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Monthly Archives: January 2009

FIR Filters Help Improve Audio Quality in Consumer Electronics

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Audio quality in consumer electronics is often sacrificed for cost reasons.  However, as the markets for these electronic products  mature, audio quality will become an important product differentiator.  The compromise in audio quality is often reflected by the manufacturers’ choice of speakers.

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GPS and Capacitive Touchscreen Technology: Ready for Takeoff

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

GPS is a revolutionary technology which provides unequalled accuracy and flexibility of positioning for navigation, surveying and Geographic Information Systems. The technology is quickly gaining traction in North America and Europe, while also penetrating previously untapped markets such as China and India, according to the World GPS Market Forecast to 2012 report published by RNCOS [...]

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Calling all NY engineers: Consider volunteering

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

I have touched on how important and rewarding volunteering is before on eebeat.com, see http://www.eebeat.com/?p=577  and electronicproducts.com, see http://www2.electronicproducts.com/Challenges_in_science_education-article-vwptcn_jul2008-html.aspx, so this time I will just note some opportunities available in the NY area. The Queens Chapter of the NYS Society of Professional Engineers will be holding a MathCounts Competition for 6-8 graders. The Competition will [...]

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E-waste takes it toll one CRT at a time

Friday, January 16, 2009

The next you time you dump your perfectly good cell phone or computer for the next big thing, hopefully this report from 60 Minutes will make you think twice. The report details how irresponsibly we deal, or don’t deal, with our discarded electronic devices and is a real eye-opener. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4586903n

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DTV semi market declines too

Thursday, January 15, 2009

In  the past six months I have been following various semiconductor and consumer electronic markets from different technology research companies.  Some of the times I find the market reports to be according to what I would have predicted.  But today’s announcement from iSuppli, in regards to the decline of the DTV semiconductor market, took me by suprise. I [...]

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DARPA program hopes to improve thermal performance of DoD systems

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Thermal-management device supplier Thermacore was recently awarded a $9.5 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop micro-sized air-cooled exchangers (MACE) to potentially improve thermal performance of military electronic systems such as telecom, sensing and imaging, and radar. The MACE program, a two-phase effort designed to run through the fourth quarter of 2013, [...]

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$100,000 Design Contest Deadline Approaching

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

  Design submissions for Premier Electronics’ international design competition–Live  EDGE – Electronic Design for the Global Environment–will close on the 31st of January 2009.  Since the competition’s launch in October 2008, design engineers, students and academics from around the world have registered at www.live-edge.com to submit designs for an innovative product that utilises electronic components [...]

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