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Sensing the Turn
This is yet another note regarding the innumerable sensors on display at the recent Sensors Expo. But rather than jumping straight in, let’s explore a…
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Navigation extremes
I have been exposed to two navigational extremes over the last month or so. These aren’t specifically competing approaches (although I suppose they could be),…
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A Caveman Without MEMS
A while back, MIG director Karen Lightman posted a blog entry about life without MEMS (if you haven’t read it, I’d recommend doing so before…
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Another Magnetic Measurement
One of the fun things about the MEMS and sensors space is that there are often many ways of skinning the many proverbial cats. Magnetometers…
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Locus of (Con)Fusion
At the MEPTEC MEMS conference a couple weeks ago, one sensor fusion question kept coming up over and over: Who’s in charge of sensor fusion?…
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The Bottom of the Pyramid
My descent (in a good way) into the world of PWB technology began with a presentation at isQED by Joe Fjelstad on the needs of…
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Heretical Lead
Much of the motivation for Verdant’s solderless Occam process comes from the poorer reliability of solder these days. Solder has always been something of a…
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Making Virtual Conferences Cool
Making Virtual Conferences Cool Virtual events seem to be all the rage these days. This year, in my industry, a number of long-running events are…
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An Engineer’s Engineer
On the lighter side of things, ESC opened yesterday with a “fireside chat” with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, introduced as an engineer’s engineer (and if…
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New PCB Design Mix ‘n’ Match
Yesterday Cadence announced a major update to their Allegro PCB design suite. This is the full-featured set of tools targeted at enterprise (= deep pockets)…