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Learning Ability
When we choose engineering as a career, we are making a decision to become lifelong students. The crazy pace of technological change means that we…
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Navigating Indoors
It’s simply getting from here to there. How hard can that be? In fact, if it’s indoors, then things aren’t that far away, so that…
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Consider the Source
Back when I was a little kid in elementary school, one of the youngsters in my class was a pathological liar. He’d tell the tallest…
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Finding Your Power Animal
OK, FPGA designers, are you sitting down? We need to visualize. Relax. Close your eyes. Breathe in, breathe out, go to your calm and happy…
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Will Electrical and Mechanical Domains Merge?
Electronics power density is approaching that of a nuclear reactor core. But don’t worry – it’s still an order of magnitude less than that of…
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Spansion Buys Fujitsu’s MCU Business
What two components does every embedded system need? Processors and memory, I reckon. And now Spansion has both. Most of us know Spansion – if…
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TECHURMUDGEON
The command line interface is where real work gets done. If he touches the mouse too many times during the day, he starts to feel…
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Bringing Batteries and Capacitors Together
Batteries and capacitors have existed – and co-existed – for a long time. Your typical basic electronics course will probably teach them in different chapters…
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Electric Shock!
It’s not every day you get to impress the jaded technology nerds in downtown San Jose (“the Capital of Silicon Valley”). It’s doubly hard when…
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Mobile Drives Everything
Nice job folks! Over the past few decades, we electronic engineers have created social change so dramatic that previous discontinuities like the Renaissance, the Industrial…