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Electronics Standards and Certifications Leader Unveils New Vision and Mission for Supply Chain Harmonization and Advocacy, Releases Global Trade Flows Study

A new chapter begins for IPC as it officially becomes the Global Electronics Association, reflecting its role as the voice of the electronics industry. Guided by the vision of “Better electronics for a better world,” the Global Electronics Association (electronics.org) is dedicated to enhancing supply chain resilience and promoting accelerated growth through engagement with more than 3,000- member companies, thousands of partners, and dozens of governments across the globe.

“The Board’s support and approval of this transformation shows our collective recognition that the electronics industry has fundamentally changed. The Association has expanded well beyond its beginning in printed circuit boards – we’re enabling AI, autonomous vehicles, next-generation communications, and much more,” said Tom Edman, board chair of the Global Electronics Association and president and CEO of TTM Technologies. “As we chart our path forward with our new name, we will continue and elevate our efforts to build partnerships between governments and industries, foster new investment, drive innovation across the industry, and minimize disruptions in the electronics supply chain.”

As part of its new mission, the Association is increasing resources to strengthen advocacy, deepen industry insights, and enhance stakeholder communications — all aimed at advancing and elevating the electronics industry. To champion a resilient and growing supply chain, the Association represents the entire ecosystem of diverse subsectors that contribute to this complex industry.

“Electronics today are the backbone of all industries, which makes its supply chain crucial to economies, governments, and everyday life,” said Dr. John W. Mitchell, president and CEO of the Global Electronics Association. “Our new mission and vision position us to work more deeply with industry and our members globally to advocate for the importance of electronics in our continuously changing world.”

The Global Electronics Association will retain the IPC brand for the industry’s standards and certification programs, which are vital to ensure product reliability and consistency. The IPC Education Foundation is now known as the Electronics Foundation, continuing to focus on solving the talent challenges for the electronics industry.

Global Electronics Trade Flows 

The Global Electronics Association also released a trade flows study of the global electronics industry, which now represents more than $1 in every $5 of global merchandise trade. Key findings include:

• Electronics supply chains are more globally integrated than any other industry, surpassing even the automotive sector in cross-border complexity.
• Trade inputs like semiconductors and connectors now exceed trade in finished products such as smartphones and laptops, with global electronics trade totaling $4.5 trillion in 2023, including $2.5 trillion in components alone.
• Top exporters such as China, Vietnam, and India are among the fastest-growing importers of electronic inputs, underscoring the deep interdependence embedded in global electronics production.
• This mutual reliance challenges the viability of reshoring and decoupling strategies, as rising export powers depend on components from across the world.

Mitchell concluded: “Our trade flows analysis reinforces that resilience, not self-sufficiency, is the foundation of competitiveness in the electronics age. No single company or country can stand alone. The complexities of the electronics ecosystem require collaboration and partnership with others. The Global Electronics Association is here to help create a vital and thriving global electronics supply chain through industry, government, and stakeholder collaboration.”

Global Operations Supporting Entire Value Chain

The electronics value chain supported by the Global Electronics Association – from design to final product – encompasses original equipment manufacturers, semiconductors, printed circuit boards, assembly and manufacturing services, harnesses, materials, and equipment suppliers.

The post Global Electronics Association Debuts; New Name Elevates IPC’s 70-Year Legacy as Voice of $6 Trillion Electronics Industry appeared first on ELE Times.

Внаслідок чергової ворожої атаки пошкоджено будівлі кампусу КПІ ім. Ігоря Сікорського kpi пн, 06/23/2025 - 10:04

New old stock form my surplus lot. submitted by /u/Rhine_Labs [link] [comments]

I was modifying a cheap handheld oscilloscope to fit in my diy modular synth but the horizontal layout was a bit too wide for my liking so I did this to rotate the screen 90° ☠️ submitted by /u/TheSnadman [link] [comments]

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These were early version of mask roms from the late 70's if you remove the epoxy over the crystal they become Intel D2716 can erase them and program again. submitted by /u/Rhine_Labs [link] [comments]

Tons of IC's.. So Far 6.5 hours sorting and backing up programmable chips. I live Stream day 1 rather boring https://youtube.com/live/6U9ADQovUoY Day 2 Soon. I sorted out all the programmables near the end and will do another day of backups soon. Some devices were not supported on my Xeltek or i did not have the adapters. So i need to Bust out the BPM Microsytems 1710. submitted by /u/Rhine_Labs [link] [comments]

"Work in progress: rebuilding my Inovonics 222 clone using proper unsound construction techniques." submitted by /u/Linker3000 [link] [comments]

Фотовиставка, присвячена освітньому серіалу «Українські герої та героїні: від минулого до сьогодення» KPI4U-2 сб, 06/21/2025 - 23:19

We don’t really do micro soldering at work so had to do it without a microscope. I did however seal the solder points with epoxy after testing for shorts. submitted by /u/WyKay [link] [comments]

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PicoDucky is a minimal RP2350 board designed to be used as a Rubber Ducky (HID Device) or even a Security key! It's tiny and compact and can be plugged directly into any USB Type-A ports. All project files are here submitted by /u/FirefighterDull7183 [link] [comments]

Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA – which designs and makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules that can be integrated into consumer products, off-grid applications and aerospace applications – has signed a master services agreement with NOVI Space Inc, a Virginia-based space AI infrastructure & compute company that develops and operates AI-powered satellites with their TRL-9 edge computing technology...

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I went to start my car (a 2006 Toyota Camry) and when I turned the key in the ignition switch, NOTHING happened. The car was utterly inert. The radio wouldn’t play, the passenger cabin ceiling light was dark and I wasn’t going anywhere, at least not in that vehicle.

I guessed that the car’s battery had failed, but being an engineer (you know the type.) I just had to measure the battery’s terminal voltage. I went and got my trusty Sears digital multimeter, raised the hood of the car to expose the battery and touched one of the multimeter probes to the positive post of the battery at the exact spot you see in the image below. That one probe slipped into a small crevice between the battery’s positive post and that post’s clamp and when it did, there was a spark right there at the spot where I’d stuck my probe. Nothing was connected (yet) to the other multimeter probe which left me wondering “Why did I see that spark?”

Figure 1 The battery that was probed and the location where the unexpected spark occurred.

This was in May of 2025 which meant that battery was two years old having been installed in May of 2023. The battery had not been touched at all during those two years which led to the

problem at hand. Gradually, the two post clamps had worked themselves loose. The clamp serving the positive post had actually lost its electrical connection to that post. When my multimeter probe got involved, the spark arose from the battery making connection again via the metal of the probe tip to all of the stuff the battery was normally called upon to feed.

Now that I knew what was wrong, I set about making repairs by tightening the two post clamps, BUT there was a very specific safety issue at hand to which I want to draw your most alert attention.

My car uses an internal combustion engine, which incorporates a 12-V lead-acid battery whose negative post is grounded to the frame of the car. This has been a conventional design approach for many years. I think that pre-1950 or so cars with 6-V lead-acid batteries had their positive posts grounded to the car frames, but that’s a whole other thing.

When you are going to do any work on a car such as my own, where that work involves the car’s battery, you MUST, MUST, MUST first disconnect the clamp that connects to the battery’s negative post. If you fail to do so and you accidentally happen to make a connection with some tool (a socket wrench, maybe) from the battery’s positive post to the car frame, that accidental connection will short-circuit the battery. There will be a flash, and according to something I once read, the battery might even explode.

You do not want to risk having that happen.

I disconnected the clamp from the negative post. I then disconnected the clamp from the positive post and scoured both post surfaces and their clamp surfaces. Next, I reattached the positive post’s clamp, I reattached the negative post’s clamp (in that order) and I started the car.

Everything worked. Everything was back to normal. I drove it to the grocery store and back again. We needed some milk.

John Dunn is an electronics consultant, and a graduate of The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (BSEE) and of New York University (MSEE).

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I built this two years ago over the course of several months. The initial idea was to build my own portable Atari 2600 as I've seen other people do, but with my own spin. It kind of morphed into a 1920s steampunk project, when I wondered what the Atari would look like if it were designed and built in 1926. So I used and old gauge, old dial, brass button, metal toggle switches, and terminology to label it. I used the screen from a portable LCD TV and the speaker from a computer speaker. The battery is a new Lithium Ion rechargeable. The Atari itself was an Atari Junior, with wires remoted out to the switches and controls. The circuit had to have some modifications for the battery input and controls. "Version 2" had all new labels as can be seen in the photos, and I added a blinking/flashing orange light inside to add some color to the inside. The concept is that the game cartridges are called "Novelties." Inside each novelty is a spinning disk like a record. The electromechanical device inside the case reads the information on the disc and projects it onto the screen. The "stick" on the upper right controls the movement, and the button on the left is the joystick button. The AtariGraph is from "phonograph." It plays any Atari 2600 game and has an input for a second joystick. It's basically a usable work of art. I can't imagine making a second one. submitted by /u/Alman54 [link] [comments]

Cost-efficient electric car battery tests in automotive development and production

For fast quality testing of battery cells, GÖPEL electronic has developed a powerful and quickly configurable battery test bench that features a modular design and high flexibility. The system consists of a central measurement technology unit with a computer and monitor, a control cabinet, and a unit with all the power electronics, and can be adapted to the user’s needs in a modular fashion.

The battery test bench offers a power range up to 500 kW and tests in the voltage range up to 1,000 V DC with test currents of up to 800 A DC. Insulation tests can be performed with up to 7.5 kV. Thanks to its regenerative capability, the test solution is also designed to be highly energy-efficient. The scope of services includes safety tests and functional tests. These tests evaluate the condition of the cells, the impedance of the battery under alternating current, and the alternating current dynamics of the cell, and detect critical defects. The test results provide information about electrochemical processes in the cell, aging effects, and internal resistance fluctuations across different frequencies.

As part of the functional test, the GÖPEL electronic test system communicates with the battery management system (BMS) via CAN-BUS. The battery is charged with a prescribed and defined charging pulse, discharged, and finally the “state of charge” is checked. After the battery is discharged, the energy required for this is fed back into the power grid by the test solution, ensuring high energy efficiency and cost savings.

At the end of the security and functional tests, all test results are automatically exported to a database in the production department in individually configurable reports. Before delivery, the system checks the quiescent current to ensure that no unnecessary consumers can drain the battery. In addition, the desired state of charge is ensured, the final sensor data is read out, error memory entries are compared, and finally, the end customer software is flashed onto the battery.

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After all these years I was pleased to finally make use of an old RadioShack DIP-1 IC proto-board that I had tucked away in a box! It was perfect for a mini Arduino shield when I built this cardboard Puzzle Bobble controller. submitted by /u/Tominator2000 [link] [comments]

Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA says that its flexible thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) photovoltaic (PV) technology has reached record energy conversion efficiency of 15.7% (AM0) at production scale. The achievement aligns with the firm’s previously announced 2025 strategy, which aimed to continue improving on its thin-film PV’s material quality, technological efficiency and production design optimization to increase the applicability of the technology in the space market...