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Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005	Design Tools: Nallatech Tool Enables UAV Designers to Leverage Xilinx FPGA Technology Engineers at Nallatech recently announced the completion of the Virtex-4 XtremeDSP Development Kit, which will enable designers to immediately leverage Xilinx's digital signal processing (DSP) Virtex-4 FPGAs in new advanced field programmable gate array (FPGA) designs in mission-critical applications.
IEEE Spectrum June 2005 Erico Guizzo	Bugged Balls For Tough Calls Was it a goal? A soccer ball containing a coin-size radio transmitter will tell you for sure. The system will be tested in real matches at the FIFA U-17 World Championship next September in Peru.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 Eric Smalley	Robot Runs Like Humans Researchers have developed mathematical principals for enabling human-like running in bipedal robots, including the ability to recover balance. They used the principals to develop control software that allows a two-legged robot to run.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 Kimberly Patch	DNA Machine Links Molecules Researchers have fashioned a nanomechanical device from DNA that can be programmed to align a series of molecules and fuse them together. The technique could potentially be used to put together designer polymers, encrypt information, and carry out computations.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 Kimberly Patch	Process Ups Biodiesel Efficiency Researchers have shown that it is possible to convert biomass materials like corn into fuel that could be used in diesel engines in a way that automatically separates the fuel from water.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Power Sources: Fuel Cells, Solar Cells, Heat, Vibration and Fusion Summaries of how each of these power sources work to create energy.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Nanowire Computer Circuits Debut Researchers have found a way to paint molecular-size circuitry onto glass. The method is potentially very low-cost, and could eventually be used to make computer chips that pack extremely tiny and thus powerful circuits.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Lens Boosts LED Efficiency One-fifth of the electricity consumed in the U.S. is used for lighting. Researchers have come up with a way to boost light emitted from white light-emitting diodes by as much as 60%.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Quantum Crypto Boosted to 2 GHz Researchers have upped the speed of their quantum key exchange system to 2 gigahertz over several kilometers of optical telecommunications fiber.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Single Camera Measures Speed Researchers have improved a method of determining depth information using a single camera. The advance allows a single camera to detect the speed of objects and could be used anywhere robotic vision is needed.
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