• Inside the Schick Hydro microcontroller-powered wet razor

  Patrick Mannion, Brand Director, May 16, 2012
  Though the shaving experience may be overrated, a look inside the Schick Hydro reveals another unexpected application for microcontrollers—in this case a less-than-$1 PIC10F222 from Microchip.  More

• Generating spatial audio from portable products

  Ken Boyce, Texas Instruments, May 10, 2012
  The ever-shrinking mechanical component of portable devices poses major challenges for stereo audio playback.  More

• Teardown reveals Chevy Volt's electronic secrets

  Rick DeMeis, Automotive Designline, May 10, 2012
  Beyond battery chemistry and electric propulsion and control, the Chevy Volt enhanced-range electric vehicle builds in flexibility, ruggedness, and diagnostics—with attention to quality construction.  More

• Understand and characterize envelope-tracking power amplifiers

  Gerard Wimpenny, Nujira Ltd, May 10, 2012
  In contrast to fixed-supply power amps, the performance of an envelope-tracking power amplifier is not self-contained and requires substantially more data to predict system performance.  More

• Signal-powered switch connects devices

  James Dean, National Research Council, Ottawa, ON, Canada, May 10, 2012
  Use a switch to selectively connect a terminal, personal computer, or any other originating device to one of four receivers.  More

• Drive interfaces require trade-offs

  Pallab Chatterjee, Contributing Technical Editor, May 10, 2012
  As the amount of data in networks continues to grow at an exponential rate, higher-performance storage at both the client side and the enterprise server is becoming a necessity.  More

• Remote display technology lets users fully experience cloud content

  Raj Pawate, Distinguished member, Technical Staff, Texas Instruments Incorporated, May 9, 2012
  The cloud can provide content almost anywhere, anytime. Often, however, the device where the content ends up is not ideal for viewing, sharing and experiencing it. Remote display technology provides an effective path around this dilemma.  More

• High-performance HF transceiver design: A ham's perspective

  Doug Grant, May 3, 2012
  Designers of equipment for radio amateurs face the same problems as designers of most other systems - squeezing the last dB of performance from off-the-shelf components. Some ingenious designs have evolved, using analog, digital and DSP technology.  More

• OEM-ready wireless sensor site launches

  Steve Taranovich, Senior Technical Editor, April 26, 2012
  Monnit Corporation has launched OEMSensors.com with a new line of OEM-ready wireless sensors, gateways and back-end monitoring software targeting broad lines of commercial, industrial and M2M applications.  More

• Controller ICs take multitouch screens beyond smartphones

  Margery Conner, Senior Technical Editor, April 19, 2012
  As multitouch touchscreens move beyond smartphones and tablets into automotive, medical, and instrumentation applications, their features evolve to fit lower prices and varying form factors.  More

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