The great debate: Slip control versus field-oriented control
Two leading motor control technologies campaign for their competing approaches.
FPGAs enable energy-efficient motor control
Designers can modify their motor control systems and increase performance using FPGAs.
OPC UA, seen through the eyes of users
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Embedded, real-time … Windows CE? It’s validated
OpenSystems Media —
Windows CE 6.0 R2 passed a series of real-time performance capability tests with flying colors.
M2M and M2E: Next steps to improve performance
Roy Kok —
Specifications developed by various standards bodies are helping make machine to machine communications a snap.
We need silicon, not just shovels
Don Dingee —
It's about time economics cause something more meaningful to be built.
07The great debate: Slip control versus field-oriented control
Dave Wilson —
Two leading motor control technologies campaign for their competing approaches.
03FPGAs enable energy-efficient motor control
Jason Chiang —
Designers can modify their motor control systems and increase performance using FPGAs.
04OPC UA, seen through the eyes of users
Randy Kondor —
With the new OPC UA industrial communication standard, plant floor data will finally find its way to the business LAN.
03Applying modern UI technology to safety-critical systems
Bill Graham —
Implementing Flash in safety-critical user interfaces ensures timely response and consistency across platforms.
01White Paper: Taking Energy Efficiency to the Next Level
Keith Ogboenyiya —
Energy efficiency as a design goal opens new market opportunities; the omnipresent microcontroller has evolved to hit the green button and system cost targets simultaneously.
04SAWing wires off sensors
Kerem Durdag —
Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technology enables robust wireless sensor operation minus the batteries.
Wireless power energizes wireless sensor networks
Harry Ostaffe —
RF energy harvesting provides a predictable, controlled power supply for wireless sensors.
05Compact embedded sensors fit the bill for critical applications
Karmjit Sidhu —
Advanced technologies are paving the way for pressure and position sensors to be used in vital industrial, military, and medical systems.
Solid-state micro-energy cells uniquely enable energy harvesting
Tim Bradow —
Energy storage devices seamlessly interface to ambient energy harvesting systems and provide near loss-less energy transfer and storage.
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Making sense out of taps
Kionix: KXTF9
We’ve been covering MEMS accelerometers for quite a while, and we’ve been looking for companies to do something interesting by embedding processing directly on the sensor module. Kionix has introduced the KXTF9 with an integrated feature called Directional Tap/Double-Tap detectio...
Java powers M2M box
AVIDwireless: AVIDdirector-M2M Model 200
Put together an Imsys Java processor, Cypress PSoC mixed-signal array, and connection options including a wide selection of cellular, Bluetooth, ZigBee, 900 MHz, and other wireless radio technologies, and you get a powerful Machine-to-Machine (M2M) interface platform.
The AVIDdirector-M2M...
Pint-sized powerhouse
LocoLabs: LocoLabs GCE
Designing a dynamic digital signage system or a Point-Of-Service (POS) kiosk? The Green Calliope Engine from LocoLabs is based on a Marvell PXA310 application processor coupled with a Marvell 88DE2710 1080p HD video processor and the Marvell 88W8688 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combo chip. Other I/O in...
Take a pic, make a GUI
Amulet:
Amulet Technologies is putting its LCD driver chip and Graphical OS in Silicon firmware expertise into next-generation IP running on an Atmel ARM-based CAP7 microcontroller.
The new IP supports a color LCD with touch-panel capability and has been fitted into an Atmel CAP7 customizable MCU,...
A very different battery
Cymbet: EnerChip
Onboard battery power can be a headache – or worse. In addition to disposal problems, conventional batteries can leak or even explode. SNAPHAT packages are relatively bulky and a hassle to replace. Super caps lose storage life because of leakage currents.
Cymbet’s EnerChip batter...
Get surveillance video faster
Intellvisions Software Ltd.: Trinetra
Video over IP is all the rage, but handling MPEG-4 streams requires special processing power. Intellivisions and Cradle Technologies have partnered to create a new solution for streaming video in surveillance networks.

Trinetra provides four-channel video surveillance capability with sele...
Equalize pressure without contamination
W. L. Gore and Associates: Polyvent/M12
Sealed enclosures are subject to strong pressure differentials as temperatures vary widely. But letting air in and out opens the enclosure to possible dust, moisture, or worse contamination.

The Polyvent/M12 high-airflow GORE Protective Vent from W. L. Gore and Associates comes in plastic...
Cube PAC now 8x faster
United Electronic Industries: Cube PAC
Programmable Automation Controllers (PACs) continue to improve. United Electronic Industries’ UEIPAC runs Linux with two Ethernet ports, a serial port, an SD card interface, and an inter-PAC sync interface. It provides either three or six slots for I/O boards, including analog input,...
Big, big rackmount monitor
Chassis Plans: CPPM-8U23
Bigger monitors are the trend, and this one is really big. The CPPM-8U23 from Chassis Plans is an 8U 23" TFT LCD display with native WUXGA 1920 x 1200 resolution at 60 Hz – 75 percent more pixels than a 1280 x 1024 19" display. Viewability is great with 400 nit brightness, 700:1 contr...
GigE, camera, Linux - action!
Prosilica: GE-Series Gigabit Ethernet cameras
Vision systems used to mean expensive hardware and complicated software. Today, designers can get a camera on their Ethernet network in minutes. Prosilica’s GE-Series Gigabit Ethernet cameras offer high-performance digital imaging for applications in machine vision, industrial inspe...
Got a USB port? Start logging data
National Instruments: USB-621x
Sometimes, the job calls for data logging in a remote location. Setting up big data loggers, power supplies, and sophisticated software is painful - it’d be much easier to just plug something simple into a laptop and go. But accuracy and proven measurement technology are still requi...
BACnet browsing shows the full picture
Siemens AG: Insight Revision 3.7
BACnet devices have become extremely popular in building automation networks, connecting systems such as heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning control; lighting control; access control; and fire detection systems. But managing a wide array of devices from different manufacturers on a...
RFID for the rugged industrial type
Escort Memory Systems: Cobalt HF
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags will soon be ubiquitous on items in your friendly big-box retail store where conditions are fairly benign. In industrial environments, however, conditions may be much more hostile. For example, on food processing applications, tags may be partia...

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