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2014-06-02 | SpaceX builds rocket thruster with 3D printer The SuperDraco engine is 3D printed using direct metal laser sintering with a high-performance superalloy called Inconela carbon-laced nickel-chromium alloy trademarked by Special Metals Corp. |
2010-08-16 | Graphics-enabled chips demand to rocket As demand for ultraportable notebooks PC in the market continues, iSuppli projects four of five notebooks will employ integrated graphics microprocessors by 2014. |
2002-06-28 | SONET rate conversion in Virtex-II Pro devices This application note targets Virtex-II Pro designs that require the direct use of Rocket I/O transceivers in 16-bit mode. |
2003-06-09 | HighPoint ATA host adapter, accessory rated to 1.5Gbps The Rocket 1511 single external channel serial ATA host adapter and e.SATA B11 bracket accessory provide transfer rates up to 1.5Gbps. |
2007-10-09 | The road to success in embedded software Despite being complex and challenging, writing embedded software code is not exactly "rocket science" or a magic only a few people can do; in fact, it is doable by a wide range of people with a broad set of skills. |
2002-01-24 | Silicon-based gunpowder may propel MEMS devices The accidental discovery of a silicon form of "gunpowder" is pointing the way toward integrating nanoscale explosives onto silicon chips, a technology that might provide MEMS with a means for rocket propulsion. |
2007-12-03 | Recipe for an embedded success story Writing embedded software code is not rocket science; it is doable by a wide range of people with a broad set of skills. |
2008-09-11 | Analysis: The long road to mobile TV Enabling consumers to watch digital TV broadcasts on cellphones has never been compared to rocket science. Today, however, long after the technology became feasible, its success as a business is beginning to look as far away as a moon landing. |
2013-02-01 | Young engineers want role models The next generation of engineers wants more role models, a society more tolerant of female professionals and all the messy imperfections of people who like to pull things apart. |
2008-11-25 | Xilinx's Virtex FPGAs conform to PCIe V2.0 Xilinx Inc.'s Virtex-5 FXT FPGA platform is now fully compliant with version 2.0 of the PCIe standard. |
2002-04-18 | Xilinx ships Gigabit Ethernet IP cores with serial interface Xilinx Inc. has announced the addition of a gigabit serial interface option to its 1Gb (GMAC) and 10Gb (10 GMAC) Ethernet MAC IP cores for the Virtex-II Pro FPGAs, enabling designers of high-end networking and telecom systems that require higher bandwidth to move from parallel to serial interfaces. |
2002-08-28 | Xilinx overhauls FPGA software design package A major upgrade of Xilinx Inc.'s Integrated Software Environment FPGA design tool package features new system-level design capabilities, improved performance, and new utilities to simplify FPGA design. |
2012-11-02 | x86 won't crash and burn, says AMD Advanced Micro Devices CEO Rory Reed believes that the x86 will one day experience resurgence. The CEO hopes to go on creating custom x86 processor cores for a very long time. |
2007-09-10 | Work underway for next-gen terrestrial DTV spec The Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) Group, which forged terrestrial, satellite and cable DTV broadcast standards, expects to launch its next-generation terrestrial DTV broadcast specification early next year. |
2005-01-03 | When disaster strikes To gear-heads like me the history of engineering is rich in stories and lore, of failings and successes, and of triumphs and defeats of individual engineers. |
2016-01-04 | What awaits the electronics industry this 2016? The desktop, notebook, smartphone and tablet markets are expected to carry on this 2016, but none will bring significant growth in this year. |
2005-10-21 | VXS board packs dual 2.2GS/s A/D channels The new Quixilica Neptune 2 VXS from TEK Microsystems combines field programmable gate arrays with dual 2.2GS/s data conversion channels. |
2008-04-08 | U.S. Senate to take on patent reform bill issues The U.S. Senate is expected to debate on the controversial patent reform bill following a court decision that struck down new rules the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proposed to cope with a flood of patent applications. |
2009-10-07 | TSMC pumps capital, R&D investments Foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd is expected announce by the end of the month that it will, again, increase its capital expenditure and R&D funding in the coming year. |
2002-04-18 | TSI spins-off ceramic composites into new company Triton Systems Inc., a materials product and process development firm, has spun-off its Extreme Environment Composites group to form Ceracom Inc. |
2007-03-01 | Tools facilitate Wi-Fi protection The Wi-Fi Alliance will roll out a handful of chips this quarter that support the alliance's Wi-Fi Protected Setup. |
2006-08-16 | T.J. Rodgers on politics and nano EE Times caught up with Cypress Semiconductor founder and CEO T.J. Rodgers at the Embedded Systems Conference. |
2005-09-01 | T-Mobile exec calls for restraint The mad rush to add features to cellphones 'has got to stop,' warns David Hytha of T-Mobile International. |
2008-08-18 | Spectacular advances brought by Moore's Law We electronics engineers have made it much easier than those in other engineering disciplines. Thanks to Moore's Law, which should be actually be called Moore's Conjecture, that we have benefited from its incredible advances in our basic components and tools over the last 50 years. |
2012-03-06 | Skilled workforce: Key to U.S. manufacturing success What the U.S. manufacturing base needs is a revival of flexible, design-driven manufacturing and a new, modular approach to training the next generation of workforce. |
2008-04-16 | Serial-output ADC needs fewer FPGA I/O pins The high-speed 2-wire serial interface of Linear Tech's LTC2274 ADC reduces the number of data I/O lines required between a 16bit ADC and the FPGA from 16 CMOS or 32 LVDS parallel data lines to a single, self-clocking, differential pair communicating at 2.1Gbit/s. |
2014-11-17 | Samsung, Nvidia patent tiff: Uncovering the truth One of the curious twists in this legal fight is that Samsung, while countersuing Nvidia, also sued a Richmond, Virginia-based company called Velocity Micro, a user of Nvidia's graphics chip. |
2013-10-30 | Samsung plays the field, SDK supports Android and iOS Samsung aims to create an ecosystem around a broad set of software platforms that compete with offerings from both Apple and Google. |
2007-12-28 | Russia adds three satellites to Glonass fleet Russia has launched three satellites to extend the coverage of the Global Navigation Satellite System, or Glonass, over the entire Russian territory. |
2006-05-16 | Running start helps clear 90nm hurdles Back in 2004, fabless IC maker Sandbridge Technologies couldn't get the performance it needed at the 0.13?m process node. The wireless-telecom player took a risk and became one of the first companies to try the relatively untested 90nm node. |
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