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Reducing battery discharge rates in CR-2032-based portable embedded designs

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LED improvements extend automotive applications

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Is there a future for hybrid vehicles? Part 1

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Using requirements planning in embedded systems design: Part 4 - Defining the system-level design

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LEDs and lighting design: What you need to know about photons

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Fob functionality goes beyond the car

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Why we don’t need silicon carbide diodes for PFC

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Technical Papers

Creating a ZigBee Smart Energy Device with the MSP430F54xx and the CC2530-ZNP

An Energy-Efficient Platform for In-Vehicle Infotainment Solutions

Ultra-low Voltage Technologies for Energy-efficient Special-purpose Hardware Accelerators

When Designing with Power LEDs, Consider Their Real Thermal Resistance

Reference Design for Solar Power MPPT Controller

Courses and Webinars

Solar Photovoltaic Testing for R&D, DV, and Manufacturing

The Next Generation of Ethernet: How the New IEEE Standards Enable Energy Efficiency and Quality-of-Service

Targeting Energy Star requirements in AC mains dimmable LED lighting applications using NXP's SSL driver solutions

The new CC430 SoC combines ultra-low-power MSP430 microcontrollers with sub-1GHz CC1101 RF transceivers

C2000 Piccolo DC/DC LED Developer's Kit

Cradle to Cradle: Considerations for Green Base Station Designs

Teardowns

Good vibrations for energy harvesting

CFL and LED lamps: White light in a 'green' world

Bluetooth headset turns to SUN and goes green

Shedding light on solar cell technology

Under the Hood: Inside the Sony OLED TV

Under the Hood: The next gold rush - solar power

Under the Hood: Inside the Toyota Prius

Teardown: Inside the art of pulse oximetry

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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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Commentary

In-vehicle Internet grows slow and steady

Rick DeMeis

The popularity of smart phone apps is driving demand for in-vehicle Internet connectivity.

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I feel the idea is a little exaggerated in its application and usefulness. If the driver of a ...

Power Management: Designing from a System-level Perspective

Peter Henry, Vice President, Power Management Group, Analog Devices, Inc.

It's no longer enough to look at power subsystem design separate from system-wide implications

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It is no doubt switching regulator is more important in today's electronics. I'm sure ADI is seeing ...

Lighting and System Design: Coming soon to a computer near you

John Donovan

To help engineers catch up with the latest developments in lighting technologies and applications, Digi-Key and EE Times are presenting a virtual conference titled "Lighting and System Design" on Aug. 26.

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All said, there are still challenges abound in the LED market which are a deterrent to its smooth ...

Hot debut in even hotter market: Oree's LED-based planar lighting

Patrick Mannion

LEDs are hot, really hot. So when I got a call asking if I’d spend a few minutes with a startup claiming to have the next big thing in LED lighting, I jumped on it. And I wasn’t disappointed.

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I wonder how Oree's products, especially LightCell, will catch on in the green energy market. This ...

My solar-powered driveway lights are a nice, cheap, science project

Bill Schweber

Science-experiment opportunities are everywhere, if you know where to look

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solar cells increase in efficiency as temp drops but I do not know if it makes up for the reduction ...

The future of electric aircraft

Peter Harrop

It can only fly for 15 minutes but it is a breakthrough all the same. Improved batteries have finally made a manned electric helicopter a reality. It follows rapidly on announcements of all electric fixed wing aircraft from Germany (PC-Aero), France (EADS), Italy (SkySpark), China (Luneec) and the USA (Sonex etc) and an historic 24 hour flight by Solar Impulse powered entirely by the sun.

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The electrification of the aircraft is exciting for what it may generate: higher efficiency electric ...

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XMOS co-founder takes COO post at Toumaz
Once I had looked into Toumaz Sensium chipset. There power consumption is impressive for wireless ...
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HP suing former CEO Mark Hurd
This is interesting. HP fired Hurd and still they dont want him to go to another company. Anyway, I ...
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Apple to take bite out of Moto
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Enter the EE Life August 2010 Cartoon Caption Contest

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