Jack Shandle

Jack Shandle is a free-lance writer specializing in a range of electronic technologies including wireless, smart grid and semiconductors. Jack has been chief editor of several electronics publications including Electronic Design and ChipCenter. As a freelancer, he was written hundreds of articles for publications such as EE Times, EDN, CommsDesign, and TechOnline, as well as company sponsored journals such as ARM's IQ Magazine, Xilinx's Xcell Journal, and Mentor Graphics' EDA Tech Forum.

almost 6 years ago
Data Center Innovations Reflect and Fuel the Internet's Hypergrowth

Cloud computing's insatiable appetite for speed, reliability, power, redundancy, and just about everything is radically changing data center system design. Examine the innovations shaping...

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over 10 years ago
Power Grid Collaboratives Enable New Levels of Power Utilization

The distributed intelligence that has been the defining characteristic of the Smart Grid can do more than enable smart homes and help utilities distribute power more efficiently. These two...

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almost 12 years ago
Supercapacitors Find Applications in Hybrid Vehicles, Smartphones, and Energy Harvesting

Until recently, supercapacitors were relegated to fairly mundane tasks such as memory protection and internal battery backup. Learn more about new device technologies and how the application space...

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about 12 years ago
As RFID Gains Traction, Design Opportunities Proliferate

The first passive transponders powered by incoming RF date back to the early 1970s, as does the vision for most of today's manifold RFID applications.

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over 12 years ago
Programmable Logic Puts MCU-based Designs on the Fast Track

The capabilities of large programmable logic devices such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) have grown rapidly since they were first...

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over 12 years ago
Wireless Networking in 2013

The outlook for wireless networking keeps getting brighter as more devices- some as large as automobiles- become connected.

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