Design News - October 08, 2007

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Cover Story

Companies are pushing their engineering teams to factor in environmental concerns when designing products just like they would any design objective. PLM and CAD tools can help companies make better decisions around alternative materials and design for disassembly and recycleability earlier in the development cycle.

Departments

Trend Watch
Talk About Tough Specs
Power Management ICs Meet Growing Needs
Calamities
The Case Of The Croupy Carburetor
Gadget Freak
Gadget Freak Case #109: Linux Server Serves Cats
Rant
2.5M Miles and Still Running
Flash
Robots Cut Health Care Costs
Pumping Up Energy Conservation
Sensors Keep Their Cool
Environmental Recorders Watch for Damage
High Speed Sensing
Mechatronics
Bond Graphs to the Rescue
Weblog
A Virtual Hall of Shame
Tips From Titus
The Ins and Outs of In Amps
The Dodge Report
Green Engineering Repellent: Cheap Energy

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JUNE 24TH WEBCAST: Collaborative Requirements Engineering
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Light Matters: Systems Level Approach to HBLED illumination applications
Its good practice to apply a systems-level approach to high-brightness LED (HBLED) illumination applications. Minimally, the system includes the optical, thermal and electrical characteristics of the of the HBLED, the lens (if any) which is built-in to its package, secondary optics such as external plastic lenses/reflectors to direct the light as your application requires and power driver electronics. Read More

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