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Object Orientation in Embedded Critical Systems – don't be scared anymore!

Object Oriented Programming was introduced to software development almost half a century ago but should it be banished from embedded, safety-critical development?

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May 14, 2013

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Electronic Design

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

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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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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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
May 8, 2013

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Don’t Go it Alone - How Application Engineers Can Serve You

Recent customer research reveals that electrical engineers and designers rely more on distributors’ application engineers than manufacturers’ engineers when looking for part recommendations....More
May 7, 2013

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Electronic Design

Do You Have Enough AC For Your DC? 2

When you need 2000 W of dc power for your testing, you may not think too much about where it will come from. But in the U.S., when operating from the typical and ubiquitous 120-V ac outlet, you might not get enough power off the ac line to generate 2000 W or even 1000 W out of your dc power supply....More
May 6, 2013

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Electronic Design

The MIPI M-PHY Reduces Power In Mobile Chip-To-Chip Interfaces

The MIPI M-PHY v3.0 specification allows designers to implement several protocols to match their increasing high-performance and low-power requirements in mobile devices....More
May 6, 2013

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Electronic Design

M2M Client-Side Challenges Emerge In Mobile Embedded System Updates

M2M-enabled update processes for mobile embedded systems should be able to isolate safety-related components from other components and from each other, perform updates with the limited computing resources available in the vehicle, complete updates without rendering the vehicle inoperable, and gracefully pause and restart interrupted updates....More