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Parallel to the PCIM Europe exhibition, the conference held from 5th-7th May 2020 in Nuremberg, offers a multi-faceted programme consisting of lecture and poster presentations, keynotes, special sessions and exclusive seminars and tutorials.

Demand has continued to grow for Silicon Carbide (SiC)-based systems to maximise efficiency and reduce size and weight, allowing engineers to create innovative power solutions. Applications leveraging SiC technology range from electric vehicles and charging stations to smart power grids and industrial and aircraft power systems. Microchip Technology ahs announced its expanded portfolio of smaller, lighter and more efficient SiC power modules.

Plessey, an embedded technologies developer at the forefront of microLED technology for augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) display applications, has added passive matrix microLED displays to its Data-Vµ product family.

IoT will be the most prevailing trend in the satcom industry in 2020, predicts the satellite communications waveform and test tool specialist, GateHouse Telecom. Significant advancements within satellite enabled data relay, environmental monitoring, and flight safety will also influence satcom in the year to come.

Location technology specialist, TomTom (TOM2), has released the results of its TomTom Traffic Index, a report detailing the traffic situation in 416 cities, in 57 countries around the world, in 2019. Edinburgh took the UK top spot as most congested city for the third consecutive year, with drivers expecting to spend an average of 41% extra travel time stuck in traffic.

Shetland Space Centre’s (SSC) plan to build and operate the UK’s only satellite launch site has been given a major boost by a £2,050,000 investment from Leonne International, the international private equity firm.

DSEI Japan 2019, held in Makuhari Messe, Tokyo between 18th and 20th November, marked both the first fully-integrated large-scale defence and security exhibition in Japan, and the first DSEI event to be held outside of London.DSEI Japan was launched after the Japanese defence budget was increased to record highs of $46bn as part of the renovation of their military forces. This inaugural exhibition came about following the revision of the Three Pr...

Gaming, smart home gateways, rovers and drones, interactive installations, and 3D scanning are all potential applications for UDOO’s X86 II single board computers which are now being shipped by Mouser Electronics. The single board computers are available in two models — ADVANCED PLUS and ULTRA — both of which are based on 64-bit quad-core Intel processors.

FANUC’s open industrial IoT platform, called ‘FIELD system’, evaluates data from machines and systems centrally. The system can connect production machines of all manufacturers by means of a local network topology, enabling comprehensive data analysis of the entire process line. In this infrastructure, apps from FANUC and from third-party suppliers are used. Now igus has developed a smart plastics app for the new system.

Steve Rogerson looks at some of the news that may have missed the front page.