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Engineers can now get hand-son with the Renesas Synergy Platform in a series of one-day workshops, the company has announced.Workshop participants will spend a couple of hours understanding the platform, see a demonstration of how quickly they can programme at the API, as well as completing their own project in one of the focus topics. At the end of the workshop engineers will take away their own Renesas Synergy S7 Starter Kit and Synergy ‘...

The increasingly electronic nature of modern cars means that there are more automatic safety systems than ever before.These systems require accurate input about the car’s movement to determine when the car is moving (or will move) in a potentially unsafe way, in order to trigger the appropriate response, be it deploying the airbags or applying the handbrake.

With modern electronic systems becoming more and more complex, demands on power systems are increasing rapidly.It’s now common for systems in every sector to incorporate more than one processor, FPGA or DSP – and all of these sub-systems have specific, conflicting power management requirements.

How can MEMS pressure sensors help you keep fit? Well, they are now commonly being integrated into wearable activity monitors that help consumers track their daily activities and thereby monitor their fitness levels.

A growing pre-occupation with leading healthier life styles means that many of us are becoming much more sensitive to the environment around us, and in particular air quality. There’s even a website dedicated to providing information about air pollution in London city and an inevitable smartphone app to keep you up to date with the facts on how quickly you’re being poisoned.

Battery charging without cables can add convenience, durability and safety to a number of different applications.For example, smartphone charging on the go, such as in public places, or home charging stations that don’t require that search for the correct charging cable.

The invention of the micro switch goes back over 80 years to 1932 and is attributed to one Peter McGall of Freeport, Illinois, US. Giovanna Monari explains.

A highly integrated Power Management IC (PMIC) complete power supply solution for DSLR, mirrorless cameras, and multi-cell Li-ion battery applications has beenannounced byDialog Semiconductor, the DA6102.The company claims that DA6102’s high efficiency levels surpass those of competing solutions, enabling greater battery savings to allow longer operational run times for 2S Li-ion applications and less heat dissipation for space-constrained ...

The Internet of Things is a common topic, as the next great wave of technology which will drive the electronics industry forward with 50 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020, according to some experts. Alan Jermyn explains.

Supercapacitors are an alternative to using a battery or indeed the more common-or-garden variety of capacitor in many energy storage applications, perhaps as backup power or for high-surge demand applications. Avnet Abacus' Adam Chidley explains.