Editors’ picks

Comparing two wireless solutions and examining their relative merits in a home networking environment.

The term Centre of Excellence (CoE) is becoming a popular way of focusing attention in many organisations, but what exactly is a CoE? How can it be incorporated into an organisational structure? And, is it just another ‘excellence’ fad? Kerrine Bryan and Ian Herbert answer some typical questions.

Stephen Killen of ConneXon examines the problems associated with delivering correct location information with 999 (or 112) calls made from within private telephone networks and considers the regulatory, legal and moral obligations placed on organisations to ensure that this information reliable.

With globalization and technological developments changing market dynamics, it is time for organizations to reassess their business processes and start making some radical transformations.

This major upgrade adds more speed and new tools to the COMSOL modelling and simulation environment. Most notably, geometry and meshing have become faster and more powerful. 

There's no need for an either/or decision – the goal should be to blend 2D and 3D design tools and processes, and get the best of both.

3D digital scanning specialist Physical Digital has captured the very essence of the last airworthy Spitfire.

Cars have seen great improvements in styling, safety and performance over the last 40 years. The next area for evolution is likely to be the interior, in particular the interfaces between the car systems and the occupants.

There's no need for an either/or decision – the goal should be to blend 2D and 3D design tools and processes, and get the best of both.

A professor from the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University presents details about the first highly interactive donation system, providing a user-friendly multimedia interface for promoting, motivating and assisting people to make donations at any particular time.

Presenting innovative silicon integration, power-system-in-package and proprietary control architectures to enable benchmark isolated DC-DC performance in an ultra-small form factor.

There has been widespread coverage of the Gulf of Mexico disaster in many news papers but the report which is more interesting to control systems engineers, was published in The Times on the May 18^th 

Could better aircraft communications help make aircraft black boxes obsolete?

Network enabled trains integrate security, surveillance, passenger counting and infotainment technologies.

Mobile operators could benefit from understanding how customers experience their services 

Linux is firmly established in the embedded market, but migrating existing source code to the operating system is a considerable undertaking. This article explores the steps necessary to migrate, the technical requirements and possible pitfalls and the differences between buying an established Linux implementation and developing one internally.

Marty Colombatto, chief executive officer of wireless USB chip company Staccato Communications, says that the ultra-wideband based technology is just beginning to take off.