| | Featured Book | | -Archive- |  Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics: Fundamentals, Biomedical Applications, and Bio-Inspired Systems
by Sarpeshkar
Cambridge University Press | | March Giveaway - Win! | | -Archive- |  Each month, the winner can choose from a list of my engineering books and other items. Brian A. was the February winner. Click on icon for details. New titles from Artech House added in March. | | Cool Pic | | -Archive- |  Imagine if the standard physical meter bar in France was stored in a room where a coffee machine was set next to it after 100 years of being alone. Suddenly, metrologists began to notice that the meter was seemingly getting longer. Alarmists began screaming that the Earth was getting smaller, portending certain doom as it would surely fracture and crumble. Former high-ranking politicians and preferred group leaders became multi-millionaires by exploiting the lack of applied rigor in the scientific method. Entire economies were upset because anyone questioning the veracity of measurements of exalted scientists was impugned as a "hater of science." Nah, it could never happen. | | Smorgasbord | | -Archive- | A Backwards Extension
of Moore's Law
source: (Intel) |  Assuming the data used is accurate, this chart indicates that Moore's Law describing (not governing) IC evolution, when applied to computing efficiency, reaches back to the first digital computer - ENIAC. A study titled, "Assessing Trends in the Electrical Efficiency of Computation Over Time" found that when computing power as a function of electrical power usage is plotted, it doubles approximately every 18 months. Engineers expect the trend to continue. If the chart had resembled a hockey stick, I would have dismissed it as junk science. |
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| | New Webinar | | -Archive- | | | Notable Quote | | -Archive- | | "It's not always clear at what point you want to stop honoring people for being creative and instead put them in jail." - Lee Gomes, Forbes, re tech bubble. | | Videos for Engineers | | - Archive - |  A few years back, MIT began a program of publishing videos of many full courses, including the electrical engineering curriculum. This particular video from course number 6.002 covers MOSFET amplifiers. On-screen captioning follows the popular Professor Anant Agarwal's performance as he speed-writes/draws on the multi-layered electric chalkboard. A full transcript is provided for each lecture. It is a great way to brush up for an impending interview. | | ! Engineering Grads ! | | AWR just announced it is giving away full copies of its MWO and VSS software to qualified BS, MS, and PhD engineering grads. This is a gift worth thousands of dollars! Pass this news along. | | Cool Product | | -Archive- |  ISEE has developed a compact, low-cost, robust 24 GHz radar sensor (ISM Band included) for automotive, industrial or home applications. Consisting of a planar antenna, a 24 GHz front-end and an OMAP3530 processor unit for signal processing, it measures distances (25 m ±20 mm typical), velocity or properties of objects with  high accuracy. The system uses a linear FM CW signal. Lunar Lander X-Prize contestants were all begging for something like this a couple years ago (I know because I received many e-mails looking for such a product). Price is only 145€ ($200). | | Press Releases | | 2010 Archive | Z-Comm Introduces Fixed Frequency S-Band Synthesizer: SFS2365A-LF | | Connector City and Mouser Electronics Announce Worldwide Distribution Agreement | | Only 1 More Week for the MegaPhase “Cash for Cables” Trade-In Program | | RFMD Achieves Milestone in Commercialization of High-Performance Photovoltaic Cells | | AWR Graduate Gift Initiative Provides Graduating Engineering Students with Tools to Succeed | | Harsh Environment Packaging Available from Empower RF Systems | | RFHIC Introduces High Efficiency GaN Pallet Amp | | KR Electronics Introduces 115 MHz Bandpass Filter |
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