EDN - December 15, 2010

EDN proudly presents its list of the Hot 100 products that in 2010 heated up the electronics world and grabbed the attention of our editors and our readers.

• Departments and Columns
• Bakers Best
• A good holiday-season project
• Mechatronics In Design
• PLM and mechatronics
• Prying Eyes
• Christmas toys: Paper Jamz guitar relies on printed electrodes and connectors
• Tales From The Cube
• The sharpest tool in the shed
• edn.comment
• Electronica 2010: Going green, often sight unseen

• Design Ideas
• Logic probe uses six transistors
• PLL filter blocks undesired frequencies
• Make a quick-turnaround PCB for RF parts
• High-side current-shunt monitor offers reduced error

• Features
• Design Feature
• Display-technology advancements: Change is the only constant
• Multiphysics simulation enhances electronics system design

• Pulse
• Hard-disk drives' burgeoning capacities outshine those of solid-state drives
• Six-core DSPs enable software selection of 3G or 4G air interfaces in wireless base stations
• Voices
• Avnet's Roy Vallee: back to balance in 2011