EDN - July 5, 2007

After languishing for years, home automation is seeing a surge of activity as new technologies, emerging standards, and the networking of consumer devices converge to develop the intelligent residence.

• Departments and Columns
• Baker's Best
• Transimpedance strikes again: Current-to-voltage conversion with MDACs
• Scope
• Scope: SIGGraph, industry slowdown, more
• edn.comment
• Homes still search for HD-capable video network

• Design Ideas
• I²C interface has galvanic isolation, wired-OR capability, improved noise margin
• Circuit guards amplifier outputs against overvoltage
• Isolated circuit monitors ac line
• Build a complete industrial-ADC interface using a microcontroller and a sigma-delta modulator

• Features
• Design Feature
• Running an FPGA at ASIC speed
• Wireless power transmission: No strings attached

• Pulse
• Voices
• Voices: Texas Instruments' Gene Frantz: bringing ideas to life