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Monthly Archives: April 2008

NVIDIA to Sponsor New Stanford Parallel Computing Research Lab

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Pervasive Parallelism Lab Exploits the Capabilities of Parallel Computing  NVIDIA Corporation has announced that it is a founding member of Stanford University’s new Pervasive Parallelism Lab (PPL). The PPL will develop new techniques, tools, and training materials to allow software engineers to harness the parallelism of the multiple processors that are already available in virtually [...]

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Infotainment Devices Aren’t All Fun and Games When it Comes to Circuit Protection

Monday, April 28, 2008

The trend of connecting lifestyles from the home to the vehicle to the workplace via portable infotainment devices, such as GPS systems, smart phones, play stations and portable media players, has made circuit protection increasingly important. Protecting this equipment from circuit damage that may result from customer misuse, environmental hazards or power variations can help [...]

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Surge protector limits power consumption

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

In honor of all the Earth Day festivities going on today, I thought I’d pass this interesting product along. Coleman Cable just released its Eco-Logical Smart Strip surge protector, which is touted not only for its ability to thwart dangerous power surges, but lower electric bills. The power strip, which is offered in 7- or [...]

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Implementing Digital Power

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Management for Analog Power Supplies   To meet market pressures, designers employ many of the latest  high density ASICs, CPUs, FPGAs and memory ICs to increase the features on their circuit boards. Each of these ICs need multiple power supplies. The  net result is an  increase in the number of power supplies per board, and [...]

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Does DTV still need to support analog?

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Well, as my colleague Christina Nickolas reports in her earlier EEBeat post, “The digital TV transition: Is it the right time to buy a converter box?“, you may want to postpone your submission for the government’s $40 vouchers for analog-to-digital converter boxes until they’ve sorted out the issues raised by Microtune. And, depending on what [...]

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The digital TV transition: Is it the right time to buy a converter box?

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

We all know by now that on February 17, 2009 television stations in the US will stop broadcasting on analog airwaves. They will begin broadcasting only in digital. Digital broadcasting will allow stations to offer improved audio and image quality, plus additional channels. To make the transistion smoother, the government is offering two $40 coupons [...]

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New surge-suppression technology to be unveiled

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

We all know that lightning strikes is hazardous to the health of electronic devices and equipment, and there are plenty of surge suppressors out there to handle these types of events. But the folks over Innovolt in Atlanta, GA are addressing a different kind of destructive element: poor power quality. Their contention–and it’s not hard to [...]

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