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Engineering News All the News Fit to Link™ -Archive- Lack of Trust in the Use of Personal Data Threatens to Undermine the Digital Economy Patent Dispute Holds Up Sales of 2 HTC Phones in U.S. DARPA Wants Small Satellites to Test Fractionated Concept ARRL Responds to FCC Request for Comments on Impediments to Amateur Radio Communications Jaguar Joins Drive to Boost Engineer Graduate Numbers GSA Spies Venture Capital Investment Uptick in April You're Only Worth $1.21 to Facebook OMG! Texting Ups Truthfulness, New iPhone Study Suggests Receivers Could Promote More Widespread Wireless Recharging Topological Insulators Open Path to Room-Temperature Spintronics Electronic Congestion in the Microchips of the Future DeviceFidelity Adds Full NFC Functionality to iPhone A Reason For RIM: Why We Still Need the Blackberry What Rare Earth Shortages Mean for Engineers, Part 5 "Data Killer" Erases the Evidence Samsung Loses $10B Market Value on Apple Order Report When Lightning Strikes: A Photographer's Experience Going Viral On-Demand Satellite Photos of the Battlefield, Coming to a Handheld Device Near You States Using Fed Money Meant for Mortgages to Fund Budgets, Pensions U.S. Leads Biggest War Drill in Middle East in 10 Years (Israel Not Invited, But Their Sworn Enemies Are) Press Releases - Archive- Agilent Technologies’ Advanced Design System Selected by ADATA to Speed Product Development AWR Announces Slate of Activities for IMS 2012 Linx Technologies Begins Shipping Radiotronix Product Lines PMI Intros 17.6 GHz Notch Filter Richardson RFPD Introduces Pair of InGaP HBT Amplifiers from Freescale Linwave Technology Announces Appointment of Neil Sparling as Technical Director MegaPhase's GrooveTube® Cable Assemblies' History of Asteroid Rendezvous Hittite's New Amplifier & Mixer Solutions for Backhaul Radios to 46.5 GHz Richardson RFPD Introduces New Digital-to-Analog Converter from ADI Anatech Electronics Newsletter - May 2012 PMI Announces 8.5 to 11.0 GHz, 8 Bit Digitally Controlled, 0 to 360° Phase Shifter RFMW Introduces LTE Circulator from DiTom Microwave Richardson RFPD Introduces Pair of New Integrated IQ Modulators from ADI RFMD® Adds Four New High Linearity, Low Noise I/Q Converters for 17-27 GHz Applications AWR Announces AWR’s Design Forum 2012 Pasternack Enterprises Achieves ISO 9001:2008 Recertification | Cool Product -Archive- While on a software theme for the Cool product (Maple math software featured last week), I ran across a demo for wind analysis software that architects and civil engineers for predicting building structural loads, wind velocity at street level (recall stories of gale-force winds generated between tall buildings due to venturi effect), land erosion, and more. Both 2-D and 3-D simulations are possible. Vasari Ecotect Wind Tunnel color-coded graphs look a lot like many of the finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), vector field plots that we are accustomed to seeing for electric and magnetic field analysis, thermal maps, and load stress analysis on mechanical structures. It is no coincidence since many of the equations and techniques are either exactly the same or very closely related. Recall in physics and circuit analysis classes how often mechanical analogies were used for explaining electrical principles, and vice versa. This is actually part of Autodesk's Project Vasari which was created specifically to analyze conceptual building layouts. Remcom's Wireless InSite looks a lot like the Wind Tunnel software in that it models fields surrounding and even through buildings in an urban environment. The difference is that Wireless InSite projects EM fields rather than wind fields. Anyone in the wireless network planning business might want to look into this software since it appears to include multipath effects on signal integrity...Notable Quote -Archive- "Emcomm is what saves Amateur Radio from losing spectrum." – Curt Bartholomew (N3GQ), FCC Senior Emergency ManagerFeatured Book -Archive- Managing Research, Development and Innovation: Managing the Unmanageable, by R. Jain, H. Triandis, and C. WeickYour Help Requested No cost is involved. My daughter, Sally Cochran, is vying for a $250k grant to expand her horse riding academy into a therapeutic riding center. Please vote for her Equine Kingdom Riding Academy. Just click the link above, click Learn More, then Log In & Support (it uses your Facebook login). Type Equine Kingdom into the "business name" box and hit Search, then click Vote. Thank-you very much! Video for Engineers -Archive- I ran across this full-length video of the documentary titled, "Nikola Tesla - Master of Lightning," which was aired by PBS in 2000. It is the most extensive visual resource of information on Tesla that I have seen. Most people, if they have ever even heard of Nikola Tesla, associate him with gigantic high voltage generators making his hair stand on end, but his contributions to the world of electricity go far beyond that. Aside from the lightning machines, he also developed almost single-handedly the basic concept of alternating current (AC) power generation, distribution, and motors. The battle, both personally and corporately, with Thomas Edison and his proposed direct current (DC) system is epic and tragic. Documentaries like this one tend to flourish the tale a bit with exaggerations that build sympathy for the featured good guy du jour, so keep that in mind when viewing. A similar documentary on Edison likely conflicts a bit when relating who tried to hose whom in the AC-DC battle. One of the most interesting aspects of the long-running contest (aka "The War of the Currents") Tesla had with Edison was how down and dirty the fight got. If you think mud slinging in business and politics is something new, wait until you see how public demonstrations were conducted to "prove" how dangerous one form of voltage was compared to the other. Actual footage is presented where Edison's camp electrocuted an elephant... | Smorgasbord -Archive- It has been a while since I reported salary data for chieftains in the electronics industry. With all the violence being threatened against achievers in the corporate world these days, I was a bit reluctant to throw fuel on the fire by pointing out what long hours and hard work can achieve. No, not every one can get there, but the promise of a higher goal motivates people to apply themselves to a greater degree than others. Natural-born intelligence and drive, plus a helping of luck, can and often is the discriminator between who becomes king of the hill; however, there are lots of prince and knight positions available for the rest of us (I'm more of a court jester in the regal line of ascension). Fierce Wireless' 2011 list shows Apple CEO Tim Cook reaping $1/3B (up from $1/20B in 2010), with the #2 slot earning less than 1/10th of that. The #10 position in 2010 yielded $5.9M for U.S. Cellular CEO Mary Dillon, whereas #10 in 2011 only netted $5.0M. 2011 had a 75:1 ratio between the #1 and #10 position (x=$52M, std dev=$115M). 2010's spread was only 10:1 (x=$17M, std dev=$16M).
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Engineering Leaders to Convene to Discuss Future of U.S. Engineering IEEE: Telling Secrets of the Hidden Job Market Techniques for Improving Noise and Spurious in PLLs, by Eric Drucker Tales from the Cube: Long Shots, Short Shots, and Hip Shots Sherlock Ohms: Case of the Failing 'C' Batteries
5/13/2012 Science Crossword Puzzle Supreme Court Patent Opinion Paves Way for Expert Testimony Court Spells Out ‘Red Flags’ to Watch for in Experts (IMS ExpertServices™) Optoelectronics Company of Hertfordshire, UK Listing Added Aethercomm Seeking Senior RF Design Engineers Sherlock Ohms: Freight Train Kills Cellphone Signal EE Times: Weigh in on the Greatest Hits in Electronics Graphene As a See-Though Conductor (slideshow)
Avoid a Common S-Parameter Problem, byEric Bogatin and Alan Blankman Improve Production Test of High-Speed RF Components, by Peter Sarson Basics of Digital Signals and Their Measurement (p.34), by Gary Breed Differential Versus Common Mode Currents (p.40), by Arturo Mediano
Sorting Out 4G: Are We There Yet? Theory and Application of RF/Microwave Absorbers, by Paul Dixon Please Welcome to USAF Radar Tech Doug Reed to Our Honored List! Science & Engineering Crossword Puzzle for 5/6/2012
G7KPF UK Quick Links URL Update Edison's Revenge: The Rise of DC Power Go inside Fluke's Electrical Metrology Lab Ultracapacitor Applications in the Power Electronic World Engineering Jobs -Archive- - Senior RF Design Engineers, Aethercomm - MicroElectronic Packaging Engineer, Skyworks Solutions - Firmware Engineer III, Inovonics - Software Engineer, Inovonics (wireless sensor networks) - RF/Microwave Filter Design Engineer, Anatech Electronics - U.S. Sales Manager, Anatech Electronics - RF Design Engineer (Level IV), FreeWave Technologies - Sales Manager, Microphase Corp. - Inside Sales Representative– Microwave Components, Wireless Telecom Group - RF Test Technicians, Aethercomm - Technical Director of RF Engineering, Aethercomm |
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