EDN - January 18, 2007

As embedded-system teams race to bring new products to market, designers are evaluating model-based development tools, often based on UML (Unified Modeling Language), to deal with escalating software complexity.

• Departments and Columns
• Baker's Best
• Comparing DAC architectures
• Prying Eyes
• Seeking the secrets of a satellite receiver
• Scope
• Scope: APEC 2007, global markets, old-school printing
• Tales From The Cube
• One man's trash: How I made a tidy profit on unwanted VMEbus card cages
• edn.comment
• EDA Consortium: the Market Statistics Service

• Design Ideas
• Sequencer controls power supplies' turn-on and turn-off order
• Use dual op amp in an instrumentation amp
• Microcontroller drives logarithmic/linear dot/bar 20-LED display
• Optical feedback extends white LEDs' operating life

• Features
• Design Feature
• A logical approach to NVM integration in SOC design
• Agile software empowers wireless-sensor networks
• Beyond Spice: Field-solver software steps in for modeling high-frequency, space-constrained circuits

• Pulse
• IEEE 802.11n wireless-LAN market remains in conflict as draft-n battle looms
• Voices
• Voices: Cherokee International: Where in the world are design and manufacturing?