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- New online Technical Resources hub for design engineers from Farnell (24/06/2021)
  
  A dedicated online resource centre providing electronics design engineers with free online technical tools and comprehensive research & training materials to assist product design & career development.
- Anritsu & InterDigital showcase smart factory use case for 5G network slicing & multi-access edge computing (17/06/2021)
  
  Communications T&M provider, Anritsu has announced a collaborative demonstration with mobile & video technology research & development firm, InterDigital that showcases a smart factory use case for 5G New Radio (NR) using network slicing & multi-access edge computing (MEC) capabilities.
- Microchip simplifies deployment of Wi-Fi 6 access points & small cell nodes with first multiport, multigigabit PoE injector (15/06/2021)
  
  Wi-Fi 6 & small cell devices can now be installed more easily & cost-effectively, wherever they are needed.
- Bee a radio hero: radio module supply solution helps IoT smart hive tech start-up scale up (11/06/2021)
  
  Bees are crucial to the ecological wellbeing of our planet. They are the world’s arch pollinators, responsible for every third mouthful of food we eat, while ensuring the whole diversity of our plant life.
- SFA 350A IP platform delivers faster time-to-market for ADAS ASICs (03/06/2021)
  
  Semi-custom approach cuts design cost & time-to-market by up to 30% and helps navigate ISO 26262 functional safety requirements.
- AIoT & how COVID is impacting adoption of industrial IoT technologies… (02/06/2021)
  
  Ubiquitous sensing, connectivity & intelligence – enabled by cloud computing, and ultimately, all powered by electronics – continue to accelerate innovation throughout consumer & industrial products, systems & infrastructure, ensuring IoT, Industry 4.0 & smart devices remain hot topics for our sector. Let's review the role of AIoT & how COVID is impacting adoption of IIoT technologies…
- Editor’s comment: Back to the future – lockdown lifts again… (02/06/2021)
  
  Writing this column in early May, the country is tentatively braced for further relaxations of coronavirus restrictions, as we ease our way out of lockdown 3.0. The UK’s comparatively strong progress in terms of vaccine rollout has helped dramatically drive down COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations & deaths, all of which peaked horrifically over Christmas & into the new year.
- Mouser partners with Central Research Laboratory to empower British hardware innovators (02/06/2021)
  
  Electronic components distributor, Mouser has entered into a new partnership agreement with innovation incubation centre, the Central Research Laboratory (CRL) for 2021. For the second consecutive year, the distributor will support the Start-up Accelerator programme, which will enhance the growth & learning of product makers & start-ups in the UK.
- EPDT's H1 2021 IoT & Industry 4.0 supplement now available online (02/06/2021)
  
  Included in this month’s EPDT June 2021 issue, the latest edition of this year's bi-annual IoT & Industry 4.0 supplement is now available in print or digital editions.
- EPDT June 2021 issue (inc. RF & Wireless + Industrial features + IoT & Industry 4.0 supplement) now available online (02/06/2021)
  
  This month’s issue, now available in print or digital editions, contains features on RF & Wireless technologies and Industrial applications, plus the latest edition of EPDT's twice-yearly IoT & Industry 4.0 supplement.
- Challenges & issues in RF testing for wireless products (01/06/2021)
  
  Designers often want to test the performance of RF wireless products, such as Bluetooth modules, as part of the product selection process. However, they may find the final performance of their products in the field subsequently bears little relationship to their lab tests.
- IT vs OT: reduce overheads & downtime with OT to IT convergence (01/06/2021)
  
  The convergence of IT (information technology) into OT (operational technology) machinery opens the door to a world of transparency & risk mitigation not normally available in the industrial space – and reducing downtime, overheads & operational issues are just some of the benefits to making the transition into an IIoT (industrial IoT) integrated OT installation.
- Sensor-to-satellite: democratising the IoT (01/06/2021)
  
  Alastair Williamson, CEO at Cambridge-based experts in secure, intelligent connectivity for IoT & 5G, Wyld Networks, looks at the progress to democratise the Internet of Things (IoT) & how the next generation of sensor-to-satellite solutions provides the key to delivering truly affordable, universal access…
- Design Engineering Expo: Propelling the future of design (01/06/2021)
  
  Design Engineering Expo, part of Manufacturing & Engineering Week, is the brand new event for the sector, taking place at the NEC, Birmingham from 8-9 June 2022.
- Tutorial: EtherCAT primer – real-time industrial Ethernet for automation (01/06/2021)
  
  The foundations of Ethernet for Control Automation Technology (EtherCAT) were established nearly 40 years ago. Today, the Ethernet-based fieldbus system is standardised in IEC 61158 and is indispensable in a wide array of advanced industrial automation applications. Here, Rolf Horn, Applications Engineer at electronic component distributor, Digi-Key Electronics outlines the origins, core elements, timeline & current status of the real-time industrial E
- Moving on up in frequency: D-band mmWave technology for next gen 5G xHaul (01/06/2021)
  
  The deployment of 5G networks has brought a demand for high-capacity, high-speed wireless links for backhaul. While E-band (71-76GHz & 81-86GHz) links remain in widespread & growing use, providing 10-20Gbps wireless connectivity for backhaul, fronthaul & midhaul (collectively known as xHaul), a recent GSMA report highlighted that evolution towards higher frequency bands will be essential to make a wider amount of spectrum available & to meet future xHaul requirements up to 100Gbp
- Manufacturing & Engineering Week launches at NEC, Birmingham, June 2022 (27/05/2021)
  
  A brand new industry event celebrating the best in UK manufacturing & engineering excellence & innovation launches at the NEC, Birmingham in June 2022, comprising of three sector specific events: Design Engineering Expo, Engineering Expo & Manufacturing Expo.
- Scientists to cut the ‘key’ to an unhackable 5G network (27/05/2021)
  
  Heriot-Watt University joins Innovate UK funded BT project for end-to-end quantum-secured communications.
- Configurable DeviceOn Module drastically cuts wireless sensor development time (26/05/2021)
  
  Compact, low-power WISE-1510-DOM module from Advantech comes ready-to-use out-of-the-box, with no programming required.
- New 67GHz microwave multiplexers in PXI, PXIe & LXI formats enable engineers to scale up performance in the same test system footprint (20/05/2021)
  
  Pickering Interfaces' new range of microwave multiplexers will be showcased at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS), taking place from June 8-10, in Atlanta, Georgia, US as a live in-person event – and also from June 20-25 as a virtual event.

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