My partner, Mike Deeds, has a new post on our company blog:You can’t escape the fact that it takes money to create a low cost product. It is estimated that the first version of the iPhone had COGS (cost-of-goods-sold) of around ...READ»
I thought it would be interesting to connect a network sniffer in-line with my shiny new iPad, so I could capture and analyze all the network traffic flowing to and from the device.Although I did this with the iPad, the ...READ»
Over the past two years Microsoft has been building a new building to house all of its Redmond, WA-based researchers. The researchers themselves helped design the building and Kevin Schofield, General Manager of ...READ»
Cardinal Peak recently had an unfortunate “first”: We chose to walk away from a promising engineering engagement because we couldn’t reach agreement with our customer about an indemnification clause.
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The web is filled with
introductions
to Delta Sigma modulation (also sometimes referred to as Sigma Delta
modulation) in the context of Delta Sigma converters. Unfortunately, the
ones I’ve looked at fail to intuitively ...READ»
The web is filled with introductions to Delta Sigma modulation (also sometimes referred to as Sigma Delta modulation) in the context of Delta Sigma converters. Unfortunately, the ones I’ve looked at fail to intuitively motivate how ...READ»
As all good project managers know, there are three dimensions to any engineering effort:
The features of the product: What does the product do and how does it look? (For sake of simplicity, let’s include “quality” as a product ...READ»
My partner, Mike Perkins, has a new blog post up:
The world is moving in the direction of HDTV, but NTSC “standard
def” signals are still common for many reasons and will remain so. One
important reason is that cameras that ...READ»
The theory, architecture, and applications of signal processing will be the primary focus of the 17th European Signal Processing Conference. While we don’t understand exactly what all that entails, we do know some of the brightest ...READ»
