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| | Electronics off to the races... | | It's race time! Fresh off an electronics teardown of the popular Toyota Prius hybrid (see Inside the Toyota Prius - Part 1: The airbag control module), we'll look here at a whole different animal -a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR MotoGP race motorcycle.... |
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| | Teardown: Tiny Nintendo DS Lite drives volume... | | Nintendo is enjoying a renaissance in gaming, so it seemed like a good time to peek into its current offering in portables. While a recent Nintendo Wii teardown by Portelligent tells a fascinating story of higher-end graphics... |
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| | Teardowns: Apple took safe route... | | Analysts at Semiconductor Insights (SI) and Portelligent went inside the iPhone to uncover the technologies and companies behind the hottest consumer device on the planet. Some have attributed the iPhone's success thus far to good marketing.
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| | XBOX Xbot... | | External Link: http://www.toeotr.net/dknyte/xbot.html... |
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| | What is Mechatronics?... | | External Link: http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2105¶m=en506249&Pagetitle=What%20is%20Mechatronics?... |
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| | Palm's latest wireless wonder... | |
A look inside the Palm i705-the early-2002 replacement for the aging Palm VII-reveals an ever-cheaper design point for capable, but not necessarily blazing, data radios and their companion PDAs.
With the exception of limited circuitr... |
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| | Compact silicon drives color phones... | |
The Sony-Ericsson T68 mobile phone exemplifies the kind of feature-rich, high-margin handset the wireless industry is banking on for future profits. Its hardware design reflects the trend toward more compact, powerful silicon.
The T6... |
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| | Starter Kit supports AC and DC motors... | |
Designed to provide users with a ready-to-use motor control application, the AK-ST7FMC Starter Kit is an integrated system built around the STMicroelectronics ST7FMC microcontroller, which has a built-in, dedicated motor control peripheral. Th... |
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| | Noise-canceling headphones: analog margin-makers... | |
Whether you find yourself in airplanes, cars, or just next to that overly-chatty person, it's sometimes nice to experience some music absent the distracting—and often overwhelming— effects of ambient noise.
Enter the noise-canc... |
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| | Low-cost wireless mouse pays... | |
While the ubiquitous computer mouse is hardly something that screams leading edge, the product's sheer necessity and volume have quietly driven some fantastic technology developments in this sometimes-overlooked peripheral. Longtime PC users... |
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| | Under the Hood: Optical wireless mouse: Rodentia Analogus... | |
While the ubiquitous computer mouse may
not scream leading-edge, the very necessity
and volume of the product has quietly
driven some fantastic technology developments
in this often overlooked peripheral. Long-time PC
users remember the days of ha... |
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| | Smart club has that swing... | |
I've done a lot of teardowns over the years. One of the fun parts about doing these articles is that I get to use the product for a short time before I dismantle it. I can honestly say that I had more fun "using" this product than any other I'... |
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| | Motor control kit simplifies AC, DC designs to 3 kW... | |
Lexington, Mass. --STMicroelectronics' Motor Control Reference Design Kit simplifies the evaluation and implementation of 3-phase brushless direct current (BLDC) and AC drive applications across three power ranges, up to 3 kW. CAD files are ava... |
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| | Compact HDD motor controller also saves on power... | |
Lexington, Mass.—Citing an optimized chip partitioning scheme that extends battery life in consumer applications, STMicroelectronics' compact L7208 motor controller IC for 1.8-inch and sub-1.8-inch hard disk drives (HDDs), in an ultrathin LGA p... |
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| | CDMA phone sets low-cost bar... | |
To view an on-demand seminar featuring LG's RD3330 CDMA phone, click here
LG Electronics' RD3330 CDMA phone for Indian cellular markets keeps component count and feature set to a minimum to meet aggressive production cost targets. Aside from spo... |
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| | Cable connector system adds more choices... | |
Midlothian, Va. — ERNI has expanded its single-row cable connector system with a pitch of 1.27 mm (0.050 inches). Originally launched in a 4-pin version, additional variants are also available with 2, 3, 6 and 8 poles.
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| | 3-axis accelerometer miniaturizes motion sensing... | |
Geneva, Switzerland — STMicroelectronics has added a power- and cost-optimized 3-axis accelerometer to its family of ultra-compact low-g linear accelerometers. Targeting customer demand for miniaturized motion sensing in portable electronic dev... |
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| | 3-axis accelerometer miniaturizes motion sensing... | |
Geneva, Switzerland — STMicroelectronics has added a power- and cost-optimized 3-axis accelerometer to its family of ultra-compact low-g linear accelerometers. Targeting customer demand for miniaturized motion sensing in portable electronic dev... |
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| | PWM control IC touts input voltage range up to 75-V... | |
El Segundo, Calif.—International Rectifier introduced the IR3651, a synchronous PWM control IC designed for high-performance synchronous DC/DC buck applications with an input voltage range up to 75-V.
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| | PWM control IC touts input voltage range up to 75-V... | |
El Segundo, Calif.—International Rectifier introduced the IR3651, a synchronous PWM control IC designed for high-performance synchronous DC/DC buck applications with an input voltage range up to 75-V.
With programmable switching frequency up ... |
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