EDN - December 15, 2009

Modeling and simulation at levels ranging from chip to system can catch bugs early and ensure quick time to market.

• Departments and Columns
• Burn-in, burn-in: dc inferno
• Baker's Best
• Common-mode range can bite hard
• Prying Eyes
• Inside a cellular femtocell
• edn.comment
• Semiconductors, emerging markets, and the self-interest of survival

• Design Ideas
• Debug a microcontroller-to-FPGA interface from the FPGA side
• Compact, four-quadrant lock-in amplifier generates two analog outputs
• Eight-function remote uses one button, no microcode
• Inverted regulator increases choice and reduces complexity
• Doorbell transformer acts as simple water-leak detector

• Features
• Design Feature
• Analog floating-gate technology comes into its own
• Precision equalization and test bring high-performance, low-cost cabling
• The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2009

• Pulse
• VeriWave launches video-over-Wi-Fi test
• Power supplies for new LED applications fit into high-margin markets
• Voices
• Voices: Roy Vallee: Innovation must go on