• EDN's 1997 DSP-architecture directory
  Once again, EDN brings you its yearly DSP Directory describing 30 general-purpose DSP architectures. This directory guides you through the maze of DSP choices as you determine the best DSP for your next design.
  --Markus Levy, Technical Editor

• EDN's Innovation Campaign Winners
  Your votes have been tallied in EDN's annual campaign to recognize innovative people and products. We are proud to present the winners and congratulate all the nominations in a strong field of entries.

• Lilliputian passives herald hybridlike pc-board density
  In microscopic form factors, components, arrays, and networks--both resistive and reactive--allow unprecedented board density.
  --Bill Travis, Senior Technical Editor

• High-speed active filters made easy
  You can build active filters for use at tens of megahertz with the newest high-speed op amps, thus avoiding the weaknesses of passive RLC filters. Starting with the Sallen-Key filter topology, you can implement a variety of high-performance filters with a straightforward procedure.
  --Mark Sauerwald, Comlinear Products Group,
  National Semiconductor Corp

• Fast backplane connectors disguise digital transmission lines
  Today's telecommunications and high-end computing designs demand backplane edge connectors that maintain signal integrity and provide high signal density for data rates up to 2.5 Gbps.
  --Brian Kerridge, Editor

• SCSI evolves to meet changing, challenging demands of small computers
  The SCSI standard committee refuses to stand by and watch advances in the small-computer market pass it by. SCSI advances have met the high-speed challenge head-on.
  --Erich Otto, Symbios Logic Europe GmbH

• Divide and conquer: binary division
  You can carry out binary division, one of the most difficult operations for a computer to perform, in simple mPs using low-level instructions.
  --Clive "Max" Maxfield, Intergraph Computer Systems

• Wizards automate data acquisition
• Battery "gas gauge" tells and shows capacity
• Handheld $795 logic-timing analyzer packs three 100-MHz channels
• New µC comes with big MAC
• Embedded memory blocks zoom at 500 MHz
• Wireless-LAN module yields maximum performance in micro package
• TSOP clip enables no-compromise probing of fine-pitch IC packages
• Tools ease analog design and test
• Intel Klamath processor: ready for prime time

• Widen your reach with Web-conferencing book/CD
• ISP devices target datapath applications
• RF headaches? Take a 2.4-GHz "aspirin"
• PLDs satisfy the need for speed
• Noise filtering enhances speech recognition
• Low-cost data-acquisition unit delivers high reliability
• CMOS camera chip outputs NTSC colour video
• Flash memory has 264-byte sectors
• Transceiver IC completes DECT module
• Single-chip ISDN network terminator supports 4B3T line code
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• Simpler is better for Design Idea Grand Prize winner

• Relay circuits use reverse hysteresis

• Circuit simulates contact bounce

• Digital position encoder does away with ADC

• Controller provides closed-loop temperature regulation

• Circuit adapts differential input to drive coax

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