June 7, 2006
- News Focus: ARM-Based ZigBee Developer’s Kit Spans Concept To Prototype
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News From The Editors:
- Mini Sensors Help Fight Corrosion
- 90-nm SoC Capability Builds High-End Drives
- Perpendicular Recording Boosts 2.5-in. Capacity To 200 Gbytes
- TechView Scope: Sensor Burns Daylight, Not Electricity
- Upcoming Industry Events:
- 2006 Electronic Product Miniaturization Symposium
- Semicon West 2006
- Design Automation Conference
- Book Review:
- Write Great Code: Understanding The Machine
- Mini Sensors Help Fight Corrosion
Oki Semiconductor now has a low-cost, full-featured development kit for its IEEE802.15.4-based ML7065 2.4-GHz ZigBee-compatible radio. The kit contains the Oki ML7065 radio and Oki’s ARM7TMDI-based 4060 Series Advantage microcontroller. The ZigBee Developers Kit (ZDK) provides designers with a comprehensive, flexible plug-and-play development environment that’s easy to use. The ML67Q4061 MCU used in this kit offers large on-chip memories and fast processor speeds...
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Miniature sensors often are tucked away in hard-to-reach spaces. Now, a novel array of sensors is poised to change the costly and resource-intensive process of fighting corrosion in harsh environment applications. These sensor arrays can monitor not only the appearance and persistence of corrosion, but also its behavior under different atmospheric conditions...
90-nm SoC Capability Builds High-End Drives
A new 90-nm system-on-a-chip (SoC) gives designers a way to create high-end desktop and server hard-disk drives. STMicroelectronics claims its device—which integrates ST’s intellectual property in the hard-disk controller (HDC), read channel, serial ATA interface (SATA), and memory—is the first such product to be manufactured in a 90-nm process...
Perpendicular Recording Boosts 2.5-in. Capacity To 200 Gbytes
Using perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology, the Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD) has created a 200-Gbyte 2.5-in. hard-disk drive (HDD). Toshiba’s second-generation PMR features what the company claims is the world’s highest areal density at 178.8 Gbits/in.2 and the highest capacity in the standard 9.5-mm mobile PC format...
By Randall Hyde
This book is the first of a four-part series designed for programmers. This volume starts with the architectural basics, but includes plenty of C code examples to make it a worthwhile read for a new C developer. The book covers the typical range of topics from data representation to memory and interrupts...
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