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element14’s Ben Heck Show reaches 1 million views

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element14 announces that The Ben Heck Show, featuring modding guru Benjamin J. Heckendorn, a.k.a. Ben Heck, has registered 1 million views since its launch just four months ago. "The Ben Heck Show" is an informative and entertaining online television…

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Ben Heck helps boost battery life for Android phones with a new kinetic motion wind-up charger in the latest episode of element14’s “The Ben Heck Show”

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element14 and modding guru Benjamin J. Heckendorn, a.k.a. Ben Heck, present an action-packed episode of “The Ben Heck Show” for the modding- and DIY-inclined, featuring a kinetic motion-inspired wind-up charger for Android phones and a Rapid Pinball Prototyping…

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EAGLE 5.11 allows instant price check and availability, enabling automatically addition of parts to a shopping cart from a schematic

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Best selling CAD Tool of its kind, EAGLE, now allows instant price check and availability, enabling design engineers to automatically add parts to a shopping cart directly from a schematic CadSoft Computer GmbH has launched of EAGLE software version 5…

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element14 Wins Best Community Development at Digital Impact Awards

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Online community of 275,000 design engineers and electronics hobbyists takes home silver award November 17, 2014 – CHICAGO – element14 , the world’s largest online community for electronic design engineers and hobbyists, was named a silver winner in Best…

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The roads less traveled around multicore walls

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By Loring Wirbel and Lou Covey A New Tech Press Report from Footwasher Media For the better part of two decades, the processor industry has been running pell mell down the road of multicore design, packing more and more processor cores on a single chip…

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Sidebar: Exascale expert says US efforts have failed

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As multicore processing deals with physical and implementation walls, Exascale computing has hit both philosophical and fiscal walls. Thomas Sterling has been delivering the the depressing news that DARPA had given up on the current path of computing…

over 13 years ago
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RTOS market in turmoil?

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By Ann Steffora Mutschler Senior Correspondent, New Tech Press With engineers clamoring for all things Android and open-source, the RTOS market is experiencing some major changes – although that depends on whom you ask. A relatively new entrant to the…

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Microchip unveils new PIC 32-bit MCUs

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imPARTing Knowledge III: Understanding Component Engineering - Microcontrollers

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By Steve Terry, SK Communications Advisor to ComponentsEngineering.com Special to Footwashermedia Many small board designs benefit nicely from the use of a microcontroller , but selecting an appropriate one for a particular design often brings on the…

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Why the fall of Solyndra was expected

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By Lou Covey Editorial Director, Footwasher Media The collapse of Solyndra has been the subject of both major news coverage and a foundational bit of political discourse recently. A closer look at the facts reveals that the reality of Solyndra and the…

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Can Solar survive Solyndra aftermath? Part 2

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By Lou Covey Editorial Director, Footwasher Media The recent collapse of a few high-profile solar energy companies, like Solyndra and Beacon Power , has caused even the most ardent fans of alternative energy to ask, "Can this industry survive?" The answer…

over 14 years ago
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Commentary: Misconceived, missed opportunities in FPGAs

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By Jeff Jussel Senior Director of Global Technology, Newark/element14 A recent post in John Cooley's DeepChip bemoaning the demise of FPGA-based tool startup GateRocket ends with a familiar refrain: “It doesn’t pay to make EDA tools for FPGA because engineers…

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S2C bridges HW prototyping and SW development

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As FPGAs have become larger their use as a prototyping tool has become more diverse, including using multiple processors in a single design and system. And the business of FPGA prototyping has grown with that ability. What began as a means of prototyping…

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FPGA verification must address user uncertainty for prototyping, system validation

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By Loring Wirbel Senior Correspondent, Footwasher Media The recent expansion and diversification of the FPGA verification market bears a certain resemblance to the ASIC verification market of 20 years ago, though beset with opposite challenges, thanks…

over 14 years ago
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Tektronix moves to integrate single-chip functionality through instrumentation

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Early in the summer of 2011, Tektronix acquired a small company, Veridae to move it's instrumentation business directly into the world of FPGA prototyping and verification. This NewTechPress interview with Brad Quinton, founder of Veridae and now in charge…

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Can we survive the loss of Steve Jobs?

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By Lou Covey Editorial Director, Footwasher Media In the outpouring of grief over the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs has been an underlying meme of concern regarding not just the future of Apple, but the potential for disaster in the semiconductor…

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im-PART-ing Knowledge, Understanding Component Engineering Series Part 2: Resistors

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By Douglas Alexander and Brian Steeves, CE Consultants Special to Footwasher Media http://www.componentsengineering.com My first up close and personal experience with a resistor was a 9V transistor radio in the middle of a Dodgers baseball game in 1959…

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A real Job's bill: Drive technology innovation & save us from ourselves

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By Bernard Gizzi, Eclipse Design Technologies Special to Footwasher Media This month we lost an industry pioneer and a master innovator who created wealth for the masses. Steve Jobs had the knack for taking technology, with all its 1’s and 0’s, innate…

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Im-PART-ing Knowledge: Understanding Component Engineering

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Editor's note: This is the first in an irregular series of articles about component engineering. By Douglas Alexander, Component Engineer Special to Footwasher Media A few years back, an employee of a capacitor manufacturer left the company and stole…

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DIY solar can drive industry as subsidies decrease

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By IdaRose Sylvester Senior Correspondent, Footwasher Media By 2020, California plans to generate 20,000 MW from renewable resources, one-third the current usage and triple the current renewable power, with 60% from “localized” sources, generated at or…

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Altera looks at FPGA Verification and Prototyping

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FPGA's have become as complex at Gate Arrays and verification of FPGA-based systems has become just as difficult and time consuming as their standardized cousins. Every year, there are new companies that claim to make that verification process simple…

over 4 years ago
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Solar on the roof, and getting it to stay there

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Once you get past what technology you are going to use, figuring out how to connect it to the grid and getting all the approvals, the question you need to ask is how do you attach solar panels it to the roof itself. It's not as cut and dried as it may…

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Ben Heck transforms his apartment into a “smart home” in new episode of element14’s “The Ben Heck Show”

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Ben Heck transforms his apartment into a “smart home” in new episode of element14’s “The Ben Heck Show” CHICAGO - July 25, 2011 - In the latest episode of the “ The Ben Heck Show ,” sponsored by element14 , the first collaborative community and electronics…

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element14 offers PCB Fabrication Service to streamline design cycle through partnership with Pentalogix

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element14 offers PCB Fabrication Service to streamline design cycle through partnership with Pentalogix 　 To further support the design process from concept to prototype, element14 , the first collaborative engineering community and electronics store…

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Modder master Ben Heck channels Masterpiece Theater persona to answer fan questions and collaborate on new builds in latest episode of element14’s “The Ben Heck Show”

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London – 18 April 2011 – element14 , a collaborative social community and electronics store for design engineers and electronics enthusiasts, and modding guru Benjamin J. Heckendorn, a.k.a. Ben Heck, spotlight intriguing questions and comments from the…

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