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Calibre PERC: Preventing Electrical Overstress Failures

Detecting the common sources of electrical failures was a bit of a black art, relying on internal methods, scripting, manual checking…

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Things that go “meep” in the night

I just had a very unsatisfactory night’s sleep, because something kept on going “meep” and I couldn’t track it down…

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In my case the "meep" was cell phone in my wife's purse. No flashing displays would have helped and ...

What's in your emergency repair kit, besides tools?

It starts with duct tape, of course, but there are other small items to bring

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Essential: multimeter, Leatherman Multi-tool and a small LED flashlight. If space permits: zip ties, ...

Ten things I want to do before I die…

I don’t want to sound maudlin, but every now and then as one gets older, thoughts of mortality do tend to cross one’s mind…

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Rebuilding America: Critical thinking skills needed

With technology changing yearly, students who learn how to use the technologies alone will be left behind by the time they graduate, says engineer ...

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I'm continuing to interview both teachers and mentors and will continue to post our conversations as ...

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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How I wish HP (Agilent) made the test I we use, then we wouldn't have to use other test gear ...

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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You can - follow Naomi's "Fall 2011..." link at the top of the article or this ...

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 there -- no, there's no policy against links -- the problem was that the link I had from last ...

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Engineering Pop Culture!

Things that go “meep” in the night    Clive Maxfield
I just had a very unsatisfactory night’s sleep, because something kept on going “meep” and I couldn’t track it down…
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In my case the "meep" was cell phone in my wife's purse. No flashing displays would have helped and ...

What's in your emergency repair kit, besides tools?    Bill Schweber
It starts with duct tape, of course, but there are other small items to bring
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Essential: multimeter, Leatherman Multi-tool and a small LED flashlight. If space permits: zip ties, ...

Rebuilding America: Critical thinking skills needed    Naomi Price
With technology changing yearly, students who learn how to use the technologies alone will be left behind by the time they graduate, says engineer Wayne Rust from Lindon, UT.
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I'm continuing to interview both teachers and mentors and will continue to post our conversations as ...

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The Engineering Life--Around the Web

Ten things I want to do before I die…    Clive Maxfield
I don’t want to sound maudlin, but every now and then as one gets older, thoughts of mortality do tend to cross one’s mind…
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OK, that's my new #1.....

Calling all people who care about power    Brian Bailey
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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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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Design Contests & Competitions

January Caption Contest: A new way of voting    Naomi Price
Shaking things up a bit by trying reddit for our monthly caption contest voting. Eager to see how this works...
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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 ...

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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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Social Mania

APEC becomes big, and we're there    Bill Schweber
Power is every engineer's concern, and it's the focus of this event
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Power surely is a very important issue that electronic product must pay attention to. Green power is ...

Why is DesignCon important for IC designers?    Brian Bailey
Not one, but two videos of your editor speaking at DesignCon or a variety of subjects including the impact that board design has on chip design…
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Free 2-day course: Designing with SmartFusion mixed-signal FPGAs    Clive Maxfield
SmartFusion mixed-signal FPGAs include a hard ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller core, so this course will be of interest to a wide audience…
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Rebuilding America: Silicon Valley is back
For more on the theme that the Silicon Valley is no longer appropriately named, see Rick Merritt's ...
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Rebuilding America: U.S. plans manufacturing webcast
On Valentine's Day, no less. Sounds like a token gesture, but still it's encouraging to see. What a ...
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Rumored Japanese chip merger by the numbers
The involvement of Globalfoundries and the proposed manufacturing JV is the most interesting aspect ...
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