Electronic Design UPDATE e-Newsletter | July
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Click here. editor's view |Ham Radio's Rejuvenation By Don Tuite, Analog/Power Editor
Hypothesis: Doing away with the code requirement last March has completed a rejuvenation of ham radio that was triggered by the World Trade Center attacks and Katrina. I’m looking for reader comments yea and nay. Read the full article... lab bench online | Carrying A Corsair: A Trip With A Memory Stick By William Wong, Embedded/Systems/Software Editor
Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a trip with just a memory stick. Read the full article... engineer's resource | New Product Showcase: TI's Multi-architecture Roadmap
The new leader in the power connector industry is the same name you trust for your interconnect solutions – Molex. Only Molex offers the broadest line of power products with superior current densities. Our new EXTreme Power™ line features flexible design configurations that can be customized to your application. So, when you need to pack maximum current capacity into a small space, turn to Molex.
Click here. editor's view |Ham Radio's Rejuvenation By Don Tuite, Analog/Power Editor
Hypothesis: Doing away with the code requirement last March has completed a rejuvenation of ham radio that was triggered by the World Trade Center attacks and Katrina. I’m looking for reader comments yea and nay. Read the full article... lab bench online | Carrying A Corsair: A Trip With A Memory Stick By William Wong, Embedded/Systems/Software Editor
Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a trip with just a memory stick. Read the full article... engineer's resource | New Product Showcase: TI's Multi-architecture Roadmap
TI's Multi-architecture Roadmap
John Dixon, Product Manager for Low Power Processors at Texas
Instruments, talks about TI's multi-architecture roadmap for 2009.
Read Pacing: A Performance Enhancing Feature of PCI
Express Gen 2 Switch Devices
A new feature called Read Pacing is now available on Gen 2 PCI Express
switches. This technology that opens up new avenues for enhancing
performance in systems with multiple I/O streams. To learn more about
Read Pacing please click on the thumbnail above. (NOTE: This webcast
contains audio, so please hit the mute button on your volume control if
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IFD of the week |
An earlier Idea For Design (Hardware-Based LED Blinking
Control Eliminates Software Overhead) described a very interesting
way to offload the software overhead required for a microcontroller to
drive LEDs that indicate operating states to the user. That article
discussed the use of memory-mapped LED control registers, buffers, and a
clock source, all used to blink an LED without burdening the
microcontroller code with the task. This article expands on that Idea
For Design, discussing how to implement a hardware-based LED driver in a
complex programmable logic device (CPLD) using VHDL code. Read the full article...
VHDL Code Offloads LED Blinking Task To A
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video of the week |
DAC Spotlight: EVE's ZeBu-Personal
Lauro Rizzatti, vice president of
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Design an energy-saving solution for automotive applications
Infineon and Auto Electronics invite you to participate in the “REV UP FUEL EFFICIENCY†design contest. Take “the green challenge†and design a solution using Infineon products that enables or improves energy efficiency for automotive applications. You could win a grand prize of $10,000, a second prize of $5,000 or a third prize of $2,000.
The three winners will get an all-expenses-paid trip to the Infineon and Auto Electronics Contest Award Ceremony at Convergence 2008. In addition, your winning design will be featured at the Infineon booth during the show. Submit your entry by August 15, 2008.
See you at CONVERGENCE 2008, Booth 409.
For complete contest rules or to take the design challenge, go to http://autoelectronics.com/contest/rev-up Engineering TV | Mechatronics Hydraulic Test Station The Master of Science in Mechatronic Systems Engineering (MSMSE) program at Lawrence Technological Institute in Michigan provides engineers with advanced scientific and engineering knowledge in an emerging high-technology field, being Mechatronic Systems Engineering. In this video, Mark Schmidt, a lab technician in the Mechanical Engineering Department, details one of the tests required for undergraduate students, a closed-loop hydraulic test Station. Students are expected to assemble the system from scratch, which includes voltage input signals, hydraulic valves, an actuator that has an LVDT displacement transducer, and a data-acquisition system.
news from the editors |
A famous cartoon coyote once called Apetitius Giganticus wanted to
catch a roadrunner that sometimes went by Accelerati Incredibilus. The
coyote always used some outdated technology to try to catch the
roadrunner, who relied on speed and simplicity to avoid becoming lunch.
Read the
full article...
Complex wireless technologies make measurement a real challenge with
their short bursts and non-deterministic timing. There’s the 625-µs
Bluetooth hop interval and the 70-ns hop interval of Ultra-Wideband
(UWB), not to mention the short packet bursts of 5 ms for wireless
local-area networks (WLANs), 359 µs for Bluetooth, and 10 µs for UWB.
Read the
full article...
New options are available for Anritsu’s popular MS271xB economy
microwave spectrum analyzers (see the figure). The three available
models have upper frequency limits of 7.1, 13, and 20 GHz. They also
have a 10-MHz demodulation bandwidth and support the most common 3G
cell-phone and WiMAX standards. Read the
full article...
The China Earthquake Administration has selected a structural health
monitoring (SHM) system from CGM Engineering Inc. to help engineers
conduct research on seven recently constructed megastructures. Read the
full article...
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Design an energy-saving solution for automotive applications
Infineon and Auto Electronics invite you to participate in the “REV UP FUEL EFFICIENCY†design contest. Take “the green challenge†and design a solution using Infineon products that enables or improves energy efficiency for automotive applications. You could win a grand prize of $10,000, a second prize of $5,000 or a third prize of $2,000.
The three winners will get an all-expenses-paid trip to the Infineon and Auto Electronics Contest Award Ceremony at Convergence 2008. In addition, your winning design will be featured at the Infineon booth during the show. Submit your entry by August 15, 2008.
See you at CONVERGENCE 2008, Booth 409.
For complete contest rules or to take the design challenge, go to http://autoelectronics.com/contest/rev-up Engineering TV | Mechatronics Hydraulic Test Station The Master of Science in Mechatronic Systems Engineering (MSMSE) program at Lawrence Technological Institute in Michigan provides engineers with advanced scientific and engineering knowledge in an emerging high-technology field, being Mechatronic Systems Engineering. In this video, Mark Schmidt, a lab technician in the Mechanical Engineering Department, details one of the tests required for undergraduate students, a closed-loop hydraulic test Station. Students are expected to assemble the system from scratch, which includes voltage input signals, hydraulic valves, an actuator that has an LVDT displacement transducer, and a data-acquisition system.
news from the editors |
Multistandard Wireless Accelerator Enables
Emerging Basestation Technologies
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Handheld Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers Nail
Interfering Wireless Signals Fast
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Software Options Make Good Spectrum Analyzers
Even Better
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LabVIEW-Based Systems Monitor Health Of
Chinese Megastructures
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Improving LED manufacturing technologies, the company claims new
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