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May 23, 2013

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Electronic Design

Integrated AISG Transceivers Simplify Basestation Designs

State-of-the art wireless networks must provide high-speed data services to support the data-intensive applications of smart phones. Infrastructure deployment, however, is still costly and occasionally presents the reason for inadequate coverage in some areas....More
May 22, 2013

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What’s The Reach Of Your Wireless Router? 1

WiFi connectivity gaps are more prevalent in homes now that tablets and Smart TVs are stretching the areas that wireless-N routers need to cover. A good solution is a WiFi extender, like the one mentioned in this blog....More
May 20, 2013

Article

Digia’s Lars Knoll Discusses The Qt GUI Framework

Qt is a portable framework that provides graphical and application services. Embedded/Systems/Software Editor Bill Wong talks with Digia’s CTO, Lars Knoll, about Qt....More
May 20, 2013

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Electronic Design

Modern CMOS Isolation Enhances Motor Control Efficiency

High-efficiency motor control techniques from industrial applications now are being used in consumer applications. As a result, there are huge incentives and pressures to improve the efficiency of electric motors in a wide variety of applications....More
May 14, 2013

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Electronic Design

10 Standards Organizations That Affect You (Whether You Know It Or Not) 1

There are thousands of standards organizations around the world, and they can standardize pretty much anything to make life easier, safer, and more productive....More
May 13, 2013

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A 5G wireless cell phone is in your future. 1

A brief look at what a future 5G cellular network may be like....More
May 10, 2013

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Electronic Design

Tap Online Design Tools To Improve Your Power Subsystem Designs

Vendor-provided online design tools allow engineers to start developing and evaluating designs quickly, gaining critical insights into design alternatives and engineering tradeoffs, even in advance of sampling major power components....More
May 10, 2013

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Electronic Design

EDA Vendors Should Improve The Runtime Performance Of Path-Based Analysis

If path-based analysis (PBA) runtimes can be improved by significant amounts, designers can begin to utilize PBA on a larger set of paths and perform their analyses earlier in the design closure flow....More
May 10, 2013

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Electronic Design

Industrial Environments Require Rugged Design

Industrial environments are some of the most inhospitable places on earth. And as technology has evolved, electronics have played an ever-increasing role in powering, controlling, and monitoring some of the most complex systems ever conceived by man....More
May 10, 2013

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LinkedIn. Is it trustworthy? Is it safe? 1

Am I listed on LinkedIn? No I'm not. I opted out following last years security scare when hackers slashed their way into the site and ripped-off over six million user passwords. Bad enough in itself, but to make it even worse the perpetrators then very cheekily posted a file containing the encrypted passwords onto a Russian forum asking the global hacking community to help with the de-cryption of the hacked passwords. ...More