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  • Let Your Car Park Itself

    By John H. Day, December 01, 2006

    How often have you wondered, "Can my car fit into that parking space?" The answer usually depends upon your ability to estimate the size of the prospective space in relation to the length of the vehicle—as well as your skill at parallel parking. Bu

  • Electronic Design UPDATE: September 27, 2006

    By John H. Day, September 27, 2006

    What's New In The Q?Motorola partnered with Cingular Wireless when it introduced its ultra-slim RAZR and SLVR handsets, and both of those Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) phones were based on chip sets from Freescale Semiconductor. But Mo

  • What's new in the Q?

    By John H. Day, September 22, 2006

    The magic in Motorola's super-slim Moto Q phone is less in the electronics than in the packaging. How did they make it so thin?

  • Mixed-signal ASIC Design Meets Tight Deadline

    By John H. Day, March 23, 2006

    When Emerson Process Management learned that a vital component for their best-selling Rosemount 3051CD had been discontinued, they had to come up with a replacement-and fast. How ASIC and Emerson pulled it off in just 50 weeks.

  • Inside Motorola's Slim SLVR

    By John H. Day, March 20, 2006

    Morotola's newest iTunes phone combines the aesthetic appeal of the RAZR with portable music capabilities.

  • Nano Steals The Spotlight From iTunes Phone

    By John H. Day, September 14, 2005

    As expected, Apple introduced an iTunes cell phone last week (Fig. 1). But the company immediately upstaged the device with the concurrent introduction of a new music player, nano, which replaces the iPod

  • The New Breed Of Universal Remote

    By John H. Day, September 01, 2005

    Combine sophistication and simplicity to achieve elegance. Such is the primary goal for today's developers of home-entertainment/ automation control devices. How come? Simply put, the high end is driving the market for such devices, and consumers willi

  • Designers Of Next-Generation Game Systems Aim For Component Balance To Eliminate Processing Bottlenecks

    By Dave Bursky, August 24, 2005

    Multithreaded CPU anticipates game engine utilization.

  • Inside iPod

    By John H. Day, January 20, 2005

    It was an unusual strategy for a design engineer, but it was appropriate for the job. Elaine Wherry, manager of usability and design at Synaptics Inc., put on her hooded sweatshirt so she would blend in at college campuses. Her mission was to understand

  • The iPod Creates A Whole New Industry

    By John H. Day, January 20, 2005

    Let's cut to the chase, bypassing for the moment the deluxe headphones, car chargers, cozy little iPod car seats, colorful knit socks, docking stations for simultaneous charging and synchronizing, and the myriad other paraphernalia designed especially for

  • EEs Try To Survive The Changing Workplace

    By John H. Day, September 13, 2004

    It has become abundantly clear to all electronics engineers that the workplace is morphing at a rapid clip. In fact, you could say the change is as drastic, if not more so, than when the electronic calculator and the PC replaced the slide...

  • Can BMW's iDrive Pass Its Road Test Now?

    By John H. Day, June 21, 2004

    BMW's iDrive infotainment system uses technologies from a host of companies to improve upon the performance of its widely panned predecessor.

  • The iDrive: Driving A Faster Bus

    By John H. Day, June 21, 2004

    There is a lot more to BMW's research and development effort than iDrive. For example, take FlexRay, the automotive network communications system. BMW and Daimler-Chrysler, along with Philips and Motorola (now Freescale Semiconductor), formed the...