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EEVblog #1122 – Raspberry Pi 3 PoE Hat FAIL Investigation
Published. September 20, 2018The new official Power Over Ethernet (PoE) hat for the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ has been reported to fail with an overcurrent error when powering USB devices. Dave investigates and narrows it down until, well, something goes horribly wrong… Rpi forum Forum HERE...
Technology Review Feed - Energy Top Stories
Curbing emissions isn’t enough—we need emergency solutions for climate change
Published. September 12, 2018Top energy scientist Daniel Schrag says we have to adapt and innovate, because we’re already signed up for centuries of higher global temperatures....
Victor Chertakovsky
Battery Charging at Low Temperatures
Published. December 27, 2017Low-temperature Batteries Charge/Discharge...
Tech Design Forums Blog
With RF, power and MRAM, FD-SOI finds its role
Published. July 12, 2018FD-SOI is gradually building up a presence as a technology not just for low-power but RF and power integration....
Laptops and Desktops Blog
Lenovo Miix 630 ARM-based 2-in-1 Windows tablet goes on sale for $900
Published. July 11, 2018The 12.3-inch convertible is one of the first Windows 10 devices powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 processor, which promises up to 20 hours of battery life....
Linux and Open Source
?How to install Linux Mint on your Windows PC
Published. July 3, 2018Are you a Windows power-user? You can get and install Linux Mint running on your PC -- either to try it out or as a replacement for Windows....
All About Microsoft
Don't expect Microsoft's Andromeda this year... or maybe ever
Published. July 2, 2018Microsoft's rumored portable Surface 'Andromeda' device and the AndromedaOS software that would power it aren't looking like 2018 deliverables. It's back to the drawing board, sources say....
Functional Verification Blog
UVM-ML- Managers’ Freedom of Choice
Published. June 28, 2018Freedom of choice is a term we hear a lot, especially in the last 10 years. It is defined in wikipedia as “an individual's opportunity and autonomy to perform an action selected from at least two available options…”. Is having many choices always a good thing? Well, usually it is- who would not want to live in a world where s/he has options and can make choices? However, there are also downsides to having multiple options. In the TED lecture, The paradox of choice , Barry Schwartz discusses...
PCB Signal and Power Integrity Tech Corner
Chalk Talk: Suppressing Noise from Via-to-Via Coupling
Published. June 20, 2018Like Cristian Filip who recently spoke on SerDes design, I just did my first Chalk Talk with EE Journal. News editor Amelia Dalton and I talked about how important it is to diagnose via-to-via coupling and how it gets exacerbated due to the PDN (power distribution network) impedance. We also talked about what you can […]...
Verification Horizons Blog
Significantly Improve Your FPGA Design Reliability by Using Custom CDC Synchronizers
Published. April 24, 2018[Preface: we are presenting a paper on this topic at the upcoming SEE/MAPLD conference, May 21-24, 2018 in La Jolla, CA – Join us!] Today’s FPGA designs include multiple cores, interfaces, test logic, and even different internal power and voltage domains. In particular, the multiple asynchronous clocks, and the signals crossing between asynchronous clock domains, […]...
Stephane Boucher's DSP Blog
Feedback Controllers - Making Hardware with Firmware. Part 4. Engineering of Evaluation Hardware
Published. October 10, 2017Following on from the previous abstract descriptions of an arbitrary circuit emulation application for low-latency feedback controllers, we now come to some aspects in the hardware engineering of an evaluation design from concept to first power-up. In due course a complete specification along with application examples will be maintained on the...
Rands In Repose
How to Build a Rumor
Published. August 6, 2017There’s a rumor wandering through your team right now. I’m sorry to report; it’s toxic. It’s the kind of rumor that contains so much interest and emotional energy that the humans can’t help repeat the rumor to each other. It’s about you, and it’s completely untrue. When you hear the rumor, the content will give… More...
Mocana IoT Security Blog
How Do We Protect Power Grids from Getting Hacked?
Published. July 12, 2017Months after the Mirai Virus and WannaCry cyber attacks, another series of massive ransomware attacks shook companies across the globe, including a state power company in Ukraine. The impact of the NotPetya virus was devastating, locking down multinational corporations and disrupting critical services to healthcare patients. Earlier this month, it was reported that hackers are targeting US nuclear facilities....
Stack Overflow
EEPROM Wear Leveling
Published. July 5, 2017A problem that occurs from time to time is the need for an embedded system to keep track of the number of doodads it has processed since it was put in to service. Clearly you can’t keep this value in RAM as it will be lost when power is removed. Thus the obvious solution is […]...
CFD doesn’t mean Color For Directors
CFD Helps Design More Efficient Datacenters
Published. March 22, 2017Behind the scenes of our ever-growing information and entertainment consumption, huge datacenters are an essential part of today’s massive Internet connectivity. In addition to the general web-support services provided by the likes of Google, large companies also are running their own datacenters. With so many proliferating, the efficiency, reliability, and energy-use of these buildings that […]...
scalability.org
Requiem
Published. March 22, 2017This is the post an entrepreneur hopes to never write. They pour their energy, their time, their resources, their love into their baby. Trying to make her live, trying to make her grow. And for a while, she seems to. Everything is hitting the right way, 12+ years of uninterrupted growth and profitable operation as […]...
Electrical Engineers Talk Tech
What’s the Nucleus of Mentor’s Push into Industrial Automation?
Published. February 14, 2015Mentor’s once nearly-orphaned Nucleus RT forms the foundation of a damned impressive software suite for controlling meat packing or nuclear power plants. Industry 4.0 is basically the promise of interoperability between currently bespoke (and proprietary) I.A. systems with smart, connected IoT devices plus a layer of cyber security thrown in. Continue reading →...
The Moth
Attend my Tech Ed 2014 session: Debugging Tips and Tricks
Published. May 6, 2014Just a week away, at Tech Ed 2014 NA in Houston Texas, I will be giving a demo presentation that you will not want to miss (assuming you code in Visual Studio). Add it to your calendar now: DEV-B352 Debugging Tips and Tricks in Visual Studio 2013 (link) Monday, May 12 1:15-2:30 PM, Room: General Assembly C As a developer, regardless of your programming language or the platform that you target, you use the debugger on a daily basis. Come to this all-demo session to learn how to make the...
Gabe On EDA
Synopsys's ESL Power Analysis
Published. March 18, 2014Pat Sheridan, Sr. PMM for Synopsys Platform Architect Rich Collins, Sr. PMM ARC Processors and Subsystems In response to my question: "What tools or methods do architects and developers have or should have to define a realistic power budget at the system level?" Pat and Rich offered the following article. read more...
Ed Burnette's Dev Connection
On the road to Google I/O 2012
Published. June 26, 2012Ed wishes fervently for the invention of the matter-energy transporter. Or at least a first class ticket....
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