Designing A Cost-Effective and Versatile Home Area Network Device
The sky-rocketing cost of energy production has necessitated a more efficientenergy consumption process. This has brought revolution in electrical equipment manufacturing and energy metering...
Ensuring LEDs’ Long Life
Long before Fukushima, energy saving was a watchword. Efficient use of energy reduces the number of power stations. The conventional filamentlamps are problematic because...
An add-on Interactive Multi-Touch Panel
At the first ever TI Educator's conference at Bangalore, we saw projects from hundreds of eager minds, all supported by TI's support programs. In...
“WLAN Testing and Associated Challenges”
Ashwin Gopinath of EFY asked industry experts four questions on WLAN testing. This special interview clubs their responses and gives you the big picture....
Semiconductor Relay for Automotive Applications
Semiconductor relays provide the same function as electromechanical relays but have no moving parts, which increases their long-term reliability. These relays provide an array...
AIM-Spice: For All Your Analogue Simulation Needs
Developed at the University of California and first released in 1972, Automatic Integrated Circuit Modeling Spice, or AIM-Spice, uses SPICE format for describing analogue...
Dolphin Integration’s SLED, SMASH and SCROOGE
In this article we take a closer look at the three EDA solutions offered by Dolphin Integration: hierarchical schematic editor, SLED; mixed-signal simulator, SMASH;...
Virtual Paper Keyboard Using OpenCV in Visual Studio
The project presented here uses a paper keyboard instead of an electronic keyboard as the input device. The paper keyboard, along with a webcam,...
Test and Measurement of RF/Wireless Systems
More and more devices today have RF wireless circuitry inside, whether it is something obvious like a cell phone or something as innocuous as...
Key inflections points in semiconductor space, its emerging technologies and an...
As we advance from one generation of technology to the next and develop smaller, faster and more functional chips, there are key inflection points...
