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- pobject width="480" height="295"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xqqBy7C8gyUhl=en"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xqqBy7C8gyUhl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="295"/embed/objectpCassie Bowman of NASA writes, i"NASA is inviting students in grades K-12 to help name the rover for the Mars Science Laboratory mission. K-12 students can write a short essay suggesting a name, and may even win a trip to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to meet the engineers who built it. The winner
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- The University of British Columbia has posted an essay by two associate professors declaring the Age of the Cyborg is here thanks to the materials science advances. They discuss a variety new implantable biomaterials useful for hip implants and as functional nanofibre scaffolds for tissue regeneration. These nanoscale materials can greatly extend the life of the hip implants, they can also help regenerate skin for burn victims, failing heart valves, or even damaged nerves. In a related story, npTribune reports on Cyborg Girl, Ginny Ong, a previously deaf girl who can
- Consumer Electronics Networking for Whole Home HD Video and Audio Distribution
Authors are encouraged to submit their late-breaking results for short abstracts (two pages) which will not appear in the proceedings but which will be presented in a special poster session. The submission deadline is January 5th 2009. Formatting and submission instructions are available. The notification of acceptance will take place on January 15th, 2009.
The workshops and tutorials are now available on the author’s page. Workshops are an opportunity for participants to meet other members of the HRI community, to discuss problems and to present their ideas around a common topic. Two half-day workshops will be held at HRI2009, both on Tuesday, March 10. The two workshops are scheduled in such a way that it is possible to combine them. The submissions will be subjected to a peer review process.
Participants will learn about human-computer interaction (HCI) evaluation methods that have been used and adapted for HRI. This tutorial will cover examples from all three categories of HCI evaluation methods—inspection, empirical, and formal/analytical. Further, attendees will learn what type of evaluation technique(s) and metrics are best suited to different goals and situations, taking into account the unique challenges of evaluating robot interaction.
- Assembly process parameters, material selection and board geometry affect yields and reliability during attachment of BGA and CSPs onto organic motherboards.
LCD vs OLED
Organic Light Emitting Diode or OLED displays began to appear in small consumer appliances like cameras and mobile phones in 2002. The superiority of this new technology will ensure that in many applications will replaces LCDs within the near future.
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- Submit questions, get a quote on any topics covered by this site also request a quote (RFQ) on an LCD display or interactively search our database of LCD displays
- Find the LCD display you are looking for using this interactive tool.
- Information on LCD IC vendors. Data sheets and pricing on IC controllers, backlighting and power regulation.
- Information on touchscreen vendors. Data sheets and pricing on Resistive, Capacitive, Surface Acoustic Wave and InfraRed (IR)Touchscreens.
- Oct 27 2009 - Oct 29 2009
The AdvancedTCA/MicroTCA Summit will bring together vendors and end-users
to the current state of the Advanced Telecommunications Computing
Architecture (AdvancedTCA), the emerging standard platform for
telecommunications equipment. Attending AdvancedTCA/MicroTCA Summit puts you in-the-know
about creating standard-based telecom equipment, reducing equipment
cost and development time, making equipment more flexible and more
maintainable.
- Aug 11 2009 - Aug 13 2009
Flash memory is a key technology enabling new designs for many products in the consumer, computer and enterprise markets.
The Flash Memory Summit is the only place where you will hear the people making these products happen!
Network with companies and people that will create the next generation of hardware and software at the Flash Memory Summit.
- Jul 14 2009 - Jul 16 2009
SEMICON West is the flagship annual event for the global microelectronics industry—and much more.
No other event generates more industry "buzz" or features as comprehensive a collection of technologies across the microelectronics and photovoltaic industry supply chains than SEMICON West. Simply put, SEMICON West is the "can't miss" destination of the year.
- Jul 26 2009 - Jul 31 2009
The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for EDA and silicon solutions. DAC features a wide array of technical presentations plus over 250 of the leading electronics design suppliers.
- Robotics / artificial intelligence headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office.
- The Register is a great, general, computer technology news site with original content.
- The Inquirer's processor feed is updated daily. Great stuff.
- Recent robots.net articles
Ever Googled the term “robotics”? The only major company and product that show up in the top 100 hits are Microsoft and its Robotics Studio, a development tool that leaves a lot to be desired. (Not one of the dozen or so folks interviewed for this article uses it.) In fact, most of the search results include news, collegiate research, education, and events.
Solid state is an electrical term that refers to electronic circuitry that is built entirely out of semiconductors. The term was originally used to define those electronics such as a transistor radio that used semiconductors rather than vacuum tubes in its construction. Most all electronics that we have today are built around semiconductors and chips.
Touchscreens are displays which also have the ability to detect the location of touches within the display area. This allows the display to be used as an input device, removing the keyboard and/or the mouse as the primary input device for interacting with the display's content. Such displays can be attached to computers or, as terminals, to networks. Touchscreens also have assisted in recent changes in the
- Overview of LCD, Plasma, OLED and DLP display technologies that can be employed in modern designs.
- Example event blog.
Looks like Altera's released a new version of Quartus II, it's FPGA design tool. I need to download the latest and check out the changes. Version 8.1 looks to be faster and more automated. This includes an enhanced design partition planner that lets you split up a design for incremental compilation and design. Handy for design groups and large designs. Haven't used it myself but I tend to work with smaller projects.
I'm looking forward to checkng out the Pin-out Advisor. I suspect that this will be more useful with high speed desgns. More on this later. Got to run.
- It's an FPGA that can be clocked at 1.5GHz and really get this level of performance.
- Finally got the sitemap support done for the main site, channels, topics and now users. There are still a few holes but you can find most things you create via your user info page.
Online Unit Converter Pro is a handy resource for unit conversions of all types, including length/distance, mass/weight, volume, data, energy, electrical, area, force, torque, density, flow, heat capacity, pressure, and so on.
The site also offers Windows and Palm OS versions of the tool.- The Signal Integrity mailing list (SI-List) has been around since the early 90s and currently has 3500 subscribers. After you sign up to be a member, you receive emails whenever someone has an SI question and then you can either respond or wait for a response.
CALCULATOR EDGE is an online FREE Engineering Calculators for Engineers and Students worldwide, Our website features more than few hundred calculators for solving complex equations and formulas in field of Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Electronics, Civil, Metallurgy, Oil & Gas, Optical, Plastics, Ceramics, Physics, Maths and many more to come.
OpenCores is a loose collection of people who are interested in developing hardware, with a similar ethos to the free software movement. Currently the emphasis is on digital modules called 'cores', since FPGAs have reduced the incremental cost of a core to approximately zero. Activity is centered around the opencores web site (http://www.opencores.org).
There is no formal affiliation between the people who make up opencores. They are a bunch of people who just happen to be walking in the same direction along a road. This is a dynamic group. People regularly join and leave. As a whole, the group progresses through the independent contributions of individuals.
Holtek Semiconductor is a leading professional IC design house in Taiwan having its major business activities focused in the area of microcontroller and peripheral component design and marketing. From its origins in 1998, the company has continuously focused its energies in the advancement of new product development and skills innovation. The company’s ability to keep in line with market trends, has given Holtek the means of releasing a wide range of highly successful and extremely competitive IC devices.
- LSI provides silicon, systems, and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together.
LSI Corporation is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. We offer a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking markets.
- Robotics companyAlgorithmic development on a contract basis for genetic algorithms, neural networks, data mining, adaptive virtual personalities, and speech recognition
- Offers PR and marketing communications counsel for high tech electronics companies in the semiconductor, EDA, IP, and communications industries.
The William Baldwin Group offers public relations and marketing communications counsel for high tech electronics companies in the semiconductor, EDA, IP, and communications industries. Our scope includes high tech editors in Europe, Asia and North America. We were founded in July, 1988.
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Abstract
Managing systems design with one or more high pin-count FPGAs is growing increasingly complex. The main
factor driving up the complexity: each new device family offers increased operating speeds, along with more logic
and IO counts. Other factors adding to complexity include
