One of the big trends of 2013 and beyond is the pervasiveness of technology in everything we do – from how we work to how we live and how we consume. Worldwide IT spending increases were pretty anemic as IT and telecom services spending were seriously curtailed last year. It seems that things are going →
EDN magazine articele Ground loops by Howard Johnson (Signal Integrity) article starts with question why in audio circuit designers avoid ground loops at all costs, yet in digital products you normally see a solid ground plane holding hundreds of circuits. This is a good question and the article gives answers to that. Audio designers like →
I write some time ago about USBEE AX clone. tubbutec blog writer got the remark about the bidirectional driver gave and investigated this a little bit further. It turned out you can modify this logic analyzer pretty easily to provide output capabilities. Adding output capability to a 10€ logic analyser article tells how you can →
Year 2013 will be year of cyber security. CNN expects more cyber wars this year. Cybercrime is on the rise, and last year we saw more and more computer virus attacks. Security company Kaspersky Lab warns of more new cyber-threats against enterprises and mobile devices. Cyber security also relates to mobile. Security becomes an increasingly →
Cell phones with build in cameras are replacing cheap pocket size digital cameras and video cameras. Best cell phone cameras can be better in many ways than cheap pocket digital cameras from few years back. And most people do not want to carry separate devices for each function (at least without a very good reason), →
A recent white paper from APC-Schneider Electric authored by Neil Rasmussen takes a hard look at grounding practices and the use of the signal reference grid in data centers. The Grounding and the Use of the Signal Reference Grid in Data Centers paper contends that signal reference grids are automatically specified and installed in data →
Here is a music video for this Friday. This Compressorhead: Ace of Spades video shows a true metal band. Compressorhead claims to be the worlds heaviest metal band. The band consists of robots made by Robocross. Metal plays itself. Sweet. →
Gartner believes that software and hardware companies do better in 2013 than last year. I hope so this happens, it would be good for the industry. Gartner Says Worldwide IT Spending Forecast to Reach $3.7 Trillion in 2013. That would be 4.2 percent increase from 2012 spending. At the moment uncertainties surrounding prospects for an →
Intel’s talking about its new stuff at CES. Gizmodo article Intel’s New Chips: Everything You Need to Know gives you the latest details on Touch, Live Pay TV, Atom phones, all-day battery life for Intel Core computers. Nowadays it seems that CES is the World’s Greatest Hardware Show Stuck in a Software Era. For a →
Mobile data increased very much last year. I expect the growth to continue. If operators do not invest enough to their network and/or find suitable charging schemes the network can become more congested than before. 4G mobile device speeds becomes the new standard. As competition move to that end, there will be fast growth there. →