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EDN - General Articles

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  Challenges and design decisions for measuring multicore performance

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  The type of multicore processor you choose and the type of parallelism you apply in your application code will greatly affect the performance you will achieve. To ensure that you meet your goals, closely examine the benchmark scores produced by an industry-standard suite of multicore benchmarks.
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  The case of the stolen capacitor

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  Tales From The Cube: An engineering change order erases a design's input stabilizing capacitance, with costly results.
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  Voices: Pentek’s Rodger Hosking: next-generation-radio architect

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  EDN talks with Rodger Hosking, vice president and co-founder of Pentek Inc, about high-performance data-acquisition, software-defined radio, upcoming technical opportunities, hiring engineering talent, and more.
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  Module targets embedded-system design

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  Building on its popular FPGA-based PXI (PCI extensions for instrumentation), PC, and CompactRIO (reconfigurable-input/output) platforms, National Instruments has announced a new line of single-board RIO modules that offers a lower-cost, integrated-hardware option for embedded control and data-acquisition applications.
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  Touch-panel controller targets media-device interfaces

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  Atmel, in the form of its recently acquired subsidiary, Quantum Research Group, has introduced a touch controller that combines a slider control with buttons, an integrated LED controller, and GPIO (general-purpose-input/output) functions.
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  Using FPGAs in consumer electronics

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  In cost-sensitive consumer-electronics products, customization is a highly desirable feature for differentiating your product from competitors' offerings. The inclusion of FPGAs can be affordable, even in low-range and midrange products, but still allows customization through some unique features.
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  Optimize memory-system design for multimedia applications

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  The convergence of video and communications in inexpensive unified-memory architectures has made DRAM the most important and the highest-performance target in any system.
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  Prying apart a portable audio player

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  Prying Eyes: A look inside Sandisk's Sansa M250 reveals platform minded design decisions, surprising flash-memory choices, and potential hacks.
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  Oil prices, technology, and the cost of ignorance

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  Many opportunities exist to use a little understanding, a little technology, and a little capital to make a significant decrease in fuel consumption. But rest assured that these things will not happen.
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  1-Wire network controls remote SPI peripherals

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  This circuit controls a remote LED display by the 1-wire network through an SPI-compatible display controller.
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  Extend monolithic programmable-resistor-adjustment range with active negative resistance

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  An op amp in a negative-resistance topology subtracts the minimum programmable resistance from the total programmed resistance of a solid-state resistor.
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  Proportional-ac-power controller doles out whole cycles of ac line

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  A pulsed current mirror comprising discrete transistors drives LEDs from a low voltage, avoiding thermal runaway.
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  Platinum-RTD-based circuit provides high performance with few components

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  A low-cost and low component count circuit provides an accurate output voltage from a platinum RTD.
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  Shedding light on embedded debugging

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  Embedded debugging gets a lot of attention for being a schedule and resource hog, but there may be more to it than just fixing bad software.
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  Handcrafted analog gets automated assist

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  EDA tools address simulation, verification, and layout for mixed-signal designs.

LinuxDevices.com

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  First $100 laptop runs Linux

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  In October, Shenzhen China-based HiVision will ship a MIPs-based Linux mini-notebook for $98. The company is currently offering a similar machine for $120, according to a video blog report from the Internationale Funkausstellunga (IFA) consumer electronics show in Berlin this week.
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  First Linux on Everest

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  Linux thin client specialist Igel has created a Linux operating system image for a rugged panel PC designed for vehicle-mounted and industrial applications. The Igel-5310 LX Premium Image works with Glacier's Everest PC (pictured), available with a 600 MHz Celeron or 1.4GHz Pentium M processor.
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  Dell ships Ubuntu- and Atom-based netbook

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  Dell announced its first netbook, a $350 Intel Atom-based model loaded with Ubuntu Linux 8.04. The Inspiron Mini 9 offers a 1.6GHz Atom N270, up to 1GB SDRAM, an 8.9-inch, 1024 X 600 display, three USB ports, Ethernet, and a 4GB solid-state drive.
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  Smallest x86 board ever?

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  Lippert has upped the maximum amount of RAM available soldered onto its CoreExpress-ECO computer-on-module (COM). Now available with 2GB of RAM, and targeting mobile embedded PC applications, the 28-gram, Intel Atom-based board uses Lippert's own 2.3 x 2.6 inch (58 x 65mm) "CoreExpress" COM format.
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  MontaVista Vision gains focus

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  MontaVista Software announced additional details about its Vision 2008 Embedded Linux Developers Conference. Scheduled for Oct. 1-3 in San Francisco, Vision 2008 will offer more than 40 sessions, with presentations from embedded Linux experts including MontaVista CTO James Ready and Freescale Semiconductor CTO Lisa Su
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  "Olympics" phone runs Linux

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  China Unicom is distributing a Samsung Electronics phone that runs a mobile Linux stack from Mizi Research, a company that will soon be acquired by Wind River. Samsung's "Olympics" phone, also called the SCH-i859, is equipped with a Marvell PXA300 processor and a 2.8-inch touchscreen.
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  Android Challenge winners push location awareness

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  Google and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) have announced the final winners for part one of the Android Developer Challenge. The OHA granted ten $275,000 awards and ten $100,000 awards for the best applications created for the Linux- and Java-based Android mobile phone platform.
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  Atmel-based industrial SBC runs Linux

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  Taiwanese industrial computing specialist Artila Electronics is shipping a single-board computer (SBC) for industrial applications. The M-508 Linux Computer and its temperature-resistant M-508T twin are based on ARM9 Atmel processors clocked to 180MHz, and include a preloaded version of Artila's Linux 2.6.14 based distribution.
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  Atom squeezes onto Pico-ITX board

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  Axiomtek has announced what it says is the world's first pico-ITX SBC (single board computer) packing Intel's Atom processor. The PICO820 offers 1.1GHz or 1.6GHz Z5xx CPUs, gigabit Ethernet, a SATA port, a VGA port, and headers for four serial ports, the company says.
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  Via frees Chrome graphics driver source

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  Via has released an open source Linux "Xorg" driver for its integrated graphics chips. Announced in a blog by open source leader and new Via consultant Harald Welte, the "chrome" driver release follows up on Via's vow to start opening up its chipsets to the open source development community.
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  Webinar dissects Linux multicore migration

  Fetched: September 5th, 2008, 10:54am CST

  A free webinar aims to show embedded Linux developers how to migrate existing code to a multi-core environment. Hosted by MontaVista Software, Freescale Semiconductor, and TechOnline, the Sept 11 webinar will use the multi-core Freescale QorIQ P4080 and MPC8641D processors as examples.

Macworld

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  Adobe, NFL bring live Sunday Night Football to Internet

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 8:36am CST

  Adobe and the NFL are bringing live games to the Internet via Flash.

EETimes

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  GaAs device market grew 17% in 2007

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 8:20am CST

  The gallium arsenide device market was worth $3.6 billion in 2007, up 17 percent year-to-year, according to market research consulting firm Strategy Analytics. The top three vendors accounted for more than 50 percent of the market, the firm said.
  
  

InformationWeek Hardware News

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  Imagination Reportedly Signs Chip Licensing Deal With Apple

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 7:48am CST

  The agreement may be an indication that Imagination is following ARM Holdings, which is believed to have granted Apple a license to design system-on-chips with its processor core.
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  Acer Seeks Record Notebook PC Sales

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 7:30am CST

  The world's third-biggest PC supplier expects sales of Aspire One, which competes with Asustek Computer's Eee PC, to exceed 1 million units in September.

Macworld

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  Google touts iPhone, Chrome browser

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 6:44am CST

  Even as Google prepares to launch its own mobile computing platform, a company executive heaped praise on Apple’s iPhone Thursday.
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  What’s at stake for Apple at Tuesday’s iPod event

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 6:09am CST

  After a summer where major product releases were marred by glitches, the best thing Apple can do at Tuesday’s special event is unveil a product that ships when it’s supposed to and works as advertised.

EETimes

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  UWB to ship in wireless HD-video role

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 5:56am CST

  UWB isn't about to distribute video around a home via a wireless link, but it may finally offer an alternative to the HDMI cable. While the wireless alternative can enhance functionality compared to a cable, in terms of inputs and distance between source and destination, the technology remains very expensive for now.
  
  
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  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 5:56am CST

  

InformationWeek Hardware News

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  'Nation's Largest Wi-Fi Network' Launched By Cablevision

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 4:48am CST

  The network is available in high-traffic areas on Long Island, N.Y., at no additional charge to customers of Cablevision's Optimum broadband service.

Macworld

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  Comcast appeals FCC’s network management order

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 4:12am CST

  Comcast has appealed an FCC order against its network management practices.
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  Adding streaming radio to Apple TV

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 3:26am CST

  Yes, you can so stream Internet radio through your Apple TV.

EETimes

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  Luminary appoints former Microchip exec to lead sales

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 3:19am CST

  Microcontroller company Luminary Micro Inc. (Austin, Texas) has named Pete Zimmer as vice president of worldwide sales. Zimmer was most recently vice president of American sales for another microcontroller vendor, Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).
  
  

Macworld

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  AppleJack 1.5

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 3:09am CST

  AppleJack is a nifty utility that lets you access a number of troubleshooting tools at startup, even if you don't have an OS X disc.

InformationWeek Hardware News

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  Online TV Viewing Rising

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 3:05am CST

  Survey respondents say the top reason for watching TV online is to view shows on demand, rather than on a channel's set schedule.

EETimes

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  ASMI waits for new Applied Materials offer

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 2:38am CST

  Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASM International said it is waiting for Applied Materials and private equity firm Francisco Partners to make another offer after having rejected an earlier bid.
  
  
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  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 2:38am CST

  

Macworld

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  O'Reilly launches iPhoneLive conference

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 2:32am CST

  O'Reilly launched a new conference called iPhoneLive that targets many aspects of development and design.

InformationWeek Hardware News

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  Dell Launches Inspiron Mini 9 Notebook

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 2:00am CST

  The computer maker's entry into the sub-$500 ultra-portable PC market includes an 8.9-inch LED display, an Intel Atom processor, and free online backup.

Macworld

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  Epson unveils new lower-priced 1080p projector

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 1:47am CST

  Epson has unveiled the PowerLite Home Cinema 6100, which it claims is the first 1080p digital projector to be offered for less than $2,000.
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  Sony recalls 73,000 Vaio laptops due to burn hazard

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 1:38am CST

  Sony is recalling 73,000 Vaio TZ laptops because of a possible manufacturing defect that may cause them to overheat.
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  BlizzCon to be televised exclusively via DirecTV

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 1:32am CST

  BlizzCon 2008 may already be sold out, but you can watch it live as it happens -- as long as you have DirecTV and want to pay $39.95.
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  BdPricer helps you compare prices on iPhone

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 1:20am CST

  BdPricer lets you compare prices on the iPhone to help you find the best deals.

Design And Reuse

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  Timing Annotation of UnTimed Functional Models for Architecture Use-Case

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 1:13am CST

  This paper provides a brief overview of PV and AV use cases. It also talks about the timing annotation concepts and a case study of annotating an L2CC (Level 2 Cache Controller) model with timing.

Intel Press Room

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  Intel Named to 2008-09 Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes for 10th Straight Year

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 1:06am CST

  SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 4, 2008 – For the 10th straight year, Intel Corporation is in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI), a recognition it has received since the Indexes were created.

Macworld

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  PCalc 3.3 for Mac OS X released

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 12:54am CST

  A new version of PCalc for Mac OS X has been released featuring a new interface and enhanced RPN mode.
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  Aspyr ships Kaplan SAT prep game

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 12:52am CST

  FutureU is a new SAT test prep game for the Mac and PC.

InformationWeek Hardware News

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  Sony Recalls Vaio Notebooks For Overheating Problem

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 12:45am CST

  The company's Vaio TZ-series may have irregularly positioned wires and/or a dislodged screw near the computer's hinge that can cause a short circuit.

EETimes

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  Fairchild to address energy efficiency at Embedded Power Conference

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 12:40am CST

  Fairchild Semiconductor will discuss methods to increase energy efficiency in dc/dc designs at the Embedded Power Conference in San Jose, California, September 17-18.
  
  
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  LDK Solar supplies solar wafers to Solartech

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 12:32am CST

  LDK Solar, a manufacturer of solar wafers, has signed a five-year contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to Taiwan-based Solartech Energy Corp.
  
  

Design And Reuse

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  Ultra Low Power AAC Decoder ASIC Core from Silicon Ocean

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 12:25am CST

  Ultra Low Power AAC Decoder ASIC Core from Silicon Ocean

Macworld

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  Gain full keyboard and mouse control in 10.5’s screen sharing

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 12:24am CST

  Do you use 10.5’s screen sharing feature? Have you been frustrated by the inability to send, for instance, Command-Tab to the remote Mac? Here’'s a simple way to solve that, and other, problems.
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  Adobe to announce Creative Suite 4 on Sept. 23

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 11:31pm CST

  Adobe will take the wraps off Creative Suite 4 on September 23 with a webcast.

Design And Reuse

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  Innovative Silicon Names Michael Van Buskirk Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 11:13pm CST

  Innovative Silicon today announced that renowned memory innovator and pioneer Michael Van Buskirk has joined the company as senior vice president of engineering and operations.
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  SP Devices' time-interleaving technology in module from Texas Instruments

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 11:04pm CST

  TI today introduced an evaluation module (EVM) that combines TI's fastest 14-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) in an interleaved fashion with a Xilinx® Virtex®-5 FPGA to create the best-performing high-speed digitizer solution in the market. The FPGA comes pre-installed with SP Devices' proprietary time-interleaving technology to eliminate interleaving spurs, which enhances performance and facilitates rapid system-level evaluation for wireless communications, military, test and measurement applications.
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  IEEE 802.3 Ethernet MAC and Phys (10Mb - 40Gb) Verification IP from ExpertIO

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 11:00pm CST

  IEEE 802.3 Ethernet MAC and Phys (10Mb - 40Gb) Verification IP from ExpertIO
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  intoPIX and Omnitek launch a JPEG 2000 development kit

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 10:58pm CST

  The kit is composed of the AVDP board, fitted with a Xilinx® Virtex5® SX95T or LX110T and intoPIX’s JPEG2000 IP-Cores. The pre-installed IP-Cores on the FPGA can either be encoder and/or decoder, handles HD to 2K images at compression ratios from visually to mathematically lossless.

EETimes

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  Comment: When atoms count

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 10:30pm CST

  With the help of John Michael Williams of the Silicon Valley Technical Institute, Gabe Moretti muses about how thin process deposition layers can get.
  
  

InformationWeek Hardware News

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  Lenovo To Offer EMC Backup Service With Select ThinkPads

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 9:57pm CST

  ThinkPad SL buyers in several countries can try out the online backup service for 90 days at no charge, with a maximum of 5 GB of storage.

Macworld

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  Working Mac: Office 2008 survival guide

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 9:30pm CST

  Office 2008 offers a bunch of improvements over Microsoft's last Mac office suite. But some new features are confounding. Kirk McElhearn is here, with answers to the most common Office 2008 questions.

EETimes

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  Details finally due from AMD on "fab-lite"

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 9:29pm CST

  AMD could announce later this month a significant advance towards its long-touted fab-lite strategy that involves spinning out its Dresden, Germany fabs in a deal that includes an investment from a middle-East group to form a new company.
  
  
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  Has Imagination followed ARM's lead with Apple license?

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 9:24pm CST

  Imagination Technologies Group plc, licensor of graphics processor cores, has said it has concluded a multi-year, multi-use license agreement with an international electronics systems company. Imagination did not name the company or indicate how much money the deal might be worth.
  
  

Design And Reuse

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  Architecture-oriented C optimization, part 2: Memory and more

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 9:00pm CST

  Here's how to optimize C to account for memory alignment, cache features, endianness, and application specific instructions.
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  Architecture-oriented C optimization, part 1: DSP features

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 8:32pm CST

  Here's how C optimizations can take advantage of zero overhead loop mechanisms, hardware saturation, modulo registers, and more.

EETimes

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  Sony recalls Vaio laptops on overheating concern

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 8:30pm CST

  Japan's Sony Corp. is recalling thousands of its Vaio portable computers, citing a potential hazard that could cause them to overheat or short circuit.
  
  
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  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 8:30pm CST

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Macworld

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  Sandvox 1.5 improves media processing, pagelets

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 8:23pm CST

  Sandvox 1.5, a major upgrade to Karelia's Web site editing software, has finally been released.
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  PlayFirst brings Diner Dash to iPhone

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 8:08pm CST

  Diner Dash, the popular task management game, is now available for the iPhone.
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  Ambrosia offers Mondo Top 5 Solitaire for iPhone

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 7:57pm CST

  Mondo Top 5 Solitaire distills the five most popular solitaire card games into a single iPhone app.

EETimes

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  UK firms, government target photonics advances

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 7:56pm CST

  British companies and the U.K. government are investing £15 million in projects that should lead to more energy efficient lighting, lasers and displays.
  
  
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  Innovative Silicon grabs former Spansion CTO

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 7:51pm CST

  Innovative Silicon Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), a developer of "floating-body" silicon-on-insulator (SOI) memory has said it has appointed memory innovator and pioneer Michael Van Buskirk as senior vice president of engineering and operations. Van Buskirk comes to ISi from Spansion where he was chief technology officer and corporate vice president of engineering.
  
  

Macworld

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  Why China Mobile isn't right for Apple and the iPhone

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 7:40pm CST

  A potential deal between China Mobile and Apple has left a lot of room for speculation.
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  Review: Hear 1.0

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 7:12pm CST

  Hear enhances audio by letting you apply a range of effects via a paned interface. It is quite configurable through its 13 tabs, which have controls for modifying EQ, enhancing 3-D space, and applying limiting and compressor effects (for limiting volume peaks and generally smoothing out volumes).

EETimes

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  Acer seeks record notebook PC sales

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 6:43pm CST

  Taiwan's Acer Inc. said it expects its notebook PC sales to hit a record 3.8 million units in September, followed by further growth in October and November, despite an economic slowdown.
  
  
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  Analyst: More 3G baseband consolidation on the line

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 6:40pm CST

  There may be further consolidation amongst suppliers of UMTS/HSPA baseband chips but the possibilities are limited, with Infineon Technologies AG and Icera Inc. now the only independent sources for the parts (other than Qualcomm), following the pending merger between NXP Semiconductors/STMicroelectronics and Ericsson Mobile Platforms (EMP), according to market research analyst Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts.
  
  

Design And Reuse

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  Imagination Technologies Extends Relationship with International Electronics Systems Company with Significant Multi-year Licensing Deal

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 6:17pm CST

  Imagination Technologies reports that, further to its announcement on 6th July 2007 of an initial license agreement with an international electronics systems company, this company has now concluded a new multi-year, multi-use license agreement which gives it access to Imagination’s wide range of current and future POWERVR® graphics and video IP cores.

Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion

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  Nanowire network may provide hydrogen for fuel via nanotechnology

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 5:59pm CST by Jim Lewis

  Nanotech researchers continue to find novel nanostructures with promising applications. A web of single-crystalline titanium disilicide absorbs light efficiently and may be a useful catalyst to split water to furnish hydrogen for fuel. From Boston College, via AAAS EurekAlert “Scientists grow ‘nanonets’ able to snare added energy transfer“:

  Using two abundant and relatively inexpensive elements, Boston College chemists have produced nanonets, a flexible webbing of nano-scale wires that multiplies surface area critical to improving the performance of the wires in electronics and energy applications.

  Researchers grew wires from titanium and silicon into a two-dimensional network of branches that resemble flat, rectangular netting, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Professor Dunwei Wang and his team report in the international edition of the German Chemical Society journal Angewandte Chemie [citation].

  By creating nanonets, the team conquered a longstanding engineering challenge in nanotechnology: creating a material that is extremely thin yet maintains its complexity, a structural design large or long enough to efficiently transfer an electrical charge.

  “We wanted to create a nano structure unlike any other with a relatively large surface area,” said Wang. “The goal was to increase surface area and maintain the structural integrity of the material without sacrificing surface area and thereby improving performance.”

  —Jim

Macworld

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  Review: File storage and viewing apps for iPhone

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 5:57pm CST

  Those looking to store and view files on their iPhone have a trio of apps to chose from, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.

EETimes

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  Bosch opens APAC R&D center

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 5:54pm CST

  Bosch group has launched a regional center for research and advanced engineering in Singapore. With its Research and Technology Center Asia Pacific, the German group hopes to establish long-term R&D partnerships in the region.
  
  
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  Project aims at 32nm mask lithography and beyond

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 5:01pm CST

  In a joint R&D project, the Advanced Mask Technology Center (AMTC, Dresden), semiconductor equipment provider Vistec (Weilburg and Jena, Germany) and the German metrology institute PTB (Braunschweig) will develop technologies and measurement processes for next-generation chip production.