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A UK consortium is setting up the Virtual Reality Semiconductor Fabrication Training Facility (VRSFT), funded by a £500,000 Innovate UK grant. It is being delivered by a partnership of: semiconductor IP source Semiwise, industry body TechWorks and NMI (National Microelectronics Institute), plus Pragmatic Semiconductor as a consultant. “In the UK, we have numerous small to medium sized specialist chip companies ...

Iceotope Technologies, the precision immersion cooling specialist, has announced a CPD accredited training module addressing CPUs and GPUs in data centre and edge computing environments. Specifically, the training module covers the challenge of the processors becoming ever more powerful while being required to operate in a more diverse range of locations. “In this era of dense compute and data gravity, ...

Electromagnetic field safety equipment supplier Link Microtek has launched a two-day training course to help organisations comply with the 2013/35/EU EMF Directive and the UK-specific Control of Electromagnetic Fields at Work (CEMFAW) Regulations 2016, “which placed specific requirements on employers to perform EMF risk assessments”, according to Link. It will be held in Baisingstoke on on 22-23 October this year, ...

Harwin has formally opened its Apprentice Training Hub, along with an R&D Centre. Located at the company’s Portsmouth headquarters, construction and kitting out of the unit that will house both these operations has been completed and they are now ready to be staffed. “We started an academy program with a local college as part of our efforts to address the ...

RS Components joins the government’s 5% Club, a group of employers that aims to have 5% of the workforce in ‘earn and learn’ positions, such as apprenticeships, sponsored students and graduates on formal training schemes in a period of five years from joining the initiative. The distributor joined in 2018 and has already established 18 new apprenticeships, all completing or ...

A new massive open online course (MOOC) for Linux developers will cover the implementation of cloud-based projects. The Linux Foundation is offering the course through edX, the nonprofit online learning platform launched in 2012 by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The course is free and will begin this June. According to the Linux Foundation, understanding cloud technologies ...

Microchip still has places on its February training courses Subjects will cover the firm’s MPLAB X development environment, C for embedded engineers, the XC8 C compiler and programming its ‘core independent peripherals’ through its new MCC tool. All Microchip courses are in Wokingham Berkshire Training Reference Description Duration Price Pre-requisites TLS 0101 8 feb 2016 1pm Getting Started with Microchip ...

Feabhas has recruited embedded design specialists Andrew McCormick and Philip Kirkpatrick to provide on-site team development and public training for individual engineers. McCormick has experience of software engineering design, support and integration, gained companies such as Pace, Open TV and Sony Semi-Conductor Europe. Andrew will focus on the development and delivery of Embedded Linux courses, including: Secure Linux Programming, Developing ...

Technology and engineering companies are still very worried about a lack of recruits with the necessary skill levels for the job. Companies even believe the skills shortage is serious enough to restrict business growth over the next few years, according to this year’s CBI/Pearson Education and Skills survey. The CBI/Pearson, which surveyed over a million employees in 310 UK-based companies, said ...

PCB design consultancy Quadra has introduced an IPC Certified Interconnect Designer (CID) training qualification. Electronics Weekly speaks to Adam Barcroft, Quadra’s IPC CID certified trainer to find out a little more about the qualification and how he got into the industry in the first place. So where did your interest in electronics come from? At school I took electronics as ...