Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:42:00 EST

At the upcoming Embedded Systems Conference next month a panel will debate wireless sensor networks. Why?

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:42:00 EST

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:46:00 EST

ACCES I/O Products announced the latest addition to its line of small form factor USB-based data acquisition and control I/O modules—the USB-AO Series, which consists of 12 and 16-bit USB modules.

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:39:00 EST

IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) said it is using Synopsys' TCAD simulation tools for characterizing and optimizing the reliability and electrical performance of through-silicon vias (TSVs).

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:39:00 EST

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:03:00 EST

The dSPACE (Paderborn, Germany) quad-core DS1006 processor board has an AMD Opteron 2.8 GHz processor to boost the power of hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation. Large models can be distributed across the four cores of the quad-core processor and executed synchronously.

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:03:00 EST

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:47:00 EST

Here's a guide from Jack Ganssle on doing software development in a disciplined way to reduce both errors and the time it takes to complete a project. Part 2: The Seven Step Plan.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 20:32:00 EST

An online retailer acknowledged that it unwittingly shipped counterfeit ICs to some customers who ordered Intel's Core i7-920 microprocessors.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 20:32:00 EST

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:16:00 EST

Here's a guide from Jack Ganssle on doing software development in a disciplined way to reduce both errors and the time it takes to complete a project. Part 1: Any idiot can write code.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:48:00 EST

MIT researchers are using fuel-coated carbon nanotubes as "fuses" for thermowave electrical power sources, which store energy like a battery but promise an unlimited shelf life, for use in disposable medical diagnostics, transponders, beacons and signals, rockets and projectiles, and low-current-draw applications.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:48:00 EST

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:39:00 EST

High-temperature semiconductor technologies can survive temperatures approaching 400°C, but careful design of the product is required to deliver cost-effective devices achieving stable, predictable performance.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:18:00 EST

Deming is dead. Both literally and figuratively.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:27:00 EST

Analog Devices Inc. has announced today the availability of an RF transceiver targeting short-range wireless systems in the 2.4-GHz ISM band.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:27:00 EST

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:00:51 EST

Understand the key specifications and parameters which are key an effective and reliable capacitive touch screen interface

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:00:51 EST

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:00:00 EST

Some basic tests will verify your PCB/IC thermal modeling and reality

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:46:00 EST

Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has announced the availability of phase one of the AMBA-4 specification for on-chip communication.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:13:00 EST

IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) and Altos Design Automation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) have joined forces to provide offer re-characterization of standard foundry or library vendor libraries including core and IO cells at different process, temperatures and/or voltages.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:20:00 EST

WiSpry Inc. (Irvine, Calif.), a provider of tunable radio frequency semiconductor products for the wireless industry, has announced that its U.S. patent application for MEMS variable capacitors and actuation components, and related methods has been granted.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:11:00 EST

Baolab Microsystems SL (Barcelona, Spain) is a startup company pioneering the creation of microelectromechancial systems (MEMS) within the back-end-of-line structure of CMOS wafers.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:11:00 EST

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EST

At UBM TechInsights we are often tasked with proving patent infringement of a software algorithm as part of our IP Management Services. Our example algorithm is based on the ARM architecture.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EST

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EST

Maintaining that progress in conventional silicon-based MOSFET switching devices has reached the point of diminishing returns, Alex Lidow, co-founder and CEO of Efficient Power Conversion believes it is time for a new technology.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EST

As the Space Shuttle program winds down, the Obama administration is seeking to reinvent NASA and again send humans beyond Earth orbit.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EST

Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:25:00 EST

Rabbit plans easy-to-use, ultra-compact MiniCore networking modules based on new chip

Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:25:00 EST

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:29:00 EST

Clive "Max" Maxfield is on the road again to explore and to pontificate about embedded design choices at ESC and ESC India.

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:01:00 EST

The Department of Energy awarded a $72 million loan guarantee to Sage Electrochromics to build a smart window that uses electronically controlled inorganic coatings to save energy.

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 01:15:00 EST

The MathWorks has introduced Simulink PLC Coder for industrial control engineers to automatically generate IEC 61131 structured text for programmable controller devices.

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 01:15:00 EST

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:28:00 EST

Texas Instruments put out a press release that the company has been recognized among the world's 100 best corporate citizens.

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:28:00 EST