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West Coast Editor at Electronic Products Magazine for the past five years, Jim Harrison was a technical manager at Nokia’s Broadband Systems Group in Petaluma California for a few yeara and before that at Diamond Lane Communications – that Nokia purchased in 1999. Before that he held various electronics design engineerimg positions.

Intel talks about new Atom CPU

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

by Jim Harrison Intel has announced the Silvermont micro-architecture for Atom CPUs with a 22 nm Tri-Gate SoC manufacturing process targeting low-power requirements in markets from smartphones to the data center. Silvermont is said to enable, on a variety of standard metrics, ~3x peak performance or the same performance at ~5x lower power over the [...]

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NXP acquires Code Red Technologies

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

by Jim Harrison NXP Semiconductors has acquired Code Red Technologies. Code Red is the maker of Red Suite 5, a full featured software development environment for ARM based microcontrollers. The Red Suite IDE is based on the Eclipse platform and includes the industry standard GNU tools. The tools Version 5, released last fall, includes new [...]

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Free conference Tuesday by Analog Devices – Xilinx – MathWorks

Monday, April 29, 2013

by Jim Harrison The conference is in Santa Clara: Tuesday April 30, 2013 9am to 4:30pm Santa Clara Marriott Santa Clara, CA Analog Devices and event partners, Xilinx and MathWorks, invite you to a one-day conference featuring leading industry experts presenting complete signal processing solutions for a number of application areas chain, and system-ready solutions [...]

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Altera announces new products

Monday, April 15, 2013

by Jim Harrison Altera has announced an upcoming FPGA product line base on flash memory and using a 55nm TSMC process. Vince Hu, VP of marketing, made this announcement along with a few others, at a Globalpress Connection event. The new FPGAs will not need external program load and will target medium density, low cost [...]

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The electronics in a Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

by Jim harrison The Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid automobile is one of the most “automated” vehicles on the road today. The car has more than 148 actuators, 4,717 signals, and 86 sensors that produce more than 25 Gbytes of data/hour. They have MyFord Mobile and SmartGauge connections to your cell phone, along with the [...]

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ARM CEO Warren East to retire

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

BY Jim Harrison ARM CEO Warren East is retiring on June 30, after 12 years heading up ARM and 19 years overall at the company. Warren will be succeeded by Simon Segars, who will assume the role of CEO, effective July 1, 2013. Under Warren’s leadership, ARM has had spectacular growth, providing processor technology for [...]

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Embedded World – Nuremberg

Thursday, February 28, 2013

By Jim Harrison In traversing the various isles at this huge show, one can’t help but think this is a true engineer’s paradise. This is a true EE’s show with no consumer stuff and nothing that would interest anyone but EEs. There is also serious overload here. There must be a hundred different makers of [...]

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