Drive for Innovation Chapter 164: Ruggedizing COTS
Bruce Imsand of MaxVision (Huntsville, Ala.) talks about building a company that's used commercial off-the-shelf parts to build a thriving military computing business.
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While some claim CES has lost its luster and big name headliners over the years, the show refuses to be deemed irrelevant. With trends spanning healthcare, mobile and automotive, there was plenty to see.
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Over the last few years CES has gone from being a predominantly consumer technology show, to an automotive show. In 2013, we caught up with a number of vendors to talk about the future of driving.
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Mice and keyboards are the past. Eye tracking, voice commands and gestures are the future. At least according to Intel and demonstrated to our team at CES 2013.
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At CES, Intel announced a pull-in of its low powered processors from 4th gen. to 3rd gen. Ivy bridge products, exceeding even its own stated power targets, for what the company hopes will produce thinner, lighter, longer battery life devices.
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Pepcom's technology showcase at CES 2013 has 100’s of companies showing off their consumer wares to fans. Everything from voice-control watches to Ubuntu smartphones and life-vests that pulsate wirelessly to the beat of your ipod.
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Indeed some modern day smartphones have up to 20 Fairchild products in them, which can deal with anything from core power to lighting, battery management, RF power, USB detection, video, USB routing, and haptic drivers for touch screen displays.
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Sylvie Barak takes you on a speedy tour of the CES show floor, to see what accessories, gadgets, toys and tech was on offer. Among the highlights; cute bluetooth speakers, nail printers, bejeweled iphone cases, LED lights, waterproof tablets and more
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Intel put on an impressive show at CES 2013, showing off a whole host of ultrabook convertibles, smartphones and gesture control demos. We walked around the booth and found the best Intel had to offer.
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Samsung discussed its new high-speed, small form factor eMMC embedded memory card for mobile phones and tablets. The new eMMC 64GB Pro 2000 memory solution has a random write speed of 2000 IOPS and a random read speed of 5000 IOPS.
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While BlackBerry may no longer be an executive brand, Bentleys are still the very icons of style. So when RIM owned software company QNX decided to hack a Bentley, the results were incredibly cool. Take a look.
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Two popular trends rocking the world of consumer electronics are touch enabled surfaces and the Internet of Things. American semiconductor firm Atmel has made both a priority, and to prove it, the firm hit the ground running at CES 2013.
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What do hemp headphones, singing toothbrushes, quadcopter cameras and 3-D printed iPhone cases all have in common? Why, CES Unveiled of course!
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NXP has made automotive a priority, striving to enable all electronic communication to, from and within the vehicle – reliably, securely, and efficiently. Using in-vehicle networks and RF cryptography.
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IP company Rambus may have struggled with a bad reputation as a patent troll in the past, but the firm says it is now moving in another direction to make good on its inventions. At CES they were showing off an LED lightbulb and a visual search TV.
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Synaptics is moving on from simple touchpad sensors to a more touch integrated future, from better designed ThinTouch capacitive keyboards to mobile touchscreens that work even with gloved hands.
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Maxim Integrated showed off its Cardio Leaf t-shirt to demonstrate the integration of sensors with the analog technology that controls them and processes their data. also showing off its audio products, notably the FlexSound configuration application
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Toyota is actively exploring autonomous driving for its Lexus cars, the firm announced at CES. The luxury car brand said it wanted to reduce road fatalities to zero and make driving safer within the next few years.
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Intel unveiled a new smartphone reference design aimed at the value market, while showing off higher performance smartphones from its partner Motorola, based on the Atom Z280.
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Intel announced pull ins for core products, noting the new processors would come out earlier than expected and enable thinner, lighter ultrabooks and tablets with all-day battery life.
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Showing a range of touch, eye tracking and voice demos at CES, Intel made good on its claims to change the way consumers interact with machines, now it just remains to be seen whether everyone will take to that with as much enthusiasm as Intel.
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As enterprise demands more memory and more storage, Samsung is working hard to reduce data center carbon footprints with greener memory products.
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Samsung Semiconductor discusses the focus on enabling the next gen of application development on the Exonys chip platform. Agrawal said Samsung was putting a lot of effort into enabling the developer ecosystem with open source community platforms.
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The thermodynamics of a mobile phone simply don’t allow for the same luxury of fan cooling as laptops, and yet, every generation wants to show a performance increase. What to do? Samsung Semiconductor believes the answer lies in better mobile memory.
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Racing legend Arie Luyendyk talks trends ins high-performance automotive engineering with EE Times' Brian Fuller.
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Ron Freeman, CEO of AAMP of America, talks about his company's iSimple car-stereo gateway solutions.
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National Science Foundation’s Errol Arkilic lays out the goals of the agency’s new Innovation Corps designed to move promising technologies from universities labs to emerging tech markets.
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Mike Sinclair of Green Energy Corp. gives a tour of NC State's FREEDM Center and all the cool smart-grid solutions being developed there.
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Bruce Imsand of MaxVision (Huntsville, Ala.) talks about building a company that's used commercial off-the-shelf parts to build a thriving military computing business.
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Eliza Nelson, an FAE with Avnet, talks about the value of female role models in becoming an engineer and how diversity helps build better teams.
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Eliza Nelson, an FAE with Avnet, talks about the tenacity it takes to become a female engineer in a profession dominated by older men.
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Orion Project at the USA Science and Engineering Festival
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We caught up with author and former NASA engineer Homer Hickam during the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington.
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Munro & Associates' Al Steier and TechInsights' John Scott-Thomas analyze the Chevy Volt's battery pack in the first of three Drive for Innovation teardown sessions.
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How many engineering students can you fit into the Chevy Volt? The folks from ITT visiting the Avnet Tech Games were up to the challenge.
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GATR Technologies founder and CEO Dan Gierow shows off his company's portable, inflatable (and round) satellite receiver.
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Electric bicycles are coming down in cost and are amazing feats of engineering. But how do they stack up on the quarter-mile against a Chevy Volt??
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Solar manufacturing startup Twin Creek Technologies claims it has found a way to produce extremely thin yet flexible solar cells. By reducing material costs and adding value in the manufacturing process, solar cell production could again become a pro...
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Steve Sanghi, Microchip Technologies: Are tech jobs returning to the U.S.?
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Thomas Dolby entertains as he tells how his musical career in the 1980s morphed into a technology career and back again. Here's a ten-minute excerpt from his DESIGN West keynote on March 27, 2012 in San Jose, Ca.
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Brian Fuller hosts a panel on innovation challenges at Design West 2012 with James Truchard of National Instruments, Jeff Lawson of Shockwave Impact, Rich Szczepkowski of SWEMCO and Dave Lentz of Avnet.
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LeCroy used DESIGN West to introduce and demonstrate the WaveStation, its new benchtop function/arbitrary waveform generator. The device comes in 10-, 25-, and 50-MHz versions with a sampling rate of 125 Msamples/s, 14-bit front-end resolution and tw...
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Brian Fuller and the red Chevy Volt have driven thousands of miles around America and had many adventures and misadventures. Here are a few.
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Highlights from the 2012 EE Times/EDN ACE Awards, honoring innovation in electronics.
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John Zysman, co-author of the influential 1987 book, “Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of Post-Industrial Economy,” discusses the relationship of production to the burgeoning services sector and how technologies like “cloud computing” can be used to e...
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Students demo intelligent car designs at Freescale Cup at Embedded World 2012.
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Adam Nepp and Scott Wohler are longtime friends. So what would possess them to start an electronics company together?
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Founders Adam Nepp and Scott Wohler describe their body-monitoring technology, what works best in wireless design and the art of the startup.
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Executives from Small HD, Elster, Consert, and Energy Micro talk about balancing technological creativity and profitability at a gathering in Raleigh, N.C.
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The team at Catalyst Manufacturing in Mooresville, N.C., raffled off chances for employees to drive the Volt. The first winner couldn't have been a more entertaining choice.
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Should Steve Jobs be considered such a saint if he refused to even consider Obama's suggestion to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S? Junko Yoshida, editor in chief of EE TImes, wonders if we've given up.
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If we didn't make things, we'd be "standing in the yard, cold, naked and hungry." Thus spaketh Don Morgan, a tech teacher in a tiny Georgia town, where he's making a difference.
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Forrest Huff, Regional Sales Manager of Interconnect Systems Inc., answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Dale Hanzekla, Director of North America Sales, Intercept Technology Inc. answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Steve Smith, Product Manager, L-Com Global Connectivity answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Thomas Smith, Regional Manager of Positronic Industries Inc., answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Lee W. Ritchey, President of Speeding Edge, answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Video Interview discussing the need for isolation in solar inverters.
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UMass Amherst engineering professor Baird Soules describes Emma 5 a robotic, remote-controled, WiFi-enabled wheelchair.
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Innovation is innovation. Sometimes you need to learn about revolution.
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UMass Amherst engineering professor Baird Soules talks us through student project that uses an Arduino board to recreate arcade sounds from bygone days.
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TE Connectivity vice president of engineering Steve Jackson and product engineer Galen Martin identify the biggest challenges to innovation.
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Rochester Electronics Microelectronics Assembly Manager Thomas Horgan discusses the importance of keeping manufacturing close to home.
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VP of Technology Fred Bargetzi shows off Crestron Electronics new mobile-phone app to control home lighting from anywhere.
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VP of Technology Fred Bargetzi decribes how Crestron Electronics has evolved from a company making single remote-control devices for the home into an entertainment and envrionment-systems architecture powerhouse.
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An amazing gesture-based demo from Jeff Bier of BDTI and the Embedded Vision Alliance gives a glimpse of the promise of this emerging technology.
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Lee Bristol, co-founder of Standard solar, talks to us about his company and renewable energy--while sitting on his roof.
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Sightseeing and driving in rush-hour traffic can be a dumb idea, especially in Washington, D.C.
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Near Clarksburg, West Virginia, the Volt crosses the magic 10,000-mile barrier
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TDI Power VP of engineering offers a tour of his sporty red belt-driven electric vehicle.
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Adapteva CEO and founder Andreas Olofsson talks about his startup processor company in a small office on a famous Revolutionary War road.
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Engineering students don't usually get to work with satellites, unless you come up with a novel, terrestrial version of them.
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Cadence blogger and longtime electronics-industry journalist Richard Goering talks about the EDA industry's climb up the abstraction ladder and how he's survived 27 Design Automation Conferences
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Mentor Graphics CEO Wally Rhines on the EDA industry's outlook and why he wasn't surprised the Japan quake impact was minimal.
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Simon Segars from ARM discusses a new ARM community to address designers' information needs as they start SoC designs.
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EDA industry analyst Gary Smith says electronic system-level design has arrived as an accepted mainstream methodology
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Jim Hogan and Paul McLellan talk about what it takes to launch an EDA startup today
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Altera's Nirmal Kari describes his company’s first implementation of a MIPS-based soft processor for its FPGAs.
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Cypress's Gahan Richardson unveils the winners of the company's design contest using its PSOC programmable device
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Cypherbridge President Steve Delaney and marketing director Mette McCall talk about their latest products and the state of the embedded market
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A team of all freshman from a Sparta (Wisc.) High School talk about their winning design project
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The Hitex Development Tools Safety Concept supports the certification process of safety-critical applications according to IEC 61508 or ISO 26262 with a comprehensive safety concept. The heart is formed by Infineon’s safety concept PRO-SIL that combi
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Verizon demonstrates its connected home vision – via 4G/LTE – at Consumer Electronics Show.
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Verification guru Brian Bailey talks about the bug in the Intel 6 Series or Cougar chip and the limits of contemporary verification techniques.
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Tiffany Frankovich tells us how she punked colleagues' computer boot sequences with the dulcet tones of Rick Astley. Rick who?
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With an iPad on his hand, Amimon’s CEO Yoav Nissan-Cohen demonstrates at CES how he can wirelessly project photos, films or games from an iPad to a large-screen flat-panel display – via WHDI, without delay.
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EDN Analog Editor Paul Rako and engineers Francis Lau and Eric Schlaepfer tear down the Samsung Galaxy at the 2011 DesignCon in Santa Clara, Calif.
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Internet pioneer Vint Cerf shares his thoughts on best practices for designing the smart electric grid in a keynote at Connectivity Week in Silicon Valley May 2010.
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After a keynote at Connectivity Week, Vint Cerf took questions from the audince on the role of utilities and the dangers of complexity.
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Electric vehicle service stations: Jason Wolf of Better Place explains his company's scheme for switching out batteries to extend range of electric vehicles at his keynote address at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, April 29, 2010.
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It's just a matter of when, not if, the electric car becomes ubiquitous, says Jason Wolf, the vice president of Better Place North America. Interviewed by Patrick Mannion (EE Times), Wolf says carbon burners will be museum pieces in the near future.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour thundered off the launch pad on a 13-day mission to deliver and install the last major component of the International Space Station.
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