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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Maximizing the Energy-Efficiency Benefits of LED Lighting

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

In today’s green-centric world, designers and manufacturers are constantly looking for ways to improve energy efficiency in their products. From cell phone manufacturers to PC makers, new industry standards are emerging that will significantly impact the rate of power consumption in electronic devices. In the lighting industry, tremendous energy savings can also be realized with [...]

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Have some free time…try this electronics puzzle.

Friday, March 27, 2009

If you find some free time this weekend you might be interested in the electronics puzzle posted on the Jameco Web site. http://www.jameco.com/Jameco/PressRoom/puzzler1.html Forrest Mims designed the puzzle, which is stumping (as I have heard) almost everyone. (Mims wrote the Engineer’s Mini-Notebook series of books. The December 2008 issue of “Discover Magazine” named him one [...]

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The hidden dangers of “recycling” e-waste

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Most consumers now appreciate, to some degree, that reusing and recycling used electrical and electronic products (e-waste) is desirable. But there are hidden dangers to doing the “right thing” too. The average life span of an electronic product in the US today is short, and getting shorter: just 18 months for computers, 14 months for [...]

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Are you up for a design challenge?

Friday, March 6, 2009

TOPIC: Campaign Challenges Designers Using Rival 3D Planar EM Simulators to Beat the Speed of AWR’s AXIEM™ Software If AXIEM isn’t faster than in-house commercial, competitive 3D planar EM tool, AWR will buy lunch for the whole design team. THE STORY: AWR’s AXIEM EM simulator is the most accurate solver in its class and can [...]

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Playing to win

Sunday, March 1, 2009

In baseball, even in a close game, you will often see a manager walking a batter to load the bases on the hunch that his team can then get a double play or retire the next batter more easily. Generally, and there are exceptions, people who “play to win” feel comfortable doing this sort of [...]

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