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Free app note explains how Agilent's new FET switches protect components from video leakage damage
Safely test your most sensitive components with Agilent U9397A/C FET SPDT solid state switches. These switches combine low video leakage (10 mVpp) and high isolation (100 dB) with an industry-leading settling time for fast, accurate broadband testing of RFIC components. To learn more and download the app note, click here... |
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Electronic Design UPDATE edited by Richard Gawel, Managing Editor
Human beings can be pretty bad drivers. We get behind the wheel when we're too tired. We're distracted by cell phones and other gadgets. And sometimes, we try things we're just not skilled enough to attempt successfully. Fortunately, the augmented cognition research team at Sandia National Laboratories is developing an automotive system that can analyze human behavior and help prevent such dangers. Better yet, they don't need to reinvent the wheel to do it.
Read the full article..... focus on wireless | High-Directivity Couplers Feature Tight TolerancesThe The CP0402P series of integrated thin-film couplers from AVX Corp. delivers high directivity of 20 to 27 dB and a very tight ±0.5-dB coupling factor tolerance. Based on the proprietary RFAP thin-film technology, the couplers can improve gain control in high-frequency applications like cellular and WiMAX wireless system transmitters.
Read the full article..... EiED online | MS Robotics StudioThe Microsoft Robotics Studio is Microsoft's answer to a common robotics platform. Embedded/Systems/Software Editor William Wong takes a look at the new platform running on the Whitebox Robotics 9-Series PC-Bot hardware.
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Increase Test Throughput with Multicore Technology and NI LabVIEW 8.5
Designed specifically for engineers and scientists, National Instruments' LabVIEW software is multithreaded and inherently parallel, with built-in connectivity to I/O, extensive analysis functions, and advanced display and plotting capabilities. Automatically benefit from advances in multicore processor technology with the power of LabVIEW graphical programming. View interactive demos and evaluate LabVIEW online... |
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Hanson Robotics is focused on emulating a human being in robotic form than can display more than 62 facial reactions and use advanced artificial intelligence software to enable the systems to walk, talk, maintain eye contact, and recognize faces and speech patterns.
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Apple sold its one-millionth iPhone on Sunday, 74 days after its introduction and about three weeks ahead of schedule. Last week, Apple cut the price of the 8-Gbyte iPhone by $200 to spark sales and decided to phase out the 4-Gbyte model.
Read the full article.... AMD Launches Barcelona ProcessorAdvanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) released its next-generation Opteron chip on Monday to compete with rival chipmaker Intel. Codenamed Barcelona, this quad-core processor already is shipping in computer systems from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems.
Read the full article.... Class CC Fuse Holder Rated For 200-kA Short-Circuit CurrentMeeting the National Electrical Code and also UL-listed for branch circuit applications, the UK 10.3-CC HESI Class CC fuse holder from Phoenix Contact Inc. is marked "Class CC Only" and will reject 10.3- by 38-mm fuses, commonly called Midget fuses.
Read the full article.... Resistor Terminators Offer Very Low Parasitic Capacitance And InductanceThe WAMT and MSMW series of 40-GHz resistor terminators from Mini-Systems Inc. come in 0.020- by 0.010-in. packages with values from 3 to 400 Ω, with other standard sizes available on request from 2 Ω to 5 kΩ.
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So What's Your Dream Job?
In our annual reader survey, more than 50% of you said you work at your "dream job." So what's it like? Send us a photo or series of photos illustrating a day at your desk. We'll choose the best photos and publish them in our October 20 "Your Issue," highlighting the state of the profession today. We'll pay $500 for the best photo series and $250 for the best photo. Send your high-resolution jpgs and tifs to Managing Editor Richard Gawel at [email protected] by Wednesday, Sept. 12. Good luck! |
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More technical Content. More exhibits. More teardowns. More of what you need to know to find the right technologies, products and components to integrate into an ever-evolving array of complex applications. From Oct. 30 to Nov. 1, the Power Electronics Technology Exhibition & Conference, held in the Hilton Anatole hotel in Dallas, Texas, will give you the tools to optimize every element of the design process:
- An educational program focuses on practical, day-to-day solutions;
- A full contingent of suppliers demonstrating their latest innovations in the Exhibit Hall;
- And a conference schedule that hits all of the high notes - digital and portable power, power design, conversion and management, magnetics, alternative energy, LED drivers and more.
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Your Ideas For Design Can Win $500
Send us you Ideas for Design and we'll pay you $150 for every Idea for Design that we publish. In addition, this 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, mail your material to: |
Linux has made a major impact with embedded systems, and a wide range of applications can be considered computer appliances. Developers sometimes turn to Linux providers for development tools and operating-system support. Regardless of whether you take this approach or roll your own, there's a lot more to getting a sophisticated application up and running than tools and an operating system.
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