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Bridging the Gap

The Real World Meets Innovation At The Avnet Tech Games

by Amelia Dalton

In this week’s Fish Fry, I interview Joe Tillison (Technical Director for Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas) about the upcoming Avnet Tech Games. From racing robots to a new game called “Kevin’s High-Tech Home Makeover”, Joe and I sort through the details of the Avnet Tech Games and chat about why the these games aren’t like your average high tech scholarship contests. Also this week, I dig into my mailbag and come up with a sponsorship opportunity for industrious engineers.

I have another (yes really!!) MAX V CPLD development kit courtesy of Altera to give away this week, but you’ll have to find out how to win. Read More

Industry News

January 27, 2012

Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems and Sensors Division Selects LynuxWorks LynxOS RTOS for UK AWACS

Marsh Bellofram Announces Global Market Introduction of UPA-200 High-Voltage Power Alert Series

Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry’s First Reference Clock Multiplier for Receiver Test

One Stop Systems Demos PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 3 Products at Embedded World 2012, Germany

MEMS Industry Group Launches MEMS Executive Congress Europe

Agilent Technologies to Demonstrate Newest High-Speed Digital Design and Test Solutions at DesignCon 2012

Unique Online Platform Will Enable Patent And Trademark Holders to Auction Products and Product Rights

MSC presents further ARM based Qseven Module Family

Microsemi Acquires Timing, Synchronization and Synthesis Business from Maxim Integrated Products

ACE announces ABI testing in Rembrandt Release of the SuperTest compiler test and validation suite

January 26, 2012

Meggitt Sensing Systems Introduces Endevco® Radiation Hardened Accelerometers Operating to +399°C

Bilayer Graphene Works as an Insulator

Build Secure Applications with ITTIA DB SQL

Advantech selects Innovasic Semiconductor’s Industrial Ethernet Solution for their Profinet Communication Coupler

Xilinx Discusses Stacked Silicon Interconnect Technologies and Demonstrates Newest 28nm 7 Series FPGAs at DesignCon 2012

LPI Joins the Linux Foundation

New COM-Express Mini Module Targets Handheld/Portable Applications

Elliptic Technologies Debuts Security Engine For 4G LTE Mobile Backhaul Applications

Agilent Technologies Introduces Add-In Extensions for Compliance Application Software

Cypress’s New Tx-Boost™ Feature for TrueTouch® Touchscreen Controllers Delivers Three Times Higher Signal-to-Noise Ratio Without Using Digital Filters

Apache Sponsors Chip-Packaage-System Workshops at DesignCon

Synopsys Collaborates with Sigrity to Accelerate Signal Integrity Analysis

Digi-Key Corporation Signs Global Distribution Agreement with LEMO

January 25, 2012

Compact, low-cost and fast hyperspectral imaging solution

Visure Solutions’ IRQA Offers Requirements Engineering Solution for Embedded Systems

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A New Set of Requirements

posted by Bryon Moyer

A requirements tool tries to make a difference as it enters the embedded market. (Today)

Establishing 3D IC Standards – Or Not

posted by Bryon Moyer

An upcoming DesignCon panel will debate what does and does not need to be standardized in the 3D IC world. (Yesterday)

Extending Macrocell Life

posted by Bryon Moyer

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A Faster Fourier Transform

posted by Bryon Moyer

One of DSP’s basic building blocks just got faster. (19-Jan)

Speeding up FLASH

posted by Bryon Moyer

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Helicopter drone flies HD camera through a snowstorm

Yeah yeah yeah, I know...I was born in Alaska. "Storm" is one of those relative terms. But yes, cool RC machine for sure. smiling

Posted on 01/27/12 at 10:15 PM by LauraDomela

Helicopter drone flies HD camera through a snowstorm

Snow "storm"? That's barely a light flurry. Experience a blizzard where you can't see 10 feet away in a total white-out, and then you'll know what a "storm" is. Cool R/C machine by the way.

- Ex-Minnesotan

Posted on 01/27/12 at 10:08 PM by bkmosch

The PC In Your Ear

True enough, but for many people a "PC" is, by definition, something that runs Windows.

Posted on 01/27/12 at 9:25 PM by Jim Turley

Bridging the Gap

I check out the Avnet Tech Games in this week's Fish Fry. Joe Tillison and I chat about innovation, helping those in need and how fun mentoring and teaching can be. What do you think the role of engineering mentors should be?

Posted on 01/27/12 at 5:22 PM by amelia

After software, what's next?

During six-plus decades of adherence to the Turing paradigm, the computer field has reaped the benefits of ever- faster and -denser (and -reliable) hardware. Over the same span of decades, the creation and maintenance of software hasn’t gotten any easier ...

Posted on 01/27/12 at 2:53 PM by CharlieM

Tools for the Gifted

Yes, there are several open source tools that are useful, including Wireshark and SCAPY, among others. The P+ 1000 provides additional control and interactivity that is not available with any open source or other commercial tools.

For example, using...

Posted on 01/27/12 at 2:44 PM by RickDenker

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