power consumption
Making it easier to save energy
Everyone wants to save energy, but there are few individuals who can tell you exactly how much energy the devices in their homes consume. For example, which…
Smartphone App Illuminates Power Consumption
Battery-powered cell phones serve as hand-held computers and more these days. We run power-hungry applications while we depend on the phones to be available in…
Working together to design robust silicon chips
This has necessitated building redundancy into chip designs to allow for the imperfect environments of production and use that vary from the ideal of the…
Acoustic tweezers can position tiny objects
“Current methods for moving individual cells or tiny beads include such devices as optical tweezers, which require a lot of energy and could damage or even…
Quantum twist: Electrons mimic presence of magnetic field
An international team of scientists led by a Princeton University group recently discovered that on the surface of certain materials collective arrangements of…
New Wireless Standard Promises Ultra-Fast Media Applications
The Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has produced a CMOS chip capable of transmitting 60 GHz digital RF signals….