Cochlear faced the challenge of reducing escalating costs and development time for a new generation of hearing implants by creating an automated, mixed-signal test system using off-the-shelf technology [ + ]

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 [ + ]

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 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 [ + ]

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

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. [ + ]

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 [ + ]

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 [ + ]

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 [ + ]

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 [ + ]

This short technical note is about minimising harmonics; yet there will be those who don't as yet realise the extent to which harmonics cost money [ + ]