EDN - January 6, 2005

With excess computing power, built-in programmable graphics, and multiple communications options, smart cellular phones provide a convenient and capable mobile user interface for many of the growing multitude of intelligent embedded devices. A few clicks on a portable smart phone can directly connect a user to security systems, industrial controllers, access-control systems, medical devices, en...

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• Signal Integrity
• Everything matters
• edn.comment
• Sweating the details

• Design Ideas
• Differential driver doubles as versatile RF-switch driver
• Laser simulator helps avoid destroyed diodes
• Pseudologarithmic thermistor signal conditioning spans wide temperature range
• RF-telemetry transmitter features minimal parts count

• Digital Den
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• Features
• Design Feature
• FROM EDN EUROPE: Mixing it: DSPs and MCUs fall in together
• Evolving to AdvancedTCA-compliant devices
• A thousand points of bright: turning up the volume on solid-state lighting

• Leading Edge
• FROM EDN EUROPE: Signal analyser peers deeper into spectral data
• FROM EDN EUROPE: Catch software runtime errors at compile time
• FROM EDN EUROPE: Is anybody there?
• Format-tuned codec, encoder contend for relevance
• FROM EDN EUROPE: MEMS technology builds faster smart power chips