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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.Tiny module delivers Pico-ITXe expansion 11/11/2008
UWB IC targets handset, automotive, and industrial uses 10/30/2008
Staccato Communications’ second-generation UWB (ultrawideband) Ripcord2 IC integrates RF-front-end, digital-baseband, MAC (media-access-controller), and I/O functions. The single-chip, all-CMOS device covers WiMedia bands 1, 3, and 6 and has a frequency range of 3 to 9 GHz. The device uses standard 65-nm CMOS technology.Book helps you resolve BGA-layout issues 10/2/2008
As a circuit designer who also often lays out quite complex boards, I found the temptation to purchase Charles Pfeil’s new book—BGA Breakouts & Routing: Effective Design Methods for Very Large BGAs—irresistible, and I wasn’t disappointed. The approximately 160 pages and more than 100 figures within this quality paperback carry a wealth of information that far exceeds...Voices: CriticalBlue’s David Stewart 10/2/2008
David Stewart, founder and CEO of CriticalBlue (Edinburgh, Scotland) talks about his company's approach to hardware/software co-design and the challenge of multicore programming.Freescale to offer VaST virtual prototypes of automotive powertrain management MCUs 9/22/2008
To allow automotive developers to tackle growing software complexities and speed time to market, Austin, Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor said today it is adding virtual prototypes for its automotive Power Architecture microcontroller portfolio to its development ecosystem using modeling technology from VaST Systems.Voices: Pentek’s Rodger Hosking: next-generation-radio architect 9/4/2008
EDN talks with Rodger Hosking, vice president and co-founder of Pentek Inc, about high-performance data-acquisition, software-defined radio, upcoming technical opportunities, hiring engineering talent, and more.Video card captures 480 frames/sec 9/3/2008
Extending its line of OEM video-capture cards, Sensoray recently announced the model 817 PCIe (peripheral-component-interconnect-express) frame-grabber card, which captures 16 channels of compressed JPEG or uncompressed bit maps at speeds as high as 480 frames/sec.US behind foreign suppliers of eco-friendly auto electronics, iSuppli reports 8/22/2008
While automakers are developing eco-friendly driving solutions given rising fuel costs and higher emissions standards for automobiles, in the fast-growing area of ecologically oriented features in car navigation and telematics systems, US automakers are falling behind foreign suppliers, according to El Segundo, Calif-based iSuppli Corp.Innovation-aid software gets infusion of 1.3 million IEEE documents 8/20/2008
Invention Machine has announced the addition of 1.3 million technical documents from the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) to its Goldfire Innovator software tool.Video, graphics module drives dual displays 8/13/2008
With advanced-sensor-fusion, image-manipulation, and tactical-moving-map applications in mind, Aitech Defense Systems recently introduced the M590 graphics and video PMC (peripheral-component-interconnect-mezzanine-card) module that simultaneously outputs information from two independent data streams to two analog or digital displays.ADVERTISEMENT
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