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Via open sources laptop designs; Will it make Via relevant as a chipmaker again?

Via open sources laptop designs; Will it make Via relevant as a chipmaker again?VIA exposes open source limitsThis move exposes the logical limits of open source. You can't "open source" everything because it costs hundreds of millions to run a fabrication operation. The gesture of releasing the design either becomes:...

Tags: Notebooks, Semiconductors, CAD Design, open source, laptop computer, PCB, open sources laptop design, laptop design, chip company

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

Circuitry (Cracking open a Maxtor hard drive)

Circuitry Cracking open a Maxtor hard driveFunnyOf the 12 or so drives I have taken apart, I have never mangled the read/write heads.Image 19. ShellNot much to the shell? Sorry, wrong. The shell may in fact be the most difficult piece to manufacture in quantilties. Consider this,...

Tags: hard drive, circuitry, PCB, underside, HDA, shell, magnet, Maxtor Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-27

Merom MacBooks for the holidays

Merom MacBooks for the holidaysQuestion about your MBP Mr. O'GradyDid you experience any problems with your first gen MBP?I never experienced the infamous "moo" or "whine" but had heat problems - which seem to have been resolved since the firmware update.Just curious - I have a W860904xxx build.Falling BehindI take...

Tags: Notebooks, PCB, moo, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2006-07-26

Parallel Processing of a Multilayer Routing Package

With the increasing density of components on Printed Circuit, Boards PCBs and the advancement of fabrication technologies for multilayer PCBs, improvement of speed and techniques for the Computer Aided Design of multilayer PCBs has become a major area of research. The paper discusses the parallel processing of layering and routing...

Tags: Parallel Processing, Concordia University, PCB, CAD, Software

White papers 2006-05-24

PCB: Physically Changeable Bit for Preserving Privacy in Low-End RFID Tags

In this white paper, a simple approach called "PCB" is proposed for privacy-protection in low-end RFID tags. PCB stands for "Physically Changeable Bit", which adds one bit to tags that can be and only be changed via physical contact. This PCB bit can be turned on or off repeatedly, and...

Tags: Privacy, RFID Tag, PCB, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2006-05-18

PCB prices to fall 10% in 2005 due to oversupply

Rapid growth in sales was experienced in 2005 by PCB manufacturers, with global revenues boosting 40% YTY due to surge in demand for consumer, communications and automotive electronics. Despite the 80% rise in costs of copper-clad laminate CCL raw material used in PCBs manufacturers maintained their low prices to intensify...

Tags: PCB, CCL

Blog posts 2005-03-08

PCB prices to fall 10% in 2005 due to oversupply

Rapid growth in sales was experienced in 2005 by PCB manufacturers, with global revenues boosting 40% YTY due to surge in demand for consumer, communications and automotive electronics. Despite the 80% rise in costs of copper-clad laminate CCL raw material used in PCBs manufacturers maintained their low prices to intensify...

Tags: CCL, PCB

Blog posts 2005-03-08

Concurrent PCB Design Through Design Partitioning

Design partitioning in Allegro PCB Editor facilitates concurrent PCB layout by allowing more than one PCB designer to work on a PCB database. This webinar will demonstrate new capability to partition a PCB design into multiple sections through setting up of partition boundaries, component placement into partitions, placement of guide...

Tags: Cadence Design Systems Inc., PCB

Webcasts

Additional Resources

Intel takes aim at Nvidia, AMD's ATI

Intel takes aim at Nvidia, AMD's ATIGood for LinuxThis is very good news for Linux users. Intel makes excellent open source Linux drivers, that are part of the Linux kernel by default.RE: Intel takes aim at Nvidia, AMD's ATII have no doubt that Intel's move will cause ripples, but don't...

Tags: Corporate communications, Linux, Video cards, Games, OPEN SOURCE, Intel Corp., Intel Takes, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., video

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

Removing the iPhone 3G main PCB EMI shields (Cracking Open the Apple iPhone 3G)

Removing the iPhone 3G main PCB EMI shields (Cracking Open the Apple iPhone 3G)Enjoy the cracking open, but not the photographyYou need at least a moderately experienced photographer to illustrate this, one who could light it properly and provide enough depth of field that the parts would be easily visible....

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, 3G, Apple iPhone, PCB EMI, PCB EMI shield, iPhone 3G, Cracking Open, Apple iPhone 3G, shield, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Intel shows mobile Internet devices

Intel shows mobile Internet devicessevenOS : vhat ve see is vhat is stored in memorisevenVeb on sevenFon sevenOS : http://sevenfon.googlepages.com/vys9vsm.JPG S9P9KS : http://www.sipix.com/applications/smartcards.html sevenfon : http://sevenfon.googlepages.com/ halfbyte : http://wysiwsm.googlepages.com/countonhand.JPG pcb : http://wysiwsm.googlepages.com/pcb.bmp ...

Tags: mobile Internet device, Internet device, Intel Corp., mobile

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Motorola: The evolving mobile Internet

Motorola: The evolving mobile Internetseven9nternet on sevenFonsevenVeb on sevenFon sevenOS : http://sevenfon.googlepages.com/vys9vsm.JPG S9P9KS : http://www.sipix.com/applications/smartcards.html sevenfon : http://sevenfon.googlepages.com/ halfbyte : http://wysiwsm.googlepages.com/countonhand.JPG pcb : http://wysiwsm.googlepages.com/pcb.bmp daulod : http://sevenfon.googlepages.com/daunlodsevenfonscript

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, mobile Internet, Motorola Inc., mobile

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Google releases Reader BETA for iPhone

Google releases Reader BETA for iPhonesevenVebsevenOS : http://sevenfon.googlepages.com/vys9vsm.JPG S9P9KS : http://www.sipix.com/applications/smartcards.html sevenfon : http://sevenfon.googlepages.com/ halfbyte : http://wysiwsm.googlepages.com/countonhand.JPG pcb : http://wysiwsm.googlepages.com/pcb.bmp daulod : http://sevenfon.googlepages.com/daunlodsevenfonscript

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

From two to three GPUs with CrossfireX Quad

There was a reason that I was excited about AMD/ATi releasing the Catalyst 8.3 drivers yesterday - and that's because I had waiting in the wings a dual-GPU Sapphire Radeon 3870 X2 dual GPU graphics card which I wanted to fit into my main system along with a Radeon 3870...

Tags: Card, GPU, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-06

DesignWorks Express (exe)

With DesignWorks Express you can draw, save, edit and print complete, professional circuit diagrams using powerful features like bussing, multi-level Undo/Redo, and automatic gate packaging. DesignWorks Express also links to PCB design software like Pad2Pad for a completely free end-to-end design solution. Use the library of common 74XX and discrete...

Tags: Library, Capilano Computing Systems

Software downloads 2008-03-06

Harris Corporation Streamlines Manufacturing Assembly Operations

Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, serves government, defense, and commercial markets. Harris Corporation wanted to provide product design, implementation, and testing teams with instant access to product data and information and communicate change requests and assembly instructions. The challenge was to unlock highly technical information to...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Manufacturing, Government, Product Marketing, Marketing

Case studies 2008-03-01

For+Shuttleworth+it+all+comes+down+to+trust

For+Shuttleworth+it+all+comes+down+to+trustForking vs "moving on"If someone's ideas are not being accepted in a project quickly enough or completely enough, is he more likely to fork the software or to lose interest. Mr. Blankenhorn has praised forks as saving projects while Mr. Shuttleworth believes potential contributors go elsewhere.There are obviously examples...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Proprietary Software, long tail, software, developer

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

BlackBerry patent app addresses "battery slump" monitoring, management issues

A new BlackBerry patent application published just yesterday would improve the ability of BlackBerry devices to read voltage levels. The patent app is entitled System and Method for Managing Battery Slump. As we often do when discussing patents, let's read the Abstract...

Tags: ADC Telecommunications Inc., Signal, Battery, Monitoring, Trigger, RIM BlackBerry, Transmission, Patent App, Abstract, PA, Battery Voltage, ADC 600, Engineering, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-18

WinQcad (exe)

WinQcad is a complete electronics design software. It includes schematics and PCB printed circuit board modules. The schematic module supports flat design, simple hierarchy, and complex hierarchy providing for multiple instances of the same schematics. The part/net list generated by the schematic module provides a link to the PCB module...

Tags: Module, WinQcad, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2008-01-02

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nullFDISKFdisk will zero out the drive but there are means of recovering data from drives that have been erased that way. All it takes is time and money.Fdisk won't cut itSorry there but even using fdisk and a reformat will not make the data unrecoverable. You actually need to...

Tags: magnet, hard drive, eraser, FDISK, disk

Discussion threads 2007-11-12