Companies worldwide have significantly changed their way of undertaking business on a day-to-day basis, since the beginning of the economic crisis. Limited travel budgets have compelled companies to seek new means of communication and collaboration... (more)

Bridging VoIP islands

by Hans van de Groenendaal, EngineerIT

 

Internet telephony, or voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is in the midst of a global wave of mass consumer adoption and South Africa is a part of this. With increased broadband availability it is clear that the decade-old promise of VoIP replacing the public switched telephone network (PSTN) is happening fast... (more)

by Chris Joubert, Dimension Data
 

Voice biometrics utilises the voice for identity verification, based on a mathematical representation of the voice tract, which is as unique as a fingerprint. It is finding wide application: replacing passwords, fingerprints and a host of other identification options... (more) 

The fading fortunes of PointCast gave push technology a bad name in the early internet years, but the technology is far from dead and buried. We have  been successfully pioneering services and applications based on push technology since 2001... (more)

 

Free space optics - also referred to as "fibre over the air" - is a new point-to-point wireless technology used for short distance high bandwidth connections. It uses laser operating in the infrared optical band to communicate digital data through free space...

Increasing plant and workforce efficiency 

by Claude Agostinetto, Systems Automation Management
  
Industrial plants are increasingly becoming automated, leading to shortages of staff skilled in the management of automation and associated control software... (more)

 

To enable devices to communicate with each other over a serial data bus without data loss, as well as to enable faster devices to communicate with slower ones, the I2C (Inter-IC) protocol was put forward by Philips Semiconductors in January 2000... (more) 

 

Most electronic components are low power and produce negligible heat in operation. Some devices however - such as power transistors, CPUs and power diodes - produce a significant amount of heat... (more) 

Information from Asic Design Services
 

Intelligent mixed-signal FPGAs combine the proven and highly flexible ProASIC 3 FPGA fabric, advanced mixed-signal capabilities and a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor into a single device... (more) 

by Hans van de Groenendaal, EngineerIT

 

Intel has launched its fastest to date high performance chip providing on average three times increase in processing speed with over 20 reliability features. The new Intel Xeon 7500 processor series is based on the Nehalem clip design... (more)

 

 

This article discusses the determination of uncertainty contributions when performing a power responsivity calibration for a fibre optic power meter... (more)

by Evan Dent, Endress+Hauser

 

Energy in SA (as well as globally) has become a key area of attention in recent years. SA in particular has a larger than average problem as a result of the capacity shortages we face in the short term... (more)

 

 

Eectro-magnetic compatibility is an important part of evaluating the performance of products manufactured by the electrical, electronic and communications industry... (more)

 

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