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April 8, 2008
DLP Designs
Read a preview of DLP Designs' product line expected at ESC 2008
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William Wong
April 8, 2008
Klocwork Source Code Analysis
Klocwork will be showcasing it's latest source-code-analysis capabilities at ESC 2008. Read Embedded Editor William Wong's writeup of the company's lineup.
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William Wong
March 25, 2008
Temperature At A Distance
Melexis Microelectronic Integrated Systems sells a host of sensors from basic to intelligent. The demo thermometer unit highlights just one of these, the MLX90614 intergrated digital non-contact thermomter in a small TO-39 can.
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William Wong
March 25, 2008
More ToolSticks
Silicon Labs has been doing ToolSticks for ages. It was one of the first to deliver a low cost, compact, USB-based solution. It is also the only vendor that really has a range of solutions using this form factor
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William Wong
March 25, 2008
Playing Games With the STM32
STmicroelectronics move into the ARM-based Cortex arena started with the STM32. The STM32 Primer (Fig. 1) was a way to get people started with basic software development. It was put together by Raisonance that has a range of products including development kits for a range of STmicroelectronics’ platforms.
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William Wong
March 25, 2008
XChip Development Kit
Lantronix’s XChip is the basis for a host of products from Lantronix as well as third-party products. The XChip is mounted on a module (Fig. 1) that plugs into the Lantronix development board.
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William Wong
January 15, 2008
A Must-Have UMPC Add-On
Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPC) like Samsung's Q1B were out in full force at CES 2008, so I decided to leave my laptop at home. It was replaced by a combination of the Samsung Q1B UMPC, the iGo Stowaway Bluetooth Keyboard and the Targus Rechargable Bluetooth Laser Notebook Mouse.
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William Wong
January 8, 2008
Sharp BD-HP20U Blu-ray
Sharp’s BD-HP20U Blu-ray player is the ideal match for the Aquos LC52D64U HDTV — as long as you have an HDMI cable to connect the two. This enables bi-directional communication, which lets the TV jump to the Blu-ray player display as soon as a disk is entered, and gives the user control through either device’s remote.
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William Wong
January 8, 2008
Samsung BD-P1400 Blu-ray
Samsung’s BD-P1400 Blu-ray player employs chips from Silicon Optix to deliver some impressive video and audio presentations. While I coupled it with a Sharp HDTV (the Aquos LC52D64U), the use of HDMI and the HDTV’s Aquos-Link support allowed the Samsung player to integrate as easily as Sharp’s own Blu-ray player.
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William Wong
January 8, 2008
Logitech Harmony 1000
I anticipate the day when gadgets like Logitech’s Harmony 1000 Universal Remote will be less in-demand. That will mean HDMI interconnects have finally allowed one device’s remote to serve multiple functions. Since that day is far off, I found the Harmony 1000 invaluable with my mix of devices, including Sharp’s Aquos LC52D64U HDTV, its BD-HP20U Blu-ray player and and Samsung’s BD-P1400 Blu-ray player.
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William Wong
January 8, 2008
Sharp Aquos LC52D64U
Sharp’s Aquos LC52D64U (Fig. 1) takes light and thin to a new level. It’s about 20 percent lighter and 25 percent slimmer than prior models and most of the competition. It is only 3.75-in at its thickest point and weighs just over 55 pounds.
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William Wong
December 11, 2007
Modules Simplify ZigBee Development
AeroComm’s compact ZB2430 module (25.4mm by 34.3mm) provides developers with a quick, reliable way of utilizing ZigBee. It is a complete system that can be used without having to go through FCC approval since you don’t modify the 2.4GHz RF or 802.15.4 protocol stacks.
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William Wong
December 11, 2007
8051 Drives ZigBee Kit
Silicon Laboratories has a great crop of high performance 8051 microcontrollers and one of those is packaged on each of the boards in its ZigBee development kit.
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William Wong
November 27, 2007
Intel S5000XVN Hosts Dual Quad-Core Xeons
A pair of Xeon 5300 series processors will find a nice home on Intel’s S5000XVN motherboard. Our test system employed a pair of 3.0GHz, 65nm X5365 Xeon processors that plug into a LGA771 socket.
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William Wong
November 27, 2007
4 Platters = Terabyte Drive
Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.11 packs 1 Tbyte of data into 4 platters that fit into the standard 3.5-in hard drive space.
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William Wong
November 27, 2007
Lite-On Goes Blu-ray For Capacity And Performance
The LH-2B1S (Fig. 1) Blue-ray drive is Lite-On’s second generation of Blue-ray drives. It looks to lower the cost of entry while providing the 2x performance and 25Gbyte capacity needed for the latest hi-def movies and backup requirements.
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William Wong
November 27, 2007
FireGL V8650 For Workstations
The hype for video tends to be around the gaming industry but boards targeted for these applications do not necessarily address the broad range of applications including high performance workstation chores.
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William Wong
November 19, 2007
Radisys Leverages ATCA and ATX Boards
Radisys addresses a number of embedded system areas. Two of its latest offerings are for ATCA and PC-style systems: JD35Q and QZ35Q ATX motherboards, and the ATCA-9100 media processing blade.
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William Wong
November 19, 2007
SiLabs Touts Tiny 8051
Silicon Laboratories delivered the tiny 20-pin, 4x4 mm quad flat no-lead (QFN) package C8051F336 family of 8051 chips at Boston ESC.
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William Wong
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