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Is there gold in Green Technology? A microelectronics perspective 9/18/2009
A panel sponsored by international science and technology interest group Monte Jade explored the realities behind the promise of huge new microelectronics markets from so-called Green Tech—the global drive to lower carbon footprints, reduce energy use, and shift to sustainable consumption. The panel combined venture capitalists, industry executives, and an executive from a key electric power industry organization, and produced a fascinating cross-fire of ideas.DSP brings you a high-definition moon walk 9/3/2009
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently discovered that someone at the agency recorded over the master copy of the video of Neil Armstrong's famous Apollo 11 walk on the moon. One small step for one man succumbed to one major error by another.Voices: Asset InterTech Inc’s Tim Dehne: seeking growth in embedded instrumentation 8/20/2009
Tim Dehne, until recently a longtime executive with National Instruments Inc, has joined the board of directors of Asset InterTech Inc, a supplier of boundary-scan and embedded-instrumentation tools. Over a career stretching more than 21 years at NI, Dehne led global marketing and R&D at the company, which reported $824 million in revenues in 2008.EDN names winners of 19th Annual Innovation Awards 3/31/2009
EDN has bestowed its 19th Annual Innovation Awards, honoring a diverse group of electronics engineers and the ground-breaking products they have produced. The Altera Stratix IV 40-nm FPGA design team is named Innovator of the Year. Read on for a complete list of the winners.Embedded module simplifies local networking 1/22/2009
One of the most popular and simplest approaches to Web-enabling a product is to embed an Ethernet interface and connect it to a corporate LAN.In-Depth
Keep on truckin’ 10/22/2009
Tales From The Cube: Changing both the antenna and the transmitter didn't clear up this mysterious transmitter-shutdown problem. It turns out that antennas with the same part number were indeed different.Designing an accessible board 10/8/2009
Design in access to verification and debugging during—not after—the development of a board-level product.Lightning strikes sewage setup 9/17/2009
Tales From The Cube: Mysterious, random chip failures leave SCADA-system engineer wondering whether isolation from ground could be the cause.Unreal-wheel deal 9/3/2009
Tales From The Cube: Do all those rules for signal propagation, high-speed-digital design, and line terminations really apply to cables more than a mile long? Tough lessons you learn in a real-life application prove that they actually do.Finger on the trigger 8/20/2009
Tales From The Cube: Circuits are getting faster and more complicated. Fortunately, the tools we have are getting more powerful, too.Experts
Exhibits emphasize markets and development ease 10/22/2009
Vendors at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston September 21 and 22 highlighted an impressive range of technologies that address issues ranging from "green" applications to data and code security.Robots, jobs, and war 9/17/2009
Many ethical questions are being raised as robots take on more and more roles in society.Voices: Asset InterTech Inc’s Tim Dehne: seeking growth in embedded instrumentation 8/20/2009
Tim Dehne, until recently a longtime executive with National Instruments Inc, has joined the board of directors of Asset InterTech Inc, a supplier of boundary-scan and embedded-instrumentation tools. Over a career stretching more than 21 years at NI, Dehne led global marketing and R&D at the company, which reported $824 million in revenues in 2008.Not your fault 3/5/2009
Green safety wires do not form a reliable single-point-ground reference system.Technical and political suggestions for Detroit 2/19/2009
Do the Detroit automakers deserve a bailout, or should they be left to go the way of the dinosaurs?DesignIdeas
