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Augmenting Touchless Gesture Recognition with Haptic Feedback

Vicky Messer, Ultrahaptics February 12, 2017 Comments Off on Augmenting Touchless Gesture Recognition with Haptic Feedback

Touchless gesture recognition is widely acknowledged as the next frontier in the development of human machine interfaces and the technology is now beginning to move beyond computer and gaming markets... Read More

EMBEDDED WORLD 2017

February 12, 2017 Comments Off on EMBEDDED WORLD 2017

From 14 to 16 March 2017, the international embedded community will once again gather in Nuremberg, where the world’s biggest trade fair for embedded technologies is taking place for the... Read More

Autonomous vehicles break through to the mainstream

Mark Patrick, Mouser Electronics February 8, 2017 Comments Off on Autonomous vehicles break through to the mainstream

2016 has seen the breakthrough of driverless car and truck technology into mainstream use. After many years of Google testing its autonomous cars, major car makers have started testing their... Read More

DK low energy IoT trends

Josh Mickolio, Digi-Key Corporation February 8, 2017 Comments Off on DK low energy IoT trends

Abstract This article looks at developments in low power for the Internet of Things, particularly the Thread consortium low power extensions for IOT smart energy and other competing consortia. Low... Read More

Security for IoT Is a Requirement, Not a Choice

Paul McLellan, Cadence February 8, 2017 Comments Off on Security for IoT Is a Requirement, Not a Choice

It is hard to attend any sort of meeting to do with semiconductors without hearing about the Internet of Things (IoT), and probably the hottest subtopic is IoT security. Some... Read More

CES 2017

CES® 2017 February 8, 2017 Comments Off on CES 2017

The World’s largest innovation event took place during the first week of January with record-breaking CES Unveiled, preshow Media Days and NVIDIA keynote CES® 2017 celebrated the show’s 50th anniversary... Read More

Stepper Motors Use Closed-Loop Technology To Step Into Servo Applications

Dr. Markus Erlich, Servotronix January 11, 2017 Comments Off on Stepper Motors Use Closed-Loop Technology To Step Into Servo Applications

INTRODUCTION Technological advancement is changing the performance-cost ratio between stepper motors and servo motors for a growing variety of demanding industrial automation applications. Thanks to the adoption of closed-loop technology,... Read More

AS9100 Transition Drives Technical Excellence

Arthur Ackerman, Mini-Circuits January 11, 2017 Comments Off on AS9100 Transition Drives Technical Excellence

Technical excellence at Mini-Circuits is coming into sharper focus as we approach the fifth decade since our founding by Harvey Kaylie in 1969. This focus has been emphasized in our... Read More

Designing efficient industrial systems

Nazzareno (Reno) Rossetti, Ramesh Giri, and Viral Vaidya, Maxim Integrated January 11, 2017 Comments Off on Designing efficient industrial systems

Creating 20W-30W supplies with over 90% efficiency for 24V+ automation applications Industrial automation systems are undergoing a revolution to reduce latency and down time. This directly translates to increased profits... Read More