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January 25, 2010, 01:03 PM
There will be many opportunities for designing new products for the smart grid. Jerry Ramie of ARC Technical Resources analyzes the layers of interaction that must be supported.
April 23, 2007, 12:00 AM
Even after 25 years of electronic design automation (EDA), a very high percentage of the layout for ICs shipped today are still completed by hand!
March 04, 2010, 04:31 PM
Contributing editor, Bob Pease, rants about his new Apple MacBook and Leopard OS. He details the problems he encountered and errors he found in leading books on the subject as he tried to solve those...
By Sam Davis, March 10, 2010
Power-industry veteran Sam Davis reviews a broad range of electrical efficiency issues from a design standpoint.
By William Wong, February 08, 2010
Technology Editor Bill Wong examines NAS devices from hardware to software.
By William Wong, December 13, 2009
Mobile devices are hot this year and there is an array of software platforms from Android to Windows that developers are targeting.
By Louis E. Frenzel, December 07, 2009
Summary of the status of TV on cell phones with a look at the various standards and how mobile TV works with MediaFLO.
By Don Tuite, November 05, 2009
Sidebar to "A Multi-Level Approach Makes Understanding Motor Control Easier" contains links to resources mentioned in article.
Tutorial on ac-motor control based on Clarke and Park transforms. Concepts are presented in stages from top-level through deeper levels of detail.
By David Maliniak, October 23, 2009
When combined with today's high-bandwidth scopes, active test probes can make a world of difference in capturing serial data streams. This Engineering Essentials article covers the basics of active probes and how they attach to DUTs.
Choosing a probe requires care. But even more care is required when using modern active test probes, which cannot be tossed casually into toolboxes. Here are some guidelines for caring for those expensive instruments.
By Staff, October 08, 2009
How to design short-range wireless systems for any product.
Short-range wireless standards in the works include the latest version of Wi-Fi, an ISA standard called ISA 100a, and a smart-grid version of 802.11.4.
By Paul Nickelsberg, October 01, 2009
Direct digital synthesis (DDS) generates arbitrary frequency sinewaves with amazing accuracy and spectral purity. Today's 48-bit data-word devices can be applied in instrumentation to increase accuracy and simplify system circuitry.