Legacy Personal Blogs

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This blog contains the legacy personal blog posts of our members, other than our Top Members whose content has been migrated into individual blogs in this area. Our new platform does not have personal blogs so this is how we have preserved the personal blog posts of our members from the Jive platform. No new posts will be permitted in this blog. Instead, if you wish to create blog content, please post it in the blog in the most appropriate topic area.

Fw: AT91SAM 32-bit ARM based Microcontrollers

kennyxie

Atmel's AT91SAM 32-bit ARM Flash MCUs and Embedded MPUs are designed for system control, wired & wireless connectivity, user interface management, low power and ease of use. They have received wide acceptance in markets like POS terminals, securi...
- 14 Nov 2009
Emlink ICE for Blackfin - USB-JTAG Emulator for DSP

kennyxie

For more details, please feel free to visit: http://www.embedinfo.com/en/list.asp?id=36. Emlink ICE for Blackfin is a new-generation high-speed real time JTAG adapter, debugs the Blackfin DSP processors through ADI VisualDSP++ IDE. Emlink connec...
- 13 Nov 2009
Emlink for ARM - The USB-JTAG Debugger for ARM processors

kennyxie

For more details, please feel free to visit: http://www.embedinfo.com/en/list.asp?id=42. Emlink for ARM is a new-generation high-speed real time JTAG adapter, debugs the ARM Cortex-M3 processors through Keil Realview MDK and IAR EWARM. Emlink co...
- 12 Nov 2009
STM32F103ZE ARM Cortex-M3 Board

kennyxie

For more details, please feel free to visit: http://www.embedinfo.com/en/list.asp?id=31. The STM32F103ZEH6STM32F103ZEH6 is an ARM embedded evaluation board produced by Embest, integrate the STMicroelectronic ARM Cortex-M3 core-based processor ST...
- 12 Nov 2009
ATMEL AT91SAM3U ARM Cortex-M3 Board

kennyxie

For more details, please visit: http://www.embedinfo.com/en/list.asp?id=48. The AT91SAM3U ARM-CM3 Board is an ARM embedded evaluation board produced by Embest, integrate the ATMEL Cortex-M3 core-based processor AT91SAM3U4E, operating at 84 MHz f...
- 12 Nov 2009
Introduce Evaluation Boards based on NXP Cortex-M3 Controllers

kennyxie

For more details, please visit: http://www.embedinfo.com/en/list.asp?id=38. The LPC1758 evaluation board is based on ARM Cortex-M3 processor from NXP, its operating frequency is up to 100MHz, with 512KB high-speed on-Chip Flash Memory and 64KB R...
- 12 Nov 2009
"The LED's Dark Secret"

Muju4mFrnL

An article I found in IEEE Spectrum very relevant very informative worth reading fascinating and deeply researched article focusing on the major problem with the high brightness LEDs talking about Droop Effect in white and blue LED. Which...
- 10 Nov 2009
On being a slacker

e14 Contributor

As you might have guessed my screen name says I am a slacker, but I bet itmeans something different to me than it suggest to you.You see slacker is a shortened form of Slackware User, not somebody who doesnot do much. It is one of those terms that ha...
- 8 Nov 2009
What are NPN and PNP outputs on sensors?

jhayden

The outputs of some sensors will behave like transistors, when a sensor senses an object it will trigger the transistor controlling the output (which essentially acts like a switch) and depending on its design it’ll act as an...
- 2 Nov 2009
The Internet at 40: What does the future hold?

e14 Contributor

Forty years ago today two computers, one at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and one at Stanford, communicated with one another, giving rise to what is now known as the Internet. Leonard Kleinrock, a member of the team at ...
- 28 Oct 2009
The Environment Con.

FredM

We are being fed a daily diet of pseudo-scientific garbage.. Lets take one of these.. Recycling.. I am surrounded by yoghurt pot collectors - these people collect waste plastic containers, wash them in hot water till you could use them in an ope...
- 21 Oct 2009
Video for product demonstrations...

Ben_Green_Harwin

With the increase in broadband usage and savvy users wanting to find out information as quickly as possible, video is the best way for us to demonstrate new product information online. As well as that, in a world of facts, figures and technical infor...
- 20 Oct 2009
Negative feedback

Ben_Green_Harwin

Website development takes up a lot of our time and resources at Harwin, and we feel a certain amount of pride when we hear positive feedback from our users. But of far more use to us is the negative. Though it doesn't happen as often, when it does it...
- 15 Oct 2009
What is the difference between inductive and capacitive sensors?

jhayden

Inductive sensors use a magnetic field to detect objects. Capacitive sensors use an electric field. In order to be sensed by an inductive sensor an object must be conducti...
- 12 Oct 2009
What’s the difference between Multicomp’s Vapo Bearing fans and a normal sleeve bearing fan?

jhayden

The fans from the Multicomp brand that feature the “Vapo Bearing” have an extra magnet in the motor and shaft area. This extra magnet helps to stabilize the rotating fan reducing fric...
- 8 Oct 2009
New Release: MAX16065/66. These devices monitor and sequence as many as twelve power supplies.

e14 Contributor

What this product does: The MAX16065 manages up to twelve supply voltages simultaneously, and the MAX16066 manages up to eight supply voltages. Why it's good: The devices eliminate the need for external current-sense amplifiers to mo...
- 7 Oct 2009
Hydrogen Fuel Cell.

Muju4mFrnL

Fuel cells can possibly power any thing from tiny microchips to car and power plants. What is a fuel cell? A fuel cell is a device that generates electricity by a chemical reaction. Every fuel cell has two electrodes, one positive an...
- 7 Oct 2009
What is a “Peltier”?

jhayden

A “Peltier” is a solid state Thermoelectric Module. When powered, it acts like a solid state heat pump (thanks to the Peltier effect) that transfers heat from one side of the device to the other. Computer enthusiasts sometimes place the w...
- 29 Sep 2009
New Kid on the Block - Altium Nanoboard 3000

e14 Contributor

Recently I received an e-newsletter from Altium, introducing their newly launched NanoBoard 3000 which they label “smarter than your average board”. What caught my attention is the content highlighted in the e-newsletter that “it comes with everythin...
- 25 Sep 2009
Ribbed and Ribless

ethan-yo

wondering about the best way to explain ribbed and ribless design... Attachments:
- 23 Sep 2009
Testo della Petizione publicata su http://www.firmiamo.it/modifichiamoildpr328

e14 Contributor

A: Presidente del Consiglio, Parlamento e Ordini professionaliTo: Parlamento Italiano La riforma dell'ordinamento professionale introdotta con il DPR 328 riforma l'albo degli Ingegneri in tre differenti classi distinguendo i compiti di ciascuna class...
- 17 Sep 2009
September 09-09-09 I had to post on today's date!

rtrevino

I'm working with Agilent for the next two days. They have a mobile demonstration unit and we will be onsite supporting them at the University of Michigan and Michigan State. I hope to learn more about their products and meet some new peop...
- 10 Sep 2009
Intuitive Simulation

JohnDSiviter

Being playing with Proteus and Target 3001 over the past week or so, every EDA tool I have used seems to lack in one regard or another, for instance OrCAD while having superb analogue simulation abilities has an old fashioned interface and has a stee...
- 25 Aug 2009
Never look a gift horse (or 2,500 of them) in the mouth

M0DCD

It lurked at the back of a railway yard somewhere in England's largest county, having been consigned for recycling (well scrap to us), but the deal with the buyer had fallen through and it just sat there. Came along the summer and someone asked if we...
- 11 Aug 2009
Mixed Layout Connectors

Ben_Green_Harwin

This by Wendy Bourne, conector expert from Harwin- Mixed Layout Connectors – Custom product at standard prices By Wendy Bourne, technical support engineer, Harwin Size, weight, performance, cost. Those a...
- 10 Aug 2009