I wrote up a piece about AustriaMicrosystems’ 12 bit hall-effect rotary encoder and the ebullient and cheerful Mary Bohenek was nice enough to send me a demo board. This thing is a blast—imagine ...

Incremental-rotation or linear encoders are very common, but normally they do not provide a direction signal. This design shows an easy way to detect forward or reverse direction. Incremental encoders ...

At the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) today, Xilinx announced availability of a high definition real-time MPEG4 AVC/H.264 encoder solution leveraging the high-performance features of ...