Jan 7 2010
PARIS (Reuters) — France could start taxing Internet advertising revenues from online giants such as Google, using the funds to support creative industries that have been hit by the digital revolution, a newspaper reported on radar Thursday.The proposal, put forward
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Jan 19 2009
Freescale Semiconductor, which has produced many types of sensors, now offers a 3-axis accelerometer designers can use when they need to measure position and movement. The 3-D kit comes with a wireless receiver that plugs into a USB port and a circular PCB that holds the accelerometer. A wireless IC on the sensor board communicates with the receiver so you can place the sensor board on a piece of equipment--or in your hand--to measure acceleration as well as yaw, pitch, and roll.
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Dec 23 2008
Along with Diffraction Integral and Geometrical Optics, Fourier Optics represents one of the three major avenues towards understanding classical optics. Named after French physicist Joseph Fourier (March 21, 1768 - May 16, 1830), who created the Fourier Series (after which the aptly-named “Fourier Analysis” was dubbed),
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Nov 18 2008
The small round SubAtomic Particle Boards (SPBs) from Renesas provide a tour MCU hardware and software via an audiovisual presentation that guides users through board setup and several tests. The package looks like a neat way to give developers a taste of the Renesas MCUs and its High-Performance Embedded Workshop (HEW) tools. Unless you're an absolute novice, though, I recommend you buy a Renesas Starter Kit that uses the same processor and tools and offers better access to I/O ports. An R8C/2D kit, for example, sells for about $200.
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Oct 15 2008
Radio Frequency (RF) and Microwave filters are crucial ingredients in many consumer electronics. Devices such as radio, TV, cell-phones, and PDAs all operate on a medium to extremely high frequency range. The RF and Microwave filters (electronic filters) are used for signals sent or received, and are designed to operate in the megahertz to gigahertz frequency ranges.
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Sep 26 2008
If you plan to use an IEEE 802.15.4 radio in a wireless product and don't want to become an RF design engineer in the process, you'll find a lot of value in this kit from Jennic. Although billed as an evaluation kit, you can use it to do serious design work and application programming. I enjoyed working with the modules and found the software easy to use and documents easy to find. In particular, Jennic has done an outstanding job with its user guides and reference manuals.
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Aug 25 2008
Everyone seems to own a variety of wireless devices, from simple garage-door openers to cell phones and GPS receivers. Of course, before these products arrive on store shelves, engineers must design, test, debug, retest, and have products certified to government standards. This volume aims to introduce engineers to an array of measuring instruments, basic RF principles, and measurements of components and digital communications.
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Aug 6 2008
If you use FPGAs and microcontrollers and haven't heard of the Nios II CPU, take a close look at this processor. You can easily assemble a Nios II core, on-chip peripherals and memory, custom logic and off-chip memory interfaces on one Altera FPGA.
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Jul 24 2008
This book arrived at an opportune time: I had just wrapped up some experiments with the Microchip PIC32 Starter Kit and was anxious to learn more about how to program the PIC32MX processor. Di Jasio has divided this programming book into a 16-day self-paced course that teaches the fundamentals of programming the PIC32 processor--in essence a MIPS CPU. His style, format, and approach should appeal to engineers and students. I like this book and recommend it highly.
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Jul 2 2008
Ad Hoc Electronics has assembled a variety of EnOcean-brand wireless self-powered modules in a kit that engineers can use to investigate receiver and transmitter devices and communications. This kit should appeal to engineers who want to put small sensor transmitters in places that do not provide a power source. The kit's hardware looks appealing, but the lack of application information might make the kit difficult to use in a projectcontinue
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