News, in-depth tutorial feature articles, and Design Ideas published in EDN.com's Communications Design Center. en-us http://www.edn.com Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:53:30 PST http://www.edn.com/article/CA6707797?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Tales From The Cube: A keen eye, some common sense, and a simple and appropriate instrument prove their worth to one technician. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;219509079;12103198;g?http://www.ni.com/new_compactdaq/?metc=mtkxq9 NI CompactDAQ hardware delivers accurate measurements in a small, simple, affordable system; and is optimized for multicore processing and Windows 7. Learn more. http://www.edn.com/article/CA6704254?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Linear Technology Corp’s new LTC5541 downconverting mixer operates at frequencies of 1.3 to 2.3 GHz, and the company plans to later introduce pi … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6702371?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 IT support for computers in remote locations, which include areas as diverse as test equipment, desktop applications, and shopping-center kiosks, ofte … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6699736?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Net neutrality is critical to ensuring that consumers, not deep-pocketed content providers in secret deals with service providers, determine what cont … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6685499?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 If silicon designers employ advanced process nodes to lower power, and if they can overcome the signal-integrity issues of putting a PHY, a MAC, and a … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6674047?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Crickets, cicadas, katydids, and some other insects make noise by beating their wings. More significantly, they can change the pitch of their wing bea … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6670962?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Tales From The Cube: What to do when an LC oscillator insists on wild phase gyrations around a desired phase-lock point? One engineer is able to tame … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6672155?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 As OTN (Optical Transport Network) spreads from the backbone to the access network, service providers and enterprises look to a new generation of line … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6669620?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Cascade Microtech is addressing the emerging energy-efficiency standards that are driving the need for accurate power-device characterization in autom … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6662640?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Agilent Technologies Inc has introduced GS-9000 A-GPS (assisted-global-positioning-system) test systems employing the company's 8960 wireless-communic … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6662625?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Combining 5 Gbps with the convenience of USB sounds like a sure win, but many issues are hiding behind the premise. http://www.edn.com/article/CA6648778?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 4G telecommunication technology carries explicit requirements for minimum network speed. Designers must find a way to reliably and cost-effectively re … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6647798?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 EDN has bestowed its 19th Annual Innovation Awards, honoring a diverse group of electronics engineers and the ground-breaking products they have produ … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6643370?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Wherever technology goes, legal issues regarding copyright ownership seem to follow. http://www.edn.com/article/CA6632385?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have announced a significant advance in the retention time of multiatom quantum-memory devices&mdas … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6629491?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Tales From The Cube: Interference is hampering driver-to-pit-crew communication via a 460-MHz FM system. Even disconnecting the driver's mic doesn't h … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6624251?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 With a top-gate design and a gate length 150 nm, IBM achieved a cut-off frequency of 26 GHz for its graphene transistors. http://www.edn.com/article/CA6622869?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 EDN's editors offer up their annual list of the year's 100 most significant ICs, components, buses, boards, EDA tools, power devices, test instruments … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6622868?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Miniaturization and emerging flexible software architectures will enable compact, low-power wireless devices to support communications standards rangi … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6619025?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 DSL equipment requires protection from a variety of overvoltage conditions, but the need to avoid unduly degrading circuit operation complicates circu … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6619450?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 UWB (ultrawideband) silicon provider Tzero Technologies today announced that it plans to demonstrate at a developer's conference in Japan this week a … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6611655?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Continuing the considerable consolidation in the mobile-IC supply chain, Freescale Semiconductor announced a planned exit from the cellular-handset-ch … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6611642?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Although the definitions of 3 and 4G wireless data networks, services, and terminals have been moving targets, some long-promised 3G capabilities are … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6612163?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Features involving a device’s motion, such as a tap-to-mute capability on a cell phone or a user-input feature on a gaming controller, can serve … http://www.edn.com/article/CA6602449?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3929 Those pushing white-space proposals, including Google's Larry Page, need some lessons in real-world RF interference, and the industry should put white …