Page 2 of 29 «« 1 2 3 4 5 »»»

Embedded Design

The perils involved when pushing direct conversion to the ... 09/08/2011

Direct conversion, or zero IF, receivers are popular in applications where the need to reduce power consumption, reduce costs and extend battery life ...

Analogue electronics: Focusing on the interface 26/07/2011

Moore's Law tells us that silicon manufacturing improvements give us twice the number of transistors every two years for the same cost. Another way ...

Increasing operating frequencies provide new opportunities ... 26/07/2011

People like wireless data communications: if you walk into a typical high street coffee house, you're likely to see customers updating their Facebook ...

The evolution of the microprocessor - from single cpus to ... 26/07/2011

Since the days of the mainframe and the desktop pc, processor technology has changed continually to address users' needs. Now, with mobile computing ...

Designers take a fresh look at power management system ... 12/07/2011

As programmable logic technology migrates into the power subsystem portion of a design, new capabilities are becoming available to engineers. The ...

The best route to avoiding counterfeit electronics 11/07/2011

It's been discussed and analysed for years, yet there does not seem to be an end in sight for the trade in counterfeit electronics.

Digital technology helps guitarists achieve pure analogue ... 29/06/2011

Producing a pure, organic and natural sound from an electric guitar has long been considered the Holy Grail for musicians. Traditionally, guitarists ...

Manufacturers continue to develop the analogue ‘building ... 29/06/2011

During New Electronics' Analogue Roundtable last month, the discussions focused on a number of areas. One was the increasing complexity of analogue ...

New Electronics Roundtable: More support needed as analogue ... 14/06/2011

There is a perception that analogue design is getting harder; alongside the usual time to market issues, the devices with which designers work are ...

Will AMD's Fusion architecture meet the needs of ETX and ... 14/06/2011

The discontinuation last year by Intel of the Pentium M and Celeron M processors and the 855/852 chipsets raised doubts about the future of the ETX ...

Wireless data to be followed by wireless power? 24/05/2011

We may have seen a wireless revolution in the last decade, but it has been all about wireless data. But when it comes to transmitting power, cables ...
Image 1 comment

Tools developers respond to growing popularity of Cortex-M ... 10/05/2011

ARM's Cortex-M range of microcontroller cores has changed the market landscape. Not only has it provided a number of companies with a platform on ...
Image 1 comment

FRAM set to save energy in write intensive mcu applications 06/05/2011

Texas Instruments has launched the first of a series of 16bit microcontrollers that use ferroelectric memory (fram) instead of flash, claiming that ...

Data converters set to help meet comms systems challenges 26/04/2011

As the number of mobile phone subscribers continues to climb, pressure is growing on the communications infrastructure to support the amount of data ...

How the dynamics of microcontroller selection are changing 26/04/2011

Outside of the apparent ability of an mcu manufacturer to deliver the right product at the right price, with the right development tools, technical ...

Happy Birthday to the IC 25/04/2011

50 years ago today, Fairchild Semiconductor's Robert Noyce received the first ever patent for the first commercially available silicon IC.

32bit mcu demand drives need for support programmes 12/04/2011

For the last year or so, there has been a continuing flurry of activity as companies introduce more variants of microcontrollers designed around ...

How hardware failures and data misinterpretation can affect ... 12/04/2011

Shortly before being gunned down by a robot played by Yul Brynner in the movie Westworld, a tourist is bitten by a mechanical snake. "That's not ...

Dealing with gain distortion in an LLC resonant converter ... 22/03/2011

The LLC resonant converter is receiving a lot of attention because of its high efficiency through zero voltage switching (ZVS) and its narrow ...

New approaches to a/d conversion technology 22/03/2011

Advances in architecture and integrated circuit design techniques have allowed a/d converter manufacturers to push sample rates, resolution and power ...

Simplifying open source with Linux 08/03/2011

Linaro is attempting to make it easier to use the Linux operating system in embedded systems. By Graham Pitcher.

Easing design headaches with programmable supplies 21/02/2011

Power supplies with digital control are gaining in popularity. However the term 'digital control' has two quite different meanings.

Floating point enabled microcontrollers in embedded designs 08/02/2011

Floating point units (fpu) can increase the range and precision of mathematical calculations or enable greater throughput in less time, making it ...

Is the hardware engineer becoming an ‘endangered species’? 07/02/2011

There is general agreement that software is now the dominant part of the embedded design process. There is also a trend towards platform based ...

Better noise performance in analogue design 25/01/2011

The seemingly humble operational amplifier is one of the basic building blocks of electronic design; its small pin count belies its importance in the ...
Page 2 of 29 «« 1 2 3 4 5 »»»