266 results found for POV: Point Of View, displaying items 1 - 20
August 14, 2008 Wireless Security Gets A New Sheriff And Deputy—802.1x And EAP
Wireless technologies continue to grow with no sign of slowing down. Today, companies need to understand the advances in wireless security standards so they can easily integrate wireless infrastructure products (access points and clients) while utilizing and enhancing the network security infrastructure. As wireless security development continues, clever hackers continue to find new ways around security measures. To mitigate vulnerability to attacks, companies have...
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Vishal Kakkad
July 24, 2008 Consumer Video Chat: Hype Or Reality?
How can electronics designers capture the hearts and minds of the average consumer with video chat products? The concept of combining video and voice in two-way consumer communications devices is nothing new. For decades, there have been numerous attempts at bringing viable video telephony solutions to the market. Resulting products have ranged from the 1980s AT&T standalone video phone with its 33.6-kbit/s analog modem to recent broadband-based models...
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Kourosh Amiri
June 26, 2008 Is China's Fabless Industry Ready For Cross-Border Collaboration?
In today’s flat but increasingly complex world, no one entity can do it all—not even Cisco or IBM, both prominent proponents of business collaboration and participation in clusters. The semiconductor industry came to this realization earlier than other high-tech sectors. Twenty years ago, TSMC established a service—what was then a novel idea—of making ICs for other companies. Other independent foundries followed, nurturing a new industry sector called fabless...
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Lilly Chung
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May 22, 2008 Improve The QoS In Your Ethernet Control Systems
The use of Ethernet in industrial control applications is growing at an estimated 50% compound annual growth rate. Leading companies such as Cisco, Rockwell Automation, and Schneider Electric are promoting the use of standard IEEE 802.3 Ethernet as the basis for industrial Ethernet. As a result, the non-deterministic aspect of Ethernet must be addressed in time-critical control systems. Standard IEEE-1588 time synchronization can compensate for some of the...
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Keith Prettyjohns
April 24, 2008 High-Speed Serial Data And RF Wireless Dominate Today's T&M
Two key areas of electronics are driving the development of new test and measurement (T&M) instruments—high-speed serial buses and wireless test. Both require very high-frequency capability as well as the ability to support the many standards that are being developed. CIRCUITS AND PACKETS There is a movement in digital design, from parallel bus structures to serial buses at microwave frequencies, with the growing set of T&M...
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Carla Feldman
March 27, 2008 Industrial Network Standards Need Good PHY SIlicon Implementations
Industrial networks are moving from analog to digital operation to realize higher functionality while reducing design effort and bill-of-materials costs. Although proprietary solutions have emerged, there is great momentum behind the use of open standards to speed design, reduce costs, and ensure interoperability. Several networking standards suit industrial applications, including Fieldbus-based solutions such as Profibus and the emerging Foundation...
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Paul Pulley
February 14, 2008 Mechatronics Design Faces Two Challenges—And Two Solutions
o compete on a global scale and meet the growing demands for increased throughput, higher quality, and greater yield, the way the machine industry builds machines has evolved. The industry is enhancing purely mechanical systems, based on gears and cams, with electromechanical systems, which combine mechanical elements with advanced technologies such as electronic controls and motor drives into a single system. These software-controlled electromechanical machines offer better accuracy...
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Joel Shapiro
January 31, 2008 Look Past The Misconceptions And Myths Surrounding Li-Polymer
Batteries based on lithium polymer (Li-polymer) have been “the next big thing” in portable power for the last 10 years. Li-polymer batteries started appearing in small consumer electronics applications, such as wireless headsets, several years ago. But these cells are finally becoming mainstream, as they are now designed into everything from laptop computers to medical monitors. Many of the initial objectives of Li-polymer researchers and designers have...
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Robin Tichy
December 13, 2007 Multicore Processors Revolutionize Real-Time Embedded Systems
The proliferation of multicore processors has done more than provide a boost in processing power to server applications. Multicore chips also pose the opportunity to revolutionize how embedded systems are constructed. Developers now can host real-time operating systems (RTOSs) and general-purpose operating systems (GPOSs) on separate cores of a single multicore processor to create systems that once required multiple hardware platforms. The benefit is a reduction in ...
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Paul Fischer
November 15, 2007 Patent Litigation Has Doubled And Will Double Again Over The Next Decade
Patent litigation in the semiconductor industry has been on a steady incline since 1997, as federal district court filings have slowly doubled. A decade ago, 47 suits were filed. Halfway through 2007, 53 were filed, with 109 total for 2006. Over 900 suits have been filed in all since 1997. Almost 50% of these suits were filed in the Ninth Circuit, primarily in courts located in California. The Patent Local Rules in the Northern District of California and the...
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Todd R. Miller
November 5, 2007 The Five Myths Of Solid-State Storage: Why It’s Not As Expensive As You Think
Embedded system designers need more from a storage system than higher capacities. Today's applications require enhanced performance, reliability, and security, all of which can effectively be met with advanced solid-state storage. This technology offers many tangible benefits, including multiyear product cycles, no product wearout, the ability to accurately forecast usable storage system life, and security options beyond encryption. But OEMs continue to design in substandard...
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Gary Drossel
October 25, 2007 And They're Off! WiMAX, LTE, UMB, And The Race To 4G Wireless
By the yardstick of typical wireless standards, the development of WiMAX has been meteoric. In 2001, it became an acronym. By 2004, it was an approved standard for fixed service. By late 2005, it was an approved mobile standard. And today, it’s moving toward wide-scale deployment. The big question, of course, is whether WiMAX will live up to its potential as a classic disruptive technology and strike fear into the hearts of the proponents of the other communications services with...
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Justin Panzer
October 11, 2007 With PV Technology, Spread Electronic Mayo On Your Roof
Today's PV market is a tremendous success story, with compound annual growth of more than 30% over the last 10 years, sales climbing to tens of billions of dollars, and the prospect of further growth fueled by a developing perfect storm of market forces - as long as the industry continues to achieve lower costs for solar-generated electricity. PV now uses as much or more of the silicon feedstock supply as other electronic devices, contributing to the runup of...
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John Langdon
September 27, 2007 Short-Reach 10GBaseT Cuts Power Consumption In The Data Center
As IT managers deploy new applications in the data center, bandwidth demand is outstripping capacity. Applications such as video streaming and the relentless demand for storage are pushing IT networking infrastructures beyond their limits. At the same time, IT managers are under pressure to reduce power consumption in the data center as well as the total cost of ownership (TCO). Fortunately, the next evolution of Ethernet is approaching deployment readiness. The...
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Stephan "Mike" McConnell
September 13, 2007 High-Speed Bluetooth Takes A Bite Out Of Certified Wireless USB
As Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radios near mass production, manufacturers and experts alike forecast a collision between the two major protocols that will ride upon this new high-speed technology: High Speed Bluetooth and Certified Wireless USB. As both use the same WiMedia UWB radio, their emergence has led many experts to assume that one technology will dominate across all types of devices and uses, much as earlier technologies—such as Wi-Fi and even...
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Michael Foley
September 1, 2007 Examine The Thermal Implications Of Potted Versus Open-Frame Bricks
When I joined Vicor almost 20 years ago, the inventors of the brick told me that the planar surface of a base plate is optimal for removing or transferring heat and that potting provides an outstanding thermal interface around each component. When bricks first came out, in fact, all of them were encapsulated and fitted with attached base plates. Our philosophy at the time, as it is now, was to be as flexible as possible to enable designers to adapt the brick to many different...
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Tom Curatolo
August 16, 2007 Independent Contractor Or Product Design Firm—It's Your Call
When it's time to produce the electronic portion of your product, do you go to a design firm or an independent contractor? Both are good solutions, but they meet different needs. If you need your lawn mowed, you hire the kid next door. But if you want someone who knows what fertilizer to use and when to trim the trees, you hire a landscaper. Outsourcing began as a cost-effective manufacturing solution. In the 1990s, it expanded to include full-service product design. Today,...
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Alex McKay
August 2, 2007 Industry Giants Want To Weaken Our Patent System
If you're a seasoned or aspiring inventor, you should be concerned about the current attack that large patent-intensive corporations are making on our venerable patent system, which has effectively protected the intellectual property of inventors for more than two centuries. Indeed, the so-called Patent Reform Act proposes major changes to the law governing how patents are obtained and enforced. Ironically, these changes are being promoted by the most powerful and...
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Dan Leckrone
July 19, 2007 U.S. Export Control Policy Hurts American Interests In China
Insistence on enforcing the existing export control policy can only damage the interests of the American high-tech industry without improving national security. This is because the U.S. is no longer the sole source of much high technology. If other nations won't follow the U.S. on restricting exports to China, then the policy can't be effective. Unilateral control by the U.S. only shackles American high-tech firms from being able to compete in China. In 2000, China's market...
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George Koo
July 5, 2007 How To Succeed In An Era Of Globalization
Globalization has brought many countries of the world together as competitors. Information technology, computer tools, and communication systems developed by members of our profession enable today’s engineer to contribute anywhere on the globe. Offshore companies initially involved in manufacturing jobs are competing more and more in leading-edge product development. The need to be in countries where products are sold, and economic factors such as...
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John Meredith
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