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Learn more. editor's view |Green Chemistry Initiative Has Critics Seeing Red By Daniel Harris, Digital Editor
California has set many legal precedents. For example, it was the first state to legalize medical marijuana, and nine other states have since followed its lead. Now, California is preparing the nation’s toughest standards for chemical use with its Green Chemistry Initiative (GCI), which was launched about a year ago. Read the full article... blog | IEF 2008 Session 1: Shifting Industry Paradigms By Joe Desposito, Editor-in-Chief
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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June 11 @ 2 pm ET Aftermarket battery packs are available for most portable devices. Hosted by Robin Sarah Tichy, Technical Marketing Manager with Micro Power and contributor to Electronic Design's Power Design column, this webcast will present the results of several product tear-downs on aftermarket battery packs and explain how substandard aftermarket packs can cut corners on cost, safety mechanisms, and battery performance. These teardowns expose electronic & mechanical design issues, as well as good manufacturing and regulatory violations. Then, this webcast will provide solutions for OEMs to manage and control their ecosystem of aftermarket battery pack suppliers. The webcast is applicable to OEMs of consumer and industrial electronic products susceptible to aftermarket batteries, such as medical, handheld radio, and data collection devices.
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focus on embedded hardware |
Expanding Catalyst Semiconductor's line of LED drivers for large
video and other indoor/outdoor displays, the CAT4008 eight-channel,
constant-current sink LED driver operates with an output voltage on the
LED pins as low as 0.4V for 2-mA to 100-mA LED drives. Nominal LED
current is set via an external resistor. A four-wire serial interface
operating at a clock frequency up to 25-MHz clock frequency controls
each channel using a shift-register and latch configuration. Read the
full article...
EiED online |
Static source code analysis tools can be an invaluable tool for
software developers. Technology Editor Bill Wong talks with some of the
major vendors in this space. Read the
full article...
Incorporate flexible configurations into card and system designs with mezzanine connectors from Amphenol TCS. The XCede® Stacker enables parallel board-to-board designs up to 20 Gbps with the highest levels of reliability. The XCede Stacker provides the density and mechanical robustness needed to address increasing I/O counts. Its modular construction and different guidance options allow length to be optimized for each application. Several heights are available, ideal for scaling stackable systems based on 1U increments.
Learn more. editor's view |Green Chemistry Initiative Has Critics Seeing Red By Daniel Harris, Digital Editor
California has set many legal precedents. For example, it was the first state to legalize medical marijuana, and nine other states have since followed its lead. Now, California is preparing the nation’s toughest standards for chemical use with its Green Chemistry Initiative (GCI), which was launched about a year ago. Read the full article... blog | IEF 2008 Session 1: Shifting Industry Paradigms By Joe Desposito, Editor-in-Chief
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.
Click here to read the full article.
Click here for more IEF 2008 coverage
engineer's resource | Webinar: Aftermarket Battery Packs - Revelations from Product Tear-Downs
Sponsored by Micro Power and Panasonic
June 11 @ 2 pm ET Aftermarket battery packs are available for most portable devices. Hosted by Robin Sarah Tichy, Technical Marketing Manager with Micro Power and contributor to Electronic Design's Power Design column, this webcast will present the results of several product tear-downs on aftermarket battery packs and explain how substandard aftermarket packs can cut corners on cost, safety mechanisms, and battery performance. These teardowns expose electronic & mechanical design issues, as well as good manufacturing and regulatory violations. Then, this webcast will provide solutions for OEMs to manage and control their ecosystem of aftermarket battery pack suppliers. The webcast is applicable to OEMs of consumer and industrial electronic products susceptible to aftermarket batteries, such as medical, handheld radio, and data collection devices.
Your Ideas For Design Can Win $500
Send us your Ideas for Design and we'll pay you $150 for every Idea for Design that we publish. In addition, the year's top design as selected by our readers will earn an additional $500, with two runners-up each receiving $250. You can submit your Ideas for Design via e-mail to: [email protected] or, mail your material to:
Ideas for Design
Electronic Design
45 Eisenhower Dr., Suite 550
Paramus, NJ 07652
Click here for our guidelines on Ideas for Design...
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LED Driver Delivers Constant Current To Large
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Static Source Code Analysis
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Back in 2002, the U.S. Department of Energy said the nation’s
enterprise IT equipment ate 97 terawatt hours per year—and that
didn’t even include the power required to cool all that gear, which
probably would boost that figure by 50% or more. Read the
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Fisker Automotive Inc. and Quantum Technologies have begun initial
vehicle testing and fine tuning of the battery software management
system for the Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid production car. Three Fisker
Karma prototypes have been built and are undergoing testing for the
electric powertrain developed by Quantum Technologies. Concurrently, the
Fisker Automotive engineering team is working on crash test simulation.
Additional validation and certification of the vehicles will be
performed over the coming months. Read the
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The pressure keeps building at all levels of networking, from the
Internet to the local-area network (LAN), as applications like gaming,
video, and cell phones are implemented. As usual, the push continues to
increase data rates in all products and services, bringing about the
need for Ethernet switches for the data centers and telecom plants that
can handle the faster data. Read the
full article...
Karl J. Puttlitz Sr. and Paul A. Totta have won the 2008 IEEE
Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Award. They are being
recognized for their pioneering role in the establishment of flip-chip
interconnection technology, which has helped drive the miniaturization
and improve the performance and durability of electronic devices such as
personal computers and mobile phones. Read the
full article...
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An Acceleration Workshop is a full-day, hands-on learning experience with a Windows Embedded® platform. Designed for professional embedded developers, and presented by experienced system integrators. Get a head start on your next device design.
Click here for more info. Engineering TV | Lithium-ion Electric Race Car As hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), and electric vehicles (EV) continue to gain acceptance as viable alternatives to gasoline-powered vehicles, it is clear that HEVs will need light, compact, high-powered, high-capacity batteries to power their needs. Similarly, Li-ion batteries are gaining acceptance as a power alternative to nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries. Compact Power and LG Chem used this technology with their ER2 and ER3 Li-ion electric race cars to set records in the Pike's Peak International Hill Climb, a long-standing tradition in Colorado Springs and the second oldest motorsports event in the United States.
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Emerging Ethernet Enhancements Engender Energy
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Testing Starts On Fisker Plug-In Hybrid
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10GE Switch IC Offers 26 Ports With Low Power
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IEEE Honors Developers Of Flip-Chip
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