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Low Power Wireless Data Acquisition Brings Flexibility and Low Maintenance
by Daniel M. Dobkin and Lew Adams, GainSpan
With the advent of low-power, low-cost CMOS-based radios and efficient protocols, data acquisition tasks that have traditionally employed analog or serial wired connections can now be implemented wirelessly.
Installing sensors for data acquisition has traditionally been a labor-intensive process, involving analog or network wiring from sensor locations to aggregation points. The highRead More...
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The quest for ever higher performance in embedded computing has seen successive generations of microprocessor come and go, with quad core the latest to rise to the challenge. DSP andRead More...
Embedded Digital Filtering on Programmable Mixed-Signal Devices
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Whither the Smart Grid?
Tom Williams, Editor-in-Chief
Our present electrical grid—let’s just be honest—is based on technology from the 1920s that has been enhanced, expanded, improved and strengthened but not basically changed in its nature or concept since then. It is—to put it kindly—held together by sticks and bailing wire implemented by legions of heroic and dedicated engineers and technicians. Still, we have witnessed in recent years several immense failures that could easilyRead More...
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S/W visibility without intruding on real-time execution – Is it feasibly?
S/W visibility without intruding on real-time execution – Is it feasibly? These two things (visibility, non-intrusion) areRead More...
There seem to be a whole lot of small form factor designs coming out using some of the very low-power processors like the Intel Atom and the VIA Nano. How is this sorting out and what are some of the implications?
