Embedded products are becoming more complex and are processing more data than ever before. Consequently they require faster means of communication to external systems, compared with traditional methods such as RS232 or RS485

While enormous machines gouge out 7 m wide tunnels from the hard rock beneath Martin Ams' feet as part of the Epping to Chatswood Rail Line, the Macquarie University PhD student focuses on making tunnels just five microns wide

The global market for portable communication products such as pagers, two-way radios, cordless phones, mobile phones, personal GPS receivers, wireless internet browsers and portable video phones is growing at a rapid pace

Agilent has announced a colour management system for backlighting LCD flat-panel TVs that delivers 25% more brilliant colours than current fluorescent backlighting

The cars and aircraft of the future will be safer and the buildings and production lines more efficient thanks to wireless sensors powered by tiny generators being developed at ANU

With the advent of faster FPGAs with sizeable quantities of RAM, it's becoming possible to breathe new life into old micro designs whose days would otherwise be numbered

Two electrochemists at Massey University have come up with a formula that could rock the foundations of the $200 billion global battery market. Keith Newman backgrounds this new 'disruptive technology'

It is well known that the first few Collins class submarines suffered from a higher level of noise emissions at the beginning of their service life than was desirable. The good news is that the early issues are being successfully corrected.

For most electronic systems, monitoring system voltages with a power-on reset (POR) ensures proper initialisation at power-up

This article looks at variables in measuring low resistance values and the errors that may occur in making those measurements

For most electronic systems, monitoring system voltages with a power-on reset (POR) ensures proper initialisation at power-up. Detecting brownout conditions with a POR minimises possible code-execution problems that can corrupt memory

David Muller, assoc prof of applied and engineering physics, inserts a sample into the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) in his Duffield Hall laboratory

When we think isolation in the electronics context, we think of the transformer. Magnetic fields transfer information without an electrical connection between primary and secondary windings creating the isolation barrier

During the last 20 years, three basic battery rapid test methods have emerged. All methods are resistance based, a characteristic that reveals the battery's ability to deliver load current

Semiconductor manufacturers are busily trying to anticipate what the future market will demand of them. Toshiba is just one company that is looking into the future and it has outlined what it sees in its latest 'strategic memory roadmaps'