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NO 12 December 2012

2012 EPN 40th anniversary

44 Intel’s Gilles Pellet and Kontron’s

Ulrich Gehrmann recall 1972

Special reports

19 EPN Forum at electronica

2012

20 RFID/NFC

26 Passives

TRACKING

TRENDS

TLD73xxEK SoCs from Inineon create

ambient lighting in vehicles with

a reduced wiring budget.

Page 08

RFID means not having to follow the herd

P age 20

Linear Technology’s Dust Networks

has developed the SmartMesh LTC5800

for reliable low power in industrial

environments. It enables tiny sensor

motes with a battery life of over 10 years.

Page 31

Nine devices have been added to the

NGBTxx 1200V trench ield stop IGBTs

for power conversion in solar power

and UPS by ON Semiconductor.

Page 35

DECEMBER CONTENTS

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[04] editorial Comment

[06] on the Web

[14] automotive electronics

[16] Power Perspective

[31] Industrial automation

[33] tech Update

[35] renewable energy

[36] test Corner

[43] rF&Wireless

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[41] silego offers three development kits for the

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[44] executive Interviews:

Where were you in ’72: Ulrich Gehrmann,

Kontron and Gilles Pellet, Intel

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RF Multilayer Inductor

in 01005

MLCC in 0603 - 47μF

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EDITORIAL COMMENT

US leads EU in conflict

materials morals

By Caroline

Hayes,

Editor-in-Chief,

EPN

I t slipped by relatively quietly, but this summer, the US Congress amended the SEC (Securities

and Exchange Commission) Act to include the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer

Protection Act. This legislation now requires companies to show due diligence in confirming

that minerals have not been sourced from militia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,

therefore funding the civil war and humanitarian atrocities there. The source of tin, coltan, tungsten

and gold must be declared on the company’s website and an audit trail must be available to show

that the materials were not imported by third parties from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This applies to all producers, manufacturers and distributors who trade in the US.

Even though this legislation had been two years in the making (it was first passed by the Senate

in 2010), and the first company reports will not be disclosed until May 2014, (i.e. 12 months after

the end of May 2013, the first calendar year in which companies need to file their declarations),

this is still far further down the road than Europe has managed.

Why is the European Union silent on the funding of militia in the former Belgian Congo?

It could be that the EU is not issuing a directive because European companies will have to comply

with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street requirements to operate in the US. However, there are parallel

US directives for the RoHS directive and the Reach regulation (HR2420 and HR5820, respectively),

so it is not afraid of duplication. Why is it being so shy – or sluggish – on conflict materials?

Apart from a meeting a moral duty, an EU law on the due diligence of the supply chain would

create a level playing field for all European companies. There are reports that EITI (Extractive

Industries Transparency Initiative), is looking at revising the 2004 Transparency Directive but

there has been no announcements, despite the existence of OECD (Organisation for Economic

Co-operative Development) guidelines that could serve as recommendations for checks and

balances. Any EU legislation should be aligned with the US legislation so that companies are

not bogged down in paperwork – or able to use paperwork as a means to slip through the net.

Is this what is holding up any plans to draw up a regulation or directive – the EU does not want

to be seen to be imitating the USA even when it is playing catch-up on moral issues?

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