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York and Cardiff Universities join UK Electronics Skills Foundation
The Universities of Cardiff and York have joined the UK Electronics Skills Foundation, which seeks to reverse the decline in the number of graduates entering the electronics industry by linking electronic engineering degree students with companies for sponsorship and work experience placements.
Maxim - DS1878 SFP+ controller includes a digital LDD interface for communication with a laser driver/limiting amplifier.
Maxim introduced the DS1878, a small form factor pluggable (SFP+) controller with a digital laser diode driver (LDD) interface. State machine based, the DS1878 eliminates the tedious software development process. It enables efficient implementation of the SFF-8472 specification and greatly reduces the time to market. Moreover, as the most reliable I2C controller available to optical transceiver designers, the DS1878 enhances the reliability of SF...
3M to celebrate 30th Anniversary At Southern Manufacturing & Electronics Exhibition
3M is a $23 billion diversified technology company which, since 1902, has been creating innovative products that help make the world healthier, safer and more productive. Well known 3M brands include Scotch, Post-it, Scotchgard, Thinsulate and Scotch-Brite.
MIRTEC Names Representative for Arizona
MIRTEC, “The Global Leader in Inspection Technology,” appoints ARK Manufacturing Solutions, LLC as its manufacturers’ representative for Arizona. ARK Manufacturing Solutions has been a registered corporation in the State of Arizona since January 2008 with customers located in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Nevada and Sonora, Mexico. The company specializes in microelectronics, SMT and electronic packaging.
Radiall is Awarded the Best Procurement Rating by Airbus
Radiall, a global manufacturer of leading-edge interconnect solutions, is proud to announce that it has been recognized for its best procurement rating among over 30 other suppliers by the Airbus Center of Excellence in 2010.
Juki Promotes Steve Nadeau to National Sales Manager
Juki Automation Systems, the leading provider of automated SMT assembly products and systems in the Americas, announces the promotion of Steve Nadeau to National Sales Manager. Nadeau began as a Product Manager for Juki’s first placement machine, “The PlaceMat 360” in 1988. In 1994, Steve was promoted to Regional Sales Manager. In addition to this role as Regional Sales Manager, Steve held the title of South American Sales Manager for the ...
Telemis - Further expansion in Italy with acquisition of Turin-based Micromedica
Telemis, the specialist in medical imaging solutions, has further consolidated its position in Italy with the acquisition of Micromedica Ltd, one of the country’s leading PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) vendors. Under the terms of the Telemis acquisition, Micromedica becomes part of the Telemis Group and Gian Paolo Robutti, the Micromedica managing director, takes the position of general manager for Telemis in Italy.
NanoKTN Launches New Focus Group to Look at Issues Surrounding the Use of Nanotechnology for Water Treatment
The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK’s primary knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, is pleased to announce the launch of an industry focus group - ‘EcoNano’. For the launch event, the NanoKTN has partnered with the Environmental Sustainability KTN and University College London (UCL) to stage the ‘Nanotechnology for Water’ workshop which will explore ways in which nanotechnology can p...
Gate driver reference design for SemiSouth normally off SiC JFETs enables very fast turn-on/ turn-off
SemiSouth Laboratories, Inc., the leading manufacturer of silicon carbide (SiC) products for high-power, high-efficiency, harsh-environment power management and conversion applications, today announced a reference design and applications note which describes a gate driver optimized for high speed, hard switching of the company’s normally-off SiC vertical JFETs. The design enables very fast turn-on and turn-off in Isolated Bridge topologies and ...
SC21 leader AWS Electronics Group speaks at IAQG conference
AWS Electronics Group – a leading independent Electronic Manufacturing Solutions (EMS) provider – was recently invited to discuss quality issues and especially the benefits of SC21 at the IAQG Annual Conference. The International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) is a co-operative Global organisation of companies responsible for wide range of quality accreditations and quality management systems within the aerospace and space sectors.