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Shrinking standards squeeze embedded designs 6/26/2008

As new embedded designs combine highly integrated silicon, portable platforms, and soaring data rates, the industry is adopting smaller form factors that emphasize cooling, reliability, and performance.

News

Tiny module unites industrial applications 6/10/2008

Following the small-form-factor trend in embedded devices, Connect One just introduced the Mini Socket iWiFi serial-to-Wi-Fi module for connecting industrial devices running machine-to-machine applications to 802.11b/g wireless networks.

Intel, Wind River turn ignition on Linux for automotive electronics 5/20/2008

Today at Telematics 2008, Wind River Systems and Intel announced their intention to create an open-source Linux platform for automotive applications.

Pentek shrinks software-radio module 5/8/2008

At the recent Critical Embedded Systems conference in Scottsdale, AZ, Pentek introduced its latest high-performance, high-resolution software-radio module.

Processor supports capacitive touch sensing for button and slider replacement 5/1/2008

Cypress Semiconductor’s CapSense Express devices, working with the PSoC (programmable-system-on-chip) Express visual embedded-system-design tool and the CapSense Express configuration tool, enable designers to monitor and tune the performance of as many as 10 button-and-slider interfaces in real time using a graphical user interface.

Active-matrix display employs nanowire transistors 5/1/2008

A research group including members from Purdue University, Northwestern University, and the University of Southern California claims it has developed the first active-matrix display based on nanowire transistors, which offer better transparency and flexibility than conventional silicon circuitry. In the proof-of-concept display, indium-oxide-nanowire transistors, indium-tin-oxide electrodes, an...
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Automobile electronics seek to plug power leaks 6/26/2008

Automobile accessories and control electronics benefit from power-management schemes to prevent dead batteries and gas guzzling. Low-power electronic subsystems are especially important for the next generation of electric cars and plug-in electric vehicles.

One giant leap for “enhanced” hybrid 6/12/2008

Tales From The Cube: Space-bound product nearly fails to launch due to an "improved" circuit design that is anything but.

Multicore-programming frameworks for embedded-multimedia applications 5/29/2008

Understanding the data-access pattern of an application can help you effectively use the memory and system resources of the underlying architecture to develop a scalable parallel application.

Temperature: Your worst enemy? 5/29/2008

Tales From The Cube: Temperature-induced system errors gave this design team cold sweats. After realizing that identical units were failing at different temperatures, the engineers learned a valuable lesson.

High availability in embedded systems: Always on 5/13/2008

Designers are tuning high-availability architectures to meet customer demands for a persistent data interface for the next generation of ultrareliable embedded-system applications.
Experts

Embedded-system design: Those devilish details 4/17/2008

As you marvel at our industry’s electronic masterpieces, you can be sure of one thing: A team of embedded-system designers painstakingly analyzed and tuned all of the minute hardware and software details.

Fractal engineering versus synergy 2/27/2008

Even the best efforts of today bring together only the most closely related fractal components of the electrical-engineering profession.

ZMIN, a very special value 2/27/2008

A special value that I call 'minimum impedance' is the secret to successful end-termination design.

EDN Innovation: Awards season comes to technology 2/6/2008

Engineers rarely receive the same fame as those that toil in some higher profile professions. But I don't know of a job that demands a better combination of technical savvy, theoretical knowledge, and creative thought process.

Development boards speed learning and product-development cycle 12/3/2007

How do you use development boards? Complete our survey on development-board usage, and you'll enter a drawing for a special development prize.
DesignIdeas

Hot-swap circuit allows two computers to monitor an RS-232 channel 5/29/2008

A hot-swap serial-interface circuit allows two computers to monitor all the traffic on an RS-232 port.

Bit-shifting method performs fast integer multiplying by fractions in C 5/29/2008

Instead of calling math-library functions, you can multiply integers using bit shifting.

Capacitive touch switch uses CPLD 5/29/2008

Using an Altera MAX IIZ CPLD, you can implement a touch-switch decoder with no external components.

Dual flip-flop forms simple delayed-pulse generator 4/17/2008

A delayed pulse generator provides precision timing adjustments.

Transmission lines simulate digital filters in PSpice 4/17/2008

You can simulate digital filters in PSpice by using transmission lines as delay elements.
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Events

AVMS VI-02 - Practical Examples of PSL Usage

Dates: 7/17/2008 - 7/17/2008
Location: Online Webinar: Thursday 7/17/2008, 11:00 AM (Pacific Daylight Time)


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Read pacing boosts PCI Express performance

One of the potential problems with PCI Express embedded designs containing multiple high speed data streams is known as endpoint starvation. This c... 

Microsoft previews new embedded standard

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the immediate availability of the Windows Embedded Standard 2009 community technology preview (CTP) designed... 

Mercury cuts system size

Just as the embedded industry starts to get serious about system size and form factors, Mercury Computer Systems unveiled its smallest system. The&... 


Guest blog: Leibson's Law

Steve LeibsonLeibson's Law covers disruptive technologies that either have or will win over electronic engineers, some that won't, and why. Contributed by Tensilica Technology Evangelist (and former EDN editor) Steve Leibson.



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