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Improving Proximity and Touch Interfaces: Capacitive Sensors with Auto-Calibration
Making Energy Personal
Embedded Energy: Integrating Energy Storage for Power on Chip
Designing For Low Power
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Recognize the Threat and Secure the Smart Meter
12/03/12 Security for the smart grid has made headlines over the last several years, showing there is still much work to be done, especially to protect “endpoints” like meters and grid sensors.
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Semiconductor GPU IP Faces Cloud Division
11/29/12 Cloud computing offers many challenges including the division of graphic-processing IP and rendering tasks between the mobile device and cloud-based servers....
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All About the Fifth Play, Smart Home and Smart Energy
11/29/12 The home area network and the smart energy network need to be considered as separate and independent; one controlled by the utility and virtually invisible for the consumer; the other the consumer-controlled home network, which will help the consumer live in a smart home.
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IEEE-Commissioned Smart Grid Survey Conducted by Zpryme Indicates Strong Growth Potential for Energy Storage, Distributed Generation and Microgrids
11/28/12 Findings from Survey of 460 Global Smart Grid Executives Show How the Technologies...
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IEEE-Commissioned Smart Grid Survey Conducted by Zpryme Indicates Strong Growth Potential for Energy Storage, Distributed Generation and Microgrids
11/28/12 Findings from Survey of 460 Global Smart Grid Executives Show How the Technologies...
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Maxim Integrated and RadioPulse Collaborate to Provide Highly Integrated ZigBee Solutions for the Smart Grid
11/07/12 Maxim's partnership provides a comprehensive solution that saves customers time, board space,...
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FRAM-based MCUs Bring Advanced Security to Low-Power Applications
11/05/12 Security is becoming increasingly important in a wide range of applications including smartphone...
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New Products
Accent New ASMgrid2 Chip Offering Brings Leading Metrology And Communications Capability From Single Phase To Three Phase Smart Meter Applications 12/05/12
Axiomtek Launched 3rd Gen Intel® Core™ ATX Motherboard with C216 PCH - IMB208 12/04/12
60V, LED Controller with Internal PWM Generator for Boost, Buck or Buck-Boost High Current LED Applications 12/03/12
ON Semiconductor Expands Constant Current Regulator Offering for Solid State Lighting Systems 12/03/12
Recognize the Threat and Secure the Smart Meter 12/03/12
Flux Power Adds Key Functionality to its Advanced Energy Storage Systems to Address Growing Solar and Grid Storage Market 11/30/12
All About the Fifth Play, Smart Home and Smart Energy 11/29/12
GE’s Grid IQ™ ‘Solutions as a Service’ is Key Internet Technology Helping Utilities to Develop Modern Grid 11/29/12
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11/29/12 Semiconductor GPU IP Faces Cloud Division
Cloud computing offers many challenges including the division of graphic-processing IP and rendering...
Chris A. Ciufo on All Things Embedded
10/29/12 “MicroFlix”…Funny name; how crazy would it be if Netflix joined the Microsoft Family?
If Microsoft were to buy Netflix - and it's a big "if", since it's only a rumor - MSFT could join Apple,...
Nick MacKechnie-Stuck somewhere between family life and IT...
04/25/12 How Microsoft IT Implemented Disaster Recovery in the Datacenter
Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the publication of How Microsoft IT Implemented Disaster...
Discourse on Embedded Signal Processing
12/03/11 DSPBridge Open Source DSP Development On OMAP
The DSPBridge project allows open-source developers to use the OMAP processor’s on-chip DSP with...
#MARKETS: "10 electronics visionaries to watch" / (NextGenLog)
EE Times is celebrating its 40th anniversary, with special articles to celebrate the innovators who made the electronics industry what it is today, as well as the visionaries who are taking it forward: R. Colin JohnsonDavid Shepler was the Jeopardy Challenge Program Manager at IBM Research (shown here giving pointers to...
Electronica’s CEO Roundtable Tackles the Smart Grid / (EEBeat)
Unless you’ve spent the past year in a cave, and possibly even then, you know that the European financial crises remains top of mind for everyone who does business on this side of the pond. And while financial markets are no longer in a state of emergency over Europe’s high government debts and weak banks, [...]...
Smart Meters Help Utility Speed Sandy Restoration / (Technology Review Feed - Energy Top Stories)
Smart grid technologies can make the grid to recover quicker from storms, as utility Pepco is finding out.As power utilities work to restore electricity service to millions of people in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, at least one utility has found its investment in smart meters is making a difference....
Blog Post: Wolverine for Halloween – TI employees celebrate availability of MSP430FR59xx “Wolverine”-based microcontrollers / (TI E2E Community)
This year for Halloween, TI MCU employees celebrated the holiday and the availability of the new ultra-low-power MSP430FR59xx microcontrollers (based on TI’s revolutionary “Wolverine” technology platform) by dressing up as Wolverine for Halloween! TI’s “Wolverine” technology...
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Improving Proximity and Touch Interfaces: Capacitive Sensors with Auto-Calibration
Human interfaces that use capacitive sensors for proximity or touch control are changing the way we interact with electronics.
Making Energy Personal
The power grid is becoming smarter and better equipped to keep up with user demand and reduce costs for utilities. While smart grid infrastructure is being updated to be more connected and efficient, it is essential that end users monitor and manage their own consumption in order to level demand and reduce overall usage.
Embedded Energy: Integrating Energy Storage for Power on Chip
This paper introduces several new concepts for micro-power chip design. These concepts are based on the fundamental power distribution and energy storage techniques deployed in advanced power grid architectures.
Designing For Low Power
Power consumption is becoming an increasingly important variable when it comes to calculating OPEX and carbon footprint for telecom infrastructure projects.
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by Microchip Technology Inc.
Communications is the backbone of the global smart grid and Microchip Technology offers three mainstream communications technologies used for products in the home area networ
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by Microchip Technology Inc.
One thrust of the smart grid vision is bringing awareness of energy consumption to consumers. Next generation designs are incorporating energy measurement capabilities that r
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by Microchip Technology Inc.
Microchip supports several families of microcontrollers with on-chip LCD driver control. The breadth of the LCD segment drivers, package sizes, and integrated features for en
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by Microchip Technology Inc.
Applications in the energy market continue to push toward lower power consumption. For example, electric meter tracking time during a power outage, the battery powered gas or
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by IXYS
IXOLAR™ SolarMD is an IXYS product line of Solar Module made of monocrystalline, high efficiency solar cells. The IXOLARTM SolarMD is an ideal for charging various battery