Blogs

May. 13, 2013

$45 Million Dollar Bank Heist Fades Into Obscurity

$45 million was taken via ATMs using compromised debit cards and hacking to eliminate withdrawal limits. It highlights the need for better embedded security....More
May. 13, 2013

A 5G wireless cell phone is in your future.

A brief look at what a future 5G cellular network may be like....More
May. 20, 2013

PCIM 2013: Solid state battery is fully implantable

Probably the number one most interesting thing I saw at the PCIM show in Nuremberg, Germany last week wasn’t an IGBT, or even a MOSFET. It was a battery....More
Apr. 25, 2013

NASA Engineer Recounts Curiosity’s Landing On Mars And Then Some

Luke Dubord, NASA avionics engineer, gave an interesting and inspiring keynote presentation at Design West. This blog covers a few of the details he mentioned during the presentation....More
May. 21, 2013

Automotive-Safety Design Gears Up For 65nm ARM Cortex MCU

The first 65nm ARM Cortex safety microcontrollers equipped with flash technology have arrived and gone into volume production, thanks to a collaborative effort between automotive-supply company Continental and Texas Instruments (TI)....More
Apr. 16, 2013

Dreamliner Battery Fire Solutions and Concerns

The firefighter saw “a white glow about the size of a softball” on his hand-held thermal imaging camera so he hit it with a shot of Halotron fire-extinguishing agent....More