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Monthly Archives: September 2011

Engineering education on iTunes

Friday, September 30, 2011

By Jim Harrison People now use the iTunes Store to hear a Stanford EE professor explain how to transform a signal to its frequency domain representation. This may not sound like the most obvious crowd-pleaser, but in 2005 Stanford was the first university to launch a public site on iTunes U and is now celebrating [...]

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Darnell Power Forum II

Friday, September 30, 2011

By Paul O’Shea The message was clear at this year’s DPF – the electronics’ industry is in great shape with new designs getting pumped out at a dizzying rate, even if the global economies are struggling. For example, GaN has officially come of age with the introduction of products including ones from National Semi/TI and [...]

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Li-ion battery market report says lower pricing coming

Monday, September 26, 2011

A recent special report, “The Lithium Ion battery market: High demand expected, but costs are great too” from IHS iSuppli describes the Li-ion battery market but doesn’t make any unexpected lead-in statements by saying the high-demand is expected but that costs are also high.  I think we all knew that.  They say that there is [...]

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Darnell Power Forum day 1

Sunday, September 25, 2011

The Darnell Power Forum (Sept 26 to28 in San Jose, CA) targets power technologies for the development of next-generation power systems. It covers power management, energy efficiency, advanced components, energy storage, smart grid and digital power technology. This three day conference is for decision makers and technology developers who are interested in learning about and contributing [...]

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STMicro has a new chip, design kit at ESC

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

By Jim Harrison If you’re headed to ESC Boston next week, keep a look out in the bag they will hand out for a coupon from STMicroelectronics. ST just introduced their STM32 F4 series of high-performance Cortex M4 based MCUs which feature floating point math, 12-bit A/Ds, USB, and optional Ethernet, camera interface, and AES [...]

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The A2 concept electric car

Friday, September 16, 2011

by Jim Harrison Audi displayed its A2 electric car “concept technology study,” at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The car has a built-in internet connection, steering and braking by-wire systems, and a rear fog light laser that projects a warning triangle on mist behind the car when visibility is compromised (a must have). It also shows [...]

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European Commission Moves Forward to Reduce Network Standby Power Waste

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Last April, I wrote about attending the Ecodesign Directive’s Networked Standby (Lot 26) stakeholder meeting in Brussels, focusing on the energy wasted by network-enabled products (see: Can One Size Fit All With Networked Standby Power Regulation?). Lot 26 is very interesting because: (1) the power consumed by these products while idle will grow rapidly unless [...]

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