EDN - March 5, 2009

This repository of embedded-signal-processing resources will help you find the best processor candidates and development tools for your project.

• Departments and Columns
• Signal Integrity
• Not your fault
• Supply Chain
• Distributors’ credit practices crucial
• ECHA opens REACH consultation on authorization list
• China’s semiconductor market to fall
• Tales From The Cube
• A lesson in humidity? No sweat
• Tapeout
• Mitigating tapeout risk
• edn.comment
• Time for a change in patent law

• Design Ideas
• Discrete-component buck converter drives HB LEDs
• Implement a clip-detection circuit for BTL Class D amplifiers
• Limit switches control dc-motor H bridge
• Drive a single-coil latching relay without an H-bridge circuit
• Microcontroller converts digital-temperature-sensor readings without floating-point arithmetic

• Features
• Designing for ROHS: Select the right lead-free-connector design for heat-sensitive applications
• Design Feature
• Driving the convergence between fixed and mobile communications into the mainstream

• Pulse
• Researchers create speedy, rugged carbon-nanotube memory
• Point cooling advances for hot ICs