82 results found for Joseph Desposito, displaying items 1 - 20
October 8, 2008
[Designed In] VIDEO: Multicore Processors and Virtual Development
Joe Desposito, editor-in-chief of Electronic Design, talks with Stephen Turnbull, portfolio manager for networking systems at Freescale Semiconductor, and Michel Genard, VP of Marketing at Virtutech, about multicore processors and the role of virtual development.
October 9, 2008[Editorial] GaN-Based Power Device Signals Next-Gen Power Conversion
International Rectifier Corp. has successfully developed a GaN-based (gallium-nitride) power-device technology platform. It’s expected to provide improvements in two key application-specific figures of merit, on resistance and gate charge, of up to a factor of 10 compared to state-of-the-art silicon-based technology platforms. On resistance relates to how much current you can process in a unit area. It also can be related to the cost per amp of...
October 2, 2008[Editorial] After All These Years, Ideas For Design Get The Royal Treatment
One of the most popular sections of Electronic Design in both print and on the Web over the years has been Ideas for Design (IFDs). We’d like to celebrate this department by dedicating this entire issue to IFDs, including insightful commentary from our editors and contributors alike. First, we’ve asked some of the industry’s top engineers, who we like to call design gurus, to reflect and write about the circuits they’ve created over the ...
September 25, 2008[Editorial] Is Your Personal Computer A CUDA-Enabled Speed Merchant?
Sometimes I don’t hear a rumble until it becomes a roar. I’m not sure if CUDA has become a roar yet, but my ears have perked up based on a bunch of announcements I’ve received over the past few months. If CUDA hasn’t registered on your radar yet, here’s a brief summary. CUDA, which stands for Compute Unified Device Architecture, is a C language environment developed by Nvidia Corp. (www.nvidia.com)...
September 11, 2008[Editorial] Graphical Programming Gets Ready To Enter Grade School
NI Week has always been one of my favorite industry conferences. National Instruments does such a great job presenting its latest innovations as well as those of others in the LabVIEW community. This year was no exception. One of the announcements at this year’s show was a product called WeDo, a classroom robotics platform from the LEGO Group (www.lego.com). It puts the power of graphical programming into the hands of...
August 28, 2008[Editorial] For Consumer Electronics, The Holidays Start In July
As an editor with a major electronics magazine, I’m invited to industry events all the time. Come July, though, I start receiving invitations from public relations folks for events that are really outside the magazine’s coverage—events that show the hottest consumer electronics items for the coming holiday season. I can’t resist the temptation. Could you? SAMSUNG HOLIDAY IN JULY Samsung Electronics recently held its...
August 28, 2008[Engineering Essentials] Modern DSP Chips Serve Up Variations On A Theme
Digital signal processors (DSPs) earn their living by doing certain analog jobs better than analog circuitry. In some cases, where analog circuits can’t even be considered for a task due to cost or complexity reasons, DSPs are still a viable choice and in many cases perform those tasks effortlessly. That’s because DSPs are very good and very fast at arithmetic operations such as addition and multiplication. Clever mathematicians and engineers exploit this...
August 14, 2008[Editorial] Wireless Everywhere Still Needs To Work Out The Kinks
If you’ve ever seen the Dead Zone commercials from Verizon Wireless, you realize that there is some truth to the statement that wireless everywhere is still working out the kinks. My favorite is the one where a young couple is purchasing the “the old Miller place—in spite of what happened there,” according to an older woman who walks up to the couple as they’re moving in. “Oh, they didn’t tell you,” she says, “It’s a dead zone.” Of course, the couple isn’t worried...
July 24, 2008[Editorial] CEA Gives Downtown Manhattan A Digital Boost
In the first installment of what promises to be a yearly commitment to New York City’s downtown area, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) kicked off Digital Downtown for press and analysts. Digital Downtown was conceived as a three-day showcase of consumer technology, open and free to the general public. The first day of the event, June 12, was warm and sunny. I took a subway to the general area and then had to walk quite a few blocks. As I continued...
July 10, 2008[Editorial] Show Videos Take Center Stage On ElectronicDesign.com
Most of you have probably noticed the influx of videos to electronicdesign.com over the past year or so. For the most part, these videos were shot at trade shows. Typically, a staff member at the show who knows something about video cameras hooks up with an editor to do video interviews. We shoot with a handheld, harddisk- based camera. When we get back to the office, a member...
June 26, 2008[Editorial] Is Solar Energy Really Ready To Rumble?
At the recent International Electronics Forum (IEF) in Dubai, UAE, I attended two days of presentations about the semiconductor industry. The speakers were from all parts of the world and offered unique perspectives. But the talk I found most interesting was given by Mark Pinto, CTO and senior vice president at Applied Materials, as his presentation tackled “Energy Conversion: Photovoltaics.” Photovoltaics (PV) have been making great strides in the last...
June 19, 2008[Editorial] Transitions Make Tomorrow Much Different From Today
Welcome to the latest edition of Electronic Design’s Megatrends special issue. When our editorial staff sat down to decide its theme, we knocked around a few ideas before settling on transitions. We tried to envision what our world might look like several years from now in some key application areas due to the constantly evolving technologies in our industry. This issue is the result. Contributing editor Ron Schneiderman begins with the numbers behind some of...
June 12, 2008[Engineering Feature] The Top 50 Employers In Electronic Design
Careers in the electronics industry often mix opportunities and pitfalls. The opportunities are endless, perhaps even including the chance to create and lead a world-class technology organization. But the cyclical nature of the industry creates many pitfalls, including being laid off from your favorite job and not being able to find another like it. One way to avoid the pitfalls and prepare for the opportunities is to work for a company that’s...
June 12, 2008[Editorial] Staying Employed In This Industry Can Be Tough At Times
In an issue where we celebrate the top 50 employers and also list the top employers in the electronics OEM, it’s worthwhile to bring up one of the dirty words of the industry—unemployment. As someone who has lived through many of the industry’s downturns and experienced layoffs firsthand, I can say with certainty that this profession is fraught with career minefields. But probably you already know that. When I found myself out of a job early in my...
June 5, 2008
[Web Exclusive] IEF 2008 Session 3: Infrastructure Changes
This session included two presentations: India—The Global Hub for Semiconductors & Electronics, by Jani Janakiraman, chairman, India Semiconductor Industry Association, and Automotive Electronics & New Technology Trends in Indian Automotive Industry, by VG (Vasuedo) Gujrathi, senior general manager, Electricals & Electronics, TATA Motors.
May 22, 2008
[IEF 2008] IEF 2008 Session 2: Driving the Changes
This session included three presentations: Electrification—A Chance for Automotive Electronics, by Valentine von Tils, vice president of platform development ASICs, Robert Bosch Corp.; Unified Communications: The Real Business Behind Web2.0, by Thomas Wiemers, vice president of strategic marketing, Siemens Communications; and Mobile Innovation: Improving Customer’s Quality Of Life, by Luigi Licciardi, executive VP, technology & operations, Telecom Italia.
May 22, 2008[Editorial] Speaking Of Components, Here's An LED Story
The question seemed innocent enough. What type of bulbs do I need for those lanterns? The lanterns in question were a set of five solar-powered models that my wife Lorraine purchased at Costco about a year ago for $89. This wasn’t her first request for that information, but I admit I don’t always pay attention to requests like these. For some reason, this time I listened. So I’m going over the possibilities in my head, trying to remember what the...
May 22, 2008[Engineering Feature] Choosing The Top 101
Though semiconductors lie at the heart of most electronic designs, other components are needed to complete the design, like resistors, capacitors, inductors, interconnects, switches, sensors, LEDs, and displays. And each of these offers seemingly endless varieties. We cover components in our “EEPN in Electronic Design” section, on our Web site (electronicdesign.com), and via an e-newsletter called Products of the Week (POW). Of all these avenues of...
May 19, 2008
[IEF 2008] IEF 2008 Session 1: Shifting Industry Paradigms
This session included three presentations: Present & Future Of Digital Technology by JJ (Junshi) Yamaguchi, executive vice president, NEC Electronics; Mobile Device Technical Challenges by Petri Liuha, laboratory director Computation Structures, Nokia Research Center; and The Other Barrier In Electronics: Applications by Kees Van Der Klauw, senior VP of Technology & Development, Philips Consumer Lifestyle.
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