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Monthly Archives: October 2010

Research initiative aims to increase device efficiency by 10x

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Project Steeper, a collaboration of many companies and organizations, aims at increasing electronic device efficiency by 10x and eliminate power consumption of those devices while in standby mode. Coordinated by Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Project Steeper includes leading corporate research organizations IBM Research – Zurich and Infineon as well as large research institutes [...]

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IEEE 1901 standard covers power line communications

Monday, October 25, 2010

IEEE 1901 Broadband over Power Line (BPL) communications standard

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An All CMOS Frequency Source

Sunday, October 24, 2010

IDT has released an inexpensive monolithic CMOS oscillator aimed at replacing crystal-based oscillators without any mechanical frequency source or PLL. Even the most discriminating EE or electronics industry watcher can occasionally gloss over or even ignore the announcement of some new frequency source. After all, as important as oscillators are in all sorts of devices, [...]

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Should This Young Man Become an EE?

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

 I recently received an email from a young man asking me about becoming an EE. I figured it would be best for all of the EEs out there to give this young man advice. He was kind enough to agree to let me repost his email. So please be kind enough to share your wisdom [...]

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The Enernet meets the Smart Grid

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

At the Smart Grid Electronics Forum (http://smartgrid.darnell.com/) in San Jose, CA, the first four plenary talks were widely varied with talks about how to convince people we need the Smart Grid and the Enernet; what architectural approach provides the best security for the Smart Grid; how to get real-time monitoring; and finally, how to connect [...]

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The Smart Grid Electronics Forum in San Jose

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

www.smartgridelectronics.net, powerline communications, wireless, AC current sensor

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Freescale Adds to Tower System

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Last week, Freescale Semiconductor added six more modules to the Tower System, its growing modular and reconfigurable development platform. I have been really impressed with the Tower System concept. With the aim of rapid prototype development, the system modularizes peripheral sub-systems like Wi-Fi connectivity, memory, LCDs, sensors, and microcontrollers. These 8-, 16-, and 32-bit hardware [...]

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