Electronic Circuits and Diagram-Electronics Projects and Design

In our busy lives, cars are sought out to be one of the best modes of transportation. But, with the rising economy, people tend to buy cars that have better mileage. But still we think of trading cars with something that is cheaper when we look at the rising petrol costs. Though we do not think much about the environmental effects, we must still consider the fact that cars are the major contributors to pollution. To an extent, hybrid cars can be a remedy to many of these problems. A lot of car manufacturers have started new plants to produce…

23rd international conference on VLSI design was held at Nimhans Convention Center, Bangalore from January 3 -7, 2010. In the same venue 9th international conference on embedded systems was also conducted. It was a joint conference forum for VLSI designers and researchers to present and discuss various aspects of VLSI Design, electronic design automation (EDA, embedded systems, and the supporting technologies. it covered almost all the area of activities in the VLSI and Embedded fields.  The five-day technical program comprised  of three days of regular paper sessions, special sessions, industry presentation sessions, various discussion sessions , design contests and industrial…

  As we all know Light Emitting Diodes(LED’s), are used in a wide range of applications  like indicators, long-lasting source of illumination in sensors, home and also industrial applications. They are known for their less heat dissipation and also as an electricity saver. If our usual bulbs like incandescent and fluorescent bulbs  are to be replaced by LED’s the latter must be more larger as well as powerful than the former. But for this, the heat dissipated by the LED (though very little compared to other devices), must be completely removed. The other types of bulbs use more electricity and…

“Sleek&Sexy” in design-thats what Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 is @ first look. This revolutionary desktop in the age of tablets and notebooks features 21.5″ screen for multimedia-holics along with Blu-Ray disc and other usual system components. Features are: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Memory: 4GB of DDR3 memory Hard Disk: Upto 1TB (available) Additional Luxury: In addition to the usual features like Harddisk, Memory,Processor and all such stuffs, IdeaCentre A600 features brand new add-on which makes it distinct! 1. Has a nifty 4-in-1 remote control that acts as an air mouse 2. Includes a VOIP Handset 3. Has a MediaCentre Remote…

Six pin Microcontrollers from Atmel-AVR ATtiny10 The latest AVR ATtiny10 is highly suitable for large volume market applications. AVR ATtiny10 has 1kilobytes of programmable flash memory, 32 bytes of internal Static Ram,  8-bit Analog to Digital converter, a 16-bit timer with Pulse Width Modulation, 12 MIPS of processing throughput and an analog comparator.Using the AVR CPU, this device is supposed to give 6 times performance of any other similar size & cost device available in the market. Atmel says “If your application needs higher processing power with lower current consumption, AVR ATtiny10 is the right soultion” All tinyAVR microcontrollers use…

A  recent Gartner Inc survey reveals the upcomong boom in the global industry, Video Telepresence which may kill or damage the Airline and Hospitality business drastically. They say “Video Telepresence will replace 2.1 million airline seats anually” which’s damn serious to airline giants. As a side effect, it will also affect the Hospitality businesses and other related stuffs. What is video telepresence ? Its sth similar to the old “video conferencing” but highly highly advanced in technology and quality. It helps avoid many “face to face” meetings in the corporate world, that not necessary. Gartner fellow Steve Prentice says companies…