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ANALOG DEVICES Supplier Tabletop Event
2022-11-30 | Analog Devices, Raheen Business Park, Sluggary, Limerick, V94 RT99, Ireland
ANALOG DEVICES Supplier Tabletop Event
On the 30th November 2022, NMI held their first Supplier Tabletop event hosted by ANALOG Devices, at their Catalyst Centre in Limerick.
An event that gave people the chance to come along and meet the suppliers that are supporting their industry and building resilience in their supply chain.
The evening before the event, we hosted a networking drinks reception, sponsored by RF Global Solutions at the South Park National Hotel, Limerick. A great night was had by everyone who attended and was a great way to bring people together and enjoy a night of food and drink.
Look out for the next NMI Supplier Tabletop Event in 2023!

NMI Conference 2022
2022-07-27 | Ramside Hall Hotel Golf & Spa, Durham, DH1 1TD
NMI Conference 2022
RegisterVisit the conference websiteEstablished over 25 years ago to support semiconductor manufacturing companies and suppliers, the NMI continues to grow in numbers. We are still one of the longest standing organisations representing the semiconductor industry in the UK.
Following the challenging two years we have all faced, as an industry we have been resilient while navigating and adapting to a new way of thinking and working. We have improved products and services and developed new technologies to cope with ever increasing demands while addressing societal challenges to maintain and create advanced and sustainable economies.
At our conference you will hear from industry leaders on the changes and improvements they have implemented over this period to enable sustainability and growth within their organisation.
There will also be a networking opportunity at the hotel on the evening of the 26th July, giving you the chance to connect and chat prior to conference day.
We do hope you can join us and very much look forward to seeing you all again in person.

FPGA Frontrunner Meet & Greet
2022-03-23 09:30 - 18:30 (Europe/London) | The Moat House, Lichfield Street, Tamworth, B79 7QQ
FPGA Frontrunner Meet & Greet
FREE RegistrationAgendaNMI is all about sharing knowledge and creating communities. The FPGA Front Runners exists to share knowledge, best practice and to create a community around FPGAs and ASIC development.
Each event is about networking, meeting colleagues, grabbing a coffee and some cake and listening to presentations from suppliers and your peers.
The event is designed to create a community of likeminded engineers, and is run by members for members and the subjects and presentations are chosen by the members, so remain valid.
The ultimate aim is to create a better awareness of FPGAs & ASICs in the UK, drive best practice, identify common issues and challenges and work together to resolve them. This first event is designed to bring together the community, discuss the current market conditions around FPGAs, the issues and technical challenges each member needs to overcome. Look at the skills shortages and what is needed to improve the engineers use of FPGAs. Everyone is welcome and we encourage you to attend and get involved.
Events are planned to run quarterly, with other events or webinars in between as suggested by the community.
Adam Taylor
Adiuvo Engineering & Training Ltd
Adam Taylor is a world recognised expert in design and development of embedded systems and FPGA’s for several end applications.
×Adam Taylor, Adiuvo Engineering & Training Ltd
Adam Taylor is a world recognised expert in design and development of embedded systems and FPGA’s for several end applications. Throughout his career, Adam has used FPGA’s to implement a wide variety of solutions from RADAR to safety critical control systems (SIL4) and satellite systems. He also had interesting stops in image processing and cryptography along the way. Adam has held executive positions, leading large developments for several major multinational companies. For many years Adam held significant roles in the space industry he was a Design Authority at Astrium Satellites (Now Airbus Space) Payload processing group for six years and for three years he was the Chief Engineer of e2v Space Imaging, being responsible for several game changing projects.
FPGAs are Adam ‘s first love, he is the author of numerous articles and papers on electronic design and FPGA design including over 400 blogs and 25 million plus views on how to use the Zynq and Zynq MPSoC for Xilinx.
Adam is Chartered Engineer, Senior Member of the IEEE, Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Visiting Professor of Embedded Systems at the University of Lincoln and Arm Innovator, Edge Impulse Ambassador, he is also the owner of the engineering and consultancy company Adiuvo Engineering and Training.
Presentation: PYNQ – FPGA with Python
Read MoreSteve Drew
NMI Electronic Systems
Steve has over 30 years of semiconductor, electronics and design industry experience.
×Steve Drew, NMI Electronic Systems
Steve has over 30 years of semiconductor, electronics and design industry experience. Starting his career at Avnet, he became one of their youngest product managers – looking after Xilinx for the UK. Steve subsequently worked at a number of niche component distributors, promoting and selling , technical component solutions, ranging from video codecs, power products and FPGAs, through to connectivity and display solutions. FPGA’s became his thing in the 1990’s and Steve worked with all the FPGA manufacturers except Altera. Moving on from component distribution Steve has worked at component kitting and PCB assembly companies, and having worked for large multinational companies and smaller privately owned businesses, has given Steve a wide view of the component market place and the challenges faced by companies, and having run his own manufacturing consultancy since 2020 has given him an understanding of the small business sector.
Steve loves the electronics industry and technology in general, is passionate about UK manufacturing and how we can build more here instead of losing it to offshore competition, is a champion of startup’s and innovation. And if you want an opinion on something, just ask him
Read MoreTony Holmes
Cadence
Tony started his career at Digital Equipment in the design & development of Computer Special Systems then moved into the Design and Development of High Performance Bridge Routers.
×Tony Holmes, Cadence
Tony started his career at Digital Equipment in the design & development of Computer Special Systems then moved into the Design and Development of High Performance Bridge Routers, followed by creating a System Level Testing group to test these Bridge/Routers in complex networking scenarios.
Tony moved to Quickturn Design Systems before Quickturn merged with Cadence Design Systems. Tony is a Technical Director at Cadence Design Systems with a long history of focussing primarily on HW based verification using Emulation and FPGA Prototyping.
Tony has responsibility for Technical Engagements for any HW based verification project/engagement within EMEA.
Presentation: 500M Gates in FPGAs (FPGA Prototyping)
A few years ago the concept of running Billions of gates on an FGPA System would have been mind boggling.
This Cadence Presentation will offer an overview of the Protium™ Enterprise Prototyping Platform for fast hardware and software verification.
We will review the traditional prototyping challenges of complex SoCs using a 5G AI-enabled mobile SoC case study—RTL changes required for clock management, memories, interfaces, multi-FPGA partitioning, and multi-user support.
You will learn how the Protium X2 features and solutions solve these challenges while accelerating the hardware/software co-design verification schedule.
Read MoreMyrtle Shah
Founder, Chipflow
Myrtle is an engineer and founder at ChipFlow, working on a reliable end-to-end open source flow for building chips.
×Myrtle Shah, Chipflow
Myrtle is an engineer and founder at ChipFlow, working on a reliable end-to-end open source flow for building chips. They are also the lead developer of nextpnr, an open source FPGA place and route tool, and the creator of the Project Trellis bitstream documentation and open flow for Lattice ECP5 FPGAs. They enjoy walking and gardening in their spare time when they need to get away from computers.
Presentation: OS RISC V SoC built with Python
By combining Amaranth, a Python-based framework for describing and constructing hardware, with a stack of other open source tools, it’s possible to build complex SoCs not just for FPGAs but also taped out as chips. We’ll be having a look at the ecosystem for both as it stands today; some examples of projects using it including the journey to a tapeout-ready, Linux-capable RISC-V SoC on the Skywater 130nm process; and what the future of open tooling might look like.
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Commodity Codes and Import Declarations
2022-02-17 12:00 - 12:30 | Webinar
COMMODITY CODES AND IMPORT DECLARATIONS
Register for FREEOn January 1st 2022, two changes came into effect that importers and exporters should be aware of. The World Customs Organisation updated the Harmonised System so there have been a number of changes to commodity codes, especially for electronic products.
Full import declarations are now required for all goods entering GB from the EU at point of import and a new digital system is in place to manage the increase in data.
This essential 30 minute webinar led by TechWorks and The International Trade Consultancy will cover:

What are commodity codes?
How can I check my commodity codes are still correct?
What do I need to do if they’ve changed?
How does the new import declaration system work?
How will it affect my business?

Hosted by
Lucinda O’Reilly
Lucinda O’Reilly is an international trade consultant with over 10 years’ experience of global imports and exports. As the Exports Director of Ecotile Flooring she developed a successful UK focused manufacturing company to export to over 40 countries worldwide. Having successfully managed Ecotile’s transition through Brexit Lucinda set up The International Trade Consultancy to provide support to companies struggling to navigate the new regulatory landscape and supply chain challenges caused by the pandemic.

Preparing for Manufacture
2022-02-08 09:00 - 2022-02-10 13:00 | Webinar
Preparing for Manufacture
Register for FREE
Test, Validate and Communicate Your Product Requirements to Manufacturers.
Are you:

An early-stage electronic/ IoT hardware startup taking your first product to manufacture?
A scaling product company developing your first in-house design?
Unsure exactly what to expect from manufacturers and what to look for when deciding if they’re up to the job?
Trying to plot a course to product launch, but unsure what the costs and timeline might look like?

If your answer to these is yes, we’re here to help!
SUMMARY
This programme is delivered through an exciting new partnership that brings together two of the UK’s leading supporters of hardware innovation for the first time.
Mouser Electronics is a worldwide distributor of semiconductors and electronic components, specialising in the rapid introduction of new products and technologies for design engineers. Mouser has partnered with CRL to support startups through the product development process.
The Central Research Laboratory work with entrepreneurs to launch award-winning businesses and have built a global reputation in hardware-focused support.
Over 3 half-day sessions, a team of experts from Mouser, CRL, selected partners and suppliers from their networks, will guide you through the process of preparing for production, testing and validating your product design, finding and connecting with suppliers, communicating your requirements, formalising and managing the relationship to ensure your first batch of the product meets your commercial targets, timelines and customer expectations.
The right approach to pre-production prototyping, testing, validation and the preparation and communication of clear product design requirements will not only save your business vast amounts of time and money but also ensure the roles and responsibilities in your supply chain are clearly defined and aligned to deliver reliable and cost-effective products.
SCHEDULE
Duration: 12 hours (across 3 days)
Dates: Tuesday 8th to Thursday 10th February 2022
Times: 9 – 1 pm each day (with a break in the middle)
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

The manufacturer mindset and how to make your first approach
Physical prototyping, testing and validation of mechanical and electronic designs
Choosing the right components and processes for prototype and production
Requests for Quotation (RFQ) and communication of your Product Design Requirements
The purpose and structure of supplier agreements
Getting supplier contracts right
Production data formats, technical communication, manufacturing drawings, BOM and production database management
QA and QC through the supply chain
Getting your product tested, gathering your product compliance documents and managing your CE database

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS
In addition, selected startups will also receive a COMPLIMENTARY 2-week hot desk membership at the Central Research Laboratory immediately after the event.
HOW TO APPLY
This is an in-depth course provided to a small group of participants to ensure maximum value. Because of this, space is extremely limited and we require startups to apply for a place. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis so apply early for the best opportunity of being selected.
ELIGIBILITY

Founder, CEO, CTO or Product Lead
UK registered
Preparing to launch a new product within 12 months
Available to attend the full programme
Completion of forms (in-line with our funding partner requirements*), including a registration form and a daily feedback form to confirm attendance for the full 12 hours programme.

*This 12-hour programme is fully funded for eligible startups. This programme is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
To track the impact of this programme, CRL will contact participants in the future to capture updates on company growth and investment, or regarding further support available.
Spaces are limited to one per startup.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities company. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, ages, citizenship, disability, gender identity and socio-economic background and criminal history, consistent with legal requirements

Central Research Laboratory (CRL)Central Research Laboratory is the UKs leading accelerator and co-working space for hardware startups and product pioneers. Partially funded by the European Regional Development Fund, the CRL has supported hundreds of entrepreneurs to realise and scale their companies through product development, commercial strategy, 24/7 prototyping facilities, mentorship and access to a network of investors, mentors and partners.

Plus X
Plus X enables and supports tomorrow’s pioneer to meet the challenges of our time. We empower and enable bold thinkers at every kind of business – whether you’re a growing startup, a large, established business or somewhere in between. Through innovation, we can make life better for us all socially, economically and environmentally. Our unique approach is all-inclusive. We offer everything you need to enable and accelerate innovation in your business. By designing and developing innovation hubs, we create communities with collaboration in mind. By delivering expert-led, holistic programmes, we help create long-lasting organisational growth and change.

Mouser Electronics
Mouser Electronics is a global authorised distributor of semiconductors and electronic components for over 1,100 manufacturer brands. Mouser specialises in the rapid introduction of new products and technologies for design engineers and buyers. They strive to empower innovation by delivering advanced technologies. Their extensive product offering includes semiconductors, interconnects, passives, and electromechanical components.

Building a Trusted AI-based System: Bringing it All Together
2022-01-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Webinar
REGISTERBuilding a Trusted AI-based System: Bringing it All Together

In this third and final webinar we discuss how to build a trusted AI-based system. This includes demonstrating that the integration of cloud processing with the edge devices and communication infrastructure discussed in previous webinars is secure as well functional.
The webinar should help attendees to better understand what is required to demonstrate that an AI-based distributed system can be trusted.
Agenda

12.00
Introduction

12.05
Dan Wilkinson – Graphcore

12.25
Peter Davies – Thales

12.45
Chris Longstaff –Mindtech Global

13.05
Dr William Jones – Embecosm

13.25
Close

NMI Electronic Systems Design Group Presents a Series of 3 Webinars: Building a Trusted AI-based System
Artificial Intelligence (AI) based systems are becoming prevalent in a wide range of industries, distinguishing new innovative products with inference capabilities. However, their introduction brings additional challenges regarding their reliability, safety and security…
Read More×Building a Trusted AI-based System
Artificial Intelligence (AI) based systems are becoming prevalent in a wide range of industries, distinguishing new innovative products with inference capabilities. However, their introduction brings additional challenges regarding their reliability, safety and security.
This series of 3 free-to-attend webinars will outline those challenges and how they can be demonstrably overcome or mitigated.
The 3 foundation webinars will first consider how AI-based systems are constructed from building blocks (e.g. AI-enabled sensors and actuators), the infrastructure that connects them, and how this is integrated into an intelligent system. Subject area experts will first outline the specific safety and security challenges (e.g. sufficiency of edge-AI training sets, wider security attack surface), and then consider potential solutions and their verification. Ultimately, the objective is to demonstrate that such systems can be reliably used in the target application.
Attendees, whether from a hardware, software or system background, will be able to learn from subject matter experts to better understand the challenges and solutions in building AI-based products and systems that are demonstrably reliable, safe and secure. Sponsors will have the opportunity to showcase their solutions for overcoming these challenges.
Speakers
Details×Dan Wilkinson, Graphcore
Daniel Wilkinson is currently Chief Architect for Silicon Systems at Graphcore, was Graphcore’s second ever employee, and has been leading the architecture of Graphcore’s Intelligence Processing Unit™ for six years. Prior to Graphcore he held leadership positions at XMOS Semiconductor in applications and silicon verification for seven years, and 10 years prior to that at Broadcom, Elixent, Clearspeed and ST Microelectronics in Bristol, working in diverse areas of chip design.
Presentation: Zero Trust Cloud for Edge and IOT Machine Intelligence
Architects and engineers developing edge or IOT based Machine Intelligence applications often rely on the cloud for services such as accelerated machine intelligence inference and training, storage, analytics and monitoring. These kinds of hybrid edge/cloud applications exist across diverse application areas and will all have different threat models, security and resilience requirements. This talk asks the question of to what extent you can trust the cloud environment, and summarises what options are available to you if you can’t. Alternative threat models are outlined along with the hardware and software requirements that must be implemented in the edge/IOT application and the cloud environment to meet them.
CloseDan Wilkinson
Graphcore
Details×Dr William Jones, Embecosm
Dr Jones has a research background in computational neuroscience, focused on the areas of consciousness, cognition, and meta-cognition. In industry, before his current role, William had a short but highly successful stint as the co-founder and CTO of the cryptocurrency Arweave.
In his current role, Dr Jones heads AI and Machine Learning efforts at Embecosm, a consultancy that solves open source problems in many challenging areas, with a focus on compilers, tool chains, embedded systems, and operating systems. His current work is focused on Bayesian methods and statistical computing.
Presentation: The Challenge of Trusting AI
One of the prominent challenges in AI is not just to build systems that are effective problem solvers, but to build systems that humans can understand and trust to be explainable, fair, robust, transparent, and private – Trusted AI. This is an enormously challenging problem, because even over and above the bare minimum necessity of a robust and secure architecture for collecting and processing data at the edge, disseminating it through data networks, and processing it in the cloud, AI suffers from several unique vulnerabilities that bad actors can exploit. In this talk, we examine some of these less-traditional attack vectors, and discuss what needs to be considered (and done) to make an AI system truly Trusted.
CloseDr William Jones
Embecosm
Details×Peter Davies, Thales
I love what I do, approach everything with energy and enthusiasm and can always see an angle. As a Technical Director of Thales in the UK I have been their leading expert on Cryptography in the UK responsible for providing cryptography and information security direction and expertise on a variety of products and projects. Previous work includes the development and certification of flexible and interoperable commercial security solutions that are also widely used by governments; these solutions are available worldwide and support the security of both communications and infomatics in an international, multi grade environment. My specialist knowledge is at the core of the cyber defence and forensics activities that I undertake combatting existential treats against business. I can, and have, interacted on security and products at any level from Prime Minister, through Board to deep technical including Agencies, Certification Labs and partners developing and sustaining business opportunities worldwide. I have generated patents in the area of digital DNA and my research covers aspects of technical security as well as aspects of super-identities and their role in combatting human based cyber-attacks. I have lead EU security research contract and have acted as a n expert on others. As well as contributing to standards I am a frequent speaker at international conferences and deliver lectures to postgraduate information and cyber security programmes in the UK and worldwide.
ClosePeter Davies
Thales
Details×Chris Longstaff, Mindtech Global
Chris Longstaff is an industry veteran, having worked throughout his career at leading technology companies such as LSI Logic, AMD and Imagination Technologies. He has been responsible for development and launching of products across a broad spectrum of visual technologies including video codecs, ISP, GPU and AI processors. Chris is now at Mindtech Global, where he is VP Product Management. Mindtech Global is a UK company producing a AI training data platform, Chameleon, focused on Synthetic Data. Mindtech’s vision is to empower innovation in AI through the democratization of training data.
Presentation – Training and test data, a key part of any trusted AI system: Your Data strategy will make or break your AI deployment.
CloseChris Longstaff
Mindtech Global

NMI Semiconductor Meet & Greet
2021-11-24 09:00 - 16:00 | Holiday Inn, The Coldra, Newport, NP18 2YG, United Kingdom
NMI Meet & Greet
BOOK NOWIntroducing the very first free to attend NMI: Meet and Greet event 24th November at the Holiday Inn, Newport.
The global semiconductor industry has drawn an increasing amount of attention in recent times as it is not only economically important, it is also a strategic sector that is vulnerable to supply issues. It should be of little surprise that national governments are reviewing their positions as a consequence – including the UK government – as we emerge, post-Brexit and post-pandemic.
And as we look to re-connect, its critically important for industry to re-establish working relationships, seek new partnerships, and catch up on developments that may have been missed while we’ve all been away. Perhaps you’re even looking for a new opening, or to find a few (perhaps young) new recruits too?
We hope that you’re as keen to ‘get back out there’ as we are. If you are, consider yourself invited to a new type of networking event from NMI – specifically designed to help the UK’s semiconductor industry emerge together and strong. We’re simply calling it, NMI: Meet and Greet – it’s is an ideal opportunity to network and re-engage. It’s also free to attend as well!
We tend to think of Meet and Greet as a supply chain event, yet it is much more than this as it brings together a rich and diverse set of stakeholder groups including Manufacturers, Designers, Suppliers, Universities. We’ve also invited students along too as they consider their future career opportunities.
Meet and Greet is hosted by NMI – the home for the semiconductor industry in the UK.
Not an NMI member? Not a problem – come along and meet the team.
FIND OUT MORE ON OUR DEDICATED PAGE

Building a Trusted AI-based System: Life at the Edge
2021-10-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Webinar
REGISTERBuilding a Trusted AI-based System: Life at the Edge

In this first webinar we consider the devices, including sensors and actuators, that exist at the edge of the system. With more processing moving to the edge, then device selection is becoming more complex.
The webinar should help attendees to better understand the overall system architecture and the capabilities of the edge devices.
Image reproduced from the paper “Deep Learning With Edge Computing: A Review.” Proceedings of the IEEE 107.8 (2019): 1655-1674″ Chen, Jiasi, and Xukan Ran.
Our Speakers
FIND OUT MOREAurelien Desombre
Program Director
TESSOLVE Embedded Systems
×Aurelien Desombre Program Director, TESSOLVE Embedded Systems
My name is Aurélien Desombre, I’m located in French Brittany (not so far from UK 😊). I started my career as an Electronic Engineer in Thales for real time video systems.
I’m 20+ Years experimented in Embedded electronic and currently responsible of Program coordination for our European customers and Digitization strategy for TESSOLVE around 3 pillars: EdgeAI, IoT platforms and Cloud.
I like and enjoy innovation, technology and challenging projects, building products from specification to manufacturing, supply chain and lifetime management. AI and EdgeAI are my new hobbies which will transform our world in coming decades.
Talk Title: – AI and sensors, how to build a smart system, opening new possibilitiesCloseFIND OUT MOREMichal Gabrielczyk
Head of Edge AI
Cambridge Consultants
×Michal Gabrielczyk
Head of Edge AI, Cambridge Consultants
Michal is Head of Edge AI at Cambridge Consultants, working closely with the consultancy’s AI, semiconductor, sensing and connectivity experts to realise customers product and service ambitions. He works closely with commercial and engineering experts to bridge between business ambitions and the practicalities of technology and engineering.
Michal has a long track record in strategy and technology advisory roles, including at product developers Cambridge Consultants and Telecoms, Media and Technology specialist consultancy Analysys Mason. Michal is also a Board Member of Cambridge Wireless – the leading international community for companies involved in the research, development and application of wireless and mobile, internet, semiconductor and software technologies.
He has been fortunate enough to be able to work on strategy development with ambitious startups, blue chips and brand names across six continents, and connectivity technologies have been a continuous thread throughout.
Talk Title: Intelligence at the edge: Why the future of AI is on-device
Abstract:
“Semiconductor and algorithmic innovation are expanding the possibilities for deploying AI in everyday devices. This challenges the recent trend towards concentrating AI workloads in the cloud and opens up new experiences, use cases and business models. In this talk Michal will outline why we would want to add intelligence at the edge and the factors enabling it.”

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Agenda
Explainable AI (XAI) for Trusted Systems
Pete Lockhart CTO and Mike Hook Principal Project Consultants, Roke Manor
Intelligence at the edge: Why the future of AI is on-device
Michal Gabrielczyk, Head of Edge AI, Cambridge Consultants
Developing IP Platforms for Deep Neural Networks
David Harold, CMO IMG, Imagination Technologies
Automotive Applications at the Edge
Curt Hillier, Technical Director, NXP
AI and sensors, how to build a smart system, opening new possibilities
Aurelien Desombre, Programme Director, Tessolve

NMI Electronic Systems Design Group Presents a Series of 3 Webinars: Building a Trusted AI-based System
Artificial Intelligence (AI) based systems are becoming prevalent in a wide range of industries, distinguishing new innovative products with inference capabilities. However, their introduction brings additional challenges regarding their reliability, safety and security…
Read More×Building a Trusted AI-based System
Artificial Intelligence (AI) based systems are becoming prevalent in a wide range of industries, distinguishing new innovative products with inference capabilities. However, their introduction brings additional challenges regarding their reliability, safety and security.
This series of 3 free-to-attend webinars will outline those challenges and how they can be demonstrably overcome or mitigated.
The 3 foundation webinars will first consider how AI-based systems are constructed from building blocks (e.g. AI-enabled sensors and actuators), the infrastructure that connects them, and how this is integrated into an intelligent system. Subject area experts will first outline the specific safety and security challenges (e.g. sufficiency of edge-AI training sets, wider security attack surface), and then consider potential solutions and their verification. Ultimately, the objective is to demonstrate that such systems can be reliably used in the target application.
Attendees, whether from a hardware, software or system background, will be able to learn from subject matter experts to better understand the challenges and solutions in building AI-based products and systems that are demonstrably reliable, safe and secure. Sponsors will have the opportunity to showcase their solutions for overcoming these challenges.

NMI Virtual Conference 2021
2021-04-01 | Webinar
NMI Virtual Conference 2021
The 11th NMI Conference will be hosted on Thursday 1st April.
When you attend the conference you will hear from our guest speakers and teams presenting on their recent project work.
Speaker Opportunities

To register your interest in speaking at this year’s conference please send through a brief description of your presentation (please note direct or overt sales presentations are frowned upon by all parties and will therefore not be accepted). If you would like the opportunity to speak, present or sponsor please CLICK HERE
Sponsorship
For more information on the opportunities to exhibit at and sponsor the NMI Conference 2021, please download the Sponsorship Guide.

Sponsorship GuideConference Website

Manufacturing Excellence Conference 2019
2019-09-12 08:00 - 17:00 | University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL
This years’ Manufacturing Excellence Conference will take place on Thursday 12th September in the Panorma Suite at the University of Warwick. On the day we will have several guest speakers & the opportunity to hear from teams who will present on the excellent project work that has been carried out. This years’ theme will be announced soon.
There will also be the opportunity for several of our supplier companies to exhibit in the break-out areas.
Find out more by visiting the conference website

BOOK YOUR TICKET

NMI Manufacturing Workshop 2019
2019-06-18 | Xaar, Ermine Business Park, 1 Hurricane Cl, Huntingdon, PE29 6XX, United Kingdom
The event will be interactive where we will explore and share experiences of the following, and how they are connected.

Manufacturing
Learning & development
Manufacturing Flexibility

Open to All Techworks members, contact Chris Bennett for further details.
Thank you to our host :

NMI Facilities Workshop
2019-06-12 | Analog Devices, Raheen Business Park, Sluggary, Limerick, V94 RT99, Ireland
NMI will be running a Facilities workshop confirmed for 12thJune, to be held at Analog Devices, Limerick.
Attendance is FREE for member companies.
Further details will be updated soon.
For more information on this event, please contact Chris Bennett.

Manufacturing Joint Work Group EHS Meeting
2018-04-17 | Texas Instruments, Larkfield Industrial Estate, Greenock, PA16 0EQ
For more information on the Manufacturing Joint Work Group EHS Meeting, please contact Chris Bennett.

Facilities Best Practice Workshop
2018-03-22 | Seagate Technology, Springtown Industrial Estate, Londonderry, BT48 0LY
For more information on the Facilities Best Practice Workshop, please contact Chris Bennett.

EHS Managers Bi-Annual Meeting
2018-03-07 | Seagate Technology, Springtown Industrial Estate, Londonderry, BT48 0LY
For more information on the EHS Managers Meetings, please contact Chris Bennett.

NMI PARTNERED EVENT: Cambridge Wireless International Conference
2017-06-07 | Wellcome Genome Campus Conference Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1RQ
The 9th CW International Conference (CWIC) is an established annual event within the tech thought leadership calendar, bringing together C-suite business leaders, entrepreneurs, start-ups and engineers. It is curated by CW members and industry peers, ensuring that relevant and emerging topics are always addressed.
The overall aim of the conference is to set new paths for the industry by debating controversial technology and business issues. This provides an opportunity for busy professionals to reflect upon and renew strategic horizons taking on board new ideas, new challenges, and making new connections.
The Theme – Connecting Generations
The theme of this years’ conference is ‘Connecting Generations’. Each generation, from post-millennials to baby boomers and beyond, is adopting and driving the development of wireless applications in their own way. Can new generations of technology that we foresee meet these dynamics or are different approaches needed now?

For more information and to register, please visit the CWIC Website.

NMI PARTNERED EVENT: CWIC Starter - Healthcare
2017-03-30 12:00 - 18:15 | Clifford Albutt Lecture Theatre, Addenbrookes Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ
Healthcare is a growing market that is moving away from the traditional manufacturers’ and is seeing a wealth of innovation from young entrepreneurs and SME’s. However to these new entrants the market can be overwhelming with acronyms, market led phrases and a language barrier between the technical and clinical stakeholders.
This CWIC-starter event will be looking at the unmet needs of the healthcare sector starting from a bottom up approach to enable those who are new to the sector the ability to learn more about this complex market and to refresh those who are currently active in the sector.
This CWIC Starter is championed by Collette Johnson from the Healthcare SIG.

For more information and to register, please visit the CW Website.

NMI PARTNERED EVENT: CWIC Starter Event - LPWAN & IoT
2017-03-28 10:00 - 16:30 | Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FD
Today, LPWAN is a plethora of acronyms and obscure technical debate. This LPWAN CWIC-Starter event strips that away, explaining the different options and concentrating on how they will affect your business, both in terms of efficiency and potential disruption. It also looks at the effect of the potential tsunami of data they can produce and demonstrates how that can be utilised to shape new business models.
Led by the Connected Devices SIG champions, who have decades of shared experience, augmented by other industry experts, this is aimed at anyone who wants to see what these future technologies could do for their business.
This CWIC Starter is championed by Nick Hunn from the Connected Devices SIG.

For more information or to register, please visit the CW Website.

NMI PARTNERED EVENT: CWIC Starter Event - Transport & Mobility
2017-03-23 10:00 - 16:30 | Runway East, 10 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1AF
In the 60s and 70s public transport was the norm and owning a car was a sign of prestige; in the 80s and in the 90s car ownership was a rite of passage for everyone, and buses were for losers; and now car ownership is becoming an optional lifestyle choice alongside with the inexorable rise of the on demand. There appears to be a move towards more flexible options, ownership, shared ownership, car clubs, on demand vehicles and drivers, widespread delivery companies, flexible buses, more extensive mass transport systems, all in the light of climate change, and developments in automation and self-driving vehicles.
What will the transport system of the future require:

Connectivity, for smooth running of the system?
Connectivity, for work and leisure during commute/travel?
Fully joined up road, rail, bus, taxi? Interoperability? Platforms?
Analytics to ensure the right capacity in the right place?

This CWIC Starter is championed by Paul Ceely from the Automotive & Transport SIG.

For more information or to register for the event, please visit the CW Website.

R&D Workshop on Devices, Sensors and Systems for Flexible RF Communications
2015-11-04 10:00 - 16:00 | Roke Manor, Old Salisbury Lane, Romsey, SO51 0ZN
RF wireless systems and solutions are important and high growth technologies that have a wide range of applications in key sectors such as communications, defence, consumer and transport.
In particular, the increased demand in Machine-to-Machine (M2M) RF wireless communications for wide bandwidth, high power, tuneable and flexible systems in RF is a key business driver. This in turn is pushing development and innovation across the value chain including systems and device design, sensors, antennas, packaging and materials.
There is a significant level of RF device, component and systems know-how capability in the UK. The purpose of this workshop is to bring the broad supply chain together to discuss the challenges in flexible RF and gain an understanding of the state of the art in industrially-oriented R&D.
The aim of the workshop is therefore not only to communicate current innovation activity, but provide the community a platform from which to collaborate and develop new ideas and projects.

Agenda
10.00 Registration, Coffee and Networking
10.30 Welcome & Introductions by Roke Manor and NMI
10.40 Stephen Wales Roke Manor
Ultrawideband Power Amplifiers and Predistortion
11.05 Rob Rolley General Dynamics
The Internet of Things for Defence
11.30 Mark Barrett Blu Wireless
Integrating multiple millimetre RF front ends with a flexible baseband processor
11.55 Richard Holmes Keysight Technologies
Monitoring based on distributed Sensors, the use of radio spectrum and resolving interference
12.20 Peter Cockburn Xcerra
Smart Things Need Flexible Test

12.45 – 13.45 Lunch

13.45 Andy Sellars Innovate UK
Support for RF/microwave device technology
14.00 Mike Geen Filtronic
Millimetre wave technology for multi-gigabit mobile networks
14.25 Ian Davis Diamond Microwave Devices
High-powered GaN transmitters
14.50 Raj Rayit Saras Technology
Multi-Protocol, Multiband Band PA Development
15.15 Kevin Morris University of Bristol
Flexible RF Tranceiver Technology
15.40 Close, Coffee and further networking

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R&D Showcase: Integrating Wide Bandgap and High Performance Silicon Semiconductors into Systems
2015-10-22 10:00 - 16:00 | Cranfield University, College Road, Cranfield, MK43 0AL
Progress in wide bandgap semiconductors is opening up significant market opportunities in high performance electronic systems. However, to ensure maximum performance impact, this is creating significant challenges and opportunities in system design and integration that affects the entire value chain. At the same time, the application of systems thinking to high performance silicon-based systems are also developing at a rapid pace.
Recent Technology and business roadmapping by Powerelectronics UK has shown that there is considerable UK industrial and academic R&D activity across the high performance system value chain from materials growth through to system integration.
The purpose of this workshop is to showcase key R&D projects that are being carried out within the UK community, covering the supply chain and engaging key end markets such as Automotive, Aerospace and Energy.
The aim of the workshop is therefore not only to communicate current innovation activity, but provide the community a platform from which to collaborate and develop new ideas and projects.
Draft Agenda
10:00 Registration, Coffee and Networking
10:30 Welcome and Introduction – NMI & Cranfied University
11.00 GaN electronics: what can epitaxy enable
– Trevor Martin, IQE
11.25 The PowerGaN Consortium – Current Status and Future Plans
– Iain Thayne, University of Glasgow
11.50 GaN on Si Development for Lighting and Novel LED Applications
– David Wallis, Plessey Semiconductor
12.15 Long term reliability in harsh environments
– Rob Coleman, Semelab
12.40 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 Theme of Widebandgap systems integration in Automotive
– Luke Evans, Jaguar Land-Rover
14.25 Using Nanostructures to Tailor GaN Based Light Emitting Diodes to Meet System Requirements
– Duncan Allsopp, University of Bath
14.50 Advances in Reliable Low Cost SiC Power Devices
– Peter Ward, Anvil Semiconductors
15.15 Progress towards PE technology white paper” and “diamond – the missing link for carbon electronics
– Gareth Taylor, Evince
15:40 Event Close

Sponsorship Opportunities
For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Alastair McGibbon.

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ISO 26262 Internal Auditor (Internal FSMS Auditor)
2014-12-01 09:00 - 2014-12-05 17:00 | MIRA Technology Park, Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, United Kingdom
“This practical five-day course will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to perform internal audits of functional safety management systems (FSMS).”
You will learn how to:

Plan, conduct and report an FSMS internal audit
Read and understand the ISO 26262 standard in the context of conducting an audit
Create an audit schedule for ISO 26262
Audit your company’s procedures against ISO 26262 requirements
Audit your company’s work products against your company’s procedures
Check that non-conformities have been followed-up

and much more…
The course includes:

An extensive pre-course package to prepare you for the course
In-depth lectures mixed with interactive group work
Extensive practical auditing exercises
Certificate for successful completion

Pre-requisite knowledge: delegates are expected to have a background in QMS auditing although this is not essential as the basics will be covered. A working knowledge of the requirements of ISO 26262 is advantageous although an introduction to the standard will be given.

NMI Members will receive a 10% discount. Please contact Rachel Palmer to request a promotional code to receive this discount.
