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Category: Consumer Electronics

Consumer Electronics

  • Big and Little Core Combos

    A long while back ARM introduced their big.LITTLE concept. (So cute how they put the big in little letters and the little in big letters!…

  • Synopsys’s Embedded Vision

    In the shadow of the recent Embedded Vision Alliance summit, Synopsys tossed its hat into the vision ring with their new Embedded Vision Development System.…

  • Crappy + Crappy = Not So Bad

    We’ve all seen some of the crappy pictures that cell phones have allowed us to take and distribute around the world at lightning speed. (Is…

  • What’s Virtual Is Real

    Google is known for engaging broadly across a range of seemingly unrelated projects. Whether glasses or driverless cars or even same-day delivery, it’s as if…

  • An AC-Biased Microphone

    I’ll round out the last of the things that caught my attention at this year’s ISSCC with a proposal and implementation of an AC-biased microphone.…

  • Close Enough?

    Not long ago, in our coverage of 3D vision, we discussed time-of-flight as one of the approaches to gauging distance. Even though it and the…

  • Teasing Apart FBAR Loading and Temperature Effects

    We hear stories of a not-so-distant future when we can wave our tricorder-like devices around and detect all kinds of substances that might be in…

  • A Hardened Hub

    There’s a new 9-axis motion sensor hub in town. Called SENtral, it’s a collaboration between PNI Sensors, known for geomagnetic sensors and fusion, and EM…

  • I Sing the Body Electric

    Microchip has just rolled out BodyCom, a new way to do wireless nwtworking using your own body as the antenna. This is a body-area network,…

  • MEMS Caps that Push Both Ways

    The many bands that cellphones must support, coupled with environmental changes that can have a dramatic effect on the effectiveness of a phone’s antenna, have…