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Gentlemen (and Ladies): Start Your Engines!

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Traditional wisdom has it that for learning to occur we have to be serious and quiet. To which I say balderdash! Learning can and should be fun. As evidence I submit DevCon Session #0L01I (“Micon Racing– Qualify using QuantiPhi for RL 78”). In this hands-on lab participants use cutting-edge, model-based design tools to design a [...]

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A Four-Day Investment in Your Career

Monday, July 9, 2012

The need to stay current has always been an important factor in building a successful career in engineering. In the mid-1980s a group of experts estimated the half-life of an engineer’s technical skills, how long it would take for half of everything an engineer knew about his or her field to become obsolete. For EEs [...]

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RX MCU Design Contest will award $110,000 in cash and prizes

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Renesas has 1000 RDKs that it will distribute for free to engineers that want to compete.

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Power semiconductor devices for DC/DC converters

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

As the performance of servers, notebook PCs and graphics cards increases, their power consumption grows as well. At the same time, the trend toward lower operating voltages for components such as CPUs, graphics processing units (GPUs), memory devices and ASICs results in increased current flow. This creates a need for DC/DC converters capable of handling [...]

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Q and A with Shigeo Mizugaki

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Shigeo Mizugaki certainly has the background to answer questions about MCUs. The GM of Renesas’ Global MCU business unit has been involved with MCU design since joining Mitsubishi in 1980, after receiving Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Kyoto University in Japan. After working his way up from 8- to 16- and 32-bit MCU designs he [...]

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New SuperH Microcontrollers with 2.5MB SRAM

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

enesas Electronics today (Tuesday) announced the availability of two new 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), the SH7268 and SH7269 with 2.5 megabyte (MB) on-chip SRAM that allows display of WVGA resolution (800 × 480) images in a user interface without any external memory. The new MCUs will enable a smaller-size solution for digital car audio, consumer and [...]

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3D without glasses

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The photo doesn’t do this 3D panel justice. What you are seeing is a 7.2 inch LCD panel displayed at the NEC stand in the DevCon exhibition hall. The 3D effect is created without the need for external glasses.  

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