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2014-09-02 | From hand to wrist: Android advances to smartwatches Android Wear, the smartwatch version of Google's Android is designed to make the OS easy to use on the move by boiling down messages to a format users can absorb at a glance. |
2014-12-05 | From amateur drone hobbyist to accidental sales support Divya Thukkaram, product manager at Bosch Sensortec, describes how at Electronica an amateur drone maker became a powerful sales support on her company's booth. |
2014-04-22 | FPGAs must shape up to accelerate growth The rocketing ASIC mask-set and NRE costs have not yielded a surge of FPGA designs, but have rather driven engineers to resort to older technology nodes to mitigate the cost issues. Considering this and the standing Moore's Law concern, the FPGA outlook does not appear so bright. |
2014-06-24 | FPGAs afford server boosts in datacentres Bing is rolling out Stratix-based fabric on servers to accelerate processing of customer searches, an approach that Microsoft revealed to improve ranking server throughput by 95 per cent. |
2014-03-26 | Fluke takes positive spin on trademark dispute with SparkFun Fluke made the most out of a trademark dispute with SparkFun and showed its support for the DIY and education communities by providing a shipment of genuine Fluke equipment, free of charge for them to sell on their site or donate. |
2014-12-04 | Finding the right MCU to accurately earmark resources When you find an MCU with the I/O you like, you then need to determine how accessible that I/O is because some MCUs allow any function to be allocated to any pin. |
2012-11-29 | Female CEO could be next for Intel Two of the most commonly mentioned candidates to replace Paul Otellini are women who currently head major business units at the chip firm. |
2015-11-23 | Facebook transitions to 100Gb/s switch for its data centres The Wedge 100 is a 32 x 100G switch said to use Broadcom's latest Tomahawk switch chip with a 3.2Tb/s aggregate maximum throughput. |
2015-12-11 | Facebook sets up open-source system for machine learning Big Sur packs eight Nvidia Tesla M40 graphics accelerators, each drawing up to 300W, and is the first system to use the high-end cards targeted at training deep neural networks. |
2014-05-30 | Exploring the micropipeline The micropipeline is a powerful yet simple design approach enabling the implementation of extremely efficient asynchronous circuits. Here's a review of its underlying concepts. |
2015-08-31 | Exploring the future for SSDs The migration from BCH codes to LDPC codes is going to enable a lot of great things inside SSDs, including better endurance and latency control. |
2012-07-19 | Exploring innovations in hardware debug Searching few new ways to inject quality into a design is where the focus should be in hardware development, not in improving debug tools and techniques. |
2009-01-08 | Energy consumption in consumer electronics As consumers buy more, it is even more imperative that the energy efficiency of these devices continues to improve. |
2012-06-15 | Enable distributed device situational awareness through cloud-based data mgmt Know how to manage clouds of sensors through situationally-aware distributed data management. |
2014-04-09 | Emulation tech charts path to mainstream adoption Now faster, easier, and cost-effective, the hardware emulation market's prospects look positivewith annual revenues estimated to climb $1 billion by 2017. |
2009-03-03 | Electronic babble? Bill Schweber ponders: 'Do engineers have the time or desire to socialize with other engineers, unless they are looking for help with a specific design problem?' |
2007-08-31 | DVRs pose threat to advertising, DVDs The rising popularity of DVRs and the declining price of digital storage threaten two major sources of revenue for makers of film and TV: advertising and DVDs. |
2007-04-25 | Device-native verification tool rolls for FPGAs Startup GateRocket has rolled out a device-native FPGA verification solution that includes hardware and software. |
2014-11-26 | Device tree partitioning for embedded software design Here's look at a resource partitioning scheme for a multi-core embedded system, where the system under consideration contains multiple instances of embedded Linux, each running on a different set of cores. |
2015-02-11 | Desktop PCB printer eases prototype development The printer is targeted at surface-mount designs. In addition to being able to print two conductive layers separated by an insulating medium, it can dispense solder paste into the requisite locations. |
2015-08-17 | Designing custom digital filter (Part 1) In this article, we describe the process of designing of a decimation filter for a "quite high quality" audio communication system. |
2013-11-04 | Design the appropriate high-speed ATE hardware Designing ATE hardware should not be taken lightly as a simple error could cost you another four to six weeks on your schedule. |
2010-10-27 | Design internships up at ARM RS Components is sponsoring internships with the ARM mbed team to develop hardware and software reference designs to be featured on the company's online electronic design gateway. |
2007-04-04 | Dell opens third 'experience store' in China Dell Inc. recently opened its third "experience store" in China, allowing first-time buyers to get an idea of what Dell has to offer. |
2015-02-09 | Dark Silicon: Looking to monolithic 3D for ray of light According to an ARM executive, dark silicon is projected to account for "about one-third of total area in the 20nm technology node, increasing to as much as 80 per cent by the 5nm node." |
2008-10-07 | Custom IC design, layouts, and productivity There is a definite challenge in maintaining productivity when it comes to realizing a design. Anything that helps the layout with increasing productivity does it for me. |
2007-11-21 | Commentary: AMD, Abu Dhabi and America's xenophobia To what extent, if any, the Abu Dhabi, AMD purchase might trigger government concern or intervention is yet to be seen and is a matter of intense speculation. |
2016-03-07 | Cisco's buying spree continues with Leaba Semi acquisition Cisco announced it is acquiring Israel-based Leaba Semiconductor for $320 million, a move that indicates the networking giant is not yet ready to give up its hardware roots. |
2012-07-09 | Choose the right storage for each part of the cloud Find out how to identify the appropriate storage solution for each aspect of cloud architecture. |
2015-12-21 | Chip industry feels impact from federal rate hike The influence of the crash of the stock market of this world economy were felt across the global economy, and in particular, the semiconductor did not go unscathed. |
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