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Henry Davis
March 08, 2010 Hits: 67
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Sometimes watching a seminar "on demand" can be a benefit. There's no pressure to be there for the whole thing and you can choose when works for you.
A detailed case study is presented in the on-demand seminar illustrating: • How to use C++ to "tame" complex hardware and software interfaces • The value of object oriented techniques in handling complex hardware/software interfaces • The concept of encapsulation of expertise
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Neil Johnson
March 07, 2010 Hits: 175
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This is review of the book ESL Models and their Applications by Brian Bailey and Grant Martin. As I’m an engineer and not a story teller, I’ll take the methodical approach of analyzing the book chapter by chapter. This is the first of two installments covering chapters 1 through 5; I will get to chapters 6 through 9 in a subsequent post. I also posed a few questions to Brian and Grant where I thought it would be interesting to see them elaborate on some of the statements in the book. That Q/A can be found at the end of the review.
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Henry Davis
March 04, 2010 Hits: 63
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In the past 30 years I’ve been responsible for a good many demonstration boards for semiconductor companies. And along the way I’ve received many demo boards over the same period of time. This week I received an Intel ATOM processor demo board that gave me quite a pleasant surprise.
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Lee H Goldberg
March 04, 2010 Hits: 87
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TechBites Says:
Silicon Labs’ selection of a sub-GHZ operating frequency for its new family of wireless controllers was a smart move since its increased range and penetration make it a great fit for lots of smart building/Smart Grid applications. Coupled to a 25 MHz 8051 core and a nice collection of analog I/O, the Si10xx wireless MCUs feature a transmitter that can put out up to +20 dBm output power without the need for external PA. The radio’s –121 dBm receive sensitivity greatly increases range and, according to SiLabs, give their parts a – 141 dB link budget. Its...
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Janine Love
March 03, 2010 Hits: 88
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Despite the extremely “chewy” title, this is another great book from SciTech Publishing. In a world where wireless capability is being dropped into nearly every consumer and industrial device, readers can greatly benefit from the beefy introduction to microwave and RF signal modeling and measurement techniques used during computer aided design (CAD). If you are wondering if it will quickly diverge over your head, rest assured that it assumes as a ‘prerequisite’ a basic knowledge in electronic circuits.
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Lee H Goldberg
March 01, 2010 Hits: 77
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TechBites Says:
Although they are intended for very cost-sensitive applications like cell phone chargers and lower-powered LED lighting, Fairchild’s latest family of primary-side-regulated supply ICs don’t skim on features or performance. The designers who created them have done a great job in shaving off every unnecessary mW from their standby power to meet the stringent new EnergyStar IV requirements. They’ve also used some clever architectural tricks to shave the supplies BOM costs down to a minimum without sacrificing all the nifty protection features that have become a hallmark of Fairchild products.
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Henry Davis
February 22, 2010 Hits: 101
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It’s often tempting to dismiss technology classes that are more than a few years old. But his five year old university class on Internet Technologies is well structured and addresses the essentials of the Internet. Professor Sengupta has a measured and even delivery of the material that only requires modest attention to his accent. His lectures are punctuated by examples and anecdotes about the Internet.
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Henry Davis
February 22, 2010 Hits: 96
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It’s hard ro think of an engineer graduating without completing a class on probability and random variables. But in case you escaped, now you can take a on web-based on-demand class on probability. The nice thing is there is no registration or cost.
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Lee H Goldberg
February 18, 2010 Hits: 162
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Triad Semiconductor Says:
Triad Semiconductor, Inc., the industry’s leading supplier of via-configurable mixed-signal ASICs, today announced another first: the first ARM Cortex-M0 processor combined with high-resolution, high-precision analog resources: 16-bit ADC and 12-bit DAC and uncommitted op-amps. Triad’s TSX1001, implemented on the Mocha-1 platform, provides the performance and low-power 32-bit processing of the ARM Cortex-M0 processor combined with high-precision analog features. Mocha-1 is based on Triad’s silicon-proven via-configurable array (VCA) technology, which allows embedded system designers to customize processor, analog, and digital features with lower power consumption and greater system cost savings than last-generation ASIC solutions
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Lee H Goldberg
February 12, 2010 Hits: 231
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Introduction:
BuLogics and 4Home Media re not the only players in the increasingly-crowded residential energy management market but they are good examples of the stampede of manufacturers and developers pursuing opportunities in smart building, smart metering, and peak load management systems that will work with the Smart Grid. During these early days of the Smart Grid revolution there are very few certainties – even whether we’ll actually see it deployed within our lifetimes. The standards for the Smart Grid are in development and making good progress, but in the meanwhile, the standards, functions and interoperability requirements for consumer-side equipment will...
