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Rajeev Madhavan, chairman and CEO of Magma Design, sat down with Electronic News to talk about the EDA market, conflicts between EDA players that sell IP and their customers, and the need for different benchmarks in the semiconductor industry. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. Electronic News: How’s business these days? Madhavan: We’re doing reasonably. And for a bad ...

The American electronics industry has its own corner that will be forever England, and it looks pretty good from here. David...

Abacus Group has moved to sharpen its focus on the European market by naming a new managing director for its component distribution business whose responsibilities will encompass northern Europe. Graham McBeth has been promoted to the new post of managing director of the Abacus ECD business across Northern Europe which includes the UK, Eire and the Nordic regions. McBeth was ...

Chaotic dataRichard Ball looks at chaotically encoded data and finds out how it can be used in communications Like studying the selection of a national cricket or football team, the science of chaos tries to make sense of an apparently random system. For some years now, chaos theory has promised great advances in the electronics sector. Applications have been sought ...

Mother Nature can be cruel and kind, and when deciding if Mankind should have an easy route to producing and detecting electromagnetic radiation at terahertz frequencies, she chose to be cruel. People are interested in gaining access to the region between the far infra-red at 300GHz and 10THz, as the radiation is non-ionising and interacts with matter, promising much as ...

A consortium led by Thales Defence has been awarded preferred bidder status for the Government’s £800m Watchkeeper programme developing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). If the consortium can agree a contract with the MoD, a joint venture company will be formed in Leicester with the promise of new jobs. “It would be around about the 120 mark,” said a spokesman for ...

Aeroplanes have had electronics in them for almost as long as aircraft have had engines. First in radio sets and then in radar and navigation devices. In parallel, as aircraft grew, hydraulic amplification and control supplemented, and then replaced, mechanical linkages between pilots and the various flaps, elevators and rudders used for manoeuvring. Fly-by-wire saw computers finally break all mechanical ...

The booming interest in wireless LANs (WLANs) and 802.11 standard systems in particular, has triggered the introduction of a number of application specific signal analysis and hardware and software systems for speeding time-to-market development of WLAN boards and modules. This is presenting design engineers with a variety of modulation and signal formats, not to mention the different frequency and bandwidth ...

The simplest, probably the cheapest and least obtrusive way of solving the UK's transport problems is through electronics....

As manufacturing continues to move away from the UK to take advantage of the cheap labour which is available abroad, it seems now is the time for us to have a rethink. If cost is the only advantage that manufacturing abroad has, then why is it that Nokia can not only design its mobile phones in Finland, but also manufacture ...