EDN - January 19, 2006

Choose the right mix of processing technologies for embedded-system designs.

• Departments and Columns
• Reality Check
• PDAs yield to smart phones and media players
• edn.comment
• EDA industry needs a reality check

• Design Ideas
• Enhanced, three-phase VCO features ground-referenced outputs
• Improved current monitor delivers proportional-voltage output

• Features
• Design Feature
• Variations on a theme: Handheld game systems proliferate, touting varied features and price tags
• Clear calls from the road
• Accurately judging endurance for solid-state storage

• Pulse
• 1/19/2006
• Global Designer: IEEE standardizes SystemVerilog
• Global Designer: Logarithms: the new floating point?