EDN - December 14, 2007

EDN's editors offer up their annual list of the year's 100 most significant ICs, components, buses, boards, EDA tools, power devices, test instruments, and more.

• Departments and Columns
• Baker's Best
• Delta-sigma ADCs in a nutshell
• Prying Eyes
• Microfuel cell enables ubiquitous computing
• Scope
• Scope: DesignCon 2008, industry drivers, more
• Tales From The Cube
• Surprise, surprise: Intermittent power-on reset problem reveals decades-old secret of 8052
• Tapeout
• Pcell and IP realities for fabless design

• Design Ideas
• Dual-input sample-and-hold amplifier uses no external resistors
• Improved optocoupler circuits reduce current draw, resist LED aging
• Actively driven ferrite core inductively cancels common-mode voltage

• Features
• Design Feature
• High-brightness LEDs usher in new applications and standards
• Common mistakes in electronic design
• Embedded electronics guides casino gaming

• Pulse
• Qualcomm moves 3G chips to 45-nm process
• Voices
• Voices: Chano Gómez on powerline networking's "universal" hope