Consumer Electronics Design
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High-performance HF transceiver design: A ham's perspectiveDoug Grant, May 3, 2012Designers 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
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OEM-ready wireless sensor site launchesSteve Taranovich, Senior Technical Editor, April 26, 2012Monnit 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
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Controller ICs take multitouch screens beyond smartphonesMargery Conner, Senior Technical Editor, April 19, 2012As 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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Pico-projector design uses color LEDsFrancis Nguyen and Stefan Morgott, Osram Opto Semiconductors GMBH, April 19, 2012An LED light source uses a flexible chip and package platform for color-sequential embedded pico projection. More
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Sage words of advice from Forte Design Systems founder John SanguinettiInterview conducted and edited by Brian Bailey, April 19, 2012John Sanguinetti, the founder and chief technology officer of Forte Design Systems, is an inventor, an entrepreneur, a cancer survivor, and an interesting guy. EDN spoke with him during the recent 2012 Design and Verification Conference in San Jose, CA. More
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It's my turn to tell Apple what to doPatrick Mannion, Director of Content, April 5, 2012Apple is sitting on billions. What could happen if some of that capital were put aside to free up some engineers to have fun, to follow their curiosity, instead of targeted research focused on the bottom line? More
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Optically isolating an I2C interface: Beware of nonlinear propagation delaysEric D. Blom, Senior Design Engineer, IXYS-Clare Inc., April 3, 2012The usual model of an I2C open-drain bus as a simple, shared pull-up resistor is not instantaneously valid when using bus isolators exhibiting real-world propagation delays. If the delays are not considered in the design of the hardware, then there can be unexpected consequences. More
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ACE Awards 2012: Celebrating excellence in engineeringEDN staff, March 27, 2012The UBM Electronics ACE (Annual Creativity in Electronics) Awards combine EDN's Innovation Awards and EE Times' ACE Awards and are among the few chances for us to honor the best of the best individuals, teams, teachers, mentors, innovators, products, technology, and creativity that propel our industry forward. More
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Teardown slideshow: Inside the third-generation iPadDylan McGrath, EE Times, March 20, 2012The third generation of Apple's iPad media tablet features a modified version of Apple's A5 processor, A5X, which has a larger floorplan to include quad-core graphics, according to UBM TechInsights. More
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Hidden interfaces: a new playground for embedded innovationsRobert Cravotta, Embedded Insights Inc, March 15, 2012New interfaces can detect users’ presence and motion. In response, designers are providing new features to make their systems more responsive to users’ needs. More
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Test-driven development for embedded C: Why debug?James W Grenning, Renaissance Software Consulting, March 15, 2012Test-driven development helps you improve schedule predictability and product quality by eliminating bugs before they make the bug list. More
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TI, Nvidia tied for second in tablet CPUsEE Times staff, March 7, 2012Apple dominated the market for applications processors in tablets last year with Texas Instruments and Nvidia in a near tie for second place, according to a new market research report from Strategy Analytics. More
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Dialog licenses Cortex-M0, moves ARM into PMICsPeter Clarke, EE Times, March 7, 2012Dialog Semiconductor plc has licensed the Cortex-M0 microcontroller core from ARM Holdings plc for use in future mixed-signal power management ICs. More
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Apple bought half of ST's MEMS in 2011, says IHSPeter Clarke, EE Times, March 5, 2012The total market for MEMS gyroscopes was $655.4 million in 2011, up 66% from $394.5 million in 2010 and exceeding accelerometer sales, according to IHS-iSuppli. More
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Smart wireless for your worldPallab Chatterjee, Contributing Technical Editor, March 1, 2012The luxury of RF is now a required component. As a result, what is considered RF is forever changed. More
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AMD to buy microserver startup SeaMicroDylan McGrath, EE Times, February 29, 2012AMD said the deal would accelerate its strategy to deliver server technology to OEM customers serving cloud-center data centers. More
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Report details Apple's patent holdingsDylan McGrath, EE Times, February 29, 2012Apple Inc has roughly 15,500 patents, about 8,500 of which are US patents, according to a new report detailing the tech giant's patent portfolio. More
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Getting around multicore walls: The roads less traveledLoring Wirbel and Lou Covey, New Tech Press, February 23, 2012The processor industry has been running pell mell down the road of multicore design. But a funny thing happened on the way to the personal super computer. It didn't work. More
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Glasses-less 3-D, free-viewpoint coming to future TVsDylan McGrath, EE Times, February 22, 2012Future televisions will be smarter, more intuitive, and feature even more technically logical advanced displays, according to a panel of experts at the International Solid State Circuits Conference. More
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Intel gives deeper look into Ivy BridgeRick Merritt, EE Times, February 21, 2012The first Ivy Bridge chip targets a range of desktop, notebook, embedded, and single-socket server systems with up to 8 Mbytes cache. More
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