Communications Design Features

Achieving distributed device situational awareness through cloud-based data management

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IIDC2--A new dawn for industrial digital video cameras

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Reducing energy cost of intra-chip communications

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Multichannel DDS enables efficient FSK/PSK modulation

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Use GPS and MEMS sensor combo for next-gen positioning and navigation

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Use a twist (and other popular wires) to reduce EMI/RFI

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How secure is AES against brute force attacks?

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A decision-tree approach to picking the right embedded multicore software architecture

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EMC Basics #15: Use gaskets to seal and solve leaky RF seam problems

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Technical Papers

OpenVPX System Bandwidth: A comparison of 10Gb Ethernet Performance, Serial Rapid IO, and InfiniBand

Implementing PXE Boot using Intel BLDK for Intel Atom Processor based Boards

What's New In Power Management Electronics

Courses and Webinars

Fundamentals of Designing with Analog to Digital Converters

Embedded Meets Mobility: M2M Considerations and Concepts

Teardowns

FitBit blends wireless, MCUs and MEMS with online interface

BenQ K60 e-reader: Trying to stand on the shoulders of giants

Wide Bluetooth, Wi-Fi adoption seen in handsets

Yukyung marshals army of chip vendors for Viliv tablet

Inside the Samsung Galaxy Tab: Taking on the iPad

Inside Xbox 360's Kinect controller

N8: Solid start for Nokia’s Symbian^3 strategy

CE parts met cockpit avionics in vintage F-15 video camera

Omron home blood pressure monitor taps semiconductor scaling

Innovation at home: Inside a 3-D desktop scanner

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Reference Designs

Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Products

Satin to introduce automated design monitoring at DAC 2012

World's first piezoelectric MEMS oscillators operate up to 625MHz ±50 ppm

MIPS introduces new Aptiv generation of processor cores

On a shoestring? STM32 FO MCU targets budget apps

Lattice ships over 1 million MachXO2 "Do-It-All" PLDs

MOSFETs feature high-voltage stripe technology

eCROS platform now supports Xilinx Zynq-7000 EPP

Commentary

Something smells

Carolyn Mathas

Is this cool, or what? As you know, sensors are increasingly taking over our five senses in an ever-growing number of applications.

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Industrial control systems—Thwarting attacks

Carolyn Mathas

The Department of Homeland Security put feelers out to other governments in the hope of bolstering the safety of industrial control systems (ICS) and created a venue to brainstorm solutions.

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802.11ac Wi-Fi: Benefits of a Revolutionary Technology Leap

Tim Peters

With the new 802.11ac standard, we’ll be able to give the smartphones, tablets and notebooks we use everyday more breathing room through Gigabit-capable Wi-Fi networking. Get ready – it’s happening sooner than you think.

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5 G itself has come means what will be the next ? May be devices based on Cognitive Radio concepts ? ...

Autonomous cars: Sooner than we think?

Rick DeMeis

In the short term, vehicles will be able to take over many driving functions—but full autonomy may be farther down the road.

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