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Trillions of Sensors Could Soon be Looking for Data Connections Beyond the familiar world of IMing and email is a much larger and rapidly growing world of machine-to-machine (M2M) communication links, which could include trillions of individual sensors by 2010. Full Story Year of the Mixed Signal
Complexity begets a response as test vendors get on the mixed signal oscilloscope (MSO) bandwagon, providing analog and digital channels in a single testing device. Full Story Synthetic Instrumentation Comes of AgeThe concept is simple: Harness basic sensors and then add the traditional functionality of an instrument through software on a generic platform. Full Story A Look at the New GenICam Camera Standard
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