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		<title>EDN - Applied System Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:49:26 MST</pubDate>
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			<title>Circuit protection basics - Part 2: Case study - understanding and using predictive analysis</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:21:35 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>This article discusses a circuit protection technology that guards against damage from 99.5% of...</description>
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			<title>Sorting out 4G: Are we there yet?</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:00:29 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Thanks to clever marketing campaigns and branding, the general public believes that 4G has...</description>
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			<title>Wireless temperature monitor has data-logging capabilities</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>You can make a wireless temps system with two...</description>
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			<title>Make an asynchronous clock for VPX-based PCIe systems</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Careful crystal selection and an FPGA are key to...</description>
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			<title>Teardown: The power inverter - from sunlight to power grid</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:40:51 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>This teardown of a solar inverter card traces the path of harvested DC power from the...</description>
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			<title>The prototype comes of age</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>A radical change is about to happen in the typicaldevelopment of an electronic system. The...</description>
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			<title>Linear Technology acquires Dust Networks</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:30:04 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Dust Networks' low-power radio and software technology complements Linear's strengths in...</description>
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			<title>Our editors' favorite gadgets</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:38:25 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Our editors reflect on some of the gadgets and gizmos that they personally find most useful,...</description>
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	<title>DRIVEFORINNOVATION - DESTINATION: AVNET EXPRESS</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:17:25 GMT</pubDate>
	<description>Come Along for the Ride on the Ultimate Electronics Road Trip! Join the adventure as road warrior and editor of EE Times’ EE Life, Brian Fuller, tours the USA in the fire engine red Drive for Innovation Chevrolet Volt in search of engineering innovation. Follow content, access a drive tracker and an interactive map highlighting the tour as well as participate in games and weekly contests. Join the adventure! </description>
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			<title>Hot technologies: Looking ahead to 2012</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:17:25 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Our editors reflect on some of the hot trends and technologies in 2011—and look ahead to...</description>
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			<title>MCUs: High-end devices flourish</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:36:06 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>It is the balance between the traditional technologies and the newer kid on the block - ARM -...</description>
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			<title>Automotive electronics: What's hot in 2012</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:17:30 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>2012 looks to be a year of consolidation as technologies introduced previously – like voice...</description>
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			<title>The hottest trends in programmable logic</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:13:29 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>New chips are both bigger than anything we've seen before in capacity and performance and...</description>
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			<title>Energy conservation spurs LED lighting acceptance</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:52:44 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Japan struggles to restore full energy to homes and businesses, driving a faster acceptance of...</description>
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			<title>The science fiction future of medical implants is here</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:30:36 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Semiconductor solutions contained in hand-held consumer product innovations are now finding...</description>
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			<title>The Apple iPhone 4S teardown</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>A teardown of the iPhone 4S - including an interactive video, board shots and disassembly photos...</description>
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			<title>Precision resistors play vital role in analog circuits of seismic instruments</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:13:07 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Today, foil resistors are used in the most exacting applications, including space, aviation and...</description>
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			<title>3-D IC standards are great, but do we care?</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>When it comes to 3-D ICs, when all is said and done, there's more said than...</description>
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			<title>A diode ladder multiplies voltage under software control</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>An eight-pin micro multiplies, monitors, and delivers a boosted voltage to a...</description>
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			<title>Medical sensors in biomedical electronics, part 2: the brain, heart and lung</title>
			<link>http://www.edn.com/article/520108-Medical_sensors_in_biomedical_electronics_part_2_the_brain_heart_and_lung.php?rssid=20868</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:12:54 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>This article looks at advances in technology that will improve the bridge between engineering,...</description>
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			<title>Qualitative to quantitative sensor transition challenges</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Examining several issues in light of current MEMS sensor design and use yields several...</description>
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			<title>Intel to detail 22-nm Ivy Bridge at ISSCC</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:44:16 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Intel will describe as many as four designs using its new 22-nm process technology with 3-D...</description>
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			<title>Solyndra: Its technology and why it failed</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:30:35 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Marketing for Solyndra's unique tubular solar panel module design was at the top of the class,...</description>
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			<title>The future of computers - Part 1: Multicore and the Memory Wall</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:36:25 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Processor expert Russell Fish provides his take on the future of computers, and multicore...</description>
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			<title>Using MCAPI to lighten an MPI load</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Use MCAPI to less expensively deliver MPI performance in a system with bothlimited resources...</description>
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			<title>Is Applied Micro's X-Gene equal to a 1960s 14-transistor radio?</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Parallels may exist between those 14-bit radios designed decades ago by Korean manufacturers and...</description>
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			<title>Avnet's Harley Feldberg: embedded in the electronics supply chain</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Avnet’s Harley Feldberg discusses serving the embedded design community as part of the overall...</description>
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			<title>Fabricate a high-resolution sensor-to-USB interface</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>A precision analog acquisition system fits in your...</description>
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			<title>MIT researchers have chip closing in on brain activity</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:23:02 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have designed a chip that mimics how the...</description>
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			<title>Freescale preps home health hub platform</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:04:04 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>As medical sensors monitoring both people and their environment proliferate, Freescale...</description>
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			<title>TI's multicore DSPs sink to new power lows</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:28:48 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>TI said its C66x KeyStone-based multicore DSPs were its highest performing yet, at 16 GFLOPs/W,...</description>
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			<title>Inside updates anti-counterfeit NFC chip</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:23:01 GMT</pubDate>
										<description>Inside Secure, a fabless supplier of near field communication (NFC) chips, has announced it is...</description>
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