Electronics Engineering Video Blog
EEVblog #1211 – Apple’s Most Beautiful Failure
Published. May 16, 2019Why did Apple’s most beautiful product fail? A look at the Apple PowerMac G4 Cube designed by Jonathan Ive. A teardown and power-up. Forum HERE...
Technology Review Feed - Energy Top Stories
The economic argument behind the Green New Deal
Published. April 24, 2019Economist Mariana Mazzucato explains how rethinking industrial policy could be key to tackling climate change....
Tractica - Blog
Qualcomm Brings 30 Years of Experience in Mobile to the Data Center
Published. April 10, 2019Qualcomm is swimming upstream and intends to take its 30+ years of experience in power efficient mobile silicon right into... More...
Tech Design Forums Blog
Flexible PCB stretches across UAV’s wings for lower weight
Published. March 26, 2019UK-based Trackwise has shipped what could easily be the longest ever flexible PCB with a 26m-long substrate to deliver power and control to a UAV's wings....
All About Microsoft
Microsoft packages a bunch of its apps and Azure services as 'Game Stack'
Published. March 14, 2019Microsoft is making a big play to get game developers to use Azure, Power BI, machine learning Visual Studio and game-specific apps and services like PlayFab, to build their next products....
Verification Horizons Blog
Part 12: The 2018 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study
Published. March 13, 2019ASIC/IC Verification Results This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs related to the 2018 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study (click here). In my previous blog (click here), I provided data related to designs that actively manage power. In this blog, I present verification results findings in terms of schedules, number of […]...
Low Power Design
Tools – The Otii Arc, a Smart Power Supply for Optimizing Embedded Systems
Published. March 15, 2018The ability to optimize an embedded system for how much energy it uses can have profound benefits. For example, a deployed IoT device may not require maintainers to visit the site for an additional 6 months or the development team may be able to decrease the size and weight of the battery which could product … Continue reading Tools – The Otii Arc, a Smart Power Supply for Optimizing Embedded Systems...
Tips and Tricks
7 Tips for using assertions in C
Published. December 20, 2018One of the greatest bug squashing tools available to embedded software developers is the assert macro. Despite the power of assert, I rarely see it implemented and in the cases where it is used the implementation is either flawed or incorrect. The following seven tips should help elucidate not only when and where to use … Continue reading 7 Tips for using assertions in C...
Hardware
Tools – The April Board
Published. September 25, 2015The April board is a break-out for the Imp Developer module. The April module provides the ability to power the Imp module using a standard USB-Mini cable, an optional battery connector, or through a standard .100 header. The April board also has an on-board 3.3V regulator that can with stand an input up to 17 … Continue reading Tools – The April Board...
Embedded Basics
Embedded Basics – Linear Dynamic Current
Published. September 26, 2014When it comes time to start optimizing an embedded device for energy consumption it is often really tempting to start out by adjusting the operating voltage of the system. If an engineer were to look back in his notes on MCU power consumption they would find something along the lines of Power = Constant * … Continue reading Embedded Basics – Linear Dynamic Current...
Linux and Open Source
?Red Hat leaders praise IBM acquisition, but employees are worried
Published. October 28, 2018Linux, open-source, and cloud power Red Hat's executives love the IBM deal, but the company's workers are nervous....
Laptops and Desktops Blog
These 12 laptops deliver the best battery life
Published. August 20, 2018If you need a notebook that can last all day away from a power outlet, these dozen can handle it -- and then some. Your options include top-rated Windows, Mac and Chromebook systems....
Victor Chertakovsky
Battery Charging at Low Temperatures
Published. December 27, 2017Low-temperature Batteries Charge/Discharge...
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 […]...
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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