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Taking out the garbage Last evening, I was taking out the garbage again. It's pretty much been my job since I was a 10-year-old, andContinue

Lead free and RoHS: Do we need to be concerned? Most design engineers have heard about new environmental regulations governing electronic equipment. They want toContinue

A taxing problem Like many of you I recently spent some time preparing my taxes. For an engineer�for whom solving problems is something that comesContinue

An active plug for passives Lately, when it comes to electronic components, it seems that high-profile devices like superfast CPUs, highly integrated ASICs, and

Power matters Power is the only staple in the electronics buffet. A product may not have logic, a display, buttons and switches, cables, or evenContinue

Thanks for the memory This year's Consumer Electronic Show was one of evolution, not revolution. Sure, there were ever-bigger flat-panel monitors and ever-smaller

Looks good, works better Welcome to Electronic Products Vol. 47, No. 8. What keeps a publication that has been serving engineers for over 40 yearsContinue

It's about time (It's about space) It's been almost half a century since Sputnik marked the start of the space age, and 35 years sinceContinue