The 2020 IEEE International Microwave Symposium will be a virtual event in August.
Huawei Warns US Would Hurt Itself by Cutting Off Tech Ties
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A senior executive for Chinese technology giant Huawei said Thursday that he hopes the company’s animosity with the United States will be resolved and warned that the U.S. would be shooting itself in the foot if it were to shun Chinese technology. Mika Lauhde, Huawei’s vice-president for cybersecurity and privacy,…
Tech Group Eases Stance on Huawei as Beijing Lashes Back
EIJING (AP) — The world’s largest association of technology professionals backed away from barring from some of its activities employees of Chinese tech giant Huawei, the company at the center of a roiling trade dispute between Washington and Beijing. Data releases Monday, meanwhile, showed a widening fallout from the clash between the two biggest economies…
Optocoupler Degradation – Fact or Fiction?
Optocouplers can be used in an array of isolation applications ranging from power supply and motor control circuits to data communications and digital logic interface circuits in both industrial and automotive markets. The primary purpose of an optocoupler is to provide both electrical insulation (safety) and signal isolation (reliability). Optocouplers eliminate the effects of electrical…
Cuba Legalizes Private Wi-Fi, Importation of Routers
Maximizing Spectrum Efficiency and Performance in Tomorrow’s 5G RAN
The new 5GNR (New Radio) access technology as specified in Release 15 of the 3GPP standards, comes with certain characteristics inherited from the broadly adopted LTE/ 4G radio access. Yet, 5GNR incorporates additional flexibility in the signal specifications that were not present in the previous 4G networks, introducing new capabilities and complexities. New 5GNR features…
Senate Passes Bill Meant to Combat Robocalls
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that aims to combat the illegal robocalls torturing Americans . Though the measure wouldn’t eliminate all unwanted calls, it would give regulators more tools to go after scammers. It would also push phone companies to adopt new technology to combat fake phone numbers popping up on caller ID.…
SoftBank Profits Rise, Partly on Gains from Saudi-tied Fund
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology company SoftBank has reported a 36% year-on-year increase in profit for the fiscal year through March, partly on gains from its Vision Fund. After the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, SoftBank said it would diversify sources of its funding for investments. Much of the Vision Fund money had come…
Designing for EMI testing
Today, R&D engineers face challenging time-to-market goals. Extending the product development schedule and delaying the product launch can prove to be extremely costly in terms of opportunity cost and lost market share. Nearly 50 % of products fail EMC compliance the first time. Every day spent on debugging, isolating and correcting the EMI problem increases…
Teardown Series: Bernecker & Rainer (B&R) ACOPOS P3
B&R ACOPOS P3 is a compact, efficient and precise servo drive with integrated safety functions, ideal for use in automotive, printing, packaging, handling and robotics, or any process demanding extreme precision and speed. An impressive reduction in size, of just under 70%, where heat dissipation would have previously been problematic, has been made possible with…