Design
tools for analog/mixed-signal ICs come of
age
Fueled by higher operating
frequencies and communication-system
requirements, more analog and analoglike
circuitry is appearing on silicon chips.
You need to know what design tools are
available to help you design analog and
mixed-signal chips.
--Jim Lipman, Technical
Editor
Making motor-control
circuits smaller, cheaper, better
You need not approach the age-old
ac-motor-control design problem in the
same old way. Making changes in the
motor-sensing interface can increase
efficiency, save board space, and lower
costs.
--Bonnie C Baker,
Burr-Brown Corp
Single chip
brings built-in test to analog designs
Traditional
built-in test techniques for analog
systems require considerable board space
and I/O lines. You can now add those
techniques with a single IC.
--Vincent J Spataro, GEC
Marconi Hazeltine Corp
Serial
backplanes supplant parallel buses in
fast systems
In
data-communication subsystems and
clustered multiprocessing systems,
skyrocketing data rates complicate
internal, parallel-bus designs, but
point-to-point serial links borrowed from
industry-standard storage interfaces,
such as Fibre Channel, provide an apt
substitute.
--Patrick Van Eijk,
Vitesse Semiconductor Corp
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