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2. uC/OS-III The Real-Time Kernel
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I've long wanted to know more about how a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) performs its magic and how to use one of these little rascals, but there's surprisingly little written about this subject. Fortunately, ...

3. Maplesoft extends modeling tools
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... real-time performance in key application areas such as hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation. MapleSim is "built on a foundation of the world’s most powerful symbolic computation engine" and an extensive ...

4. SystemC and Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM)
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... interesting... This was actually a lot of fun, because I learned a whole lot of "stuff" I really hadn't thought about before. One thing that because apparent is that it's hard to pin some of these things ...

5. How to make Printed Circuit Boards.
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... a little too small really. Component pad holes for transistors, IC’s and resistors etc should be around 0.8mm. Power diodes, bridge rectifiers, TO220 transistors and voltage regulators, Molex connectors ...

6. Power Supplies 101 – Safety, Transformers & Primary Windings
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... voltage would be half what is expected.     Figure 7. Selectable Multi-voltage primary Figure 7 shows a transformer configuration that you don’t really see much these days. The primary winding is “tapped” ...

7. The Life and Work of Konrad Zuse (Part 1)
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... as the inventor and creator of the first freely-programmable1  computer2 with a binary floating point and switching/circuit system, which really worked. This machine – called the Z3 – was completed in ...

8. The Life and Work of Konrad Zuse (Part 4)
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... the technical realization using the thin metal sheets was too complex. The arithmetic unit in the original Z1 was not very reliable (similarly with the rebuilt Z1). In Figure 4-12 we see the arithmetic ...

9. Interview Bites: Metro Ethernet Forum's Nan Chen on Carrier Ethernet
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... Nan, you've personally been involved with the MEF for a long time. I imagine you're planning on sticking with it. Nan Chen: Yes, I am. I feel really good about contributing to the industry and see the ...

10. New eSi-RISC Scalable Soft Processor Cores for ASICs and FPGAs
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... of front-end IC design services. They are really bouncing around with excitement about the fact that they have significantly enhanced their design service capability with the addition of three new, highly ...

11. A LED Ultra-Violet (UV) PCB Exposure Unit
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... the following sequence: Cut the tracks as shown in figure 3, there are 165 cuts to make. A simple way to do this is by hand with a 3.5mm HSS drill bit, or    you can get a special tool but that’s really ...

12. Processor Design: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs
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... interests. That's not a real criticism, though, just a characteristic of this book's genre. If your work involves creating or customizing soft processor cores, I recommend this highly.  ...

13. Formal is more than just alive and well. It is thriving!
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... going on. Perhaps it is just DAC that is loosing its luster, especially in the area of verification. It has never really been strong in that field. Second, if you look at what is happening in the user ...

14. Hot News - Synopsys acquire CoWare!
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... this gets so confusing). On February 2nd, Synopsys announced that they had acquired VaST. Now, just six days later they have announced that they are also acquiring CoWare. Wow! This is really surprising. ...

15. Altium's Latest NanoBoard is Mega-Cool!
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... folks REALLY hate is to purchase a development board that offers promises of delight like a useful peripheral of communications function ... only to discover that although the hardware is there, there's ...

16. Positive Versus Negative Logic
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... weep! Before plunging into the fray, it is important to understand that logic 0 and logic 1 are always equivalent to FALSE and TRUE, respectively (unless you’re really taking a walk on the wild side, in ...

17. Mega-Smackdown at ESC Silicon Valley in April 2010
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... morning, I'm really looking forward to Dr. Michio Kaku's Keynote Presentation from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. And in the afternoon, we have our No-Holds-Barred live debate from 4:30 p.m. to 5:20 p.m. in ESC ...

18. Actel Space Forum Lands in Israel
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... of how to optimize space applications using Actel FPGAs for high-reliability, high-performance, and low-power applications. Two of the things I'm really interested in are FPGAs and Spaceflight, so I wish ...

19. Beginners Construction - FM Transmitter
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... and shouldn’t really interfere with anything or anybody.     Figure 1. Circuit diagram of the complete FM Transmitter. Below is a parts list. I’ve included suitable part numbers from both Rapid Electronics ...

20. Cool Beans: What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
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... now we're really getting somewhere... Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a ...