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Nostalgic about HP test equipment

Any electronics engineer or technical person you speak to will know about Hewlett-Packard (HP) test equipment. And many of them will talk ...

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I was hired by HP as a Production Engineer in 1965 in Loveland CO. One of the products I was ...

LED Challenge winners announced

From a model of the Golden Gate Bridge to an LED version of the Gibson Les Paul guitar, the students came up with some fabulously creative entries.

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Calling all people who care about power

Reaching out to people is one of the things that editors have to do, but I have to know who to reach out to. Should I include you?

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Interesting Idea: Stochastic Behavioral Modeling of Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits

Process variation has become an increasingly challenging issue for both integrate circuit design and manufacturing, which results from the ...

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This is interesting work. You might want to check out: "Monte Carlo Simulation of Semiconductors", ...

How It Was: Magnetic wire recorders

If asked about the history of sound recording, you might think of the phonograph, the gramophone, and the magnetic tape recorder, but what about the ...

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Hi Rene -- its funny to think that in the past we would have lusted over the technology of ...

OMG! My heart is pounding after watching these videos

I can’t believe my heart is pounding so much when all I did was sit here and watch a video, goodness only knows what I’d be like if…

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Neon lamps and photoconductors illuminate logic

Imagine a computer formed from logic gates and memory elements that are themselves formed from neon lamps and photoconductors...

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Wow! I am hoping to find something on using a drum memory read by neon lamps and photocells. I have ...

What were they thinking: patent trolling patent

It is amazing what is covered in some patents and this one is just totally mind boggling…

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That's brilliant. Essentially they've cornered the market on patent trolling, so as a defensive ...

How It Was: Fiddling and twiddling with the TV controls

In the not-so-distant past you had to constantly fiddle and twiddle with your television's controls to keep a reasonable picture on the screen...

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Some stations in the US did play reruns of "The Goon Show". The humor would fly right past you and ...

The passion

Will the enormous contributions Baby Boom engineers have made to humanity carry forward to new generations?

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The ruling class is not interested in Don Morgan or his students. Both parties have been ...

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LED Challenge winners announced    Naomi Price
From a model of the Golden Gate Bridge to an LED version of the Gibson Les Paul guitar, the students came up with some fabulously creative entries.
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Quick – Vote now!    Clive Maxfield
It’s time to stand up and be counted – are we going to let some yahoo from “e-Book Reader” or “Netbook News” beat one of our very own at EE Times? No we are not!
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Thanks Dave ... keep your fingers crossed ...

Video: Did space station provides dev kit inspiration?    Colin Holland
The latest development kit has a novel design which could have been inspired by the NASA International Space Station.
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I'd love an electronics kit like this - keypads, LCD display, CCD display, easy enought to connect ...

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OMG! My heart is pounding after watching these videos    Clive Maxfield
I can’t believe my heart is pounding so much when all I did was sit here and watch a video, goodness only knows what I’d be like if…
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When technology keeps you waiting    Colin Holland
New bus information displays installed in preparation for the Summer Olympics in Weymouth had to be removed because they were too noisy!
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I kinda feel for the suppliers - making something work across the whole range of weather conditions ...

How It Was: Watching the test card on TV    Clive Maxfield
In the days of yore, the television stations would broadcast programs for only a few hours a day – the rest of the time the "test card" reigned supreme…
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Re trains -- I remember once watching a cartoon - -I must only have been 6 or 7... ...there was a ...

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Design Contests & Competitions

February 2012 caption contest: Unicycle    Naomi Price
Too many balls in the air? Barely keeping his balance? Posit a reason for our friend's frenetic entrance!
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Bob provides a distraction so company auditors will not notice the numerous safety violations.

Plight of the Tester    Naomi Price
A December caption winner has been picked and the challenge has been tossed out to suggest a better method of narrowing the caption choices. Chime in!
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I really enjoy it too -- I still find it hard to believe that part of my job is looking through ...

Vote for the best caption of December’s record 206 entries    Naomi Price
Turns out that a record number of entries means twice the voting choices -- pick from 10, cast your vote!
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Just a tad harsh there, don't ya think?!

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Engineering Investigations

Controller PCB problem solved
Problem with a controller PCB causes significant yield loss at an off-shore drive assembly plant and Ravinder is sent in to investigate...
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If the manufacturer has not informed the change to a die-shrink part, I guess the chip ...

Wire we fixing this???    Dwight Bues
Dwight has a story from his academic years and work done at a company that "built just about anything."
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The title "Wire we fixing this?" reminds me of the cable manufacturer guy who told his wife he had ...

HMI squeeze    john linstrom
Problems with the human-machine interface on a Korean drilling platform have the users stumped ... until they call in the engineer, of course.
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I recently used fibre on a hi-rel project (had a simple light/dark relay logoc link) and was ...

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Upcoming Conferences: calls and more – Feb 3rd    Brian Bailey
Conference related information, calls for papers, contributions and participation are all found here…
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Upcoming Conferences: calls and more – Jan 26th    Brian Bailey
Conference related information, calls for papers, contributions and participation are all found here…
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CES post-mortem: Fear and loathing of the show    David Benjamin
So, it’s the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and I’m stuck in a nerd queue long enough to wrap twice around the Death Planet in Star Wars IV:A New Hope.
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Actually, the CES attracts a very broad range of demographics. You would be surprised to see a ...

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realistic1  02.08.2012
Intel’s Romley poised to roil data center
It's worth pointing out here that Romley also represents explosive growth for PCI Express Gen3.
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Rumored Japanese chip merger by the numbers
Hi Junko, do you think these moves are more or less (& perhaps) a tacit admission by Japanese ...
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Viewpoint: How will the chip wars be won? -- Part 1
Hi Zvi, don't you think there needs to be a fundamental shift in IC vendors' business model -that ...
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