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		<title>802.11 to the nth Degree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like every major wireless protocol is coming out with a variant that can make it under the low-power limbo bar. Bluetooth has spawned Bluetooth Low Energy and ZigBee now has a low-power healthcare profile. Not to be outdone, &#8230; <a href="http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2012/01/26/802-11-to-the-nth-degree/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2012/01/26/802-11-to-the-nth-degree/</link>
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		<title>Bluetooth Goes Ultra-Low-Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s hardly a cell phone on the planet that doesn’t have a Bluetooth transceiver for connecting to a wireless headset. Most new PCs now incorporate Bluetooth chips for the same purpose, letting you type while you talk or listen. Many, &#8230; <a href="http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2012/01/02/bluetooth-goes-ultra-low-power/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2012/01/02/bluetooth-goes-ultra-low-power/</link>
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		<title>Synopsys Buys Magma—But Will the Marriage Last?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Donovan Synopsys yesterday (11/30/2011) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to buy Magma Design Automation for $507 million, the largest acquisition in the EDA industry in many years. The acquisition will strengthen Synopsys’ position in both &#8230; <a href="http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/12/02/synopsys-buys-magma%e2%80%94but-will-the-marriage-last/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/12/02/synopsys-buys-magma%e2%80%94but-will-the-marriage-last/</link>
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		<title>Electric Flight—the Ultimate Energy Efficiency Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you think electric cars are impressive, how about an electric 747? On a smaller scale, that flight of fancy just became a reality. Last month in Santa Rosa, CA, an electric-powered 4-seat light plane won the NASA/Google Green Flight &#8230; <a href="http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/11/30/electric-flight%e2%80%94the-ultimate-energy-efficiency-challenge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/11/30/electric-flight%e2%80%94the-ultimate-energy-efficiency-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Hands On: Evaluation Kit Eases Lighting Design Starts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally you order an evaluation kit to check out whether a particular microcontroller seems appropriate for a design you have in mind; if everything seems OK, you then order a more costly development kit to prototype your design. Cypress’ CY3267 PowerPSoC &#8230; <a href="http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/10/28/hands-on-evaluation-kit-eases-lighting-design-starts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/10/28/hands-on-evaluation-kit-eases-lighting-design-starts/</link>
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		<title>Storing Volts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While electric vehicles have been around since the late 19th century, they only became practical with the development of energy storage systems that sport a lot better horsepower-to-weight ratio than bulky lead acid batteries. By the mid-90’s automakers had pretty &#8230; <a href="http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/09/27/storing-volts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/09/27/storing-volts/</link>
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		<title>Get on the Drivetrain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of reasons for thinking of buying a hybrid electric car—ecological, economic, political, and just getting cheesed off at seeing all those hybrids with one passenger whiz by you in the Diamond/HOV lane. Besides, admit it—the technology &#8230; <a href="http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/08/30/get-on-the-drivetrain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/08/30/get-on-the-drivetrain/</link>
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		<title>SiliconBlue Rolls Out 40-nm Low-Power FPGAs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To date winning a cell phone socket has been a bridge too far for FPGA vendors. Xilinx’s CoolRunner CPLDs have been successful there by adding glue logic, but FPGAs have long been too bulky, expensive, and power hungry to get &#8230; <a href="http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/07/12/siliconblue-rolls-out-40-nm-low-power-fpgas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/07/12/siliconblue-rolls-out-40-nm-low-power-fpgas/</link>
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		<title>MEMS Sensors Still Center Stage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote an article for EE Times titled Sensors: More Than MEMS reviewing the recent Sensors Expo in Chicago. That wasn’t meant to diss MEMS sensors, which are where the action still is as a number of sensor vendors &#8230; <a href="http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/07/02/mems-sensors-still-center-stage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/07/02/mems-sensors-still-center-stage/</link>
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		<title>More than MEMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fact that I spend too much time focusing on consumer electronics was brought home to me vividly last week by a visit to the Sensors Expo 2011 in Chicago. Far from the niche show that I expected, it was &#8230; <a href="http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/06/23/more-than-mems/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://low-powerdesign.com/donovansbrain/2011/06/23/more-than-mems/</link>
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