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Transformer for China

09.07.2009

By order of the People's Republic of China, the German electrical engineering firm Siemens designed and built an 800 kilovolt transformer.

A transformer the size of a two-story cottage is now awaiting delivery to China. A 1400 km long transmission line from Yunnan to Guangdong will require ten such giants and the same number to transfer energy from a new hydroelectric power station in the southwest of the country to Shanghai (the line is more than 2000 km long).

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"We used open source compilers to generate the code, and we wrote our own libraries to avoid using heavy Glib libraries," BitBox said.

To provide maximum control over the hardware, the company also wrote its own loaders for processors. BitBox manufactures a significant number of these music servers as off-the-shelf products that are already available to customers.

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The design department has significant design for manufacturing (DFM) experience and can offer mass production and lifecycle management for the products they create. The production base allows for: surface mounting with a pitch of 0,8 mm, wave soldering, manufacturing of cases, testing - in-circuit, optical, functional and limiting modes and component control.

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At its manufacturing facility in Basingstoke, the company conducts design, prototype testing and series production.

"There's an advantage to being able to 'touch' the design and optimize the design as it's built, and have control over the mass production and delivery process that's always at hand," the company says.

The company's projects are used in medical, audio, power management and industrial applications, including RFID, ZigBee, MEMS, Bluetooth, GPS and Galileo technologies.

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