09/2019)
  
  Latest Farnell programme to support STEM learning provides BBC micro:bit classroom technology to 2,400 secondary schools across Norway.
- National day for engineering announced to combat narrow perceptions of profession among young people (13/09/2019)
  
  Engineering could be one of the most poorly understood careers in the UK, according to new research. The Royal Academy of Engineering has highlighted that misconceptions about engineers and lack of understanding of the profession means young people are missing opportunities to make a difference to our world.
- The car of the future on Europe’s roads: 3Ccar project enhances reliability & robustness in highly automated vehicles (10/09/2019)
  
  By 2030, it's estimated that 50% of newly registered vehicles will be electrically powered, connected or automated. This dramatic upsurge requires a new system approach in vehicle architecture to support electromobility & highly automated driving. European project, '3Ccar' was set up to tackle this challenge.
- UK consumers excited by 5G, biometrics & wearables – but fearful of driverless cars & AI, according to new survey (10/09/2019)
  
  A new survey of 2,000 UK adults, commissioned by Studio Graphene, has uncovered public perceptions towards different emerging technologies. It found UK consumers are excited by biometric technologies, the arrival of 5G & wearable tech, but fearful of driverless cars & artifical intelligence.
- Top 15 stories on EPDT in August 2019... (03/09/2019)
  
  As September 2019 begins, we've reviewed the most popular stories – as determined by our readers – across EPDT’s website & newsletter during the last month...
- World’s largest FPGA, featuring 9 million system logic cells, from Xilinx (21/08/2019)
  
  New Virtex UltraScale+ device enables the creation of tomorrow’s most complex ASIC & SoC technologies, as well as the development of algorithms for AI, machine learning & sensor fusion.

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