The Darpa Grand Challenge-not since the fabled transcontinental races of a century ago have so many engineers, professors, students, corporate teams, and garage tinkerers been drawn to so daunting a ....
Proponents of BPL (broadband-over-powerline) technology insist that the best wires for the last mile were strung and connected long ago. But BPL still faces technical hurdles, a potentially nasty standards ....
Many systems, such as tiny wirelessnetworked sensor nodes and low-cost calculators for the consumer market, have severely constrained power sources resulting from remote location, cost considerations, ....
Rocket engines are reaction engines, in that they throw mass, generally in the form of a hightemperature and high-pressure gas, in one direction to create a reactionary thrust in the opposite direction. ....
Instrumentation amplifiers find wide use in real-world data acquisition. However, designers often incorrectly apply them. Specifically, although modern in amps have excellent CMR (common-mode rejection), ....
Over the last three years, IC-power management has moved from a thirdorder to a first-order concern for chip designers, especially those designing ASICs and SOCs (systems on chips) for portable-system ....
Much has been written over the past year about the transition to electronic passports. Reasonably minded privacy advocates attack potential security loopholes in the technology, and the lunatic fringe ....
Designers evaluating memory-interface options need to optimize the trade offs among capacity, bandwidth, efficiency, and system constraints. Microprocessor-based systems are ideal for executing an essentially ....
Bluetooth and WLAN are on a collision course—not in the market, but in the airwaves. WLAN (wireless LAN) using the WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) IEEE 802.11b/g protocol is becoming standard in PCs and laptop ....
An SOC makes a one-time-use video camera feasible. Will consumers embrace the minimalist feature set? Starting about a few months ago, a drugstore chain began selling a digital-video camera for the paltry ....
