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| Steve Taranovich, Contributing Editor, EDN |
| Electronic, biological and medical technologies collaborate to benefit people suffering from brain, heart and lung deficiencies. |
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| Steve Taranovich, Contributing Editor, EDN |
| Semiconductor solutions contained in portable consumer electronics are now finding their way into medical implants. |
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| Martin Rowe, Senior Technical Editor, Test & Measurement World; EDN |
| Mobile apps show great promise as the next wave of measurement instruments, reference tools, computational tools, simulators, and system controllers. |
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| Margery Conner, Technical Editor, EDN |
| Japan is moving towards a faster acceptance of LED lighting as energy is restored to homes and businesses. The global community, however, questions whether nuclear is a safe alternative to carbon-intensive fuels. |
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| Bill Schweber, Editor, EE Times' Planet Analog |
| The diversity and application-optimization of LED drivers are starting to resemble their analog cousins of op amps and A/D converters. |
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| Janine Love, Editor, EE Times' RF/Microwave Designline |
| Low-power and ultra-low-power wireless devices continue to improve our 'quality of experience' in life, by giving us peace of mind, convenience, and new forms of entertainment. |
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| Clive Maxfield, editor of EE Times' Programmable Logic Designline |
| New chips are both bigger than anything we've seen before in capacity and performance and smaller than anything we've seen before in capacity and packaging. |
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| Rick DeMeis, Editor, EE Times' Automotive Designline |
| 2012 looks to be a year of consolidation as technologies introduced previously – like voice recognition and electrified power trains - become more widespread across model lines. |
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| Rich Pell, Editor, EE Times' Audio Designline |
| Mobile audio quality is being addressed on several fronts, including portable devices’ built-in hardware and software/processing capabilities, as well as media quality itself. |
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| Colin Holland, Editor, EE Times' MCU Designline |
| It is the balance between the traditional technologies and the newer kid on the block - ARM - that is providing an area of interest. |
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| Paul Rako, Technical Editor, EDN |
| Exotic substrates and fabrication methods are now commonplace. |
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| David Gunderson, Micro Power Electronics, Inc. |
| To reduce current requirements, designers of batteries for electric vehicles, large-system back power, and other high-power-requirement applications build batteries from high-series-count cell stacks. |
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| Steve Taranovich, Contributing Technical Editor, EDN |
| Eye, ear, lung, heart, and brain enhancements are now possible as modern electronics technology meets advances in medicine and biology. |
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| Avinash Babu, Sr. Architect, Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd. |
| The designer needs to find a point on the technology curve that matches with the ecosystem and the customer use case. |
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| Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, Online, EDN |
| Bill McClean, president of market-research company IC Insights, estimates the semiconductor-industry growth, expectations for 2012, and why the always-complex semiconductor market cannot be judged on just one of its aspects. Excerpts of that conversation follow: |
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| Thermocouples offer advantages over other temperature sensors such as thermistors, RTDs, and silicon sensors. |
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| Patrick Mannion, Director of Content, EDN |
| The less-than-$300, Android 2.2-based ViewSonic gTablet has the horsepower to make it competitive with high-end devices—that is, if you have the stomach and time for rooting and hacking. |
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| Dr. Kevin C. Craig, EDN |
| The technology of information enables mechatronic problem solving. |
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| Earl Schlenk, Engineer |
| This tale recounts how a cigarette break resolved a perplexing microwave failure. |
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| Dr. Howard Johnson, EDN |
| Quadrature layout does nothing to mitigate common-mode crosstalk, but at least it nails the differential mode. |
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| Pallab Chatterjee, Contributing Technical Editor, EDN |
| Researchers at the University of California-Berkeley are developing devices that will yield a millionfold reduction in power for future electronic systems. |
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| Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, Online, EDN |
| The more than $7.5 billion counterfeiting costs US-based semiconductor companies each year is not the biggest loss, according to recent Senate testimony by Brian Toohey, president of the SIA. |
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| Clark S. Robbins, GS Engineering |
| Thermal deformation occurs in a hydraulic-control system that operates in the sunlight. |
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| Bill Schweber, EETimes |
| The device combines a critical-conduction mode, PFC controller, and half-bridge resonant controller with built-in 600V driver. |
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| Margery Conner, Technical Editor, EDN |
| The HHMI researchers gather information by attaching tiny electrodes to cells in the dragonflies’ neural cord and recording the electrical activity of the neurons and muscles. |
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| Colin Holland, EE Times |
| The 89600 VSA software’s multimeasurement capability provides the power of multiple signal analyzers using one user interface. |
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| Bill Schweber, EE Times |
| The on-chip mCal calibration circuit enables low initial-offset voltage and a means to control offset drift, which results in higher accuracy across time and temperature. |
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| Dan Strassberg, Contributing Technical Editor, EDN |
| Tektronix considers the THS3000s to be scopes rather than combination scopes/DMMs. |
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| Margery Conner, Technical Editor, EDN |
| Kindle is great for reading books that are all text, which is 99% of fiction, and lots of nonfiction. |
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| Bill Schweber, EE Times |
| The 12V DMP1245UFCL P-channel enhancement-mode MOSFET from Diodes targets battery-powered applications in which runtime and overall life are critical factors. |
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| Peter B. Green, International Rectifier Corp. |
| Flyback LED drivers offer simplicity, low cost, ability to achieve a high power factor, and compatibility with common TRIAC-based dimmers. |
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| Fran Granville, Senior Associate Editor, EDN |
| The EMI-shielded facility will also be used for defense-related research projects and collaborations with outside organizations. |
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| Casey Hare, Angstrom Designs |
| Angstrom Designs has recently released a free driver that turns the Arduino into data-acquisition hardware. |
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| ZMDI’s ZSSC3123 IC suits MEMS-based elements such as pressure sensors for hydraulic-control systems, humidity, and liquid-level gauges. |
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| Rick Merritt, EE Times |
| PMC-Sierra’s ICs also help control other storage functions such as compression and de-duplication. |
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| TI’s bq25504 IC benefits wireless-sensor networks for area, industrial, water/waste, and structural monitoring along with consumer, high-reliability, and medical applications. |
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| Colin Holland, EE Times |
| Freescale’s Kinetis X addresses virtually any type of external memory including NOR and NAND flash, serial flash, SRAM, and low-power DDR2 and DDR3. |
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| Linear Technology's LTC4313 and LTC4315 are suited to computing, networking, and data-storage systems that use multiple I/O cards with different supply- and bus-voltage levels. |
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| Jordan Dimitrov, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| A voltage to frequency converter circuit builds on the work of two analog greats. |
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| Luca Matteini, Agliana, Italy |
| Using this simple circuit, one can get isolation with low power consumption. |
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| Lyle Russell Williams, St. Charles, MO |
| The simple ac-coupled design inverts, runs off a single supply, and is self-biasing. |
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| An eight-pin micro multiplies, monitors, and delivers boosted voltage to load. |
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| Fran Hoffart, National Semiconductor Corp., Santa Clara, CA |
| A circuit that properly charges sealed lead-acid batteries ensures long, trouble-free service. |
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| Yakov Velikson, Lexington, MA |
| Convert into and out of the sampled-data domain to get an accurate multiplication. |
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| Steve Hageman, AnalogHome.com, Windsor, CA |
| Add a few components and you have a stand-alone piece of test gear. |
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| Chau Tran, Analog Devices, Malden, MA |
| You can adjust this battery-powered circuit for different levels. |
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| William Dias, Brown&Sharpe, North Kingstown, RI |
| Why is it that you always test 48 bulbs before you find the bad one in a 50-light string? This simple circuit allows you to divide and conquer, greatly reducing the time it takes to find the bad bulb. |
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