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Any viable design methodology requires tight links to implementation, and to meet this need a new generation of High-Level Synthesis tools is emerging, based on SystemC.
Guidelines to finding the parallelism in your multicore design and developing a methodology that starts with sequential C-code and incrementally adds parallelism. Part 1: what makes parallelizing code so hard.
Key DC specs on protection diode datasheets are breakdown voltage, leakage, and capacitance. They also state a max rating for IEC61000-4-2 to indicate an ESD pulse at a specified level will not damage the diode. However, most datasheets do not have any information about the clamping voltage for high frequency, high current transients such as ESD.
The basic analog voltage comparator has a weakness, but hysteresis overcomes it
Too many supposedly educated people feel the modern world of science and technology to be utterly inaccessible.
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Under the Hood: Robot Guitar embeds autotuning
Gibson Guitar has been an aggressive technology adopter. On the heels of its Ethernet Out (digital) guitar, the company has released the Robot Guitar, which automatically tunes to a range of standard and alternative tunings at the touch of a button.
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New trends in NAND flash memory development include changes in architecture, performance improvement, design challenges for 3-bit-per-cell NAND development, and process technology-dependent requirements.
The Acoustic Research ARRU449 is an LCD-screen-based universal remote control with the twist of Wi-Fi connectivity to link the remote to online resources intended to ease setup and provide programming resources.
The Sony Rolly, shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, is a "dancing" MP3 player: When songs are loaded or streamed via Bluetooth, the Rolly can roll around and flap its speaker coverings in time with the music. The speaker flaps can also muffle the sound and give it a bit more flare when noise is channeled through one side or the other.
A recent run-through of my local Fry's Electronics was stretched a bit when I took a walk down the do-it-yourself security aisle. Among an array of products for those wanting self-serve video monitoring, a $99.99 surveillance kit caught my eye.
For its XEL-1, the first commercial OLED TV, Sony made some interesting design and component choices to realize an 11-inch-diagonal screen that is only 3 mm thick. See what devices make up this ground-breaking display that is a harbinger of exciting times ahead.
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