Electronic Design UPDATE e-Newsletter | October 15,
2008 | FREEmagazine
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Simplify Remote Monitoring with NI LabVIEW 8.6
Take your data acquisition applications beyond the wire with National Instruments LabVIEW software and WiFi daq devices. Visualize live data with 3D sensor mapping, stream data, and share with web enabled applications with LabVIEW graphical programming.
View demos and evaluate LabVIEW online at ni.com/labview86. scope |As Robots Get Smaller, Potential Applications Get Bigger By John Edwards, Contributing Editor
Step inside the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland. Here, in a country perhaps best known for its fine chocolates and wristwatches, engineers are building awesome robots with formidable powers. But you may have to squint a little to see them at work, because the Swiss bots can be kind of hard to see. Read the full article... commentary |RTI, DARPA Up The Ante In Energy Conversion Efficiency By Don Tuite, Analog/Power Editor
Ever drive by a power plant, gaze at its obtrusive cooling towers and think, “There goes a monument to wasted thermal energy?†Well, RTI International is heading a project to push the fold in thermo-electric power conversion and turning the ecosystem’s frown upside down. Read the full article... design hotspots | Analog · What's All This Analog Engineering Stuff, Anyhow? | By Bob Pease
Analog · Heart Monitor Uses Quickfilter Signal Converter
Power · Filter Trims Ultra-Precision Voltage Reference | By Alfredo Saab, Randall White, Maxim Integrated Products
Embedded · 3D Imaging: You've Just Got To See It | By Bill Wong
Take your data acquisition applications beyond the wire with National Instruments LabVIEW software and WiFi daq devices. Visualize live data with 3D sensor mapping, stream data, and share with web enabled applications with LabVIEW graphical programming.
View demos and evaluate LabVIEW online at ni.com/labview86. scope |As Robots Get Smaller, Potential Applications Get Bigger By John Edwards, Contributing Editor
Step inside the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland. Here, in a country perhaps best known for its fine chocolates and wristwatches, engineers are building awesome robots with formidable powers. But you may have to squint a little to see them at work, because the Swiss bots can be kind of hard to see. Read the full article... commentary |RTI, DARPA Up The Ante In Energy Conversion Efficiency By Don Tuite, Analog/Power Editor
Ever drive by a power plant, gaze at its obtrusive cooling towers and think, “There goes a monument to wasted thermal energy?†Well, RTI International is heading a project to push the fold in thermo-electric power conversion and turning the ecosystem’s frown upside down. Read the full article... design hotspots | Analog · What's All This Analog Engineering Stuff, Anyhow? | By Bob Pease
Analog · Heart Monitor Uses Quickfilter Signal Converter
Power · Filter Trims Ultra-Precision Voltage Reference | By Alfredo Saab, Randall White, Maxim Integrated Products
Embedded · 3D Imaging: You've Just Got To See It | By Bill Wong
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Click here for more information. 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.
Webinar: 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.
IFD of the week |Use Inexpensive Components To Create An Infrared Close-Object Alert Circuit By T.K. Hareendran, Betron Technical Services
Many robotic applications require a sensor to detect close or very close obstacles. Typically, reflective-type infrared sensors are used for this task. But the circuit in the figure shows an infrared close-object alert system built around two popular and less expensive integrated circuits: the LM555 timer and CD4060 CMOS, 14-stage, ripple carrying binary counter/divider and oscillator. Read the full article...
Samtec has a broad range of high speed, micro pitch and rugged interconnects for embedded applications. Popular examples include Emerging Next Generation PC/104, PC/104, PC/104+, the new SiliconBlade USB Blade Socket, Emulation Cables, Rugged, Vita 57 and Test & Debug cables.
Click here for more information. 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.
Webinar: 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.
IFD of the week |Use Inexpensive Components To Create An Infrared Close-Object Alert Circuit By T.K. Hareendran, Betron Technical Services
Many robotic applications require a sensor to detect close or very close obstacles. Typically, reflective-type infrared sensors are used for this task. But the circuit in the figure shows an infrared close-object alert system built around two popular and less expensive integrated circuits: the LM555 timer and CD4060 CMOS, 14-stage, ripple carrying binary counter/divider and oscillator. Read the full article...
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Get the full story. video of the week | Agilent's N9912A FieldFox RF Analyzer
Agilent’s paperback-sized USB modular instruments make it possible. With a scope, a DMM, a function generator and the familiar software interface, you’ll be ready for measurements at a customer site, an outsourced manufacturing operation, and beyond.
Get the full story. video of the week | Agilent's N9912A FieldFox RF Analyzer
news from the editors |
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PCI Express Switch Gains DMA
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USB-IF Gets Ready To Ratify 3.0
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Smart Camera Runs Graphical Applications
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Fanless PC/104+ SBC Uses 8 W
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Watch Live Webcast Motion Control Cards: Options and
Architectures
Advanced Features and Application Design Challenges
There have been a lot of improvements in motion control cards’ capabilities and performance that allow for much better system optimization. This presentation we will explore these advances in card technology and how it affects motion control system architecture and design. The presentation will cover motion control card basics, programmability, maintainability and reliability issues, time-to-market factors and much more.
Watch this live Webcast tomorrow 10/16 at 2pm ET / 11am PT.
Sponsored by PMD. quick poll | Laptops and smart phones are just the beginning. Mobile Internet devices, specifically designed for Web connectivity, are on their way. Will you be getting one?
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VPX Card Supplies FPGA Computing In A Small, Rugged Form
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5.5-Digit DMM Is No Bigger Than A Paperback
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240-W Switching Supplies Are 50% Smaller Than Previous
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Multi-Tap Attenuator Offers Four Attenuation Values On
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Advanced Features and Application Design Challenges
There have been a lot of improvements in motion control cards’ capabilities and performance that allow for much better system optimization. This presentation we will explore these advances in card technology and how it affects motion control system architecture and design. The presentation will cover motion control card basics, programmability, maintainability and reliability issues, time-to-market factors and much more.
Watch this live Webcast tomorrow 10/16 at 2pm ET / 11am PT.
Sponsored by PMD. quick poll | Laptops and smart phones are just the beginning. Mobile Internet devices, specifically designed for Web connectivity, are on their way. Will you be getting one?
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