New media
resources slash design-cycle times
Tight
market windows have heaped pressure on
engineers to minimize time spent
designing. Engineers, however, can turn
to a growing number of third parties for
immediate design help via the Internet
and other multimedia vehicles.
--Maury Wright, Technical
Editor
Videoconferencing
goes to POTS
Believe
it or not, the POTS infrastructure can
now deliver videoconferencing. Because of
new standardized codecs, low-cost,
interoperable products provide
toll-quality audio and video that ranges
from acceptable to very good.
--Stephen Kempainen,
Technical Editor
Embedded gain
supercharges FET-transimpedance amplifier
Combining
a broadband, unity-gain-stable, FET-input
voltage-feedback op amp with a
current-feedback op amp considerably
increases the transimpedance bandwidth,
or, alternatively, the transimpedance
gain for a fixed-bandwidth design.
--Michael Steffes,
Burr-Brown Corp
Evaluation tools
help you design reliable surface-mount
attachments
It's
not enough to use reliable surface-mount
components. You also have to solder them
properly to the pc board. The right tools
can help you understand the causes of
board attachments' long-term
unreliability.
--Douglas J Leonetti,
Aromat Corp
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