EDN - January 5, 2006

Mobile- and small-form-factor-product designers turn to fabric technology and off-the-shelf computer modules to beat the competition.

• Departments and Columns
• Signal Integrity
• Half-measures
• Tales From The Cube
• Valuing uncertainty

• Design Ideas
• Virtual instrument determines magnetic core's B-H-loop characteristics
• Instrumentation amplifier extends DSO

• Features
• Design Feature
• Designing RF-IC filters using an automated circuit and layout synthesis
• FROM EDN EUROPE: Powerline's other data channel
• Design challenges steer automotive electronics
• Choosing high-speed amplifiers for noise-sensitive applications

• Pulse
• FROM EDN EUROPE: OS steps up to support proliferating multi-core CPUs
• FROM EDN EUROPE: Mix measured and simulated circuit data
• Research Update: Physicists force six atoms to act like quantum "cats"
• Global Designer: ADCs use less than 100 mW at 40 MHz and 14 bits
• Scopes' array of features, performance, size, and price breaks new ground
• FROM EDN EUROPE: EDA tool pairing tackles ESL "model gap"
• Global Designer: EDA-tool pairing tackles ESL "model gap"