EDN Senior Technical Editor Brian Dipert exposes, analyzes and opines on diverse topics in technology. Follow the Brian's Brain Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/BrianzBrain. en-us http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040.html?nid=2679 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:46:10 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1830050383.html?nid=2679 Much discourse is regularly made in the tech press regarding the single-chip integration effects of Moore's Law, and the associated extinction of c... http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;217624660;12103198;y?http://www.actel.com/products/nanoFPGAs/ Low power, low cost, small form factor, and reprogrammability—now you can have it all with Actel nano FPGAs. Targeting high-volume applications and the portable market, Actel IGLOO nano and ProASIC3 nano FPGAs enable you to take your design ideas to market profitability in nano time. http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1560050356.html?nid=2679 One of my meal meetings at the Intel Developer Forum back in late September was with Steve Roux, Senior Strategic Business Development Manager for ... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1460050346.html?nid=2679 Plenty of companies pitch me on new products, armed with nothing but a pile of PowerPoint foils. Inevitably, many of the promised chips never appea... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1200050320.html?nid=2679 A week ago, I shared with you my experiences two nights earlier watching the live stream of a U2 concert on YouTube. Although the band's performanc... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1760050176.html?nid=2679 Following up on yesterday's disappointing re-test of Gigle Semiconductor's HomePlug AV-plus powerline networking adapters, today's evaluation focus... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1550050155.html?nid=2679 Remember Google's Linux-based Chrome O/S, which I wrote about back in early July? Well surprise surprise...the company just released a beta build, ... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1520050152.html?nid=2679 Back in late July, I shared my initial (and underwhelming) testing results on Belkin's Gigabit Powerline Adapters based on Gigle Semiconductor's GG... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1160050116.html?nid=2679 I'm a pretty big U2 fan, so Sunday night I caught the live streaming performance of the band's Los Angeles concert on YouTube. As I've written befo... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/450050045.html?nid=2679 My friend's DSL service was activated on Monday, and all in all it was a pretty good setup experience. Speakeasy reports that downstream speeds on ... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/180050018.html?nid=2679 Hopefully by now at least some of you have gotten a chance to peruse my Prying Eyes teardown of Microsoft's new Zune HD portable multimedia player,... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/110049811.html?nid=2679 Yesterday afternoon, I endured a half hour of pure frustration. The day before, I'd started getting grumble-email messages from my company's IT dep... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1840049784.html?nid=2679 This blog post references my feature article 'Transporting High-Def Video Broadcasts: Are Wireless Networks Up To The Task?' in EDN's August 20, 20... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1430049743.html?nid=2679 My friend's broadband Internet aspirations unfortunately haven't been solved by the booster recently installed at her residence. Although she now h... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1070049707.html?nid=2679 Subsequent to my slide-and-roll accident debacle of two Sundays ago, AAA has thankfully provided me with a gratis Hertz rental car for use until th... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/2000049600.html?nid=2679 Lest there be any doubt as to the extent of my independent thinking, even when it conflicts with the opinions of my management, here's what I email... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1730049573.html?nid=2679 My past coverage of RFID technology has admittedly been mixed; impressed with the concept, but concerned with the potential privacy impacts of its ... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1360049536.html?nid=2679 Sunday afternoon, en route back home after running the San Jose Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon (which I'll tell you more about in my next post) I hit ... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/300049430.html?nid=2679 I have a cat. Actually, I have two cats (along with a dog), but this writeup will focus on Charlene, whose quirks you've encountered before (severa... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1860049386.html?nid=2679 As long time readers (or for that matter, anyone who's perused the numerous links I usually insert in my cyber-missives) know, research via (and su... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/440049244.html?nid=2679 I'm still digesting everything I absorbed this week at IDF, as well as digging out from all the other daily cyber- and physical-correspondence th... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1570049157.html?nid=2679 Greetings from the 2009 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, CA. As with conferences past, I aspire to file at least one lengthy writeup per day... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1990048999.html?nid=2679 While I think my analysis and prognostication skills are fairly refined, nobody's perfect and I admittedly sometimes miss some key piece of the res... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1560048956.html?nid=2679 This blog post references my feature article 'Transporting High-Def Video Broadcasts: Are Wireless Networks Up To The Task?' in EDN's August 20, 20... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/740048874.html?nid=2679 Past hands-on project writeups from me have discussed the motivations and implementation details of boosting a cellular signal to improve coverage ... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1450048345.html?nid=2679 Speaking of game consoles... after many weeks' worth of rumours (including a leak from a major retail partner): Sony announced a 'slim' version ...