Lithium-ion Batteries Portable Power Source for Portable Devices
Have you ever been in a situation where you had to make an urgent call and your cellphone ran out of power, or your...
Embedded Development Will x86 Exist or Exit?
For decades, we have been accustomed to x86 as a desktop architecture. The introduction of Atom processor based on x86 was expected to be...
Frugal Engineering: The Mantra To Design Resource-efficient Embedded Systems and Chips
“A small leak will sink a great ship.” —Benjamin Franklin, American statesman
These words of Franklin indeed hold a lot of meaning and relevance for...
Barcode systems in use
Bar code first came in use commercially in 1966, but it was soon realised that there would have to be some sort of set...
Selecting the Perfect Cortex-M based MCU for Industrial Automation
The important features of a microcontroller that cannot be avoided are its small size, its ability to consume low power, its low cost, the...
Nanotechnology: The lord of Small things!
“Everything can be made in some way better—stronger, lighter, cheaper, easier to recycle—if it’s engineered and manufactured at the nanometre scale.” — Stan Williams...
Trends and Developments in Aircraft Cockpits
There are some interesting developments happening in the field of aviation. Flying cars of different configurations, currently in limited production, are expected to save...
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Careers in India: Skills, Scope & Salary...
Digital signal processing (DSP) has two facets—hardware design and software algorithms and applications. Traditionally, India has been a power house of software and hence...
User-Friendly and Purposeful
How soon can you reach your destination?
You might know all the routes to your office, but are you in a position to know—every morning—which...
FarEye: GPS-Based Vehicle Tracking System for Schools
School buses are an integral part of a kid’s life, but their unpre-dictable pick-up and drop timings are also one of the biggest causes...