Electronic Design UPDATE e-Newsletter | November 12,
2008 | FREEmagazine
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Green Engineering – Measure It, Fix It.
Green Engineering features measurement and control techniques to help you design, develop, and improve technologies resulting in environmental benefits. Learn about the green engineering practices that are being developed and deployed with NI technologies to help you conserve energy, identify process inefficiencies, and reduce scrap. Download the free E-Kit. scope |VIDEO: Chevy Volt Takes Charge In New York City By Richard Gawel, Managing Editor
GM’s top designers are taking the Chevy Volt on tour, stopping earlier this month to show the extended-range electric vehicle (E-REV) in New York City. Read the full article... commentary |Software Turns Scopes Into Vector RF Signal Analyzers By David Maliniak, EDA Editor
The marriage of digital technologies and RF is a done deal, leaving designers with a need for increased information bandwidth and accurate phase and magnitude characterization of extremely wideband signals. Read the full article... green design |Few U.S. EE Schools Teaching Environmental Design Requirements By Ron Schneiderman, Contributing Editor
How many EE schools in the U.S. cover the environmental legislation coming out of the European Union (EU), China, and other major world markets that will impact the design of electronic products? Not many, according to an informal and random survey of U.S. engineering schools by Electronic Design. For more articles on Green Design, click here. Read the full article... design hotspots | Analog · What's All This Floobydust Stuff, Anyhow? (Part 5B) | By Bob Pease
Power · New Federal Rules Impact Li-Ion Battery Recycling | By Ron Schneiderman, Contributing Editor
Embedded · Bulletproof Your System Timing With Programmable Clocks | By Bill Wong, Embedded/Systems/Software Editor
engineer's resource | electronica 2008: The Industry’s Tech Extravaganza Can't make it to Munich for electronica? We're there shooting video and reporting on all the technology rolling out from the biggest tech companies. Check out exclusive footage from industry leaders like Digi-Key, Novacap, AVX Interconnects and more here.
Download Agilent White Paper: Create Complex Sequences with a DC Power Supply
Learn the benefits of using list mode to create complex sequences and for improved testing and reduced test time. Read today.
Your Ideas For Design Can Win $500
Send us your Ideas for Design and we'll pay you $150 for every Idea for Design that we publish. In addition, the year's top design as selected by our readers will earn an additional $500, with two runners-up each receiving $250. You can submit your Ideas for Design via e-mail to [email protected], or you can mail your material to:
Ideas for Design
Electronic Design
45 Eisenhower Dr., Suite 550
Paramus, NJ 07652
Click here for our guidelines on Ideas for Design.
Green Engineering features measurement and control techniques to help you design, develop, and improve technologies resulting in environmental benefits. Learn about the green engineering practices that are being developed and deployed with NI technologies to help you conserve energy, identify process inefficiencies, and reduce scrap. Download the free E-Kit. scope |VIDEO: Chevy Volt Takes Charge In New York City By Richard Gawel, Managing Editor
GM’s top designers are taking the Chevy Volt on tour, stopping earlier this month to show the extended-range electric vehicle (E-REV) in New York City. Read the full article... commentary |Software Turns Scopes Into Vector RF Signal Analyzers By David Maliniak, EDA Editor
The marriage of digital technologies and RF is a done deal, leaving designers with a need for increased information bandwidth and accurate phase and magnitude characterization of extremely wideband signals. Read the full article... green design |Few U.S. EE Schools Teaching Environmental Design Requirements By Ron Schneiderman, Contributing Editor
How many EE schools in the U.S. cover the environmental legislation coming out of the European Union (EU), China, and other major world markets that will impact the design of electronic products? Not many, according to an informal and random survey of U.S. engineering schools by Electronic Design. For more articles on Green Design, click here. Read the full article... design hotspots | Analog · What's All This Floobydust Stuff, Anyhow? (Part 5B) | By Bob Pease
Power · New Federal Rules Impact Li-Ion Battery Recycling | By Ron Schneiderman, Contributing Editor
Embedded · Bulletproof Your System Timing With Programmable Clocks | By Bill Wong, Embedded/Systems/Software Editor
engineer's resource | electronica 2008: The Industry’s Tech Extravaganza Can't make it to Munich for electronica? We're there shooting video and reporting on all the technology rolling out from the biggest tech companies. Check out exclusive footage from industry leaders like Digi-Key, Novacap, AVX Interconnects and more here.
Download Agilent White Paper: Create Complex Sequences with a DC Power Supply
Learn the benefits of using list mode to create complex sequences and for improved testing and reduced test time. Read today.
Your Ideas For Design Can Win $500
Send us your Ideas for Design and we'll pay you $150 for every Idea for Design that we publish. In addition, the year's top design as selected by our readers will earn an additional $500, with two runners-up each receiving $250. You can submit your Ideas for Design via e-mail to [email protected], or you can mail your material to:
Ideas for Design
Electronic Design
45 Eisenhower Dr., Suite 550
Paramus, NJ 07652
Click here for our guidelines on Ideas for Design.
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Read this eBook: The Dangers of
Counterfeit Battery Packs
The quantifiable impact of imitation battery packs to the OEM includes increased safety risks for customers, greater product returns due to non-performing batteries, reduced customer satisfaction, and reduced revenue for batteries supplied by the original manufacturer. This interactive eBook provides an analysis of several counterfeit batteries and details some of the safety issues found. Brought to you by Micro Power.
Download now. IFD of the week |In-Circuit Programming Switch Simplifies Operation Of Programmable Devices By Eric Schlaepfer, Maxim Integrated Products
Many devices require programming through a serial bus, such as I2C. The programming can be done during final test, after the circuit board has been assembled. In many cases, the pins used for programming can then be utilized for something else during normal operation. In fact, the bus itself can also be used for another function. Read the full article... video of the week | Digi-Key At electronica 2008
The quantifiable impact of imitation battery packs to the OEM includes increased safety risks for customers, greater product returns due to non-performing batteries, reduced customer satisfaction, and reduced revenue for batteries supplied by the original manufacturer. This interactive eBook provides an analysis of several counterfeit batteries and details some of the safety issues found. Brought to you by Micro Power.
Download now. IFD of the week |In-Circuit Programming Switch Simplifies Operation Of Programmable Devices By Eric Schlaepfer, Maxim Integrated Products
Many devices require programming through a serial bus, such as I2C. The programming can be done during final test, after the circuit board has been assembled. In many cases, the pins used for programming can then be utilized for something else during normal operation. In fact, the bus itself can also be used for another function. Read the full article... video of the week | Digi-Key At electronica 2008
Finally heading back home by train towards Philly—and the Phillies just wrapped up the World Series last evening—so that should spice up my pass through the city of brotherly love a little. Read the full article... Engineering TV | Motorola RFID Solutions Bill Ferguson, Motorola's senior RFID technical architect, discusses some of Motorola's RFID solutions. These enable a new level of efficiency by providing greater visibility into inventory as it moves across the supply chain. The XR450 is an industrial-class, fixed RFID reader featuring both mono-static and bi-static antenna operation capability, and is designed for a wide range of business-critical, dense-reader deployments. The RD5000 Mobile RFID Reader extends the reach of your RFID network so you can achieve a new level of visibility into inventory and assets. The MC9090-G RFID Handheld Mobile Computer is a rugged RFID reader, writer, and bar code scanner, all in a single device.
news from the editors |Mellonox Puts 10 GigE On Motherboard By Bill Wong, Embedded/Systems/Software Editor
Mellanox has combined forces with Teranetics to create the 10GBaseT ConnectX ENt, a single-chip solution for LAN on Motherboard (LOM) high-performance networking. Read the full article...
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Watch the Future Unfold at the 2009 International
CES
Where else in the world can you see upcoming trends, test new gadgets, learn from industry leaders and be on the cutting edge of your industry’s future – all in just four days? The 2009 International CES®, that’s where. It’s the most important emerging technology event of the year and one that you can’t afford to miss.
Register before January 2, 2009, and save $100 off the registration fee. Visit www.CESweb.org/register to register today. Please use priority code PEN2 when registering. focus product |
Powering up the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite,
Li-ion battery, built by Orbital Sciences Corp., employs the same cells
deployed in the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.
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product picks online |
PAs Ogle 3G/4G Femtocell Markets
PC/104 Digital Quadrature Encoders Monitor Motion
Market
75-W AC-DC Supplies Shrink
Scope Software Handles RF Up To 20
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Medium-Voltage SPD Modules Meet IEEE
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upcoming industry events |
Worst Case
Circuit Analysis Workshop
Los Angeles, Calif.
Nov. 13-14 IP Based Electronic System Conference & Exhibiton
Grenoble, France
Dec. 3-4 2008 International Electron Devices Meeting
San Francisco, Calif.
Dec. 15-17 ED bookstore |A Signal Integrity Engineer’s Companion: Real-Time Test And Measurement And Design Simulation By Geoff Lawday, David Ireland, and Greg Edlund
If you are designing high-speed digital interfaces or buses or need to test them, this a fact-filled book that should help you make the tests you need, explain the procedures, and select the equipment. A good reference. Read the full article...
Where else in the world can you see upcoming trends, test new gadgets, learn from industry leaders and be on the cutting edge of your industry’s future – all in just four days? The 2009 International CES®, that’s where. It’s the most important emerging technology event of the year and one that you can’t afford to miss.
Register before January 2, 2009, and save $100 off the registration fee. Visit www.CESweb.org/register to register today. Please use priority code PEN2 when registering. focus product |
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Li-ion Battery Powers Space Apps
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Los Angeles, Calif.
Nov. 13-14 IP Based Electronic System Conference & Exhibiton
Grenoble, France
Dec. 3-4 2008 International Electron Devices Meeting
San Francisco, Calif.
Dec. 15-17 ED bookstore |A Signal Integrity Engineer’s Companion: Real-Time Test And Measurement And Design Simulation By Geoff Lawday, David Ireland, and Greg Edlund
If you are designing high-speed digital interfaces or buses or need to test them, this a fact-filled book that should help you make the tests you need, explain the procedures, and select the equipment. A good reference. Read the full article...