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80-mpg car is lighter years ahead
by Ralph Raiola
Developing alternative fuel technologies is great, but what do consumers do waiting for those technologies to mature and become cost-effective? Well, you can bike to work, but that might cut into your free time a bit.
Thumbs up for Fairchild Semiconductor
by Christina Nickolas
The trend toward energy conservation continues to grow worldwide. Semiconductor companies today design chips to help customers solve energy efficiency problems. That is great, but what about the company’s own green practices? Large and small companies also have a duty to find ways to reduce energy use, water consumption, and try to improve environmental design.
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eeTECHBrief.com is growing! Now, with nearly 100 webcasts available on-demand from companies such as Freescale Technologies, Analog Devices and Texas Instruments, covering products and technologies in power, microprocessors and microcontrollers, RF and microwave, and more. Some of the top-rated webcasts this month include Freescale’s “MRAM a new kind of memory chip,” which demonstrates how the technical aspects of the world’s first commercialized 4-Mbit MRAM product and how it can benefit your design. Or “You can do what with that?” also by Freescale, on how system costs can be reduced by getting the most functionality out of an ultra-low-end micro Freescale’s MC9RS08KA. Join the thousands of EEs that have already viewed an eeTECHBrief, taken advantage of suppliers offerings and returned to view more. View vendor solutions the way EEs want . . . Briefly! http://www.eeTECHBrief.com
Updates at EEM.com
In December, the latest update of EEM.com will go live – bringing about 5,000 component manufacturers’ product listings from over 1,200 electronic component classifications. Also during the month of December our latest EEM print volumes will be mailed out free to qualified subscribers.
Next month
Multimedia/Entertainment Electronics Special
This special will feature a series of articles focused on components and products used in the design of consumer entertainment electronics. Topics covered will include: analog/mixed-signal ICs, digital ICs, sensors and transducers, optoelectronic components and displays, passive and electromechanical component, development tools, and more.
Application Focus: Communications Electronics
This product application focus will combine a staff-written industry overview with product and technology coverage, focusing on one or more of the following product areas: communications test, shielding materials, and cabinets and enclosures.
Product Roundup: Cabinets & Enclosures
This roundup will offer a sampling of new and recent portable, rack-mount, and floor-standing enclosures.
Microprocessors & Microcontrollers
Features in this section will cover any and all facets of these chips and IP – from the smallest consumer application to supercomputer arrays.
Lighting/Illumination Forum
Representatives from a variety of manufacturers will discuss issues affecting the design/development of electronic products for the industry, including: LEDs, LED driver solutions, ballast control solutions, incandescents, and other lamps.
Plus Much More!
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