US and Asian governments are about to impose their own versions of the EU's ROHS directive. Rather than targeting each region's regulations, manufacturers may standardize on the most stringent ''green'' ....
Designers of handheld devices confront more technological issues than do designers of many products a thousand times the size. When the devices are specialized and the expected unit volumes and revenues ....
According to semiconductor-market-research company IC Insights, electronic content made up 23% of the total price of an automobile in 2004, and it will make up 40% of the price by 2010. Many of the earliest ....
While electronics engineers struggle to embed more functions into ever-shrinking size and power-consumption footprints, product designers wrestle with a bigger but similarly unchanging picture. Their ....
Ximeta’s NDAS (networkdirect-attached-storage) NetDisks sell for less than “pure” NAS (network-attachedstorage) drives. To do so, they shift some of the processing burden to the PCs that connect ....
As prices plummet, embedded-system designers are turning to graphical displays to simplify operation, ease system upgrades, and distinguish their products. Designers of traditional embedded products focused ....
It is common knowledge that wall-outlet voltages of 120V in the United States and 230V in Europe can cause severe shock or death, but did you know that many people consider 120 and 230V to be low-voltage? ....
Microcontrollers are often complete SOCs (systems on chips). Connect power and ground to a programmed device, and you have a powerful processor with active and ready memory and peripherals. These features ....
The folks at the ZigBee Alliance, the industry organization driving ZigBee WPAN (wireless personal-area-networking) technology, mean it when they say that they’ve learned valuable lessons from the ....
As electronic embedded systems are finding their way into and replacing more mechanical-control systems, it might reasonable to expect to see them finding their way into organic systems, such as the human ....
