Technical and product information for designers of high-performance computing systems targeting embedded applications in the security, transportation, telecom, industrial control, military, aerospace, and medical markets. Covers board-level embedded hardware, development tools, and related software.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Learn about the emerging board-level technology in a video produced for EDN by Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, one of the core members of the VITA 46 specification development team. ; FA-22; VITA 46; VMEbus connectors; board-level design; design idea videos; fighter jet; joint strike; The quartz crystals prevalent in cell phones and PCs work with currents that max out at 1 µA. With such a small full-scale current range, a tiny error in the current a circuit sends through the crystal can result in a terribly inaccurate clock.; cell phones; computer clocks; jim williams; linear technology; nanoamps; quartz crystals; video design idea; Mark Thoren, mixed-signal application engineering manager with Linear Technology, demonstrates an amplifier-based circuit design for a relatively inexpensive precision voltage source.; Mark Thoren; amplifier-based circuit design; linear technology; mixed-signal application; precision voltage source; Ed Sperling, Editor In Chief of Electronic Business and Electronic News, gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the making of our annual Movers and Shakers publication.; EDN; EDN.com; Ed Sperling; Electronic Business; Electronic News; Movers and Shakers; Short videos with high technical value, including Video Design Ideas. http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1078600052http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=959007201
Leibson'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.
Numonyx provides a full range of NOR, NAND, RAM and Phase Change non-volatile memory products for the cellular and embedded markets. Numonyx is dedicated to providing high density, low power memory technologies and packaging solutions to customers...
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