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Electronic Design Update: January 23, 2008

Jan. 23, 2008
Though increasingly widespread and user-friendly, touchscreen technology is still very much a specialty and therefore outsourced by equipment manufacturers. But outsourcing any electronic subassembly can be a slippery slope for OEMs, since the end product

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Electronic Design Update: Know Your Options Before Choosing A Touchscreen
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Scope |Know Your Options Before Choosing A Touchscreen By Manny Cardinale, President, CAM Graphics Inc.
Though increasingly widespread and user-friendly, touchscreen technology is still very much a specialty and therefore outsourced by equipment manufacturers. But outsourcing any electronic subassembly can be a slippery slope for OEMs, since the end product ultimately will have their brand name on it. Read the full article... focus on power |
ADCs Take A Chunk Out Of Power Consumption
In addition to staking claim as the industry's smallest, the ADS5281, ADS5282, and ADS5287 eight-channel ADCs promise power-consumption reductions in the realm of 30% over comparable devices. At their highest sample rate of 65 Msamples/s, the trio consumes as little as 77 mW per channel. With dynamic scaling at a 30 Msample/s rate, per-channel power consumption is as low as 48 mW. Read the full article... EiED online |
Embedded PC Targets Digital Signage
Digital signage applications are growing with the appearance of compact compute engines like VIA Technologies' vmpc vm7700. Embedded Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a look inside the vm7700. Read the full article...
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Engineering TV |
CES 2008: The WiMedia Alliance
A hot new trend in technology right now is wireless video transfer. The WiMedia Alliance is leading the way in ultra-wideband (UWB)technology. In part, we take a look at the state of the WiMedia Alliance.

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news from the editors |
Agilent Aids Discovery Of DNA Mutation Mechanism
When Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) researcher Jennifer Lee was studying the mechanisms of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD), she expected to find DNA additions or deletions in the wrong place on patients' chromosomes. Read the full article...
Team Advances Hollow-Core Optical Fibers
Scientists from the University of Bath have discovered a way to speed up production of hollow-core optical fibers -- a new generation of optical fibers that could lead to faster and more powerful computing and telecommunications technologies. Read the full article...
Firms Ally To Create Smaller Motion-Control Systems
Analog IC provider austriamicrosystems has formed a strategic business and technical partnership with New Scale Technologies Inc., a privately held developer and manufacturer of miniature motion systems. Read the full article...
GPP Approval Advances LTE Technology
With the recent approval of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology specifications, LTE is on track to become the next phase in the development of the GSM family of technologies, according to industry association 3G Americas. Read the full article...
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quick poll |
With the presidential campaign under way, how do you feel about electronic voting machines?
--Very confident: Electronic voting is the way to go.
--Somewhat confident: Anything is better than hanging chads.
--Not confident: Security needs to be improved.

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product picks online |
Audio Buffer Maintains Code Of Silence
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Flat Panel Monitors Get Their Sea Legs
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AC-DC Adapters Set Efficiency Benchmark
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Base Station Protocol Test System Adds Wideband AMR
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Compact Circuit Protector Thwarts 200 kA Shorts
Read the full article... upcoming industry events | International Solid State Circuits Conference San Francisco, Calif.
Feb. 3-7    isscc.org/isscc/

DesignCon 2008 Feb. 4-7
Santa Clara, Calif. www.designcon.com/2008/

GSMA Mobile World Congress 2008 Barcelona, Spain
Feb. 11-14    www.mobileworldcongress.com/homepage.htm

ED bookstore |Linux Firewalls By Michael Rash
Building a secure networked Linux box? Then you better know your firewalls. I keep this book within easy reach since I have a number of different Linux systems running in the lab. Since some of the issues involved are so complex, I uncover something new every time I open it. Read the full article...

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