21 November 2001: Feature Articles

• Is the lowest forward voltage drop of real Schottky diodes always the best choice?
• National Instruments - total solutions for measurement and automation
• Telkom deploys RPS solution from Spescom
• FPGA vendors go for the hard cell
• Phoenix Contact demonstrates continued confidence in SA
• Siemens Components and Electrocomp - a partnership that really is working well for the local electronics industry

7 November 2001: Feature Articles

• A useful role for the ADX1202 dual-axis accelerometer in speedometer-independent car navigation systems
• Gallium arsenide meets silicon at last - 'technology breakthrough'
• AAD signs sub-distribution agreement with Components & System Design
• All-Italian PCB machines manufacturing company formed
• Creating a serial peripheral interface for communications between microprocessors and peripherals
• New power storage technology
• Radio amateurs seek industry support to take their activity into schools
• Why are more people not online?

24 October 2001: Feature Articles

• Technews' founder dies - Obituary: Ray Beaumont 22/09/27-28/09/01
• IC Insights remains optimistic about the future of the electronics and IC industries
• Prototypes of paper-like flexible displays expected next year
• Grintek Telecom now sole Acterna distributor
• Memory card market set to grow with introduction of new formats
• MEMS gaining momentum in optical networking
• Research report on youth and wireless technologies
• Space-robot design competition powered by Hitachi's H8 micro
• Study of remarkable optics in marine creatures may help development of microlenses for optical networks

10 October 2001: Feature Articles

• New SA company formed to provide focus on semiconductor products from Analog Devices
• Ampro extends EnCore line with MIP32, 486 and Pentium III modules
• SA Govt invests R298m in people, skills and technology for industry
• Technical publisher leads the way in on-line technology
• Digi's new acquisition opens thin client servers to midmarket
• Healthy growth ahead for worldwide WLAN semi market
• Internationally recognised LabVIEW training courses
• Locally designed stiffy-drive-sized PC
• Thumbs up for new keyboard
• Waveguide switching system for high-capacity short-haul ratios (SDH 155 Mbps)
• Wireless networking: the challenge of the standards

26 September 2001: Feature Articles

• Digital chicken or cyber egg - which should come first?
• Local ISPs should copy the business strategies of CLECs in the USA
• Speeding up the last mile
• Current telecom downturn will slow but not stall VoIP efforts
• Electronic all-rounders
• Introduction to industrial networking
• Open solutions delivery without breaking the bank
• Pinetown-based company designs and manufactures SA's first Linux Thin Client
• Tooling turned into automatic reality

12 September 2001: Feature Articles

• Maxim announces changes in European distribution
• Parsec Manufacturing - where the customer really is King
• Regulations shut SA out of $225 bn worldwide network boom
• Now it is wind-up batteries
• PTC thermistors replace heat coils to protect sensitive telecom equipment

29 August 2001: Feature Articles

• 'Virtual' chipmaker puts pressure on establishment
• Free embedded tools for the Motorola Coldfire
• Major Tech launches new 'cable care systems' subsidiary

15 August 2001: Feature Articles

• ADEC 2001 Exhibition - Chairman's comment
• Intersil forges stronger partnership with EBV-Electrolink in South Africa
• Magnetic field shocklessly shoots pellets 20 times faster than rifle bullet
• ADEC feedback
• Definitive DSP solutions from Kreon Technology
• Despite slow start, satellite digital radio industry will flourish
• Location-based services may defray hefty infrastructure costs
• Magical Mystery Tour - EBV Banquet 2001
• Network processor adoption continues, says IDC
• Reducing skew in high data rate cables

1 August 2001: Feature Articles

• Gartner presents African telecommunications findings
• $231 bn in worldwide contract manufacturing forecast for 2005
• Opinion - SA wireless Internet market will follow Asian model

18 July 2001: Feature Articles

• 'Patent to product' initiative
• Scientists calculate the theoretical limits of fibre-optic communications
• Adding security to mobile communications
• Device invented to help prevent travel blood-clot death
• Semiconductor markings - real or not?
• Why wireless developers need Java technology
• Wireless systems still to grow in both narrowband and broadband

4 July 2001: Feature Articles

• Marconi wins two-year telecoms supply contract from Transtel
• Heat transfer in forced convection reflow soldering systems: lead-free solder paste, a new challenge
• Transition Networks appoints ATC as distribution and logistic centre for Africa
• Electrocomp appointed as Truly agent
• Fast optical recognition system devised for heavy traffic
• New electronics design house launched in KZN
• UEC introduces new digital cable STB for the US market

20 June 2001: Feature Articles

• Second-half 2001 rebound will drive chip sales up 20,5% in 2002, says SIA

6 June 2001: Feature Articles

• A taxonomy of resources for embedded Linus developers - Part III

23 May 2001: Feature Articles

• Avnet Kopp and Mantech sign distribution agreement
• Grintek's new defence technology company opens office
• New software company targets high-volume electronics market
• DEK becomes sole licensee of adhesive screen printing technology

9 May 2001: Feature Articles

• Researchers develop the first plastic superconductor
• A taxonomy of resources for embedded Linux developers - Part II
• ATC's optical fibre production to be trebled by early-2002
• Companies ink multiyear, multimillion dollar OEM agreement
• Shake, rattle and roll - tougher electrolytics master vibrations in automative applications
• SMT experience could open new plasma display markets
• Voice-over-IP increasingly viewed as circuit switch alternative, says report
• SuperH formed by Hitachi and STMicroelectronics to boost µP core proliferation
• Wireless LAN markets comes of age in 2000

25 April 2001: Feature Articles

• New management for Siemens Components
• Company secures major international defence equipment orders
• Inventors competition aims to boost SA entrepreneurship
• Location-based services to show tremendous growth
• Smallest autonomous mini-robot
• Thailand's electronics industry offers much to South Africa

11 April 2001: Feature Articles

• SA gets turbo charge for Internet mobility
• Technology that sees underground
• A taxonomy of resources for embedded Linux developers - Part 1
• Atmel launches 'Logic doubling' initiative
• The PW104CPU - a South African embedded PC

28 March 2001: Feature Articles

• Arrow Altech Distribution - a profile
• DEK MD appointed as new IPC SMEMA Council Chair
• Relay manufacturer offers optimal switching solutions
• Secure shopping revealed

14 March 2001: Feature Articles

• Distributor of choice - the reliable supplier of professional electronic components
• Electrocomp - 'Back to the Future'
• Local PCB manufacture is a booming business for Bosco
• ASIC Design Services - leveraging technical expertise to ensure customer success
• Distributorship agreement - iS Electronics/Ziehl-ebm SA
• Local company offers complete solution
• Mismatch in forecasting indicates volatility within the semiconductor industry
• SA products to fly on German aircraft
• Unique Insight as Memec Impacts South Africa
• Your embedded solution provider - Centurion Micro Electronics
• Spescom MeasureGraph grows business for GN Nettest in southern Africa

28 February 2001: Feature Articles

• Company speeds move to 42 V automotive power systems
• High efficiency power supply for portable electronics application
• Memec set to shake up component distribution market in SA
• Selecting electrolytic capacitors for power supplies
• Speed time to market with new concept embedded modules

14 February 2001: Feature Articles

• Computer laboratory donated to University
• Despite turbulence, chip sales will grow in 2001
• electronica 2000: world podium for a booming market
• Esselenpark introduces 'Best' programme for students
• Free Internet access promised for South African schools
• HP co-founder Bill Hewlett dies at 87
• Impact means business in South Africa
• Internet hosts reach 100 million worldwide
• Moving closer to robot evolution
• Prospects for the SA electronics industry - 2001
• SA manufacturing supported by national CAD/CAM/CAE skills development drive
• Shurlok lands contract to supply Proton Malaysia
• Siemens announces black economic empowerment deal
• Siemens geared up for demand in short-range connectivity
• Trends in soldering technology - ready for the future
• Unique teamwork provides the key Microchip success
• University of Natal in drive to attract engineering students
• Apologies to Christopher Columbus
• Platform FPGA - the future of logic design
• Protecting modems against lightning discharges

24 January 2001: Feature Articles

• Analog Devices and Intel introduce jointly developed DSP architecture
• Emulation support for embedded PowerPC
• Flash memories - an exceptional evolution
• Intelligent direction for HDD evolution