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BrickPi: Converting Raspberry Pi into a Robot
When prompted what led them to design BrickPi, John Cole, founder, Dexter Industries, shares, “We had a Raspberry Pi sitting on our desks for...
Sensors for Industrial Automation: ‘A Choice to Make’
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word 'sensor'? It would most likely be the sense organs...
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) protection in Chip Design
"Electric floods", or more precisely, "charge floods", are a prominent concern to the chip manufacturers today. Electric charge is fundamental in nature around us....
Physical Design Implementation Challenges in Highly Memory-Intensive Design in 40 nm
Physical design implementation of a very large floor plan with high memory count poses multiple challenges mostly in areas like floor planning, power planning...
Lead-Free Electronics to Help Lead Good Health
Lead plays an important role in the manufacture of electronic devices. The whole electronics infrastructure has been designed around the melting point and physical...
Google Glass: A Wearable Computer with Head-Mounted Display
In the present smartphone era, tech giants like Apple, Microsoft and Google are continually striving to make the smartphone smarter. Real-ising the highly competitive...
Understanding Flash Memory in Embedded Systems: Limitations, Lifespan & Design Best Practices
Flash memories have been around for a decade in all sorts of embedded systems. These are used both as code space and non-volatile memory...
An introduction To Cloud Computing
Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt publicly uttered the term ‘cloud computing’ in 2006. Since then the term has taken technology by a storm. Cloud...
Biomimetics Mimicking Nature For Technological Breakthroughs
APRIL 2011: George de Mestral, a Swiss electrical engineer, invented the hook-and-loop fastener (now inseparable with the name of Velcro) by keenly observing how...
Semiconductor Fabrication innovation continues, but Goals change
The ‘chips’ are everywhere today, right from mobile phones and computers to microwave ovens and washing machines, and even in children’s toys. There are...
