4G ID bags UIDAI contract for devices
4G ID wins the Unique Identification Authority of India's (UIDAI) contract for fingerprint and iris recognition devices for India's biometrics based national registry project.

Hunt for e-book display alternatives heats up
Analysts who track the display market investigate if consumers will sacrifice "green" e-paper on the altar of fast colour, relegating the nascent technology category to a niche.

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Dual-interface EEPROM allows RF access to electronic devices
STMicroelectronics has unveiled a family of products with dual-interface EEPROM and RF access that provides the flexibility to remotely program or update electronic products anytime, anywhere..

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NIST researchers develop speedy cell phone test
NIST researchers demonstrate tests that can shorten the testing process of new cellular phones by replicating jumbled wireless signal environment of a city business district in a special indoor test facility.

Facing in-car infotainment design challenges

Fuelled by the growth of new technologies, consumer expectations for automotive entertainment are growing rapidly.

Moving to a discrete Serdes solution for 4G

As network equipment manufacturers build up infrastructure for 4G, there will be an ever-increasing demand for high serial data rates between the radio equipment control and radio equipment in distributed base station architecture deployment.

Target small delay defects with ATPG

Test engineers are facing new test challenges at lower geometries and the small delay defects are one of them which pose a serious concern for maintaining good DPM levels.

The need for multi-cast in PCIe-based systems

As PCIe technology is being used in telecoms and embedded systems, the need grew for communication with more than one end-point at the same time.

SMD package for power MOSFETs

Know the advantages of surface-mounted device packages over through hole ones for power MOSFETs.

Phasor Analysis Part 2
Watch this lecture that tackles how to use phasor analysis in real circuits. Prof. L. Umanand, Principal Research Scientist of Power Electronics Group-IISc Bangalore, conducted this lecture.

iSuppli forsees LED shortage
As the consumption of LEDs outstrips the global supply and unless production capacity is increased, the world is looking at LED shortage warns iSuppli Corp.

Cutting data center energy consumption

The vast arrays of computers around the world consume huge amounts of power. The data centers enabling the Internet exemplify this power usage.

Performing high-level synthesis

It is vitally important to verify the design before performing high-level synthesis, not after. It is not effective to synthesise a design that does not work.

Providing superior Internet video QoE

Internet video continues to grow in unexpected ways. This article shows how Internet video quality monitoring can be optimised, embedded and cost-reduced.

Reconsider home net connections

Bear in mind the possibilities of emerging home networking standards. It is to your advantage to be part of the home networking community.

Ease image sensor calibration in camera phones

The enormous growth in camera phones has created design problems for phone manufacturers, not the least of which is image sensor calibration. Here's an article aimed to help you overcome the hurdles.

Embedded apps demand data
logging

Data logging applications are becoming ubiquitous. They include black box-like tools, access control applications, secure memory support for pay per use business approach, wireless sensor networks, other industrial applications, consumer electronics, PC and peripherals, and GPS systems