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Another new Picture Gallery has been added to our index - emerging from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...
It covers the Global Mobile Awards, and they range from Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough to Mobile Personality of the Year and Best Mobile Handset...
It offers design engineers access to resource guides, videos, articles and catalogues that provide valuable information on TI's services, product offerings and product applications.
Make sure you bookmark the new section as new videos and documents will be regularly loaded in each section.
Pictures cover such areas as: the principle COM definitions shown to scale, the difference between ETX and XTX, size variations of the different COM Express modules, and various Qseven interfaces...
A bit of nonsense that caught my eye over the weekend - the Mona Lisa in Excel spreadsheet form...
No, it has not been manually created, painstaking cell by painstaking cell - which is what Leonardo would have done, were he a data entry clerk using Microsoft software - but by a piece of software called ExcelArt.
Apparently, it can take most of your uimage files - bitmaps, jpegs, GIFs and PNGs - and convert for Excel. Thanks to Techeblog for this one.
Features of the new "Jobs Evolution" release include quicker search options, being able to search international jobs by country or selection of countries, similar-job-matching features ("More jobs like this...") and peer behaviour recommendations ("People who applied for this job, also applied for...").
The latest Q5 interview is now online - with the managing director of Livingston, the equiment rental specialists.
Masten Evans talks to Electronics Weekly about British engineering culture, companies managing their assets, and the greatest test activity he sees over the coming 12 months...
The five questions are:
1. What do you feel are the main challenges that test engineers currently have to face, and how does Livingston look to help them?
2. Has the recent economic downturn had any effect on how companies deal with test equipment sourcing? Do you think that rental is being perceived in a more favourable light now?
Our roundup of Oscilloscopes proved popular so we are repeating the trick with multimeters. It is not meant meant to be a definitive list, or a ranked list, of devices - just something to flag some multimeters of interest.
Charlie Huang talks to Electronics Weekly about important trends in design tool architectures, how EDA is helping tackle complexity in analog and multicore designs, and how the industry is reacting to adapt to the current economic conditions...
The five questions this week are:
1. What are the main issues for designers when choosing an EDA tool chain?
2. Name one important trend in design tool architectures?
It is always slightly disconcerting to find your viewpoint in a small minority, especially when it seems so logical and reasonable... But that's where I find myself over the handling of wireless Net access at home, following a rather random sample of the office.
Putting aside security issues (where I also seem to find myself in a minority with concern over unsecured access), when it comes to powering my Netgear wireless router, it is only turned on when needed and turned off at the end of the evening, if not before.* Is this strange?
So, the question is - do you ever power down your modem / router, or do you leave it permanently on?
The new eight-inch wafer fab, which will be used to manufacture semiconductors and micromechanical systems, is the largest single capital investment in the history of the Bosch Group - an investment totaling some 600 million euros, according to the company.
The latest Q5 interview is now online - with the marketing VP of Atmel, Alf-Egil Bogen.
He talks to Electronics Weekly about 8-,16- and 32-bit microcontrollers, the importance of touch technology, possible growth opportunities, and how the microcontroller business will change as a result of the present downturn.
The questions this week are:
How do you see the split of 8-, 16- and 32-bit business developing in the next 5 years?
You've made recent acquisitions in both touch technology and wireless IP. What are your expectations for these technologies?
iPhone comes out particularly well - its precision looks as good as a resistive touch screen.
Motorola's Droid does not fair so well.
And there are plenty of examples in between.
All the touch screens look pretty good for handling square touch buttons.
But some of them would be awful for sketching, and pretty bad for dragging and dropping.
'Alice'
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I had assumed that almost everything was simulated in computers these days, but aparently not as the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) has just paid for a wave simulator with real sloshing water.
It seems that a new facility is needed to simulate the dreadful 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
Photo: Tsunami generator before being lowered into the water. Horizontal baffles stop sloshing inside the tank for a cleaner wave.
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