ElectronicDesignNet.com site syndication http://www.electronicdesignnet.com/cms 2010-03-15T08:21:50+01:00 http://www.electronicdesignnet.com/cms http://www.electronicdesignnet.com/cms/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2007-05-18T12:30:08+01:00 http://www.electronicdesignnet.com/cms http://www.electronicdesignnet.com/cms/content/view/3132/39/ Modern implantable medical devices, such as pacemakers and cardioverter defibrillators, use aggressive power-management techniques to reduce SOC power. A typical modern pacemaker may consume on average only a few microamperes of current to achieve long battery life. To meet these low power requirements, engineers use many techniques that may be... text/html 2007-05-18T12:20:16+01:00 http://www.electronicdesignnet.com/cms http://www.electronicdesignnet.com/cms/content/view/3131/39/ The PC’s next-generation internal peripheral bus has been quietly overturning both the PC and the embedded-computing industries with its performance and expansion potential. Largely unknown to users, the PC industry, with embedded computing following close behind, is in the middle of a quiet shift in technology. The overtaxed PCI (Peripheral... text/html 2007-05-18T12:15:48+01:00 http://www.electronicdesignnet.com/cms http://www.electronicdesignnet.com/cms/content/view/3130/39/ The external-SATA interface is blazingly fast, at least on paper, but its performance comes at a bill-of-materials and development price. Should you shoulder the incremental expense in your next design, or will a more general-purpose interface suffice?...more (http://www.edn.com/article/CA6437950.html?nid=2431 rid=787063871) text/html 2007-05-17T14:34:38+01:00 http://www.electronicdesignnet.com/cms http://www.electronicdesignnet.com/cms/content/view/3129/39/ The world is going digital. This is a commonly used phrase but sounds simpler than it is in reality. Throughout the last 15 years hundreds of companies have been involved in defining standards for the reception of digital TV. Digital TV reception nowadays is available through different transmission media such... text/html 2007-05-17T14:02:43+01:00 http://www.electronicdesignnet.com/cms http://www.electronicdesignnet.com/cms/content/view/3128/40/ Today's computers rely on moving and storing electronic charge in semiconductors. They ignore another property of electrons known as spin. Manipulating an electron's spin, as opposed to manipulating its charge, is faster and takes much less energy. That means electronic circuits that store and process data using an electron's spin...