Antenna innovation

How the antenna industry is trying to keep up with advances in mobile phone technology

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Differentiate or die

Developing an ultra low power microcontroller using commoditised technology still leaves room for innovation

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Let there be light

A reference design for a power supply that supports more energy efficient lighting.

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Massively parallel, but massive challenges

Massively parallel computing systems are coming, but what issues need to be solved?

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Testing times for engineers

How time consuming verification tests can be automated.

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2Gbit DDR3 memory created on 42nm dram process

Micron Technology and Nanya Technology have jointly developed a 2Gbit DDR3 memory device using their copper based 42nm dram process technology.

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An Engineer in Wonderland – More push button bistables

Following my trials and tribulations with seemingly-simple push button bistables, Mike M contacted me with some simpler ideas to the same end.
The application demands that two selectable leds to replace one, with any added circuit drawing power from across the driven led.

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Rambus Offers Mobile XDR For Licensing

Rambus has brought out a mobile version of its XDR memory interface which delivers throughput up to 4.3Gbps allowing SOCs capable of 17GBytes per second….

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Market for SiC and GaN to boom – analyst

“The next three years will be an important stage in the development of the SiC and GaN power device market,” said Josh Flood, research analyst at IMS Research

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Embedded World Preview

Embedded World set to buck the economic trends. Graham Pitcher reports.

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