Electronic Design UPDATE e-Newsletter | October 8,
2008 | FREEmagazine
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Register Today for the 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications &
Networking Conference!
Held in Las Vegas from 10-13 January 2009, IEEE CCNC features presentations on Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics, Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Entertainment & Multimedia Networking, Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery, Emerging Applications & Pervasive Technologies, and Security for CE Communications. In additional to its outstanding technical program, IEEE CCNC offers Technology Applications Panels, Special Sessions, Tutorials, Workshops, Demonstrations, and several networking events. As a bonus, every full registration includes One Complementary Tutorial!
For more information, visit www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009 mark david's roadmap |VIDEO: Under The Hood Of The Tesla Roadster By Mark David, Group Editorial Director
After the test drive, I had a serendipitous interview with Tesla’s CTO, J.B. Straubel, during MIT’s annual Emerging Technology conference. In the video interview, Straubel shares info about the upcoming Tesla sedan and the new factory slated to be built in San Jose. Read the full article... commentary |Samsung HDD Touts Highest Storage, Smallest Footprint By Roger Allan, Contributing Editor
It’s astonishing to say the least. Samsung’s Spinpoint M6 hard-disk drive (HDD) packs 500 Gbytes of storage into a single 2.5-in. hard-disk drive (HDD) in a standard 9.5-mm height with a 3.0 Gbit/s SATA interface, in what may be the best pound-for-pound HDD out there. Read the full article... lab bench online |
Microsoft’s .Net Micro Framework targets compact, single chip
microcontrollers. Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a look at.Net Micro
Framework platforms from Design Solutions and SJJ Micro. Read the
full article...
engineer's resource |
Vote For The Best IFD And Leapfrog
We’re wondering which IFDs and Leapfrogs are your favorites. What
articles do you consider to be the most innovative, or the most helpful
to you from the past calendar year? Just take a look at the list of IFDs
and Leapfrogs and pick the ones that you think are worthy of
recognition. The ballot closes on October 17. The winning IFD and
Leapfrog will be presented in our December 1st Best Electronic Design
Issue, where our Technology Editors will offer added commentary on each
article.
One Powerful Day
Power Electronics Technology and the Electronic Design Group bring the latest in power design information direct to you, the power designer, with the premier of One Powerful Day, a free online conference with a full day of top speakers on top topics via Web conferencing. The conference brings you up to date on the latest in power design, and you can pick and choose the free sessions that benefit you the most.
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 you can mail your material to:
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Electronic Design
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Click here for our guidelines on Ideas for Design.
Held in Las Vegas from 10-13 January 2009, IEEE CCNC features presentations on Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics, Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Entertainment & Multimedia Networking, Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery, Emerging Applications & Pervasive Technologies, and Security for CE Communications. In additional to its outstanding technical program, IEEE CCNC offers Technology Applications Panels, Special Sessions, Tutorials, Workshops, Demonstrations, and several networking events. As a bonus, every full registration includes One Complementary Tutorial!
For more information, visit www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009 mark david's roadmap |VIDEO: Under The Hood Of The Tesla Roadster By Mark David, Group Editorial Director
After the test drive, I had a serendipitous interview with Tesla’s CTO, J.B. Straubel, during MIT’s annual Emerging Technology conference. In the video interview, Straubel shares info about the upcoming Tesla sedan and the new factory slated to be built in San Jose. Read the full article... commentary |Samsung HDD Touts Highest Storage, Smallest Footprint By Roger Allan, Contributing Editor
It’s astonishing to say the least. Samsung’s Spinpoint M6 hard-disk drive (HDD) packs 500 Gbytes of storage into a single 2.5-in. hard-disk drive (HDD) in a standard 9.5-mm height with a 3.0 Gbit/s SATA interface, in what may be the best pound-for-pound HDD out there. Read the full article... lab bench online |
Small Packages For .Net Micro
Framework
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One Powerful Day
Power Electronics Technology and the Electronic Design Group bring the latest in power design information direct to you, the power designer, with the premier of One Powerful Day, a free online conference with a full day of top speakers on top topics via Web conferencing. The conference brings you up to date on the latest in power design, and you can pick and choose the free sessions that benefit you the most.
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 you can 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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IFD of the week |
The U.S. Coast Guard transmits differential corrections to GPS
signals (DGPS) via low-frequency (285- to 325-kHz) beacons. Transmission
data rates are 100 or 200 bits/s. The modulation is minimum-shift keying
(MSK), resulting in a pseudo frequency-shift keying (FSK) with a carrier
shift of half the bit rate. For a 100-bits/s signal, the carrier shift
is only ±25 Hz. With a receiver IF frequency of 1 kHz, the IF signal
shifts between 975 and 1025 Hz. The two data tones correspond to times
of 1026 µs and 976 µs, respectively. Read the
full article...
Narrow-Shift Digital Discriminator Detects
Differential GPS Corrections
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Learn how to improve the power accuracy of receiver
tests
Testing to WiMAXTM standards, this application note from Agilent tells how power measurement inaccuracy affects receiver tests, and shows you how to use external variable attenuators to increase both accuracy and speed in power calibration.
Click here to learn more and download the note. video of the week | Agilent's New PXB MIMO Receiver Tester
Testing to WiMAXTM standards, this application note from Agilent tells how power measurement inaccuracy affects receiver tests, and shows you how to use external variable attenuators to increase both accuracy and speed in power calibration.
Click here to learn more and download the note. video of the week | Agilent's New PXB MIMO Receiver Tester
news from the editors |
Breakthrough In Skin-Like Optical Sensing
Foils
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Partnership Aims To Speed 32-, 28-nm SoC
Design
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WirelessHART Wins International
Approval
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If there’s only one show on your 2009 calendar, make it
CES.
See the future unfold in Las Vegas at the most important emerging technology event of the year: the 2009 International CES®. With more than 2,700 exhibitors vying to capture your attention, this is the event where you will see far-out ideas come to fruition. CES is the trade-only event that drives the digital economy. Register before November 1, 2008 and we’ll waive the $100 registration fee!
Visit www.CESweb.org/register to register today. Please use priority code PEN when registering. quick poll | Considering the challenges facing the nation, which presidential candidate has a better technological platform?
focus product |
Teaming a wealth of peripheral connectivity and low power
consumption,
Texas Instruments unveils what it is calling the industry's lowest
power
floating-point DSPs: the TMS320C6745 DSP and TMS320C6747 DSP and the
OMAP-L137 floating-point DSP plus ARM applications processor. Read the
full article...
product picks online |
Video Crosspoint Switches Lower Power, Raise
Bandwidth
VPX Memory Board Supports Up To 16
Gbytes
1340-W Supply Stands 1U High
RFIC Design Environment Adds Over 100
Enhancements
USB Connector Family Adds Mini
Receptacles
upcoming industry events |
13th Si2/OpenAccess+ Conference
Santa Clara, Calif.
Oct. 13 Why Vent? Improve Reliabilty For Rugged Electronics
Webinar
Oct. 22 Application Workshops For High-Performance Electronic Design
North Amerca, Asia, Europe
Oct. 9 - Nov. 12 ED bookstore |Computers As Components: Principles Of Embedded Computing Design By Wayne Wolf
The title is a bit of misnomer, as author Wayne Wolf is really presenting a typical embedded design and programming book. There is little about connecting CPU components together in anything other than a basic network. Still, skipping over the naming of the book reveals a very good coverage of general embedded processors and system design. Overall, this is an excellent book for a college course or for new embedded designers. Read the full article...
See the future unfold in Las Vegas at the most important emerging technology event of the year: the 2009 International CES®. With more than 2,700 exhibitors vying to capture your attention, this is the event where you will see far-out ideas come to fruition. CES is the trade-only event that drives the digital economy. Register before November 1, 2008 and we’ll waive the $100 registration fee!
Visit www.CESweb.org/register to register today. Please use priority code PEN when registering. quick poll | Considering the challenges facing the nation, which presidential candidate has a better technological platform?
- Barack Obama
- John McCain
- Neither
- Undecided
focus product |
Floating-Point DSPs Provide Peripheral Options And
Low-Power Operation
|
Santa Clara, Calif.
Oct. 13 Why Vent? Improve Reliabilty For Rugged Electronics
Webinar
Oct. 22 Application Workshops For High-Performance Electronic Design
North Amerca, Asia, Europe
Oct. 9 - Nov. 12 ED bookstore |Computers As Components: Principles Of Embedded Computing Design By Wayne Wolf
The title is a bit of misnomer, as author Wayne Wolf is really presenting a typical embedded design and programming book. There is little about connecting CPU components together in anything other than a basic network. Still, skipping over the naming of the book reveals a very good coverage of general embedded processors and system design. Overall, this is an excellent book for a college course or for new embedded designers. Read the full article...