Artificial intelligence meets the real World
The word ‘robot’ originates from the Czech word for forced labour or serf. It was introduced by playwright Karel Capek, whose ficional robotic inventions...
Agri-Electronics The Emerging Frontier of Advanced Research
NOVEMBER 2011: Agri-electronics is an emerging and multidisciplinary frontier of advanced research that takes convergent and holistic look at all the related areas in...
How To Avoid Mobile Radiation
In India, cellphone use has increased from 50 million in 2005 to approximately 800 million now and the number is increasing. The direct and...
Arduino: The Numero Uno Prototyping Platform
In less than a decade since its inception, Arduino has evolved as a phenomenon in the electronics space—across the globe as well as in...
Multi-Core and other trends in the embedded World
Gone are the days when embedded systems were a part of complex industrial and defence equipment alone. Today, these have found place in washing...
Test and Measurement of Passive Components
From a process point of view, there is always some risk of instruments currently in use being actually out-of-specification. Let’s take a close look...
“It’s a digital world, but we always need an analogue bridge...
Analog Devices (ADI) offers signal processing and conditioning products. It caters to several markets including communication infrastructure, industrial, healthcare, automotive and consumer. ADI has...
“Mixed-signal design is very different from VLSI”
Pericom Semiconductor enables serial connectivity with complete solutions for computing, communications and consumer market segments. With product range spanning from analogue, digital and mixed-signal...
zamiaCAD: An Open Source Platform for Advanced Hardware Design
Computer-aided design (CAD) software basically makes use of a computer to assist in the creation, optimisation, analysis or modification of a design. From increasing...
What More from a Smartphone?
There is a lot more to smart-phones than just the operating system (OS) and an app count. However refined OS a phone has, the...