The document discusses recent events that have led the author to conclude that kids actually make you feel old rather than keep you young. His 15-year-old son has taken over as the head of household technology and his 12-year-old daughter questioned him about an old rotary-dial phone, asking why he didn't just use his mobile. The document also previews new technologies covered in the issue, including an IDF converter that connects PCB design tools to Google SketchUp and reviews trends in M2M, lenticular lenses, and the engineering renaissance.
Sinds 2007 biedt ATC haar partners en deelnemers de prachtige ATC jaarkalender aan. Dit jaar wordt deze vanuit AutomotiveNL gestuurd naar alle belangrijke relaties van het ATC. Er zijn in totaal 1200 stuks gemaakte.
De bedrijven die dit jaar op de kalender staan zijn:
ACE
LMS International
Modine Uden B.V.
Topic Automatisering B.V.
DAF Trucks N.V.
NXP Semiconductors
Viro Engineering BV
Gemco Mobile Systems BV
TNO Industrie en Techniek
Duvedec Europe B.V.
Tegema Group
Hempflax BV
The document summarizes an event called the LESI Global Technology Impact Forum that will take place in Geneva, Switzerland on January 24-25, 2012. The forum aims to coordinate efforts between organizations dedicated to promoting intellectual property licensing and technology transfer. Key topics to be discussed include developing global standards for IP valuation and accounting, creating economic marketplaces for IP, and facilitating technology transfer to developing nations. The event provides an opportunity for networking and collaboration between leadership of participating organizations.
The document is an excerpt from an Iso-Tech product guide showcasing their line of multimeters and test equipment. It provides specifications for several of their industrial handheld multimeter models, including the IDM100 and IDM90 series. The IDM100 series are rugged meters with water resistant cases and protected inputs, while the IDM90 series are more basic but still suitable for most electrical and electronic applications. Both product lines offer features like AC/DC voltage and current measurement ranges, resistance and continuity testing, and frequency counting.
This document is a brochure from RS Components that provides an overview of their automation solutions from leading brands like ABB, Bosch Rexroth, Crouzet/Crydom, and others. It highlights some of their key product offerings like MCB circuit breakers, DIN rail relays, contactors, and more. The brochure aims to help customers choose solutions for their automation and control needs from a range of trusted brands available through RS Components.
Mount Saint Helens is a volcano located in Washington state. It erupted in 1980, causing widespread destruction and damage across the surrounding area. The eruption was one of the most disastrous in United States history.
Sinds 2007 biedt ATC haar partners en deelnemers de prachtige ATC jaarkalender aan. Dit jaar wordt deze vanuit AutomotiveNL gestuurd naar alle belangrijke relaties van het ATC. Er zijn in totaal 1200 stuks gemaakte.
De bedrijven die dit jaar op de kalender staan zijn:
ACE
LMS International
Modine Uden B.V.
Topic Automatisering B.V.
DAF Trucks N.V.
NXP Semiconductors
Viro Engineering BV
Gemco Mobile Systems BV
TNO Industrie en Techniek
Duvedec Europe B.V.
Tegema Group
Hempflax BV
The document summarizes an event called the LESI Global Technology Impact Forum that will take place in Geneva, Switzerland on January 24-25, 2012. The forum aims to coordinate efforts between organizations dedicated to promoting intellectual property licensing and technology transfer. Key topics to be discussed include developing global standards for IP valuation and accounting, creating economic marketplaces for IP, and facilitating technology transfer to developing nations. The event provides an opportunity for networking and collaboration between leadership of participating organizations.
The document is an excerpt from an Iso-Tech product guide showcasing their line of multimeters and test equipment. It provides specifications for several of their industrial handheld multimeter models, including the IDM100 and IDM90 series. The IDM100 series are rugged meters with water resistant cases and protected inputs, while the IDM90 series are more basic but still suitable for most electrical and electronic applications. Both product lines offer features like AC/DC voltage and current measurement ranges, resistance and continuity testing, and frequency counting.
This document is a brochure from RS Components that provides an overview of their automation solutions from leading brands like ABB, Bosch Rexroth, Crouzet/Crydom, and others. It highlights some of their key product offerings like MCB circuit breakers, DIN rail relays, contactors, and more. The brochure aims to help customers choose solutions for their automation and control needs from a range of trusted brands available through RS Components.
Mount Saint Helens is a volcano located in Washington state. It erupted in 1980, causing widespread destruction and damage across the surrounding area. The eruption was one of the most disastrous in United States history.
Lawrence Harvey is a boutique recruitment agency focused on the European and Scandinavian upstream oil and gas markets. They take a consultative approach to understand both client and candidate needs fully before making any introductions. They have experienced significant growth and have a wide network of contacts built through regular networking events.
Giotto di Bondone was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect during the Italian Renaissance who abandoned medieval artistic limitations. Born in 1267 in Colle di Vespignano, he was a shepherd in childhood before moving to Florence to study under Cimabue. His paintings from 1290/1300 depicted religious characters and emotions like charity, despair, and envy through feelings and religious expression.
The document provides information about ABB's Din Rail terminal products, including their Series 5000 and SNK terminal blocks. It highlights key features such as their modern design, improved marking visibility, enhanced rail assembly process, and trouble-free connection design. The document also provides product codes and descriptions for various terminal types, including standard, triple deck, earth, and feed-through terminals, as well as disconnect terminals and component plugs.
Giotto di Bondone was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect during the Italian Renaissance who abandoned medieval artistic limitations. Born in 1267 in Colle di Vespignano, he was a shepherd in childhood before moving to Florence to study under Cimabue. His paintings from 1290/1300 depicted religious characters and emotions like charity, despair, and envy through feelings and religious expression.
RS has over 500,000 products for design, research, and development needs. The document is a product guide for electronics that provides an introduction and overview of the electronics section and key products and brands available from RS. It encourages customers to visit their local RS website for quotes, delivery times, and to place orders from the guide.
The document summarizes a reality TV show called "The conqueror of the world" where 16 people, divided into two teams, compete in challenges to reach a lighthouse. The challenges involve surviving harsh conditions like cold, hunger, and living with strangers. The summary observes that the show is entertaining because it combines physical adventure with human drama, as viewers can see people struggle with challenges and form dramatic or romantic relationships.
El documento presenta un resumen de la novela Don Quijote de la Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes. Narra que Don Quijote decide imitar a los caballeros andantes de los libros que leyó, arma una armadura y cabalga en busca de aventuras para hacer el bien. También habla de su amor por Dulcinea y su lealtad a la caballería. Describe a Sancho Panza, el escudero de Don Quijote, como un hombre prudente que desea satisfacer sus necesidades básicas y es leal a su amo a pesar
England is one of the countries that makes up Great Britain, with a population density of 377 people per square mile. Its capital and largest city is London, with other important cities including Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and Bristol. Christianity is the dominant religion in England, with other faiths including Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and no religion for 15% of people. London is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the world, with over 300 languages spoken. English food varies but includes breakfast around 7am, lunch at 12pm, dinner at 7pm, and tea at 4pm. Popular sports include football with many famous teams, and cricket is also very popular, especially in Britain.
The 1883 destruction of Krakatau Island caused millions of deaths and changed the earth's climate. In 1927, a new island was created where Krakatau Island had previously been destroyed. The document provides brief information about the 1883 eruption of Krakatau Island and the subsequent creation of a new island in 1927.
The article discusses using low-cost Texas Instruments DaVinciTM processors to analyze CCTV video footage in real-time and automatically alert operators to events. A team at Bristol University is investigating techniques for automating video surveillance. Key aspects include video object classification, which involves background subtraction, object tracking, and classification. Algorithms like mixture of Gaussian models are well-suited for implementation on embedded DSP platforms. The goal is a system that can classify objects with 75% accuracy at 10 frames per second. Texas Instruments' DaVinciTM processors are ideal for such video applications due to their performance, low power usage, and video processing subsystem.
RS Components has renewed its focus on keeping its electronic components and test equipment offerings up to date. It has added over 5,000 new products per month and reduced prices on 165,000 existing products. It has also redesigned its quarterly magazine, now called eTech, to provide more relevant content. RS aims to be a comprehensive source for the latest technologies, components, industries and tools through its supplier-agnostic approach and strengthened product management team with semiconductor expertise. Customers are encouraged to provide feedback to help shape eTech's coverage of significant technologies, products and information.
eTEch 5 - Balancing the Power Options.
Explore the latest issue and find out about Power efficiency for the modern electronics system, Fibre optic choices for today's energy challenges and ESD protection.
Want a hard copy of eTech 5
request one at rssales@tccmalta.com and we will send one right away.
The document discusses power efficiency in electronics systems. It begins by outlining some high-level considerations for power system architecture, such as safety, regulation of voltages, and efficiency. It describes two common architectures: independent converters for each output, and an intermediate bus architecture. The intermediate bus approach can improve efficiency by reducing the number of conversion stages, but introduces some tradeoffs. Guidelines are provided for selecting an optimal intermediate bus voltage. Overall the document stresses that high-level architectural choices have significant impacts on cost, efficiency, and design of the power topologies.
The document discusses power efficiency in electronics systems. It notes that modern electronics require multiple regulated DC voltages from a single energy source. The power subsystem must provide protection, regulated voltages independent of load/source changes, isolation, and efficient power-on sequencing while minimizing energy waste. High-level architecture choices like using isolated or non-isolated topologies and whether to use an intermediate bus impact cost, efficiency and topology options. Guidelines are provided to maximize efficiency when using an intermediate bus architecture.
This document discusses harnessing the potential of renewable energy sources like solar power. It notes that the Earth receives more energy from the sun in an hour than humans use in a year. Technologies to extract energy from renewable sources like solar are developing rapidly and providing benefits. For some devices, renewable energy is already supplementing existing power sources and improving efficiency. Going forward, the document suggests moving from a focus on power efficiency alone to achieving power self-sufficiency through renewable energy sources in electronic designs.
The document discusses connectivity technologies and how they enable new functionality. It introduces several connectivity topics that are featured in the issue, including USB 3.0, ZigBee mesh networking, Power over Ethernet, and human-machine interfaces. The goal of RS Components is to help customers find the right connectivity solutions for their projects and provide components to support prototyping and production. An interactive iPad app has been created to extend access to the eTech magazine content.
The document discusses connectivity technologies and how they enable new functionality. It introduces several connectivity topics that are featured in the issue, including USB 3.0, ZigBee mesh networking, Power over Ethernet, and human-machine interfaces. The goal of RS Components is to help customers find the right connectivity solutions for their projects and provide components to support prototyping and production. An interactive iPad app has been created to deliver enhanced content for eTech magazine.
The document discusses connectivity technologies and how they enable new functionality. It introduces several connectivity topics that are featured in the issue, including USB 3.0, ZigBee mesh networking, Power over Ethernet, and human-machine interfaces. The goal of RS Components is to help customers find the right connectivity solutions for their projects and provide components to support prototyping and production. An interactive iPad app has been created to deliver enhanced content for eTech magazine.
The document discusses new online design resources launched by RS Components to help engineers. It introduces Component Chooser, a new parametric search tool that allows intuitive searching and comparison of over 260,000 electronic components. It also discusses the availability of downloadable 3D CAD models of over 20,000 products. Finally, it mentions DesignSpark, a new website providing design tools, reviews and industry discussion to simplify and accelerate the design process.
Lawrence Harvey is a boutique recruitment agency focused on the European and Scandinavian upstream oil and gas markets. They take a consultative approach to understand both client and candidate needs fully before making any introductions. They have experienced significant growth and have a wide network of contacts built through regular networking events.
Giotto di Bondone was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect during the Italian Renaissance who abandoned medieval artistic limitations. Born in 1267 in Colle di Vespignano, he was a shepherd in childhood before moving to Florence to study under Cimabue. His paintings from 1290/1300 depicted religious characters and emotions like charity, despair, and envy through feelings and religious expression.
The document provides information about ABB's Din Rail terminal products, including their Series 5000 and SNK terminal blocks. It highlights key features such as their modern design, improved marking visibility, enhanced rail assembly process, and trouble-free connection design. The document also provides product codes and descriptions for various terminal types, including standard, triple deck, earth, and feed-through terminals, as well as disconnect terminals and component plugs.
Giotto di Bondone was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect during the Italian Renaissance who abandoned medieval artistic limitations. Born in 1267 in Colle di Vespignano, he was a shepherd in childhood before moving to Florence to study under Cimabue. His paintings from 1290/1300 depicted religious characters and emotions like charity, despair, and envy through feelings and religious expression.
RS has over 500,000 products for design, research, and development needs. The document is a product guide for electronics that provides an introduction and overview of the electronics section and key products and brands available from RS. It encourages customers to visit their local RS website for quotes, delivery times, and to place orders from the guide.
The document summarizes a reality TV show called "The conqueror of the world" where 16 people, divided into two teams, compete in challenges to reach a lighthouse. The challenges involve surviving harsh conditions like cold, hunger, and living with strangers. The summary observes that the show is entertaining because it combines physical adventure with human drama, as viewers can see people struggle with challenges and form dramatic or romantic relationships.
El documento presenta un resumen de la novela Don Quijote de la Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes. Narra que Don Quijote decide imitar a los caballeros andantes de los libros que leyó, arma una armadura y cabalga en busca de aventuras para hacer el bien. También habla de su amor por Dulcinea y su lealtad a la caballería. Describe a Sancho Panza, el escudero de Don Quijote, como un hombre prudente que desea satisfacer sus necesidades básicas y es leal a su amo a pesar
England is one of the countries that makes up Great Britain, with a population density of 377 people per square mile. Its capital and largest city is London, with other important cities including Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and Bristol. Christianity is the dominant religion in England, with other faiths including Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and no religion for 15% of people. London is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the world, with over 300 languages spoken. English food varies but includes breakfast around 7am, lunch at 12pm, dinner at 7pm, and tea at 4pm. Popular sports include football with many famous teams, and cricket is also very popular, especially in Britain.
The 1883 destruction of Krakatau Island caused millions of deaths and changed the earth's climate. In 1927, a new island was created where Krakatau Island had previously been destroyed. The document provides brief information about the 1883 eruption of Krakatau Island and the subsequent creation of a new island in 1927.
The article discusses using low-cost Texas Instruments DaVinciTM processors to analyze CCTV video footage in real-time and automatically alert operators to events. A team at Bristol University is investigating techniques for automating video surveillance. Key aspects include video object classification, which involves background subtraction, object tracking, and classification. Algorithms like mixture of Gaussian models are well-suited for implementation on embedded DSP platforms. The goal is a system that can classify objects with 75% accuracy at 10 frames per second. Texas Instruments' DaVinciTM processors are ideal for such video applications due to their performance, low power usage, and video processing subsystem.
RS Components has renewed its focus on keeping its electronic components and test equipment offerings up to date. It has added over 5,000 new products per month and reduced prices on 165,000 existing products. It has also redesigned its quarterly magazine, now called eTech, to provide more relevant content. RS aims to be a comprehensive source for the latest technologies, components, industries and tools through its supplier-agnostic approach and strengthened product management team with semiconductor expertise. Customers are encouraged to provide feedback to help shape eTech's coverage of significant technologies, products and information.
eTEch 5 - Balancing the Power Options.
Explore the latest issue and find out about Power efficiency for the modern electronics system, Fibre optic choices for today's energy challenges and ESD protection.
Want a hard copy of eTech 5
request one at rssales@tccmalta.com and we will send one right away.
The document discusses power efficiency in electronics systems. It begins by outlining some high-level considerations for power system architecture, such as safety, regulation of voltages, and efficiency. It describes two common architectures: independent converters for each output, and an intermediate bus architecture. The intermediate bus approach can improve efficiency by reducing the number of conversion stages, but introduces some tradeoffs. Guidelines are provided for selecting an optimal intermediate bus voltage. Overall the document stresses that high-level architectural choices have significant impacts on cost, efficiency, and design of the power topologies.
The document discusses power efficiency in electronics systems. It notes that modern electronics require multiple regulated DC voltages from a single energy source. The power subsystem must provide protection, regulated voltages independent of load/source changes, isolation, and efficient power-on sequencing while minimizing energy waste. High-level architecture choices like using isolated or non-isolated topologies and whether to use an intermediate bus impact cost, efficiency and topology options. Guidelines are provided to maximize efficiency when using an intermediate bus architecture.
This document discusses harnessing the potential of renewable energy sources like solar power. It notes that the Earth receives more energy from the sun in an hour than humans use in a year. Technologies to extract energy from renewable sources like solar are developing rapidly and providing benefits. For some devices, renewable energy is already supplementing existing power sources and improving efficiency. Going forward, the document suggests moving from a focus on power efficiency alone to achieving power self-sufficiency through renewable energy sources in electronic designs.
The document discusses connectivity technologies and how they enable new functionality. It introduces several connectivity topics that are featured in the issue, including USB 3.0, ZigBee mesh networking, Power over Ethernet, and human-machine interfaces. The goal of RS Components is to help customers find the right connectivity solutions for their projects and provide components to support prototyping and production. An interactive iPad app has been created to extend access to the eTech magazine content.
The document discusses connectivity technologies and how they enable new functionality. It introduces several connectivity topics that are featured in the issue, including USB 3.0, ZigBee mesh networking, Power over Ethernet, and human-machine interfaces. The goal of RS Components is to help customers find the right connectivity solutions for their projects and provide components to support prototyping and production. An interactive iPad app has been created to deliver enhanced content for eTech magazine.
The document discusses connectivity technologies and how they enable new functionality. It introduces several connectivity topics that are featured in the issue, including USB 3.0, ZigBee mesh networking, Power over Ethernet, and human-machine interfaces. The goal of RS Components is to help customers find the right connectivity solutions for their projects and provide components to support prototyping and production. An interactive iPad app has been created to deliver enhanced content for eTech magazine.
The document discusses new online design resources launched by RS Components to help engineers. It introduces Component Chooser, a new parametric search tool that allows intuitive searching and comparison of over 260,000 electronic components. It also discusses the availability of downloadable 3D CAD models of over 20,000 products. Finally, it mentions DesignSpark, a new website providing design tools, reviews and industry discussion to simplify and accelerate the design process.
The document discusses new additions to Tyco Electronics' line of wire-to-board terminal blocks. Specifically, new left and right hand plugs have been added that provide additional wire access angle configurations to complement existing 3.5mm and 3.81mm vertical and right angle headers. The plugs allow for multiple wire access angles when mated with 90° and 270° header interfaces. They are stackable without losing centerline spacing. The plugs are UL recognized and serve industrial control, communication equipment, and HVAC control markets. Custom marking and color options are also available.
The latest oscilloscope models add functionality without complexity or cost. They feature faster sampling speeds up to 50GS/s, more channels up to 20, larger memory sizes up to 1GS, and connectivity like USB. Manufacturers ensure usability is kept simple while functionality has grown. The new models cover applications from benchtop to portable and are available from RS Components.
Multicore processors are becoming the norm as chipmakers address challenges of increasing performance demands. Intel's Sandy Bridge and upcoming Haswell CPUs have multiple cores, as do mobile processors from nVidia and Qualcomm. While adding cores provides more processing power and addresses design complexity issues, software must also be optimized to take advantage of parallelism. Multicore architectures shift complexity to software programming and tools are needed to help developers leverage multiple cores effectively.
This document discusses machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and its growth. M2M communication allows machines to communicate electronically without human involvement, which cuts costs and improves efficiency. Analysts predict there will be hundreds of millions of M2M connections by 2015, primarily in utilities metering, vehicle telematics, and consumer electronics. M2M growth is being enabled by expanding wireless networks.
Camera interval timer with infrared remote controlRSComponentsTCC
This document describes using an infrared remote control and microcontroller circuit to automatically take timed photographs of orchids as they blossom. The circuit uses software written in C that can be navigated through menus using push buttons. The software allows configuring the remote control codes and setting the time delay between photos from 0 to 3,599 seconds. When the start button is pressed, the camera's trigger output is activated for 400ms at each interval to take a photo, with the focus output activated 10 seconds before each shot.
3D displays use lenticular lenses or parallax barriers to deliver slightly different images to each eye, allowing the brain to perceive 3D effects without glasses. Early 3D methods included stereoscopic movies and red-blue anaglyph glasses. New autostereoscopic TVs and devices like the Nintendo 3DS use lenticular sheets or parallax barriers to direct images to each eye without glasses. However, narrow viewing angles remain a challenge, and some users report headaches or nausea from 3D screens. Continued advances may help determine whether 3D technology becomes widely adopted.
The document provides an overview of 350 products for fast and reliable delivery from RS Components. It highlights categories like tool sets, hand tools, test and measurement equipment, fasteners, switches, and fluid management. Customers are encouraged to visit the RS Components website to find local distributors and more product details.
This document provides an overview of products available from RS Components to help maintain business operations and production. It highlights that RS offers over 500,000 products from leading brands across various categories like cables, automation equipment, process control, tools, and safety products. The products are available online and through local distributors with fast delivery options. Technical support is also available to help customers.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
This presentation provides valuable insights into effective cost-saving techniques on AWS. Learn how to optimize your AWS resources by rightsizing, increasing elasticity, picking the right storage class, and choosing the best pricing model. Additionally, discover essential governance mechanisms to ensure continuous cost efficiency. Whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, this presentation provides clear and practical tips to help you reduce your cloud costs and get the most out of your budget.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Digital Marketing Trends in 2024 | Guide for Staying AheadWask
https://www.wask.co/ebooks/digital-marketing-trends-in-2024
Feeling lost in the digital marketing whirlwind of 2024? Technology is changing, consumer habits are evolving, and staying ahead of the curve feels like a never-ending pursuit. This e-book is your compass. Dive into actionable insights to handle the complexities of modern marketing. From hyper-personalization to the power of user-generated content, learn how to build long-term relationships with your audience and unlock the secrets to success in the ever-shifting digital landscape.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Skybuffer AI: Advanced Conversational and Generative AI Solution on SAP Busin...Tatiana Kojar
Skybuffer AI, built on the robust SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), is the latest and most advanced version of our AI development, reaffirming our commitment to delivering top-tier AI solutions. Skybuffer AI harnesses all the innovative capabilities of the SAP BTP in the AI domain, from Conversational AI to cutting-edge Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). It also helps SAP customers safeguard their investments into SAP Conversational AI and ensure a seamless, one-click transition to SAP Business AI.
With Skybuffer AI, various AI models can be integrated into a single communication channel such as Microsoft Teams. This integration empowers business users with insights drawn from SAP backend systems, enterprise documents, and the expansive knowledge of Generative AI. And the best part of it is that it is all managed through our intuitive no-code Action Server interface, requiring no extensive coding knowledge and making the advanced AI accessible to more users.
Trusted Execution Environment for Decentralized Process MiningLucaBarbaro3
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that kids actually make you feel very old! Let me explain. Two recent events have
produced this inevitable conclusion - my 15 year-old son has taken over my crown as 05 RS NEWSLINE
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rotary-dial analogue telephone. “What is the curly wire for Dad?... How did you walk
around with it? Did you wind it up before dialling?...Weren’t buttons invented then?”
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and finally, the crushing blow... “Why didn’t you just use your mobile?”!!
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Read here first about our exclusive IDF converter that enables PCB design tools 18 3D CoMES To LIfE
to connect with the increasingly popular, and free of charge, Google SketchUp 3D WIThoUT ThE SpEC
modelling package (page 6). We review the trends in M2M (page 12), lenticular lenses
(page 16) and the Engineering Renaissance (page 20 MULTICoRE CoMINg
28). We also introduce the latest technologies in To A SCREEN NEAR YoU
some of our regular features including Product
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OLLIE ALTHORPE,
MANAGING DIRECTOR,
NEWSLINE
STMICROELECTRONICS
“ Change”
LIMITED SAYS:
Expanded Range
Time
DesignSpark pCB wins New
of Tektronix product Introduction of the Year
oscilloscopes Leading industry magazine announces RS as winner
Extended product portfolio available of independently judged award
to to RS customers in Europe, Middle East
and Africa (EMEA) DesignSpark pCB has recently won the New product Introduction
of the Year in the pCB design Tools category from leading industry
magazine printed Circuit Design & fab (pCD&f).
Electronic components move in classical and readily defined phases,
none more pronounced than the evolutions and revolutions of the
Under an extended partnership, RS will sell a wider
MCU. The industry has already entered its latest phase, “peripheral range of Tektronix oscilloscopes, including the
Count”, with the wide adoption of 32-bit micros, principally enabled MSO/DPO3000 and MSO/DPO4000B Series.
by ARM’s empowering Cortex cores. These new series provide customers with additional
functionality allowing quick detection and diagnosis of
problems in complex designs (see Product News for
ARM’s cores are selected by the majority of MCU when even modest memory and peripheral mixes more information).
vendors today in a wide variety of solutions, allowing are applied, the unit costs can be very competitive
these vendors to concentrate on efficient integration versus 8-bit solutions. This announcement forms part of RS’ strategy
of the core subsystem with powerful peripheral to be the design engineer’s choice from concept
and memory configurations. These decisions have STMicroelectronics embraced the Cortex-M concept through to production. “ RS we serve a wide range
At
motivated the leading 3rd party tools suppliers at a very early stage with the STM32 family. Today of design engineers, who each face their own
to support ARM based cores. In turn, this leads the STM32 family contains more than 200 devices particular challenges, commented Jonathan Boxall,
”
engineers to recognise that ARM releases them from with many more planned over the coming year. DesignSpark pCB received the award based on meeting a number of
Electronics Category Business Manager.
the limiting stranglehold of a proprietary based core, See www.st.com/stm32. criteria including creativity, innovation and user friendliness, as voted
providing access to the latest code-efficient and for by an independent panel of practicing industry engineers.
“We are therefore very pleased that, through
easy to use platform. The freedom of this approach With STM32 unit prices competitively set and low this expanded agreement with Tektronix, we can
allows the engineer to devote more of his time and cost development tools, the STM32 offers a game Since launch, over 80,000 design engineers have downloaded
now offer our customers an even greater range
skills in writing his application, rather than devising changing software platform for the future. DesignSpark pCB worldwide. Version 2.0 was launched in March
of test solutions, designed to address today’s
increasingly complex tricks to run older architectures We believe it is “Time to Change”
. 2011 adding user requested functionality including a 3D viewer.
evolving technological challenges.”
at their limits. Many of your competitors already have.
for more information, and to download go to
For all but the very smallest memory sizes and pin- View the expanded range at www.designspark.com/pcb
count microcontrollers, the percentage of die-area rswww.com/tektronix
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core lends itself to the latest process technologies,
The power of Space Exploration
RS Components supports Tohoku University probe mission
In 2010, Asteroid Explorer HAYABUSA returned RS services provided support for the project.
from the asteroid Itokawa. The mission was Professor Yoshida explains, “We mainly buy
the first ever successful attempt at collecting electronic components from RS for use in
material from space other than our own moon. the development of robot test models.
Professor Kazuya Yoshida of Tohoku University, For components such as DC/DC converters that
one of the developers of the probing go out of stock frequently, we have created
mechanism, explains why this was the most a system of standardising parts from the RS
difficult aspect. “Itokawa is an astronomical portfolio which means the products arrive on
object 300 million kilometers from Earth. No time and when they are needed” .
one knew whether its surface would be soft
sand or a hard monolith until the probe reached
the asteroid. So we needed sample collection For more information go to
technologies that assumed every possibility. ” www.designspark.com/etech
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3. RS’ free of charge IDf-to-Collada converter
allows EDA tools to connect with the popular
google SketchUp 3D Modelling package.
Ever had a design that did not quite fit the mould? You
have laid out the pCB and made sure that your design
meets all the design rule criteria. Everything is going fine
until someone points out that the stiffening bar needed
to strengthen the outer casing fouls a connector.
These are the moments when the worlds placement issues that aren’t readily
of mechanical computer aided design apparent in schematic mode.
(MCAD) and electronic (ECAD) collide. For
years, they have proceeded along parallel Despite the attraction of linking the two
lines and only interact at the very late domains together, the gap between
stages of the design when everything is ECAD and MCAD has taken a surprisingly
finalised and problems are discovered. long time to close. This is true even in big
projects, such as those encountered in
Designs that utilise standard package aircraft and automobile design. Problems
dimensions of a standard packaging with mismatched specifications that
format, there is less to go wrong. You can resulted in expensive rework for engineers
rely on the standard measurements for on both sides of the gap led to a push to
mounting holes to be confident that the create standards that could link ECAD
PCB will go in the space provided – just as and MCAD tools together.
long as you have not used some very tall
components. But this “safe” approach can The main standards that were created
only get you so far. came from the PDES consortium of which
a number of the large aerospace and
Heat is a concern for many designs. A automotive companies were members.
hot-running processor will need a large PDES came up with the STEP series
heatsink that might block the cooling of standards that included support for
flow of air for other critical components. electrical and mechanical CAD data.
It is hard to see how airflow might be However, support for these standards
constricted from the pure 2D view of remains patchy. A few of the ECAD
a PCB layout package. A much clearer vendors decided to base their efforts
picture emerges only when you move on STEP but focused on building links
into the 3D world to see how the PCB, to specific third-party tools such as Pro/
components, connectors and packaging fit Engineer or SolidWorks.
together. The ability to do this earlier in the
design is crucial to keeping project lead One of the more successful proprietary
Connecting
times to an absolute minimum. A better links was the Intermediate Data Format
link between ECAD and MCAD is not just (IDF). Developed in the early 1990s, the
about avoiding mistakes. format has evolved to include support
for more 3D data and even thermal
Many of today’s products demand characterisation data to allow designs
Electronics Design to
a sleeker, more attractive look than to be more easily passed to heatflow
a standard eurocard chassis. More simulation software. IDF is now supported
electronics systems are having to by a number of ECAD and MCAD vendors
fit in alongside moving mechanical as a way of exchanging design data
google SketchUp
components – and are constrained by the between their respective tools.
size and shape of these subsystems.
If you can obtain as early as possible an
interactive visual representation of the
design, it is much easier to see how it
works aesthetically and mechanically, and
you can identify sizing or user-interface
Continued page 08 >
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4. < Continued from page 07
However, the MCAD tools that support IDF exchange Natively, SketchUp does not support the IDF file format.
represent a significant financial investment for engineering Instead, data exchange is based around the Collaborative
teams, especially if the bulk of the package design work Design Activity (COLLADA) interchange file format.
is going to be outsourced to another specialist company. Maintained by the Khronos Group, the XML -based
There is no real need to invest in an expensive MCAD COLLADA format has become the key interchange
infrastructure if another team or company has the tools format for people working in interactive 3D – its support
needed to take a mechanical concept and turn it into for movable, interactive objects makes it a good choice
mouldings, assemblies and CNC milling programs. for SketchUp. Unfortunately, it is not a format
understood by ECAD tools.
To close the loop, RS Components has created a file
converter that can take IDF files and rework them into
the COLLADA format. By combining an ECAD tool which
generates IDF files for use with MCAD software, with
Google SketchUp, designers have available to them an
end-to-end solution for visualising complete electronic
systems in 3D.
Once a converted PCB layout has been imported into
SketchUp, the designer can refine the look of the model.
Connectors and other assemblies are represented in detail
in the huge library of 3D component models that RS have
assembled and made available for download. For example,
pushbuttons and sensors can be moved into place showing
how they will integrated with the PCB layout and the
Free tools such as Google SketchUp have appeared that external packaging.
are ideal for creating realistic product design concepts
and mock-ups. More importantly, SketchUp has been This capability gives electronic designers more power to
designed to allow collaborative design. Users can search make educated design decisions immediately rather than
for models that already exist in a 3D ‘warehouse’ of shapes waiting for expensive prototypes, external modelling or
and designs and build them into a design. So, if you see spending valuable time convening design reviews.
a packaging design that would fit your product and want At the same time, electronic engineers can gain more
to incorporate that into your electronic system design, insight into the MCAD domain and use that knowledge to
it is simply a matter of downloading it. SketchUp even create more manufacturable designs.
supports the interactive manipulation of moving parts,
making it easier to see how an electromechanical system, In that way, the full benefits of removing the metaphorical
possibly with flexible circuits will look and feel in different brick wall that always seemed to exist between the
orientations, making it much easier to check whether a two disciplines of electronic and mechanical design
cable will interfere with other parts as it moves around. will be realised.
The difficult part, until now, has been marrying the physical
design of one of these SketchUp objects with the PCBs
and connectors that need to fit inside it.
get more online...
IDF File To download the IDf converter
go to the SparkStore at
www.designspark.com
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5. pRoDUCT pRoDUCT
NEWS TEkTRoNIX MIXED SIgNAL oSCILLoSCopES NEWS
Tektronix Mixed Signal oscilloscopes
MSo4000 Series & Dpo4000 Series
n MSO/DPO4000B Mixed Signal Oscilloscope Series users can analyze up
to 20 analog and digital signals with a single instrument to quickly find
and diagnose problems in complex designs. Bandwidths up TEXAS INSTRUMENTS BEAgLEXM123
to 1 GHz and a minimum of 5x oversampling on all open hardware design with Beagleboard
BASIC RANgE of RS BRANDED channels ensure the performance necessary to
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A range of microphones that covers windows of signal activity while maintaining 1 GHz and extra memory with 512MB of low-power DDR
all pCB mount applications. fine timing resolution, the MSO/DPO4000B RAM, enabling hobbyists, innovators and engineers to go
Series offers a deep record length of 20 beyond their current imagination and be inspired by
n Omni-directional condenser microphones. Mpoints standard on all channels. the BeagleBoard.org community.
Available in either 6 or 9.7mm in diameter. online search term: online search term: 716-0430
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hIRoSE New range of robust, durable connectors
Low profile swing lock connector
n Originally designed for Military Ground and Marine applications, the TERRAPIN
n A low-profile secure locking power connector from Hirose. The MoLEX EXTREME LphpoWER™ series of connectors are for applications such as LAN switches and routers which
family includes 2 or 3 way cable connectors and are rated high current, low profile connectors for benefit from Gigabit Ethernet compatibility. The IP68 sealing of the TERRAPIN series
up to 2.5 Amps at 50 Volts AC or DC. The backplane applications. make these connectors perfect for use on products such as unmanned ground
unique locking structure provides secure sensors, surveillance systems. and in the growing renewable energy market.
engagement of the cable under tough n The EXTreme LPHPower™ Connector online search term: terrapin
conditions. There is an additional feature is a mixed, high-current power and
to prevent any sideways movement of the signal connector system designed with
connector once locked in place. power blades parallel to the PC board. XILINX fpgA SpARTAN-6
online search term: hirose Df57 An extremely low-profile height of only Lower cost and power Spartan-6 fpgA from Xilinx
7.50mm allows greater system airflow
while taking up 53% less space than n The sixth generation in the Spartan FPGA Series, the Spartan-6
traditional connectors with the same FPGA family is fabricated on low-power 45-nanometer (nm)
current rating. technology and is intended to serve consumer
online search term: applications. It comes in LX and LXT versions
Lph power where the LX includes DSP slices for fast
parallel ALU work and the LXT includes
high-speed serial communications. At up to
50 percent lower power and 20 percent lower
cost than previous generations of FPGA, Spartan-6
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TELIC STD32
STD32 gSM telemetry solution with camera interface
and on-board web server application pLUg IN poWER SUppLIES
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sending photos via e-mail in alarm situations or on request. The camera is n Introducing the ErP compliant RS Essentials range of
available as a Telic accessory (736-0810). The web server application UK and European plug-in power supplies. Covering a wide
enables you to configure the STD32 online via the internet range of voltages, amps and power, in a compact lightweight hARTINg
(standard browsers such as Firefox or Internet Explorer) as package. They have the benefits of minimal no load power Connector suitable for 10 gigabit Ethernet
well as to trigger a photo from the connected camera. consumption and efficiencies of up to 86%, these latest
n The Cat. 6, transfer class EA, modular
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Harting RJ Ethernet connector system
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6. Machines are
doing most of the talking
Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication
has been with us for a very long time but
it’s the growth of communications networks,
in particular wireless networks, that has
led to rapid expansion. growth in M2M
communication is a trend that analysts
forecast will continue.
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“ Intelligent metering within utilities
is well established. Companies such
as the Danish utilities company
Dong are at the forefront of
intelligent metering.
Lance Hemmings
Product Manager,
”
RS Components.
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8. evolution
The
of scopes
Latest scopes add functionality
without adding complexity or cost
graham Cave, product Manager, RS Components
Signals within electronic systems are becoming faster, more numerous, signal oscilloscopes) includes products with real-time settings for repetitive signals. USB connectivity and PC communication software
bandwidths from 100MHz to 1GHz. At the heart of supports printer and PC communications and enables unlimited waveform and panel
and more complex. The ability to capture fleeting glitches, instability these instruments is the MegaZoom III ASIC, combining setup storage to USB flash drives.
or other signal errors puts ever more demanding requirements on fast waveform update rates and usable deep memory
measurement tools, and in particular oscilloscopes. with smooth, responsive controls. The scopes are LeCroy 50gS/s MSo
upgradeable, so you can start with a DSO and upgrade The MSO 104Xs-A mixed signal oscilloscope is a top-end instrument with integral
to an MSO later. At the top of the range, the 7000 series touch screen aimed at embedded system design and debug applications. The
has an integral 12.1-inch XGA display but the instrument 4-channel, 1GHz bandwidth model delivers real-time sampling at up to 50GS/s and a
The design of scope probes has needed to their individual test and measurement tasks. sample rates up to 5GS/s and boasting a 1GS is only 16.5cm deep. The 6000 series comes with wide range of serial data trigger and decode tools for I2C, SPI, UART, Serial Audio,
evolve too, to ensure that loading effects The time taken to identify faults, even within buffer memory for easy signal analysis – quite optional battery packs and scopes in the economical CAN, and LIN. The hardware allows for fast processing of long memory,
are minimised and measured waveforms high speed, complex waveforms, has been an achievement for a scope measuring just 255 5000 series weigh just 4kg. even when looking at all 22 inputs.
are faithfully reproduced on the instrument’s greatly reduced. Here’s the pick of some of x 170 x 40mm and weighing less than 1kg.
display, whether that’s integrated into a stand- the latest innovations in oscilloscopes available Tektronix scopes highlights of the latest oscilloscopes in stock from RS
alone scope or the instrument uses the display from RS. hand-held instruments Tektronix MSO/DPO3000 mixed-signal, bench top
of a connected computer. Fluke Scopemeters are popular with scopes feature up to 20 channels (2 or 4 analogue and up
Manufacturer Model RS Stock Numbers
pC-based scopes maintenance engineers as self-contained, to 16 digital), analogue bandwidths up to 500MHz, real-
Today’s oscilloscopes come in a bewildering For service engineers on the move, the battery-powered digital storage oscilloscopes. time sampling at up to 2.5GS/s and 5 Megapoint record picoScope 2104/2105 models 536-8799 and 536-8812
array of shapes, sizes and specifications. Of PC-based scopes from PicoScope combine Once again, small size is no barrier to high-end length. With a suite of advanced triggers, the scopes 6403 689-4700
the 350 models stocked by RS Components, features that are integral to many high performance. The recently introduced Fluke have 9-inch displays, a 146mm deep footprint and weigh fluke Scopemeter 199C 423-2813
just 20 are analogue versions – although for performance bench top instruments with small, Scopemeter 199C is a 2-channel scope that will 4kg. Connectivity includes USB 2.0 Host Ports on both Agilent
radio frequency applications these are still lightweight, ergonomic packages powered operate for up to 4 hours from a rechargeable the front and rear panels and there is optional application DSoX3054A 725-0435
preferred by some engineers. Functionality, from a USB 2.0 interface, through which the NiMH battery pack. It offers 200MHz support for power analysis and both HDTV and custom
Tektronix MSo4104 689-9525
particularly with respect to waveform display, instruments also pass data . At their simplest, bandwidth, real-time sampling at up to 2.5GS/s video analysis.
storage, manipulation, and reporting, has the 2104/2105 models are single-channel and a deep memory of 27500 points per input. Isotech DSos IDS8104 619-5924
grown significantly in recent years. However, scopes not much bigger than probes yet There’s a choice of advanced triggering modes Isotech DSos LeCroy 50gS/s MSo MSo 104Xs-A 685-2756
scope manufacturers have been diligent capable of up 100 MS/s real-time sample rates and the input sensitivity range is from 5mV to The Istotech IDS8104 is an economical digital storage
in ensuring that the interface between the with 25MHz analogue bandwidth. But PC- 100V/division. oscilloscope with a bright colour TFT LCD display, 1GS/s
instrument and the user has been kept as based instruments are not limited to the lower single shot sample rate and 25K maximum record
simple as possible. As scopes have become end of the functionality range. The PicoScope Agilent scopes length for waveform capture of multiple and complex
more useful, and more affordable, users have 6403 is a sophisticated, 350MHz bandwidth, The Agilent Infinivision range of MSOs waveforms. The 25GS/s equivalent time sampling mode
become expert in adapting them to address 4-channel instrument capable of real-time (mixed signal oscilloscopes) and DSOs (digital maintains an effective high sample rate for fast timebase View the latest oscilloscipes available from RS at rswww.com/electronics
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9. 3D o life
If the mythological greek Cyclops – the giant with a single eye – had
es t
existed, 3D displays would have been wasted on him, or her. The reason
com
we see in 3D at all is because each of our eyes receives a slightly different
image from a given scene, simply because they’re not in the same place.
ecs
3D vision is made possible by the 3 inches or so that separates them.
out the sp
Early 3D gimmicks included book covers Passive polarized glasses, like their early microprocessor developed jointly by Sony
with
and postcards. As you change your counterparts, just rely upon an optical and IBM.
viewing angle by tilting the objects from material to help distinguish between the
side-to-side, the image seems to change. images delivered to each eye and can only At this year’s Consumer Electronics
A ‘lenticular lens’ makes this possible. It’s be used with front-projection systems. Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Toshiba also
an array of very thin, cylindrical magnifying This means that they are easier to use demonstrated a tablet PC with a 15.6-inch
lenses, or lenticules, set out in rows, made with projected images but the technology lenticular display that “when calibrated”
from a sheet of plastic. is difficult to implement in flat screen 3D produces a 3D image without the need
TVs. They do not work with mature display for glasses. The clever part here is that
Stereoscopic 3D effects were introduced technologies such as LCD, plasma or DLP the notebook’s camera detects the angle
in films during the 1950s. Images but Korean manufacturer, LG, is backing at which you are viewing the display then
comprised two superimposed, slightly this technology. dynamically calibrates it to give the best
offset colour layers. By wearing so- 3D experience.
called ‘anaglyph’ spectacles that placed Dropping glasses
a different filter over each eye, usually 3D TVs, electronic games and even Nintendo’s 3DS gaming console, launched
red for one eye and green for the other, mobile phone displays that don’t require earlier this year, allows gamers to watch
it was possible to give the impression users to wear special glasses are now 3D effects without glasses. Its screen
of a 3D image. It was a short-lived fad, beginning to appear. Perhaps surprisingly, is manufactured using parallax-barrier
not least because of the geeky look the many of them rely on the earliest 3D technology developed by Sharp. A parallax
glasses imparted to users. Viewers that technology – lenticular lenses. Dubbed barrier works in a similar way to polarising
wore normal spectacles found additional ‘autostereoscopic’, television screens glasses and directs the light from two
problems using the anaglyph versions. consist of a lenticular-lensed flat screen images slightly differently. The ‘sweet spot’
However, there has been a recent that projects slightly different images for 3D viewing is about 20-inches in from
ressurgence of interest in 3D viewing, at at different angles so that our eyes can the screen. This, and the narrow viewing
least in part due to the highly acclaimed receive offset images that our brains angle, mean that only one person can play
3D movie ‘ vatar’ from James Cameron.
A interpret as 3D images. Philips and LG the game at any one time, but the screen
are both producing TVs with lenticular is switchable between 2D and 3D mode.
Viewing glasses are still normally lenses. A similar technology known as Some UK newspapers have reported
needed to watch television in 3D. They ‘parallax barriers’ is being pioneered by that Nintendo’s using 3DS has caused
come in active and passive versions. Sharp. The challenge for 3D TV designers dizziness, headaches and nausea.
The active ones are battery has been to overcome poor resolution Time will tell if that’s true, or if it’s just
powered and use moving or and narrow viewing angles. Viewing caused by excitement surrounding
switchable elements to angles are determined by the maximum the new technology!
deliver a different image angle at which a ray can leave the image
to each eye. The through the correct lenticule. In 3D TV, It will be interesting to see if 3D display
effective refresh rate 3D TV viewing angles of just 20 degrees technology is now here to stay or if
of the TV image is are typical, outside of which viewers see interest in it will, once again, fade away.
halved, meaning that double images on the screen.
3D-Ready TVs need
a minimum refresh At CEATEC 2011, Asia’s biggest consumer
rate of 120Hz if electronics show, Toshiba unveiled an
viewers are LCD 3D TV capable of 40 degree viewing
angles, an achievement made possible
by using software to optimise light
emission from the centre, right and left
of the screen, according to the company.
Clearly, it is semiconductor processing
power applied to decades-old lenticular
technology enabling 3D TV. In the case of
the Toshiba TVs, which were shown in 12-
inch and 20-inch models, the final image
has a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels but it
takes an LCD panel of 8.29 million pixels to
not to experience image flicker. Active achieve this because nine separate images get more online...
shutter TVs are now in production by both are created and transmitted in the required Share your views at
Sony and Panasonic, some with refresh direction through the lenticular overlay. www.designspark.com/etech
rates of up to 240Hz. The image processing engine is a Cell
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10. having attended several technology shows at the
lticore
beginning of the year, it’s clear to me that multicore
Mu
is finally really happening, and it’s happening fast.
Intel’s Sandy Bridge started shipping in January, One way to make processors more powerful is
with four x86 cores on board. Haswell, Intel’s to introduce more pipeline stages, and increase
next architecture revision, defaults to eight the clock rate. More pipeline stages means
a screen near you
cores. At the Mobile World Congress, nVidia there’s less work done per stage. In addition,
coming to
showed off their Kal-El mobile phone and driving up the clock requires a higher voltage,
tablet processor with a quad core inside and resulting in a more than linear power increase,
targeted to go into production in August this since power scales with the square of voltage.
brics
arketing Vector fa year. Qualcomm announced their new Krait This isn’t a very power-efficient approach,
By Marco Jacobs, Vp M architecture, which includes up to four cores and already some time ago frequencies have
also. TI announced their new 10GHz DSP which
, stopped scaling when new process technology
contains 8 high-performance VLIW cores nodes were introduced. Using multiple cores
running at 1.25GHz. Graphics architectures went lowers the average clock frequency, thus
from simple pixel pushing pipelines, to include reducing energy consumption, even if there are
virtex engines, then added programmable more cores active at the same time. Multicore
shaders and are now becoming general is here because it addresses the power
purpose multicore computer engines that are consumption challenge.
seeing rapid market adoption. This weekend, a
friend of mine showed me his new phone, the When VLIW processors were introduced, they
LG Optimus 2X. The “2X” label stands for dual shifted computer architecture complexity
core; multicore is even becoming a topic the toward the compiler. History now repeats itself
marketeers get excited about and highlight with multicore architectures. The complexity
as a main product feature. is shifted away from the hardware, into the
software. It’s too late for a paradigm shift in
Why is everyone going multicore now? software programming to adopt new parallel
Multicore is here since it solves several programming languages though. There’s too
challenges. much legacy code, there is a lot of software
tools infrastructure and learning a new
Many applications can be significantly sped language isn’t easy. One way to hide parallel
up through parallisation. Higher resolution complexity is behind APIs, and there are many:
and multi-channel audio combined with Pthreads, OpenCL, OpenMP CUDA and others.
,
high-definition, 3D video yields a better media Using APIs is a good idea, but only solves part
experience. A media player contains graphics, of the problem. Structuring your code to take
ore now?
veryone going multic s
“
audio and video, each of which can be split up advantage of these parallel APIs is the real
Why is e over multicore cores to give more performance. challenge. New programming tools are needed
ce it solve
Multicore is here sin
Augmented reality and high quality gaming to analyze and partition the application in
”
requires lots of demanding computer order to take advantage of the many multicore
several challenges.
operations. Consumers want their browsers to systems already shipping into the marketplace,
load and render web pages instantly. Screen and to harvest their available computing
and camera resolutions are forever increasing capacity. Multicore is here, and here to stay.
to present and capture highest-quality imagery. The crux is in the programming.
Multicore is here because it addresses the
challenge of satisfying this need for speed.
Designing a processor that is twice as
powerful as the previous generation is no
small task. Deeper pipelines, out-of-order,
speculative issues, and superscalar execution
all improve performance, but at diminishing
returns. Ultimate performance goes up, but
performance per square millimeter of Silicon for the latest microcontrollers
actually goes down. Not so with multicore, and processors available from RS,
which is relatively easy to implement. Simply go to rswww.com/electronics
replicate the design, and add interconnect.
It’s much simpler to implement a quad core
processor, than to increase a single processor’s get more online...
performance fourfold. Multicore is here because Share your views at
it solves the hardware design challenge to www.designspark.com/etech
deliver more performance.
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to IHS iSuppli data. are the applications where NFC will add value due to reduced set-up time.
As a result, Bluetooth has become the de facto compared with already available and reliable
NfC and Bluetooth:
standard for wireless connectivity in vehicles, technologies like Bluetooth, which is now Complementary indeed
primarily used to accommodate hands-free widely deployed in vehicles. IHS expects NFC technology to be
calling with mobile phones. At the same time, implemented in the car and coexist with
there are new maturing alternative Bluetooth The market driver for NFC technology is, today’s more mature and diffused technologies,
Complementary
profiles to accommodate data connections and still will continue to be, mobile handsets, such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. As a result,
for music, messaging, basic control functions – where the technology is expected soon on a Bluetooth and NFC will be complementary
and now mobile apps – rendered on the wide scale,, reaching about 220 million units technologies. Not only will NFC’s higher level
smart phone. by the 2014 time frame. of security allow more applications to be run
safely in the car, its faster set-up time will also
NfC achieves limited Automotive solutions permit other wireless technologies
automotive success
or Competitive?
It is clear that once such a wide scale to take advantage of NFC’s faster
NFC is a technology that has been developed deployment confirms NFC success, vehicles authentication process.
by Philips Electronics and Sony Corp. As will also take advantage of the technology,
can be inferred from the name, NFC is allowing even more integration of devices Finally, in terms of cost, according to the
a connectivity technology that allows like smart phones and related applications NFC forum, integration into Bluetooth or
interconnection among devices within a range inside vehicles. other wireless technology of NFC – not as a
of about 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters). standalone device – will have a negligible cost
As for the present, NFC in automotive impact, in the range of U.S. $0.50 per unit.
Fast and easy operations together with a high solutions is being offered by original Integrating the small NFC IP block in a tiny
security level make the technology suitable equipment manufacturers such as BMW, corner of a Bluetooth chipset, for example,
for secure communications like monetary by Tier 1 suppliers such as Continental and will reduce the overall bill of materials (BOM)
transactions, private data collection, ticketing by semiconductor providers such as NXP . cost and will allow using system-on-chip (SoC)
Connectivity is an area in and generic information exchanges. All three, along with some other entities, connections instead of more expensive ad hoc
the automotive electronics are pioneering the deployment of NFC external connections.
technologies in automotive applications.
segment that is expanding NFC’s main advantage is its intrinsic security
level, ensured by the limited communications
significantly and is expected range of the technology that, together with a The main uses of NFC in vehicles are:
to trigger further incremental single point-to-point connection, will limit any
interception possibilities. On top of the intrinsic • Car access and car security
semiconductor usage security, NFC technology supports advanced
in vehicles. cryptography, which makes NFC-based • Car interior setup according to different
systems suitable for financial and other kinds of drivers, such as infotainment, telematics,
In particular, Bluetooth and near field communications secure transactions. engine/chassis setup and preference
(NFC) are two wireless technologies that are targeting in- configuration.
vehicle connectivity. Both technologies have similarities Despite such advantages, IHS does not believe get the Latest Automotive Infotainment
and difference, which will determine how the two that vehicles will be driving the NFC market • User authentication – car rentals & Telematics Research at
solutions will be used in vehicle applications. growth. In-vehicle applications are still limited www.isuppli.com or by contacting
and mainly driven by security applications, such • Support to wireless communications – iSuppli via info@isuppli.com.
Bluetooth becomes ubiquitous as car access keys or car immobilizers. These such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth – Copyright 2011 IhS Inc.
Bluetooth, together with Wi-Fi, is the most diversified
wireless technology, having been accepted in a wide
NfC BT 4.0 Note
variety of products ranging from mobile phones to laptop
PCs, to tablets. This acceptance in various types of *NFC higher security due to low distance for interception/
equipment has given Bluetooth a preferential path to be Security High* Good
interference and Point To Point, together with crytography
integrated in the car. There is a clear trend of consumer
and mobile devices augmenting existing automotive Distance ~10cm ~1m
infotainment systems.
Modes Active/Passive* Active *RFID like
To highlight Bluetooth’s success, 93 percent of 2010 cars
in the United States are available with Bluetooth, many Power <15mA* <15mA *NFC consumes more if interfacing passive RFID
having it as a standard feature. General Motors started BW 424kbit/s (848) 1Mbit/s
bundling Bluetooth with OnStar, which is standard
in-vehicle security and communications systems with Frequency 13.56 MHz* 2.4-2.5 GHz *NFC would have less interference with WiFi
most GM vehicles. According to IHS iSuppi infotainment
technology availability data, Bluetooth is available on a Connection Point To Point Personal Area Network *NFC P2P do not allow contemporary multi connections
little more than 69 percent of all models offered for sale
in 2010, in the nine core countries tracked. Attachment Set-up time < 0.1 s < 6s
rates for Bluetooth, currently about 24 percent
worldwide, will rise to 59 percent by 2017 according
, Table 3 presents specific NfC characteristics and a comparison with the Bluetooth 4.0 profile.
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