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January 6, 2009
ITU-T Makes Progress On Home Networking Standard
The International Telecommunications Union’s Standardization Sector (ITU-T) has agreed on the PHY and architecture portions of the G.hn specification for next-generation home networking, according to the HomeGrid Forum.
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ED News Staff
December 22, 2008
Silicon Valley Innovation Can Solve The Energy Crisis
The innovation inherent in Silicon Valley is the key to solving the energy crisis and building the foundation for a sustainable future, according to a trio of CEOs from the valley speaking at EcoChip 2009, a media roundtable held at Actel Corp. John East of Actel, T.J. Rogers of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., and Brian Halla of National Semiconductor shared their provocative thoughts and insights on the environmental and economic challenges facing the world.
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ED News Staff
December 22, 2008
FinFETs Create Smallest SRAM Cell Ever
At 0.128 µm2, a new SRAM cell using fin-shaped FETs (FinFETs) is the smallest such cell ever developed, according to Toshiba Corp, IBM, and AMD.
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ED News Staff
December 10, 2008
Looking For An Open-Source ECG
The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a very important diagnostic tool for heart health. But as common as it is in the U.S. and other developed countries, the ECG is still expensive enough to be unaffordable to doctors in many third world countries.
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ED News Staff
December 10, 2008
HP, ASU Create Flexible, Unbreakable Displays
HP and the Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University have created the first prototype of an affordable, flexible, unbreakable electronic display.
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ED News Staff
December 9, 2008
Power.org Releases Embedded Platform Standard
The newly released Power.org Standard for Embedded Power Architecture Platform Requirements (ePAPR) aims to speed software porting and reduce development costs for operating system and platform designers.
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ED News Staff
December 5, 2008
Powerlink V.1.1.0 Standard Adds New Features
Version 1.1.0 of the Ethernet Powerlink specification offers new features that were added by using reserved bits. The updated specification, released by the Ethernet Powerlink Standardization Group (EPSG), allows the complete integration of high-availability functionality.
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Staff
December 2, 2008
BASF, OSRAM Make A Breakthrough In OLED Lighting
BASF and OSRAM have created the first organic LED (OLED) to achieve a light yield of more than 60 lumens/W while also meeting the international Energy Star SSL Standard for color requirements.
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ED News Staff
November 25, 2008
JEDEC Seeks Participation In SSD Standard
With work progressing rapidly on a standard for solid-state drives (SSDs), JEDEC is inviting companies worldwide to participate in the process. The standard is being developed by JEDEC’s JC-64.8 subcommittee for solid-state drives, which held its first meeting last May and is co-chaired by Seagate and Micron.
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ED News Staff
November 21, 2008
Technology May Give Consumers The Upper Hand In Health Care
Personal health care could change radically as two disruptive technology forces come together, according to Laird Technologies Wireless Systems’ white paper, titled “Trust me, I’m not a doctor—The changing nature of health care.”
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ED News Staff
November 21, 2008
Power Grid Presents Great Market Opportunity
The bad news is that today’s power grid is wasteful, costly, inefficient, and dumb, according to Lux Research. In other words, it’s ill-equipped to address many pressing energy issues, from the need to focus on climate change and carbon cost, to the demand for high reliability.
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ED News Staff
November 19, 2008
Engineers Rely On Internet For Product Info
Engineers and technical and industrial professionals rely heavily in the Internet for work, according to the seventh annual GlobalSpec Engineering Trends Survey.
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ED News Staff
November 19, 2008
IEEE Joins Information Campaign On Digital TV
The IEEE is joining the effort to ensure that people are aware of the switch to all-digital TV broadcasting next Feb. 17 and have the information and resources they need to accommodate the change. The organization also wants to ensure that consumers understand the benefits available to them by taking full advantage of the digital signal.
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ED News Staff
November 14, 2008
Like An Electronic Marvel? Thank An Engineer
Texas Instruments wants you to know your contributions as engineers are highly appreciated and to make that point the company is running a series of short videos that provide a funny look at what the world would be like without those contributions.
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ED News Staff
November 11, 2008
Mellonox Puts 10 GigE On Motherboard
Mellanox has combined forces with Teranetics to create the 10GBaseT ConnectX ENt, a single-chip solution for LAN on Motherboard (LOM) high-performance networking. Teranetics adds its 10GBaseT PHY technology to the Mellanox ConnectX EN architecture.
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William Wong
November 6, 2008
SOI Consortium To Hold First Members’ Forum
The SOI Industry Consortium will hold its first annual Members’ Forum in support of the consortium mission to accelerate silicon-on-insulator innovation into broad markets. The forum will be held at the TechMart in Santa Clara, California, on November 11.
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ED News Staff
October 29, 2008
SFF-SIG Addresses Mass Storage For Small Embedded Systems
The Small Form Factor Special Interest Group (SFF-SIG) will adopt and enhance SiliconSystems’ SiliconDrive II Blade Specification for use with small, rugged subsystems such as mass storage and other I/O technologies.
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ED News Staff
October 28, 2008
Foundry Produces Fully Functional 28-nm SRAMs
Using its independently developed low-leakage process technology, UMC has manufactured the foundry industry’s first fully functional 28-nm SRAM chips, according to the company. UMC employed advanced double-patterning immersion lithography and strained silicon technology to produce the chips, which feature six-transistor SRAM cell sizes of approximately 0.122 ?m2.
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ED News Staff
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