Recently, Ford Motor Co. announced it will have a fully driverless car without a steering wheel or pedals for braking and acceleration by 2021. According to the Detroit News, company executives said “they plan to leapfrog semi-autonomous drive-assist systems like GM’s Super Cruise and Tesla’s Autopilot that require drivers to take control at a moment’s notice,” and “the cars … [Read more...]
New CENELEC Standards Recently Released
Rein Tech Laboratories recently listed several updates to standards in their July 2016 newsletter “MultiPoint”. Among them are the following updates as published by CENELEC. There are additional standards updates listed for IEC and ETSI standards. This is a shortened list of the CENELEC standards published or made available during the past month: EN 62610-5:2016 - 6/24/2016 … [Read more...]
Young High School Engineering Team Receives Company Sponsor
(August 9, 2016) Recently, four members of the Cybersonics Technology Team of Palisades High School presented their newest robot at Amplifier Research’s (AR) business meeting. The team's award winning robot recently won the Creativity Award sponsored by Xerox during a competition held at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia, PA. Cybersonics recognized that this … [Read more...]
Interference Technology’s Top 5 Articles
The top five “clicked-on” articles since 2005 include information on high frequency current probes & applications, RTCA/DO-160 update, electromagnetic interference sources and their most significant effects, designing electronic systems for EMI, and radiated emissions measurements from 1 to 30 meters. To read the articles and more about them, click here. … [Read more...]
FDA Finalizes Guidance In Supporting Claims Of EMC
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued final guidance in supporting claims of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) of medical devices. The document is recommended for use in conjunction with consensus standards, as well as other FDA guidance documents pertaining to specific devices. Typically, the FDA reviews EMC information based on the risk of device … [Read more...]
Latest Medical Power Supply Series Showcased
(June 14, 2016) Delta has announced their latest medical power supply series at the MD&M East 2016 show in New York. Products on display include Delta's high energy density medical open frame and enclosed power supplies, medical grade 30W wall mount adapters, and the new MDS-350AD701 power solution model with a 350W power rating. All of the product offerings are certified … [Read more...]
Airplane Powered by an Electric Motor
(April 26, 2016) Electric motors are not just for automobiles. Siemens and Airbus plan to jointly develop prototypes for an E-plane. According to Siemens' website, the prototypes for various propulsion systems will be "for short, local trips with aircraft below 100 seats, [and] helicopters or UAVs up to classic short and medium-range journeys." "In the field of Ultra Light, … [Read more...]
IEC 60601-1-9 – Environmentally Conscience Design for Medical Equipment
The standard for environmentally conscious design, IEC 60601-1-9, was published in 2007 (amended in 2013) as a collateral standard to IEC 60601, the widely accepted series of international standards for the basic safety and essential performance of medical electrical equipment. Compliance with the IEC 60601 series is required by regulatory bodies responsible for electrical … [Read more...]
Britain After Brexit, with the Accent on EMC
(June 24, 2016) Written by Kenneth Wyatt - Britain has voted to leave the European Union, a monumental decision that’s triggering some serious alarm bells throughout the country. As it stands, many UK laws and regulations are determined by EU legislation and it’s not immediately clear what the EMC standards ramifications in Britain will be during the two year transition and in … [Read more...]
Free, Feature-Rich Simulator to Aid Design for EMC Introduced
A global leader in semiconductors, STMicroelectronics, is helping protect today's smart devices by making shirt pockets, car dashboards, office desks, and other statically dangerous locations safer through the introduction of their new online software tool ESD-SIM. ESD-SIM is capable of assessing both circuit protection and signal integrity, to help select the right … [Read more...]
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