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Chapter 20
Electronics Innovation in Germany
Revolutionised Wind Energy Systems
Jürgen Sachau
Interdisciplinary Center for Reliability, Security and Trust,
University of Luxembourg, L-1359 Luxembourg
juergen.sachau@uni.lu
It was in 1980 when I first came in touch with a completely new
field in systems and control engineering: using micro-electronics
for control, integrated circuits, which at that time had recently
developed into the first 4 bit and soon 8 bit, the so-called
microprocessors. Up to then, digital signal processing and control
used to be a field for expensive mainframe and mini-computers,
controlling large installations for processing, manufacturing and
production installations or military, air and space equipment.
20.1
University Pioneering from Theory to
Practice
At that time, the electrical engineering institutes at Braunschweig's
Technical University annually presented their laboratories for the
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