Recently added articles from EDN Asia:
Design perspectives in Obama's education policy.(comment)
Nov 01, 2009; ... I shall discuss President Obama's education policy from a designer perspective. The President is making a colossal increase in R&D spending, and targeting a huge rise in the number of Ph.D.s. The President says that developing more science and engineering talent "will foster homegrown ...
16-bit ADC 70% smaller than nearest competition.(INNOVATIONS AND INNOVATORS)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has released a family of 16-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) packaged in a leadless QFN measuring 2 x 1.5 x 0.4mm - 70 percent smaller than the nearest competition. In addition to significant system space savings, the ADS1115 family provides product ...
Iron particle in nanotube may offer archival storage.(INNOVATIONS AND INNOVATORS)
Nov 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Researchers continue to seek out some plausible application for carbon nanotubes. The latest effort, by a team at the University of California--Berkeley, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Pennsylvania State University, has discovered that a ...
Cascade Microtech addresses power semiconductors and RFICs.(pulse)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Cascade Microtech is addressing the emerging energy-efficiency standards that are driving the need for accurate power-device characterization in automotive, mobile-device, transportation, and other applications. In addition, the company is targeting probing for millimeter-wave RFICs that ...
Display controller handles advanced GUI visual effects.(pulse)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Seiko Epson Corp. has developed S1D13781, an embedded system display controller that effortlessly handles advanced Graphical User Interface (GUI) visual effects. The S1D13781 supports both color and monochrome STN and TFT panels, and supports QVGA to WQVGA 24bpp, or QVGA to WVGA 8bpp ...