Smart conditioners rub out sensor errors By Bill Travis, Senior Technical Editor
Bridge-type, piezoelectric, and other sensors are subject to nonlinearities, as well as gain and offset errors. Smart signal conditioners compensate for the errors and extract the true signals from the dross.
Design Features
Web Technology: Sticking its nodes in everybody's business By Dan Strassberg, Senior Technical Editor
Factory-floor communications is flirting with what once were purely office technologies. Although Web protocols' migration from e-mail to muscular machinery isn't totally problem-free, the Web's romance with manufacturing augurs well for a longer, happier relationship than most in high tech.
The top five software-testing problems and how to avoid them Lars Mats, Telelogic Technologies MalmöAB
Some common software-testing problems are not severe, and others are more costly to correct. Real-life scenarios provide helpful guidelines that can prevent these problems in the first place.
EMI and emissions: rules, regulations, and options Daryl Gerke, PE, and Bill Kimmel, PE, Kimmel Gerke Associates Ltd
Commercial-emissions limits may be inadequate for your applications. You might need new design goals to control emissions to a suitable level.
Silicon variety vanquishes embedded-Java taboos By David Marsh, Contributing Technical Editor
Java's portability and C-like familiarity make it the linchpin of Internet communications. Today's hardware developments enable Java to break out of Unix/Windows system programming and into embedded devices.
