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DesignCon 2012 starts January 30 and ends February 2nd in the Santa Clara Convention Center.

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Cypress's Dhwani Vyas put it best, "Finally [we] have the part I have been waiting for!" He was referring to the company's new Gen4 family of touchscreen controllers that are the first to feature an ARM 32-bit core, along with proprietary LCD noise cancellation technology called DisplayArmor that eliminates the need for an extra shield layer of glass and its associated air gap, thereby reducing display thickness by up to 1 mm and lowering overall cost and weight.

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In fact this an invention of physics not electronics, but LCD Noise Reduction Armour in deed proves ...

With the launch of Datasheets.com, EDN and UBM Electronics provide engineers access to over 185 million parts, with features such as comparison, parametric search, search save, and alerts.

  post comment   22 comments    last comment  Dr DSP
It seems like the next phase of this effort needs to be driven by suggestions from users on the ...

Well before annoying smoke-detector chirping, there was a mischievous 'cricket' for Mrs. Librarian

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The exhuberance of youth, eh! I hope you guys progressed to making stuff that spread a little ...

Engineers' desks can alternate between spartan and fodder for a hazmat team. What's yours look like?

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I was also messy, but I owned the company. When things got too overwhelming on my bench, I would ...

Teams from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and New Auburn (Wisc.) School won the 2011 Rube Goldberg Machine competition

  post comment   9 comments    last comment  pomartel
I believe you're thinking of Junior Achievement

The more we know, the less we know, and that's a problem for electronics and society

  post comment   22 comments    last comment  sharps_eng
Better tools. That is how we have managed each technological step. As industry became dependent on ...

Engineers have embraced social media. Really.

  post comment   23 comments    last comment  juliandeverell
The openness of social media can help engineers in more ways than they can think of. It reminds me ...

I wasn't the instigator but my reputation made me the prime suspect

  post comment   7 comments    last comment  David Ashton
Guilty as charged...kind of.... I've fallen into this trap a couple of times.... assuming that the ...

The resident mathematician announced he was better than engineers. There was a life lesson in that.

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methinks you missed the point, chum.

HD voice quality has become the main selling point of telephones as most people would rather not use ...
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I think Cox is making a good move by allowing their customers to be able to check their voice mails ...
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An interesting and enjoyable article. Thanks. 25 years ago, we were taught programming via Pascal ...
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