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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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A light-emitting materials industry analysis for AMOLEDs

Friday, March 1, 2013

By Paul O’Shea  Displaybank recently published a report on the active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) light-emitting materials industry. It analyzes equipment, supply chain, and development trends of AMOLED panel makers. The report also analyzes the market size of AMOLED charge layer materials and light-emitting materials, as well as the competition among the materials. Based on this, [...]

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Superdome field lighting takes it’s time

Saturday, February 9, 2013

by Jim Harrison A faulty protection relay now has the blame for the 34-minute failure of part of the New Orleans Superdome’s lighting during the Super Bowl. Every single engineer watching was wondering over and over – how long is this going to take? Most stadiums, including the Superdome, use 1,000-watt metal halide Sportslighters to [...]

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The Superdome’s exterior light show uses LEDs

Saturday, February 9, 2013

by Jim Harrison The Mercedes-Benz Superdome has its exterior ringed with 26,000 LED lights, covering two million square feet and supported by five miles of copper wiring. This is for the exterior only, and has nothing to do with field lighting. The entire system, when operating in one color, draws only 10 kilowatts. The $1.6 [...]

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Newest UAV image sensors

Monday, January 28, 2013

by Jim Harrison In case you didn’t see the recent PBS NOVA show on UAVs (The Rise of the Drones) there were some noteworthy facts about a new generation camera called Argus that may or may not be flying in combat zones already. I thought it was interesting that it uses an imaging chip from [...]

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Upcoming Science Events and Fairs

Thursday, January 17, 2013

By Christina Nickolas If one of your goals for 2013 is giving back to your community I would recommend for you to volunteer  at a science fair. The following is a brief list for some popular science events going on this year. The website www.volunteermatch.org also provides more opportunites in which you can search by [...]

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