IEE Review
Volume 49, Issue 8, September 2003
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Volume 49, Issue 8
September 2003
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- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, page: 2 –2
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030810
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- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030811
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- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, page: 8 –8
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030812
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(7 pages) - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, p. 18 –19
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030801
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This paper discusses the August 2003 power blackout in north-east USA and Canada. Some UK industry observers believe the Government's energy policy could lead to US-style blackouts in the future, possibly even as early as winter 2003. A lot of generating capacity has been taken out of the UK market due to falling wholesale electricity prices, which puts extra strain on the system during peak load conditions. Although many in the industry feel that the UK grid is in better shape than that of the US right now, fewer are convinced that the future situation looks quite as bright. - Author(s): R. Dettmer
- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, page: 21 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030802
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Renewing the UK's nuclear programme could make US-style blackouts less likely in the long term, but the industry would have to reinvent itself first. There are four key conditions for ensuring the industry's future. First, a resolution of the nuclear waste problem: this doesn't need science and technology in spades; public trust is the real issue. Secondly, an end to plutonium movements to counter public concerns over nuclear proliferation and terrorism post 9/11. Thirdly, a higher degree of passive safety (as perceived by the general population) and finally, plant designs that are compatible with the requirements of liberalised markets. - Author(s): D. Lenton
- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, p. 22 –23
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030803
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The Chinese mobile communications market is looking very attractive to multinationals faced with market saturation in regions like Western Europe, where penetration is expected to top 80% in the next few years. The Xinhua state news agency reports that mobile communications took 46% of the total telecoms revenue worth $26.5bn in the first half of 2003, when 28.5 million people signed up for mobile services-more than took up fixed lines. In terms of penetration, fixed-line still leads with coverage of 19.4 %, but at 18.3 % mobile phones are catching up fast. Demand for handsets is huge, but tough competition from local firms means that foreign manufacturers hoping to cash in on the boom can't afford to be complacent. China's Ministry of Information Industry reported that in the first half of 2003 the country's 37 mobile phone manufacturers produced just over 82 million handsets. Nokia and Motorola still take the lion's share, but 25 local firms grabbed a significant proportion of the market, with the biggest now among the country's top handset vendors. - Author(s): L. Sharpe
- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, p. 24 –25
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030804
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From autumn 2003, householders will be able to save money by generating their own electricity. The author looks at whether they will invest in CHP units. Whispertech and Microgen, have been running in-home trials of CHP units that can replace a standard gas-fired central heating boiler and also generate electricity. Both models will have an electrical output of just over a kilowatt contributing to baseload needs, with any extra requirement drawn from the grid as usual. Any surplus can be sold back to the electricity company. The Whispertech and Microgen units both generate electricity using Stirling engines, which produce little noise or vibration and take up the same space as a boiler. - Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, p. 26 –27
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030813
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- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, page: 29 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030814
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- Author(s): C. Evans-Pughe
- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, p. 30 –33
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030805
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Today, a system using hundreds of chips could suffer several soft error failures a month, and the problem is set to increase. Why is this and what are the implications? - Author(s): R. Dettmer
- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, p. 34 –35
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030806
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Given all the fuss that surrounds the system-on-a-chip end of the semiconductor business, you might be forgiven for thinking nobody is making discrete devices any more. The reality is that rather than eliminating the need for traditional power analogue and linear devices, very large scale integration has stimulated the demand for key classes of discretes especially in the areas of power control and power saving - at the same time prompt distinct polarisation of the industry. On Semiconductor's principal contribution to this process has been a restructuring of its manufacturing operations, involving the loss of some 3000 jobs and the movement of operations to locations offering lower costs, including the company's manufacturing plants at Roznov in the Czech Republic and Piestany in Slovakia. A move described by the president and chief executive as part of an overall strategy to move all manufacturing to the lowest cost area of the world where cheap labour is plentiful. - Author(s): R. Dettmer
- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, p. 38 –41
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030807
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The author discusses the growing problem of spam in e-mails together with the costs in trying to get rid of it. The reasons for spam occurring and means to get rid of it are discussed. Legal aspects are also mentioned. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, p. 42 –45
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030808
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In 2001, the Object Management Group (OMG), an IT industry standards body, came up with the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), an approach to software development grounded on the principles of high-level abstraction and hardware independence. Using MDA, teams of developers, it was proposed, would build a model of their system, which would then be used to create not just working prototypes but almost all the software code of the finished application. In its current version, 1.5, UML lacks the full functionality needed to realise the MDA ideal. The next release, UML 2, is intended to overcome the deficiencies of UML 1.5, adding features to fully support MDA and allow tools to generate working software code from UML models in a standard way. - Author(s): T. McNally
- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, p. 46 –49
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030809
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It is still early days for Web services but they have recently become one of the hottest issues within the software industry. In a nutshell, Web services are a set of standards based technologies that allow software engineers to connect up a multitude of proprietary IT systems quickly and flexibly. They provide a neutral 'glue' that, in effect, makes lots of different technologies look the same. Based on these standards, software engineers are able to build reusable software components that can reside on any device and communicate with any service (regardless of its native technology) across any Internet protocol (IP) based network. - Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, page: 51 –51
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030815
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- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, page: 53 –53
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030816
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- Source: IEE Review, Volume 49, Issue 8, p. 56 –57
- DOI: 10.1049/ir:20030817
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Lights out for UK?
Nuclear must 'get ordinary'
China's new players [mobile phone handset manufacture]
Swap your boiler for a power station
Gadgets
Software - an engineering discipline?
They come from outer space
Global player [discrete semiconductor business]
Wham, bam - you've got spam
Model development
Software superglue [Web services]
Changing Europe
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