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Electronic Design Update: February 27, 2008

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The engineers at Tesla Motors may need to look in their rearview mirrors. Fisker Automotive has announced plans to produce a hybrid sedan with performance that would rival Tesla's famous Roadster. The four-door plug-in Karma promises 0- to 60-mph acceler
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scope |Go Green In Style With Plug-In Luxury Sedan By Richard Gawel, Managing Editor
The engineers at Tesla Motors may need to look in their rearview mirrors. Fisker Automotive has announced plans to produce a hybrid sedan with performance that would rival Tesla's famous Roadster. The four-door plug-in Karma promises 0- to 60-mph acceleration in less than 6 seconds, a top speed of 125 mph, and emission-free driving for up to 50 miles. Read the full article...

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Protocol Tester Enlists Unique UE Test Platform
Working in partnership, Anite and Agilent Technologies have unveiled the first product in a planned portfolio of 3GPP LTE R&D test products based on Agilent's E6620A LTE UE test platform. Read the full article... EiED online |
Ready To Rock FPGA Development
Bill Wong takes a look at two new development tools from DLP Design. Read the full article... Engineering TV | Lagotek's Whole-Home Automation Lagotek has produced user interface between people and the complex technologies in their homes. A part of the Z-Wave Alliance, the company offers a primarily software-based solution to whole-home automation, running on an open-hardware platform.

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If Only The Original Spartans Could Have Thrived On So Little Power
Xilinx acknowledges the demands of its power-conscious customers with its latest Spartan-3A FPGAs, which target digital displays, set-top boxes, wireless routers, and other applications where a small footprint and extreme cost sensitivity are issues. Read the full article...
Agilent Signs On To LTE/SAE Trial Initiative
Agilent Technologies has joined the effort to bring high-speed wireless broadband to the global market through the Long Term Evolution/System Architecture Evolution (LTE/SAE) technology. The company has joined the LTE/SAE Trial Initiative, which is designed to validate the technology's capability. Read the full article...
IMEC Hits 24.7% Efficiency For GaAs Solar Cell
IMEC, the Leuven, Belgium-based independent research center, has created a single-junction gallium-arsenide (GaAs) solar cell on a germanium (Ge) substrate with a 24.7% conversion efficiency, which the organization said is a record figure. The efficiency was measured and confirmed by the U.S.-based National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Read the full article...
Lantronix Debuts First ManageLinx Application
VIP Access is the first available application of ManageLinx, a platform for application services from Lantronix Inc. The software provides secure, easy-to-deploy remote Internet access from a central location to virtually any piece of networked equipment behind firewalls. Read the full article... quick poll | Which one of your gadgets needs better power efficiency?
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ED bookstore |FPGA Prototyping By VHDL Examples By Pong P. Chu
There's no better way to learn than by doing, and that's the approach taken in FPGA Prototyping By VHDL Examples. If you're relatively new to FPGA prototyping, this book is a decent place to start. The caveat is that it does expect the reader to be relatively fluent in the syntax of HDLs. Read the full article...

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