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Clearing the Static: How to protect PCBs from electrostatic discharge and moisture
Actum Electronics, Circuit & System Protection

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are essential components in most electronic devices. They are sensitive to environmental factors like electrostatic discharge (ESD) and moisture, which can cause significant ...
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High-performance PCIe Gen 5 SSD controller
RS South Africa , DSP, Micros & Memory

Microchip’s latest NVMe controller chip has a sequential read performance of 14 GB/s for use in AI-accelerated servers under demanding workloads.
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Next-gen rectangular wafer technology
Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services

Traditionally, wafers are circular, resulting in wastage at the wafer’s round edges; moving to rectangular wafers increases the usage ratio to around 95%.
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Fighting AOI false calls
MyKay Tronics, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services

If the Automated Optical Inspection process is not perfectly controlled and adequately tailored to your SMT process, a significant number of false defects may appear in production.
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Quectel and iCORP: driving wireless technology
iCorp Technologies, Editor's Choice, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

As the IoT continues to expand, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are increasingly relied on to deliver secure, robust, short-range connectivity for IoT applications and devices ranging from customer premise equipment to Bluetooth beacons and trackers.
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Infineon Academy
Infineon Technologies, News

Infineon Academy offers a range of over 600 product and application trainings, all carefully curated to help visitors maximise the benefits of Infineon offerings.
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Nomso Kana: From nuclear scientist to ICT entrepreneur
Editor's Choice

A nuclear scientist turned enterprising trailblazer, Nomso is reshaping Africa’s digital landscape through her visionary venture, Simsciex Technologies.
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Workshop: Product development and industrialisation
News

SKEG is excited to join forces with The Lion Cage to present a workshop on the intricacies of product development and industrialisation to assist in guiding innovative ventures to scale.
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From the editor's desk: Can IoT innovation in SA be a thing?
Technews Publishing, News

To support a cellular-based IoT industry, more needs to be done to address the cost and connectivity issues plaguing local players, and until that is done, SA will continue to remain at the back of the pack.
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The impact of women in South Africa’s engineering sector
Editor's Choice

In South Africa, the presence of women in engineering is not only promoting diversity, but also driving innovation and economic growth.
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Ultra-low power with 32 MHz of performance
Future Electronics, DSP, Micros & Memory

The Renesas RA0E1 delivers up to 32 MHz of CPU performance using an Arm Cortex-M23 core with a wide supply voltage range from 1,6 to 5,5 V.
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Entry-level MCU with classical peripherals
EBV Electrolink, DSP, Micros & Memory

NXP’s MCX C04x microcontrollers feature an Arm Cortex-M0+ core up to 48 MHz and offer 32 KB Flash, 2 KB SRAM, and 8 KB boot ROM.
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Precision sensor interface SoC
Altron Arrow, DSP, Micros & Memory

The MAX40109 is a low-power, precision sensor interface SoC that includes a high-precision, programmable analogue frontend, and digital signal processing.
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Small-scale custom development in the information age
Editor's Choice

Being able to approach potential large-scale investors with a physical prototype that shows the basic operation of an idea provides a much stronger base on which to sell the idea for further development.
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2 A Schottky rectifiers in tiny package
Future Electronics, Passive Components

The SDT2UxxCP3 rectifiers from Diodes Incorporated, the smallest in the class, feature low forward voltage and excellent thermal dissipation, to enable the design of more efficient circuits in wearable and portable devices.
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Capacitors for implantable medical applications
Altron Arrow, Passive Components

Vishay has a range of tantalum and multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC), manufactured in medical-qualified facilities, for implantable applications.
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Tube magazines for ring core chokes
RS South Africa , Passive Components

Main applications of these ring core chokes include suppression of common-mode interferences, switch-mode power supplies, and power inverters.
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Arduino shield simplifies use of fibre-optic datalink
Opto-Electronics

UK-based company OMC has launched an H19 fibre-optic shield, compatible with Arduino Uno, to demonstrate how an optical fibre datalink can easily be incorporated into a microprocessor-based design.
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