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Methods of Estimating Component Temperatures
In electronics systems, the board temperature adjacent to the component often is known or controlled as a part of the system design. This means that…
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Going With the Flow
You have a stalker. He or she is watching you right now. Well, maybe not visually, but that slight muffled sibilant sound you hear? That’s…
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Power to the Masses
“This anthropomorphically named computer defeated two human opponents on television’s Jeopardy!” “What is Watson?” “Correct!” The world sat enthralled (well, mildly interested) as a computer…
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3D’s Supporting Players
3D gets lots of attention these days. Whether it’s the massive success of a movie that spawns a gaggle of followers making every possible consumer…
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Methods of Estimating Component Temperatures
In electronics systems, the case temperature (sometimes referred to as top temperature) of a component often is easy to measure. Fortunately, the component case temperature…
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An iPad for Nerds
Good news, everyone! Tablet computers are all the rage these days, and now there’s a version for the Hubert J. Farnsworth crowd. Now you—yes, you!—can…
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What Colour Is Your White Space?
In virtually every episode of Star Trek, irascible engineer Scottie would say, “Ye cannae change the laws of physics.” And those same laws dictate that…
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Embedding Vision
Remember sitting down at a DEC VT52 terminal? The screen held 24 lines of text, at 80 characters each. The font was built in. VT52…