Category: Embedded Software
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Electronics Design the Next Generation
Electronics Design Electronics Design is a very challenging area where reducing Time to Market, increasing Engineering Effort, constantly improving technology, tooling lead time and Agile Software Development methodologies all lead to rapidly changing requirements while the project delivery time frame remains immutable. Fortunately Electronics Engineers are up for a challenge. At Successful Endeavours we…
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Casey Business Of The Year Recognised By Manufacture Link
Casey Business Of The Year 2010 Manufacture Link has recognised Successful Endeavours win as Casey Business Of The Year 2010 in their website news article Successful Endeavours wins 2010 Casey Business of the Year . Manufacture Link is an initiative aimed at increasing the opportunity for local manufacture by allowing members to create company…
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Casey Business of the Year 2010
Last night was the Casey Business Awards gala dinner where the Casey Business Awards were given out for 2010. We are very pleased to have been awarded the Casey Business of the Year for 2010. It was a great night and Casey Mayor, Cr Lorraine Wreford presented the award to Ray and Junette Keefe of…
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Squash Lessons for Engineering
Squash Lessons for Engineering The picture in today’s post comes courtesy of Dr Marc Dussault, The Exponential Growth Strategist. At his recent Exponential Business Building Bootcamp, he demonstrated how a Squash Racquet gets broken from repeated use. So what does this have to do with Engineering? Glad you asked. First, I have…
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Embedded Software Testing
Software Testing I recently met with an Australian Software Development company, PepperStack, and we got onto the subject of Software Testing. As someone who began their career as an Electronics Hardware Engineer, one of the things I learnt was that you have to test thoroughly to be sure everything is working as it should be.…
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From Engineer to Entrepreneur
This week I was the recipient of an Exponential Entrepreneur of the Year award. Last year we were received two awards for technical excellence when we won two of the 15 EDN Innovation awards handed out in Australia in 2009. So I was very pleased to be receiving an award recognising the business side…
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What’s So Good About Being An Engineer?
An Engineering Problem in Disguise A funny thing happened to me the other day during the Christmas shopping rush at our local shopping centre in Endeavour Hills. Our daughter had purchased some clothes for her nieces for Christmas and used the self serve checkout. When she got home she discovered she had not had one…
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Green Electronics Strategies – Reduce Power While Awake
Electronics Design To Save Energy We have looked at how Low Power Electronics is a green strategy because it reduces the amount of power that has to be generated. And then we looked at a range of options for Reducing Electronics Power Consumption. Now we are into specifics. The last post looked at Sleep…
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Green Electronics Strategies – Sleep Saves Energy
How Does Sleep Save Energy? For this post, we will look specifically at Embedded Software techniques to save power and energy. This is a well known Power Saving Strategy which doesn’t always get the recognition it deserves. It is also something you have to design into the Power Management Plan from the beginning. For…
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Green Electronics Strategies – Reducing Power Consumption
What is so good about Low Power Electronics? If you read my last post, you would have noticed that this has the potential to reduce overall Power Requirements. Up until now, only Battery Operated Devices have really cared about Power Consumption. If you could plug it into a wall outlet then all was OK…