Qualcomm to bid in India's broadband auction
Qualcomm Incorporated has filed an application to bid in India's upcoming auction for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum in the 2.3GHz band to facilitate the deployment of TD-LTE.

Microsemi, Brijot accelerate dev't of body scanners
The duo has stepped up on the joint development of Brijot's non-invasive whole body images that protect the traveller's health and privacy.

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3D PLDs pack 5.5MB RAM, 920 parallel I/Os, 44 PLLs
Tabula Inc. has launched its ABAX family of 40nm 3D PLDs that enables high-performance, compute-intensive applications on a programmable platform at volume price points.

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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.

The challenges of multi-core technology

Multicore is here to stay, and the software community is being forced to do something about it. The challenges of concurrent programming are proposed to be addressed by functional programming languages/hybrids, and tools like CUDA, RapidMind, openMP that allow developers to refactor code.

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.

Building nets performance analysis test system with Linux

The devices underpinning today's communications networks grow increasingly powerful in their speed, throughput, features and supported services. That's great for users—but it presents a significant challenge for manufacturers.

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.

Module - 1 Lecture - 1 Semiconductor materials
Watch this video about the semiconductor materials, which are the backbone of electronic devices and circuits. Dr. Chitralekha Mahanta from ECE Department, IITG conducted this lecture.

LCD monitor shipments up by 3.8%
Despite the global recession and dwindling desktop PC sale, global LCD monitor shipments recorded a growth of 3.8%.in 2009.

Learning the different types of clock jitter

Clock jitter is deviation of a clock edge from its ideal location. Here's a discussion of the different types of clock jitter.

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