Electrical & Process Control As things get bigger and more complex inevitably there is a greater need to monitor and control everything. Get up to speed on the latest in how engineers are tackling these problems in electrical and process control.
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Hundreds of position detectors are being read out by a single laser pulse in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), part of the Large Hadron Collider project at Cern in Geneva.
This is achieved by choosing a laser frequency to which silicon photo detectors respond, yet are transparent. |
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Sunday 16 November, 2008 06:39 AM |
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In a press conference held at the Metropolitan Pavilion Center in New York City yesterday, Archerfish(TM) by Cernium was announced as an International CES 2009 Innovations Design and Engineering Award honoree. Since 1976, the Innovations Awards have been a hallmark for the best designed products in consumer technology.
A winner in the Integrated Home Systems product category, Archerfish is the first and only mobile video intelligence (MVI) solution. Its advanced technology allows users to keep an eye on their business and home locations no matter where they are physically located, delivering the ultimate place-shifting experience. |
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Thursday 13 November, 2008 08:59 AM |
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The LEDs work like high-tech lights on a Christmas tree: Each of the light-emitting diodes has an IP address, much like a mini-computer. The diodes are placed every 8 inches on a piece of wire, with up to 50 in a row. The power supplies to the LEDs also have their own IP addresses, and “know” how many LEDs are hooked up to them. The system is run through an Ethernet computer-networking connection.
The LEDs can be told what color to be as often as 30 times a second, and technicians can drive video through them to create a movie-screen effect. |
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Sunday 9 November, 2008 02:13 PM |
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Sun Microsystems and Europractice have teamed for a three-year project aimed at widening the use of the OpenSPARC CMT open sourced multi-core, multithreaded processor architecture, particularly in European universities.
The organization said it selected Sun's OpenSPARC technology because of its advanced architecture and freely available commercial designs.
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Friday 7 November, 2008 12:16 AM |
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NKK Switches , the world's leading designerand manufacturer of innovative electromechanical switching devices, todayannounced the formal launch of operations for its Customized Design Team, aspecialized in-house group which is focused on providing design engineersfrom virtually all industry segments with customized switch solutions fortheir human-machine interfaces.
The Customized Design Team will use NKK's proven and industry leadingdesign expertise, rapid response capabilities and broad product base toprovide customers with unique switch designs targeted at meeting theindividual challenges experienced in their industry segments and atimproving their overall interface effectiveness. These customized solutionscan be either completely new designs or modifications of existing NKKswitch models.
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Tuesday 4 November, 2008 08:52 AM |
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The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has released a new standard designed to increase international acceptance of different certification used by software engineering professionals.
According to ISO, the fact that the global software industry is growing implies that a software engineering professional is likely to work in different countries over the course of a career, meaning that there needs to be some form of software standardisation to help-out these people.
The newly-published ‘International Standard ISO/IEC 24773, Software engineering – Certification of software engineering professionals – Comparison framework’, will respond to the needs of multi-national organisations or suppliers when developing software for a foreign customer who requires software engineering professional certifications, says ISO.
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Wednesday 29 October, 2008 07:35 PM |
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Presto Engineering, Inc., a provider of product engineering services to the semiconductor industry, announced today the release of its new Allegheny thermal control system for high-power device in-silicon analysis. The innovative design combines a diamond-based heat-spreader with a novel method to clamp the device-under-test (DUT). The patent-pending system can be installed in most state-of-the art backside in-silicon analysis systems and enables imaging with air-gap and immersion lenses. In addition it does not require liquid to be in contact with the DUT, thereby enabling high-power devices to be analyzed in-silicon while being tested -- the most advanced method for modern semiconductor bring-up and failure analysis. |
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Tuesday 28 October, 2008 07:27 AM |
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The Boddington Gold Project’s process control system will soon mobilise to a site-based phase.
The control system provides the window into the process for the plant operators.
The system handles the continuous control of all process operations, sequence control of plant start-up and shut-down, safeguarding of plant assets, and the gathering and presentation of plant information for operations, engineering and management personnel.
The control system project has involved an extensive design effort in Perth, Santiago (Chile), Melbourne, and Brisbane.
Automation supplier Yokogawa Australia shipped the hardware for the control system to site, and has completed the first major software Factory Acceptance Test.
The remaining software design will occur over the next four months, in parallel with site commissioning of the initial system delivery.
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Monday 27 October, 2008 10:43 PM |
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The chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will visit the University of Pittsburgh to discuss the recent reemergence of nuclear power as a global energy option and to urge students to help supply the nuclear engineers that will drive its rebirth. Dale E. Klein will address current and prospective Pitt nuclear engineering students Oct. 27 during Pitt's Nuclear Engineering Night, hosted by the Pitt Swanson School of Engineering's nuclear engineering program and featuring representatives from Western Pennsylvania companies specializing in nuclear power. The event begins at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of Pitt's David Lawrence Hall, 3942 Forbes Ave., Oakland, with Klein scheduled to speak at 6:30 p.m.
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Friday 24 October, 2008 09:37 PM |
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ACUSIM Software, Inc ., a provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions for engineers and scientists, announces ACUSIM Energy Day.
Taking place Thurs., Nov. 6, 2008 at the Microsoft Building in Houston, the conference will cover the offshore oil and wind energy industries, and how CFD, high-performance computing (HPC) and visualization solutions are advancing offshore and deepwater applications, as well as for wind turbine design, simulation and micro-siting.
In addition, hear real customer examples from leading companies such as Chevron Energy Technology Company, Red Wing Engineering, and more on how they are using advanced CFD technology and the results they are receiving. For complete event details and agenda, or to register, visit ACUSIM Energy Day. |
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Thursday 2 October, 2008 06:10 PM |
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It has been a bold and determined seduction by France, and yesterday it was consummated when Britain handed over its nuclear industry, lock stock and barrel, to Électricité de France.
The French state utility is paying £12.4-billion ($23.8-billion) to buy British Energy, the owner of Britain's aging nukes, a fleet of eight power stations that generate about a fifth of the nation's electricity. As a sop to national sentiment, a quarter share of the nuclear generator will then be sold on to Centrica, the company that owns British Gas, the country's biggest power and gas retailer.
It is a deal that has been brokered by Downing Street, a recognition not just of the government's 35-per-cent holding in the nuclear generator but of the huge political and economic stakes in the outcome. British Energy's nukes are in their dotage. Reliability is dogged by maintenance problems - in May, the unexpected shutdown of one unit, Sizewell B, caused blackouts in the northwest of England.
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Thursday 25 September, 2008 11:57 PM |
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Cypress Semiconductor Corp . today announced that it is partnering with Europractice to provide Cypress's high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions at a heavily discounted rate for use by academic and not-for-profit research institutions throughout the European Union. Included in the offering is Cypress's PSoC(R) programmable system-on-chip family, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories, wired and wireless connectivity solutions, and the West Bridge(TM) and EZ-USB(R) FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress will also offer a full suite of development tools, including its First Touch(TM) starter kit and PSoC Designer(TM) integrated development environment. |
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Tuesday 23 September, 2008 10:59 AM |
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American Superconductor Corporation , a leading energy technologies company, announced today at HUSUM WindEnergy 2008 the launch of its proprietary PowerModule PM3000W power converter, a fully programmable, flexible and modular power converter developed specifically for wind power applications. This highly scalable solution is designed for rapid integration into a wide range of wind turbines with power ratings from 750 kilowatts (kW) – the basic PM3000W building block – up to 6 megawatts (MW). AMSC developed the PM3000W converter based on its core capabilities in power electronics hardware and software, the design and licensing of wind turbines, knowledge gained in the deployment of thousands of PowerModule PM1000 converters in wind turbines, and the company’s experience connecting wind farms to power grids utilizing its proprietary D-VAR® solution.
AMSC’s PowerModule converters are power dense, scalable and programmable, allowing them to be readily customized for many electrical applications. Wind-specific PM3000W converters incorporate algorithms and external communication protocols to enable universal generator connectivity. The product has successfully passed extensive factory testing and rigorous field testing in operating wind farms, and the company has already booked pre-launch orders for more than 3,300 PM3000W converters from customers in Canada (AAER Inc.), China (Sinovel Wind, CSR-ZELRI and Dongfang Steam Turbine Works), Germany (Fuhrländer AG) and India (Ghodawat Industries). AMSC shipped the first PM3000W converters to customers in September 2008. |
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Wednesday 17 September, 2008 08:33 AM |
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The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running at 1.4 gigahertz at the University of Rochester.
Unlike past attempts at 3-D chips, the Rochester chip is not simply a number of regular processors stacked on top of one another. It was designed and built specifically to optimize all key processing functions vertically, through multiple layers of processors, the same way ordinary chips optimize functions horizontally. The design means tasks such as synchronicity, power distribution, and long-distance signaling are all fully functioning in three dimensions for the first time.
"I call it a cube now, because it's not just a chip anymore," says Eby Friedman, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rochester and faculty director of the pro of the processor. "This is the way computing is going to have to be done in the future. When the chips are flush against each other, they can do things you could never do with a regular 2D chip." |
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Tuesday 16 September, 2008 01:24 PM |
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While Moore's Law continues to march onward, its pace has slowed. Currently, the semiconductor industry is migrating to 32nm, but the migration to 16nm is not expected to arrive until 2019, meaning that it will take 11-years for the semiconductor industry to advance only two process nodes.
However, industry players are increasingly looking beyond Moore's Law to see how productivity gains can be made without scaling, and currently players in the packaging segment believe that they can help drive the next generation of growth in the industry.
Ho-Ming Tong, chief technical officer at packaging industry leader Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) recently commented that the packaging industry is actually outpacing growth of the rest of the industry. In contrast to front-end players, the speed in which packaging and testing companies have introduced new solutions is now 4-5x faster than it was 5-10 years ago, Tong pointed out. Packaging and testing advancement is picking up while the rest of the industry is slowing down.
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Tuesday 16 September, 2008 10:10 AM |
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Operating assets are more than the physical equipment one sees during a plant tour. Critical human and information assets lie “hidden” behind the equipment façade and their development must be synchronized with the equipment throughout design, build and commissioning to achieve rapid operational readiness goals. |
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Monday 15 September, 2008 07:06 PM |
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TransCore , which is the largest global supplier of transportation based radio frequency identification (RFID) products, celebrates the 25th silver anniversary of its RFID technology at the company’s Albuquerque-headquartered Amtech Technology Center for research, development, and manufacturing on Saturday, September 13, 2008, at 2 p.m.
TransCore’s RFID heritage traces back to the '80s when five scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory developed RFID technology for two divisions of the federal government: the Department of Energy to track vehicles and nuclear materials and the Department of Agriculture to track cattle and monitor their health. In 1983, Congress encouraged the national laboratories to transfer technology to the private sector so the public could benefit from the investment of research dollars. The development team left Los Alamos to commercialize the technology and founded Amtech, later acquired by TransCore. |
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Sunday 14 September, 2008 01:19 PM |
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WPCS International Incorporated , a company involved in design-build engineering services for specialty communication systems and wireless infrastructure, has has entered the wind power industry by acquiring Lincoln Wind LLC of Bettendorf, Iowa for $400,000 in cash. |
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 01:39 PM |
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — At the Design Automation Conference mid-June in Anaheim, California, an educational panel addressed the thermal issue in integrated circuit (IC) design. Two key questions were raised: When will this issue be emerging as a crucial concern if at all? What are the solutions to solve this potential crisis?
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 07:43 AM |
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A flexible robotic production cell solution has been delivered to Deutsch UK by robotics and automation specialist Aylesbury Automation. The robot-based machine has been introduced as a result of increasing product demand. It assembles a range of similar, two pin electrical plugs and sockets and produces one complete part every six seconds |
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 05:31 PM |
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Sydney – Rittal , a leading worldwide provider of electronic packaging technologies, has unveiled its RiCell 5 kW fuel cell system.
Featuring a stand-alone power supply, the RiCell is suitable for an extensive range of applications in transport and environmental technology, power engineering, IT and telecommunications. |
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 03:43 PM |
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