Electronic Design UPDATE: September 13, 2006
September 13, 2006
- News Focus: 8-Bit Core Yields MCUs With 16-Bit Performance
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News From The Editors:
- Low-Power Stereo Audio Codecs Maximize Battery Life
- MicroTCA Backplane Offers 14 Slots
- Dot Matrix Display Features Over 1 Billion Colors
- TechView Scope: Free Guide Explains Storage Media Sanitization
- Upcoming Industry Events:
- PCB Design Conference East
- Embedded Systems Conference Boston
- ARM Developers' Conference '06
- Book Review:
- Python: Essential Reference, 3rd Edition
- Low-Power Stereo Audio Codecs Maximize Battery Life
Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC) has a new 8-bit microcontroller core with performance comparable to that of 16-bit MCUs. The TLCS-870/C1 core can process one instruction in a single clock cycle, enabling faster processing at lower frequencies, reduced noise, and lower power consumption compared with the company’s previous 8-bit cores...
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Free Webcast: Getting More Out Of Your Digital Oscilloscope
The digital oscilloscope has become the most commonly used test tool on the engineer's bench, but most engineers use only a fraction of the power available in these instruments. This seminar will discuss how to optimize many of the everyday uses of scopes, such as easy methods to spot intermittent signal problems. The material will offer good advice for using all brands of oscilloscopes. Register today!
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 11am PT (2pm ET)
MicroTCA Backplane Offers 14 Slots
Elma Bustronic now offers a 14-slot MicroTCA backplane. The unit features 12 AMC slots, one power module slot, and one MicroTCA controller hub (MCH) slot in the single-width, full-size format. The 14-slot single star backplane is the first in the company’s new line of MicroTCA backplanes...
Dot Matrix Display Features Over 1 Billion Colors
Rohm’s newest 16-by-32 dot matrix display uses potting lens technology for significantly improved contrast and viewing angle. In addition, it integrates color-correction ICs, resulting in full-color display (over 1 billion colors) with 1024 gradation steps for each color and no color fluctuation...
techview scopeFree Guide Explains Storage Media Sanitization Security is an enormous concern for both hard-copy and electronic data-storage media. Is shredding important documents good enough? And what’s the equivalent of the paper shredder for electronic media? A new “how-to” guide free from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) helps explain the methods available for protecting sensitive or personal data...
By David M. Beazley
Python is a popular programming language originally developed as a scripting language for the Amoeba operating system. It has gained popularity by supporting sophisticated web-based solutions, but it works equally well in embedded applications. Iron Python for .NET is a variation that is being used in the Microsoft Robotics Studio. This book is effectively a language reference and introduction followed by extensive coverage of the major portions of the Python runtime library...
embedded in electronic design online Building A Multimedia Home Control Center, Part 1 Embedded in Electronic Design (EiED) Online is your source for technical insight and hands-on reviews. Read Embedded Technology Editor Bill Wong's latest EiED Online column, "Building A Multimedia Home Control Center, Part 1." Looking to control everything in your house? See how Bill constructed a multimedia home control center built around Sharp’s LC-37D40U 37-in HDTV.
Grab some photos showing the "guts and glory" of you (and your team) at work. We need them for our "Day in the Life of an Electronic Designer" photo essay, which will appear in Electronic Design's Oct. 20 special issue. There's a $500 Grand Prize for best photo series and $250 prize for best photo, and we pay $50 if we use any of your photos in the issue. Please include the names and titles of all photo subjects, as well as company name and the type of work-in-process illustrated by the photo. Digital photos should be in .tif or .jpg formats and must have resolution of at least 300 dpi. Deadline for submission is Sept. 15. E-mail digital photos to Managing Editor Richard Gawel at: [email protected].
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