February 2013 ~ engineering information technology

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Steps to Send and Receive SMS in .NET using GSM modem

First, connect GSM modem to your PC.
Check port connection
Open the application.
Configure the port settings.

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ONLINE AIR TICKET REGISTRATION ASP.NET PROJECT

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Raspberry PI, Raspbian, XBMC and eGalax 7 inch touchscreen

Hello!

I have spent some time lately trying to find a solution to get my 7 inch eGalax touchscreen to work with Raspbian(Debian Wheezy) in XBMC 12 Frodo and finally got it working as I wanted.

My Setup

Raspberry PI model B: ~30$
7 inch display with touchscreen for car rear view camera, from eBay(touchscreen is connected to one USB port): 80$
HDMI male to HDMI male connector(from eBay): <2$
4GB SDHC class 4 card
12V(500mA) AC to DC adapter for powering the display
5V(1A) microUSB AC to DC converter for powering the PI
USB keyboard

Update: PRWeb: Pelican Imaging will be giving private demonstrations in Barcelona, February 25-28, 2013. Pelican Imaging’s camera is said to be 50% thinner than existing mobile cameras, and allows users to perform a range of selective focus and edits, both pre- and post-capture.

"Our technology is truly unique and radically different than the legacy approach. Our solution gives users a way to interact with their images and video in wholly new ways," said Pelican Imaging CEO and President Christopher Pickett. "We think users are going to be blown away by the freedom to refocus after the fact, focus on multiple subjects, segment objects, take linear depth measurements, apply filters, change backgrounds, and easily combine photos, from any device."

Scientific Detector Workshop 2013

Scientific Detector Workshop is to be held on Oct 7-11, 2013 in Florence, Italy.

Papers will be presented on the following topics:

Status and plans for astronomical facilities and instrumentation (ground & space)
Earth and Planetary Science missions and instrumentation
Laboratory instrumentation (physical chemistry, synchrotrons, etc.)
Detector materials (from Si and HgCdTe to strained layer superlattices)
Sensor architectures – CCD, monolithic CMOS, hybrid CMOS
Sensor electronics
Sensor packaging and mosaics
Sensor testing and characterization

Tentative list of invited speakers:

Mark McCaughrean & Mark Clampin "Space Astronomy Needs"
Bonner Denton "Laboratory Instrumentation"
Roland Bacon "MUSE - Example of Imaging Spectroscopy"
Ian Baker & Johan Rothman "HgCdTe APDs"
Jean Susini "Synchrotrons"
Rolf Kudritzki "Stellar Astrophysics: Perspectives on the Evolution of Detectors"
Jim Gunn "Why Imaging Spectroscopy?"
Harald Michaelis "Planetary Science"
Robert Green "Imaging Spectroscopy for Earth Science and Exoplanet Exploration"

Thanks to AT for the link!

ISSCC 2013 Report - Part 3

Albert Theuwissen continues reports from ISSCC 2013. The third part talks about three fast sensors:

L. Braga (FBK, Trento) "An 8×16 pixel 92kSPAD time-resolved sensor with on-pixel 64 ps 12b TDC and 100MS/s real-time energy histogramming in 0.13 um CIS technology for PET/MRI applications"
C. Niclass (Toyota) "A 0.18 um CMOS SoC for a 100m range, 10 fps 200×96 pixel Time of Flight depth sensor"
O. Shcherbakova (University of Trento) "3D camera based on linear-mode gain-modulated avalanche photodiodes"

JHU Mark Foster Develops 100Mfps Continuously Recording Camera

Mark Foster, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins’ Whiting School of Engineering has developed a system that can continuously record images at a rate of more than 100 million frames per second and has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, a five-year, $400,000 grant. The resolution of the camera is not stated.

Foster, who came to Johns Hopkins in 2010, works in the area of non-linear optics and ultra-faster lasers – measuring phenomena that occur in femtoseconds. "With this project, we hope to create the fastest video device ever created," he explained.

Unfortunately, Mark Foster's home page has no explanation on how the new camera works. His publications page mostly links to high-speed optical communication papers, rather than imaging.

In the In the Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins,
Mark Foster uses infrared light in his development of a high-speed
imaging system that will enable researchers to continuously record images
at more than 100 million frames per second.

ISSCC 2013: Panasonic Single-Lens 3D Imager

Tech-On: Panasonic presents 2.1MP image sensor implementing 3D imaging with a single lens:

DML=Digital MicroLens, made with patterns smaller
than wavelength

Panasonic plans to use this technology in industrial and mobile products appearing in 2014.

Aptina and Sony Support Nvidia Chimera Technology

Nvidia has recently announced a name to its Computational Photography Architecture - Chimera, used in Tegra 4 family of application processors. HDR is the main differentiation of this technology, including hardware-assisted HDR panorama stitching. The image sensor partners announced at the launch are Sony with IMX135 13 MP stacked sensor and Aptina with AR0833 1/3-inch 8MP BSI sensor.

Business Wire: Aptina says that its MobileHDR technology enables Chimera architecture support. MobileHDR technology is integrated into a number of Aptina’s high-end current and future mobile products including the AR0835 (8MP), AR1230 (12MP), and the AR1330 (13MP).

Fraunhofer Adapts Gesture Recognition to Car Quality Control

Researchers in Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB) in Karlsruhe, Germany developed an efficient type of quality control: With a pointing gesture, employees can input any detected defects to car body parts into the inspection system. The 2D and 3D cameras fusion system was developed on behalf of the BMW Group:

A point of the finger is all it takes to send the defect
in the paint to the QS inspection system, store it and document it.

ISSCC 2013 Report - Part 2

Albert Theuwissen continues his excellent ISSCC report series. The second part talks about stacked sensors:

Olympus presented "A rolling-shutter distortion-free 3D stacked image sensor with -160 dB parasitic light sensitivity in-pixel storage node", by J. Aoki
Sony presented "A 1/4-inch 8M pixel back-illuminated stacked CMOS image sensor" by S. Sukegawa

From what Albert writes, I'd bet that Olympus was granted an early access to Sony stacked sensor process, so that both presentations rely on the same technology.

Bentley

W.O Bentley with his brother bought Lecoq and Fernie, as industrial automotive from France. They were replace its name with Bentley where had home-base in Mayfair England.

In 1919 after world war one, They produced again with the label Bentley Motors. And in 1921 - 1930 Bentley followed race world with the first victory in Brooklands, but in 1922 at Indianapolis race, they were finish at last.

Dark period of Bentley in 1930 - 1982 that Bentley sold to Roll Royce and Lagonda. Below of Roll Royce, Th Bentley just as the shadow of Roll Royce.

In 1998 - 2006 is the gold period if Bentley where they sold to Volswagen and BMW bought Roll Royce stock holder and officially Bentley and Roll Royce separately.

INTERNSHIPS ABROAD DURING ENGINEERING COURSE

I recommend internships to be done abroad during your engineering course rather than doing it in your country. Now a days there a lot of engineers and there is no job for all the engineers. So how are you going to be different from them? Every engineering student during their engineering course undergoes internships and industrial visits. So for you to be different from the rest undergo an internship abroad. You can meet different people from different cultures and you will get better exposure. You can also do industrial visits during your internship.

Everyone wish to do internships abroad but they just don't know where to begin. They search for internship in search engines but are not satisfied. IAESTE is the where you have to begin. The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) is a student exchange organisation that provides students in technical degrees (primarily Science, Engineering and the applied arts) with paid, course-related, training abroad and employers with highly skilled, highly motivated trainees, for long or short term projects. More than 80 countries are involved and exchanging over 4000 traineeships each year worldwide. Each country participating in this program has IAESTE committees through which the exchange is done. In India, Karunya University and MIT are the two IAESTE committees. Be a member in the committee and you can apply for paid internship abroad. Sometimes offers for non-members are also available.

But those who didn't get selected for internship abroad through IAESTE should not be disapointed because there is another way. Different types of internships can be done according to the course that you have done or you are doing. You can send emails to professors of colleges abroad that has a research department of your choice. You get selected according to the project and seminar that you have done and your aggregate marks. I recommend Europe for doing internship because there are many technical colleges which has research department. If you are lucky they may reply. Then ask about housing expenses etc. If you are lucky they will fund you your housing expenses and medical expenses. They will do everything for the visa work. Internship can be from 1 week to 6 months. You may even get paid for the internship and may even give you a job for you to join after your engineering course. Every engineering curriculum has a time period for doing internship. If you have been selected to do internship please discuss with your course tutor. If everything is fine you are lucky. I have written previously about "best country to do internship".

THANK YOU

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ISSCC 2013: Sony Stacked Sensor Presentation

Tech-On published an article and few slides from the Sony 8MP, 1.12um-pixel stacked sensor presentation at ISSCC 2013. The 90nm-processed pixel layer has only high voltage transistors and also contains row drivers and the comparator part of the column-parallel ADCs, with TSV interconnects on the periphery. The bottom logic area is processed in 65nm with LV and HV transistors, and integrates the counter portion of the column ADCs, row decoders, ISP, timing controls, etc.

Sony does not tell the exact details of its TSV processing, but shows the stacked chips cross-section:

The sensor spec slide mentions 5Ke full well - very impressive for a 1.12um pixel:

Tech-On article shows many more slides from the presentation.

Image Sensor Sales to Reach $10.75 Billion in 2018

PRNewswire: "Image Sensors Market Analysis & Forecast (2013 - 2018): By Applications (Healthcare (Endoscopy, Radiology, Ophthalmology), Surveillance, Automobile, Consumer, Defense, Industrial)); Technology (CCD, CMOS, Contact IS, Infrared, X-Ray) And Geography", published by MarketsandMarkets, the value of image sensor market was $8.00 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach $10.75 billion in 2018, at an estimated CAGR of 3.84% from 2013 to 2018. For comparison, the global semiconductor sales in 2012 were $291.6 billion, according to SIA. In terms of volume, the total number of image sensors shipped is estimated to be 1.6 billion in 2013 and is expected to reach 3 billion by 2018.

The key statements in the report:

The global image sensors market is estimated to grow at a modest CAGR of 3.84% from 2013 till 2018 and is expected to cross $10.75 billion by the end of these five years.
Currently, camera mobile phones are the major contributors to this market. In 2012, approximately, 80% of the image sensors were shipped for this application
Emerging applications such as medical imaging, POV cameras, UAV cameras, digital radiology, and factory automation factors are driving the market with their high growth rate. However, they are low volume applications and would require longer duration to impact the market heavily
CMOS technology commands a major market share against CCD and contact image sensor types. In 2012, CMOS approximately had 85% of the share
Apart from the visible spectrum domain, manufacturers are also focusing on the infrared and X-ray image sensors. By the year 2018, approximately 800,000 units of infrared sensors and 300,000 units of X-ray sensors are forecasted to be shipped
Currently, North America holds the largest share, but APAC is expected to surpass in 2013 with its strong consumer electronics market

Image sensor sales by region

Build XBMC Frodo from source in Raspbian on Raspberry PI

Hi!

After struggling couple of days in finding the best way to build XBMC on Raspberry PI I have finally got a working solution(haven't discovered how I can cross-compile it, which would be the best choice).
This takes about 15 hours, on my Raspberry PI model B, but the good news is that 'make' takes about 12 hours, so you don't need to watch it, just come from time to time to see if it is working. Besides the build messages displayed on screen you have the whole logs for rbp_depends, configure, make and make install steps. If anything goes wrong you can investigate these files(the last one reached) and search for the first error

log_1_rbp_depends.log
log_2_configure.log
log_3_make.log
log_4_make_install.log

This tutorial is for Linux Host Machine but it can be easily adapted to any other OS.
Let's get this started!

1. Get the latest Raspbian Wheezy image from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads and put it on an SD card:
You have couple of possibilities to do this. In Linux you can use:

sudo dd bs=1M if=raspbian_wheezy_image_path of=/dev/sd_card_path

2. Get XBMC 12 source code from http://xbmc.org/download/. On the Source Code section, download the zip file from where it says: "Stable release sources are available here".
If you get the code from git it will probably get an unstable version, which is the latest code. When I have build from source I have got XBMC 13 alpha 1 which worked, but no addon was working.
Transfer xbmc folder to your /home/pi/ directory or wherever you like.
Now you can plug the card in Raspberry PI and follow the next steps.

Note. The easiest way to do this is via ssh(first, enable it using sudo raspi-config menu), from a computer. Just connect in Terminal using:

ssh pi@x.x.x.x

where x.x.x.x is the ip address of your device. You can get the ip address by typing ifconfig. Then you just copy/paste the commands into Terminal.

3. Set minimum amount of video memory and create a swap partition:

sudo raspi-config

Here you should expand_rootfs, disable overscan, configure_keyboard, change_pass, change_timezone and enable ssh. Select memory_split and enter 16 then restart.

Now, to create a swap partition, use the following:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/pi/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=204800
sudo mkswap /home/pi/swapfile1
sudo chown root:root /home/pi/swapfile1
sudo chmod 0600 /home/pi/swapfile1
sudo swapon /home/pi/swapfile1

The swap file is needed as extra memory for the compiler. This will prevent you from getting errors like:

gcc: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1)

4. Update the system and install some dependencies:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install autotools-dev comerr-dev dpkg-dev libalsaplayer-dev libapt-pkg-dev:armhf libasound2-dev libass-dev:armhf libatk1.0-dev libavahi-client-dev libavahi-common-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libbison-dev:armhf libbluray-dev:armhf libboost1.49-dev \
libbz2-dev:armhf libc-dev-bin libc6-dev:armhf libcaca-dev libcairo2-dev libcdio-dev libclalsadrv-dev libcrypto++-dev libcups2-dev libcurl3-gnutls-dev \
libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libdirectfb-dev libdrm-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libelf-dev libenca-dev libept-dev libevent-dev libexpat1-dev libflac-dev:armhf \
libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libfribidi-dev libgconf2-dev libgcrypt11-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev \
libglew-dev:armhf libglewmx-dev:armhf libglib2.0-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgnome-keyring-dev libgnutls-dev libgpg-error-dev libgtk2.0-dev libhal-dev \
libhunspell-dev:armhf libice-dev:armhf libicu-dev libidn11-dev libiso9660-dev libjasper-dev libjbig-dev:armhf libjconv-dev libjpeg8-dev:armhf libkrb5-dev \
libldap2-dev:armhf libltdl-dev:armhf liblzo2-dev libmad0-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libmodplug-dev libmp3lame-dev:armhf libmpeg2-4-dev libmysqlclient-dev \
libncurses5-dev libnspr4-dev libnss3-dev libogg-dev:armhf libopenal-dev:armhf libp11-kit-dev libpam0g-dev:armhf libpango1.0-dev libpcre++-dev libpcre3-dev \
libpixman-1-dev libpng12-dev libprotobuf-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev:armhf libpulse-dev:armhf librtmp-dev libsamplerate0-dev:armhf \
libsdl-image1.2-dev:armhf libsdl1.2-dev libslang2-dev:armhf libsm-dev:armhf libsmbclient-dev:armhf libspeex-dev:armhf \
libsqlite3-dev libssh-dev libssh2-1-dev libssl-dev libstdc++6-4.6-dev libtagcoll2-dev libtasn1-3-dev libtiff4-dev libtinfo-dev:armhf libtinyxml-dev \
libts-dev:armhf libudev-dev libv8-dev libva-dev:armhf libvdpau-dev:armhf libvorbis-dev:armhf libvpx-dev:armhf libwebp-dev:armhf libwibble-dev \
libx11-dev:armhf libx11-xcb-dev libxapian-dev libxau-dev:armhf libxcb-glx0-dev:armhf libxcb-render0-dev:armhf libxcb-shm0-dev:armhf \
libxcb1-dev:armhf libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev:armhf libxdamage-dev libxdmcp-dev:armhf libxext-dev:armhf libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev \
libxinerama-dev:armhf libxml2-dev:armhf libxmu-dev:armhf libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev:armhf libxslt1-dev libxss-dev:armhf libxt-dev:armhf \
libxtst-dev:armhf libxxf86vm-dev libyajl-dev libzip-dev linux-libc-dev:armhf lzma-dev mesa-common-dev python-dev python2.7-dev x11proto-composite-dev \
x11proto-core-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-dri2-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-gl-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev x11proto-randr-dev \
x11proto-record-dev x11proto-render-dev x11proto-scrnsaver-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev xtrans-dev \
libnfs-dev libplist-dev avahi-daemon zlib1g-dev:armhf swig java-package libafpclient-dev liblockdev1-dev autoconf automake libtool gcc udev openjdk-6-jre \
cmake g++ libudev-dev build-essential autoconf ccache gawk gperf mesa-utils zip unzip curl

This will take some time depending on your internet speed.

5. Copy libraries headers and create some symlinks for libraries:

sudo cp -R /opt/vc/include/* /usr/include
sudo cp /opt/vc/include/interface/vcos/pthreads/* /usr/include/interface/vcos
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so /usr/lib/libEGL.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libEGL.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libEGL.so.1
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libEGL_static.a /usr/lib/libEGL_static.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libEGL_static.a /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libEGL_static.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2.so /usr/lib/libGLESv2.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2.so.2
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2_static.a /usr/lib/libGLESv2_static.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2_static.a /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2_static.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libbcm_host.so /usr/lib/libbcm_host.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libbcm_host.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libbcm_host.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvchiq_arm.a /usr/lib/libvchiq_arm.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvchiq_arm.a /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libvchiq_arm.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvchiq_arm.so /usr/lib/libvchiq_arm.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvchiq_arm.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libvchiq_arm.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvcos.a /usr/lib/libvcos.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvcos.a /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libvcos.a
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvcos.so /usr/lib/libvcos.so
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libvcos.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libvcos.so

There is a problem when compiling, with the file /usr/include/interface/vmcs_host/vcgencmd.h which includes the wrong vchost_config.h, so I have created a command to put the right inclusion:

sudo sed -i 's/#include "vchost_config.h"/#include "linux\/vchost_config.h"/' /usr/include/interface/vmcs_host/vcgencmd.h

6. Install taglib, libcec and libshairport.

cd <pah_to_xbmc_dir>
make -C lib/taglib
sudo make -C lib/taglib install
cd <any_directory>
git clone --depth 5 https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/libcec.git
cd libcec
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd <path_to_xbmc_dir>
make -C lib/libshairport
sudo make -C lib/libshairport install

7. Configure and compile XBMC

cd <path_to_xbmc_dir>
export TARGET_SUBARCH="armv6zk"
export TARGET_CPU="arm1176jzf-s"
export TARGET_FLOAT="hard"
export TARGET_FPU="vfp"
export TARGET_FPU_FLAGS="-mfloat-abi=$TARGET_FLOAT -mfpu=$TARGET_FPU"
export TARGET_EXTRA_FLAGS="-Wno-psabi -Wa,-mno-warn-deprecated"
export TARGET_COPT="-Wall -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -fexcess-precision=fast -ffast-math -fgnu89-inline"
export TARGET_LOPT="-s -Wl,--as-needed"
export CFLAGS="-march=$TARGET_SUBARCH -mcpu=$TARGET_CPU $TARGET_FPU_FLAGS -mabi=aapcs-linux $TARGET_COPT $TARGET_EXTRA_FLAGS"
export CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-march=$TARGET_SUBARCH -mtune=$TARGET_CPU $TARGET_LOPT"

Fix some errors:

sed -i 's/USE_BUILDROOT=1/USE_BUILDROOT=0/' tools/rbp/setup-sdk.sh
sed -i 's/TOOLCHAIN=\/usr\/local\/bcm-gcc/TOOLCHAIN=\/usr/' tools/rbp/setup-sdk.sh

Run:

sudo sh tools/rbp/setup-sdk.sh

Fix other errors:

sed -i 's/cd $(SOURCE); $(CONFIGURE)/#cd $(SOURCE); $(CONFIGURE)/' tools/rbp/depends/xbmc/Makefile

Run:

make -C tools/rbp/depends/xbmc/ 2>&1 | tee log_1_rbp_depends.log

Configure:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --build=arm-linux-gnueabihf \
--host=arm-linux-gnueabihf --localstatedir=/var/lib \
--with-platform=raspberry-pi --disable-gl --enable-gles \
--disable-x11 --disable-sdl --enable-ccache --enable-optimizations \
--disable-external-libraries --disable-goom --disable-hal \
--disable-pulse --disable-vaapi --disable-vdpau --disable-xrandr \
--enable-airplay --disable-alsa --enable-avahi --enable-libbluray \
--enable-dvdcss --disable-debug --disable-joystick --disable-mid \
--enable-nfs --disable-profiling --disable-projectm --enable-rsxs \
--enable-rtmp --disable-vaapi --disable-vdadecoder \
--disable-external-ffmpeg --enable-optical-drive \
--enable-player=omxplayer 2>&1 | tee log_2_configure.log

After configuration completes, please run he following command:

sed -i 's/ifeq (1,1)/ifeq (0,1)/' tools/TexturePacker/Makefile

Compile(this will take about 12 hours):

make 2>&1 | tee log_3_make.log

8. Install XBMC 12 in Raspbian.

sudo make install 2>&1 | tee log_4_make_install.log

After this step you have to run raspi-config again and to set video memory to 128 and then restart. Now you should be able to run XBMC using

/usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin

Note: If you are running via xbmc command, or from XFCE menu->Multimedia->XBMC it will not start. The same command can be used to run XBMC from terminal or from XFCE interface.
In addition you can also install PVR Addons and XVDR addon(but this is not necessary):

cd <any_directory>
git clone --depth 5 git://github.com/opdenkamp/xbmc-pvr-addons.git
cd xbmc-pvr-addons/
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-addons-with-dependencies
sudo make install
cd <any_directory>
git clone git://github.com/pipelka/xbmc-addon-xvdr.git
cd xbmc-addon-xvdr
sh autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
sudo make install

Note
If you want to modify sources after the compilation is completed, you just have to modify them and then run make again, which will build only the affected parts(couple of minutes), but remember to keep the video memory at maximum 32MB when you are building, and also keep the swap partition.

Many thanks to:

XBIAN forums
http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianXBMC (mpthompson)

POST GRADUATION CHEAPLY BUT WITH MORE VALUE

Have you ever thought about studying abroad where you could meet people coming from different cultures? At least have you thought of visiting a country of another continent and have fun? Well it is a dream in almost everyone's mind and it is not easy to rub it off. Well then why don't you study abroad. Well its too expensive and not affordable. To study in UK or US, an expense of at least 25 lakhs (50,000$) is incurred. Its because the tuition fee and living expense is high. How about a country where the tuition fee is nil? Shocked?

Well it is true and Germany is the country you are looking for. There are two types of colleges in Germany. They are government colleges and private colleges. In private colleges there is tuition fee and it is about 10-15 lakhs (30,000$). Well in government colleges the tuition fee is free. It is because the population is less compared to the resources and the government follows a centrally distributed system. It is free for international students too. Certain colleges have tuition fee which is a small amount and it depends on the course you are opting.

Courses are taken in English and German. You can choose the right study program that suits you. If you know German you can easily find a part time job and you can earn. There are scholarships too which takes care of your expenses like housing, medical etc. That means you can study there absolutely free and can earn too. There are courses which starts either on winter or summer. The number of colleges available on winter is high compared to that on summer.

Application forms can be downloaded from college sites and you can send your resumes along with the the filled application form. Since the tuition fee is free a lot of students apply from different countries and so you must atleast have 7/10 CGPA and should be good in extra curricular activities. If your marks is below 7 then you should write IELTS, GRE etc and get good score in it to compensate your CGPA mark. Writing IELTS, GRE etc depends upon the collegere quirements. There are different types of projects that you can do during your engineering course and remember that the project you choose is a criteria for selecting you.

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Nikon DSLR Abandons OLPF

Nikon follows Fujifilm steps and abandoning optical low-pass filter in its new 24.1MP DX-format DSLR D7100. Nikon's PR says: "The innovative sensor design delivers the ultimate in image quality by defying convention; because of the high resolution and advanced technologies, the optical low pass filter (OLPF) is no longer used. Using NIKKOR lenses, the resulting images explode with more clarity and detail to take full advantage of the 24.1-megapixel resolution achieved with D7100’s DX-format CMOS sensor." No further details of these "advanced technologies" are given so far.

BEST COUNTRY TO DO INTERNSHIPS

It depends on the course. If you did engineering, then i would recommend Europe. Because there it is easy to get placed in a company. In other countries like USA it is expensive and they will send you back just after your internship because they give preference to their citizens. It is not easy to extend your visa.

I would suggest Germany because there the resources are more and the population is less. They need more manpower and the probability of getting a job there is high and there are a many companies in Germany. The rush towards Germany for doing internship is increasing rapidly. Surveys shows that Germany is the safest country to study and work.

There are a lot of technical colleges in Germany. Almost every technical college has a research department where interns are required. They prefer international students with good academics. Send your resumes to the head of respective departments. You should email the professors with a good format. If you are selected then you are lucky because you just have to pay your flight tickets. Everything else is free including accommodation, food etc. You will also get a stipend every month. With this stipend you can travel around in Europe and visit famous places like Paris etc.

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ISSCC 2013 Report - Part 1

Albert Theuwissen published the first part of his report from ISSCC 2013. So far two presentations are covered:

"A 3.4 uW CMOS image sensor with embedded feature-extraction algorithm for motion-triggered object-of-interest imaging" by J. Choi

"A 467 nW CMOS visual motion sensor with temporal averaging and pixel aggregation" by G. Kim

SCOPE OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERING IN INDIA

I have written about production engineering in my previous post. First you have to understand the fact that production B.Tech is equivalent to mechanical B.Tech. So you can apply for mechanical job posts. May be you are worried because there is no news of job openings for production engineers in South India. This is because in south India, companies fill the posts for production engineers with mechanical engineers. This doesn't mean they do not take production engineers. It is just due to lack of production engineers. This is because there is just less colleges in south India which gives production B.Tech degree. But in north India companies need only production engineers to fill production posts. So scope is not less because you can fill both production and mechanical posts. Its best to get work experience of 2 years in a company and then try for a job abroad. The pay scale will be more and it is easy to get settled there.

Scope of production engineering is much more than you can think. Usually in multinational companies a production engineer controls a manufacturing department etc. That means mechanical engineers comes under a production engineer. Please don't misunderstand that a mechanical engineer is below a production engineer. It is just that a production engineer with high grade pay always comes top(in the management area).

There are lot of openings in different countries. Experience is the base of all.Try to get more experience, then job offers and pay scale increases. A few fields where production engineer get placed are :

Automobile companies- For inspection, quality control, operation of automated equipments etc.
Manufacturing industries- For inspection, quality control, operation of automated equipments, to control assembly line, production management etc.
Food processing industries- For inspection, quality control, Production management etc.
Railways- Manufacturing processes and its control etc.
Process industries.
Space and other research organizations.
Government and private companies.
Defense.
IT companies.

Each subject that you study during your course can get you a job and therefore focus a little on the concepts and during the course you will certainly love a subject or two. For example i fell in love with Industrial Automation and Inspection & Quality control. Therefore i understood what kind of jobs i should seek and so i searched and found a few companies relating to my interests. I kept visiting those sites to see notifications of job openings. One thing i understood is that you should have a good profile. Every student undergoes internship during their course and for you to be unique and to get an upper hand in placements its always better to do internship abroad during your engineering course. There are a lot of companies in India and around the world who hires production engineers.

I will mention a few companies who requires production engineer :

NALCO
SAIL
TATA STEEL
TCIL
TATA MOTORS
VOLVO
SYNTHITE
ONGC
FACT
ISRO
AIRFORCE (TECHNICAL ENGINEER)
HAL etc.

I haven't mentioned any IT companies because all IT companies take engineers( irrespective of their branch). You can also go for higher studies to make your career firm. It is always beneficiary for a production engineer to opt MBA as his higher studies. I as a production engineer prefer MBA because we mainly get placed in production management etc. It is because unlike other branches production involves a lot of management. So MBA is going to help you a lot. Its better to get a work experience of 2 years in a manufacturing or core company and then go for MBA. If you have a work experience of 3 years in any manufacturing or core companies then you can also go for executive MBA which unlike other MBA's can be completed in 1 year( because of your work experience).

But If you are interested in the technical side so much then you can go for M.Tech. You should write GATE exam and obtain good score to do M.Tech in IIT's and NIT's in India. You also need good GATE score to get placed in core companies such as BHEL, SAIL, NTPC etc( Navaratna companies). But If you are going for M.Tech i highly recommend to do it in IIT's or NIT's. You can also do MS in India and abroad as well. M.Tech mainly consists of engineering while MS consists of engineering and research (a lot). The scope of doing MS abroad is so high(especially in Europe). The facility is great and the research over there is too good. The basic criteria to do MS abroad is write Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and get a good score. Next is English proficiency tests such as IELTS, TOEFL etc. Get atleast 6.5 out 9 to get admissions in college abroad. To do MS in US or UK is too high its not easy to extend your visa after your course. But you can also do post graduation cheaply but with more value.

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