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The manufacturing automation revolution
Thomas Leyrer
06 12 2013 01:00 PM
Imagine what happens when a manufacturer producing 50-50 red and green items learns that 56 percent of its customers prefer green items and only 44 percent prefer red. What usually happens next? Well, traditionally, a week or more is spent changing 50...
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Motor innovation for a greener world
ChrisClearman
05 08 2013 10:35 AM
Globally, electric motors use nearly half of all the electric energy we produce. Let me repeat that: HALF OF ALL ELECTRICTY. And while there are over 11 billion motors produced each year – most of which are used in very low power applications like...
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Beyond CMOS
Bob Doering
04 29 2013 01:48 PM
Today, the smallest feature sizes on integrated circuits are approximately 20 nanometers. It’s now fairly clear that CMOS will be further scaled,at least by about another factor of ½. However, we are already well into the region of diminishing...
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Lose your fear of robots
Martin Izzard
03 19 2013 11:40 AM
Humans have always been the nexus of the information flow: information is gathered from the environment, analyzed, organized, communicated, and, often times, used to help guide our actions. Our need for more information has lead us to achievements such...
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Graphene’s potential to extend Moore’s Law
Luigi Colombo
03 01 2013 03:03 PM
Graphene continues to gain momentum as a potential candidate to further extend Moore’s Law for decades to come. The material shows great promise for future thermal management and energy storage devices, those that require operation at very high...
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What’s on the horizon: the ubiquitous camera
Buyue Zhang
01 31 2013 11:17 PM
Cameras are becoming smaller, more embedded, and almost everywhere. Coupled with computing power and wireless connectivity, cameras are revolutionizing the way we acquire, understand, and share information. They are extending our eyes to places we could...
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CES 2013: Health and Fitness Buzz
Nichole Oljaca
01 10 2013 01:44 PM
Besides being an electrical engineer - I’m a consumer. Yes, I’ll admit it. I’m the person that all those clever commercials successfully influence – even if I don’t want to admit how much. And if I’m completely honest...
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Analyzing your DNA: semiconductor sensor technologies can change the game
Tim Adcock
12 17 2012 09:48 AM
Recently, I asked a few people about the first time they heard of DNA sequencing. The typical answer I received was, “Oh, you mean DNA analysis? I see it on CSI all the time”. A couple people even told me the first time they heard the term...
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IEDM recap: Achieving ultra-low power in next gen applications
Clive Bittlestone
12 11 2012 11:14 AM
Earlier this week, we had the pleasure of giving an invited talk at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco on ultra-low power design and future device interactions. This was on work that I had done with Ajith Amerasekera...
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My Definition of Innovation
Gene Frantz
12 07 2012 11:34 AM
I was listening to the radio on the way to work the other day and heard an interesting segment that started my thought process of defining the difference the difference between creativity and innovation. I don’t remember exactly how much of the...
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