Communications/Network Design
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Smack attackTerry Staler, Specialty Concepts Inc, April 19, 2012Amid a maze of wires, a junior engineer must find out why his company's telephone-usage-monitoring equipment is failing. More
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Design calculations for robust I2C communicationsChris Parris, Senior Applications Engineer and Jonathan Dillon, Senior Applications Engineer, Memory Products Division, Microchip Technology Inc., April 18, 2012The I2C bus topology relies on correctly sized resistance pull-ups for reliable, robust communications. Getting these values wrong can lead to erroneous bus conditions and transmission errors caused by noise or changes in temperature and operating voltages, and by variations between devices. More
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18-bit, 2.5Msps SAR ADC achieves no latencySteve Taranovich, Senior Technical Editor, April 13, 2012Provides 99.8dB SNR with flexible analog input ranges. More
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Compliance with POE safety standards is critical when moving beyond 60WDaniel Feldman, Microsemi Corp, April 5, 2012Understand the realities of safely and effectively delivering high power levels that comply with the latest POE standard. More
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Optically isolating an I2C interface: Beware of nonlinear propagation delaysEric D. Blom, Senior Design Engineer, IXYS-Clare Inc., April 3, 2012The usual model of an I2C open-drain bus as a simple, shared pull-up resistor is not instantaneously valid when using bus isolators exhibiting real-world propagation delays. If the delays are not considered in the design of the hardware, then there can be unexpected consequences. More
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ACE AWARDS INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR: Michael McCorquodalePatrick Mannion, Director of Content, March 27, 2012The Innovator of the Year Award goes to the individual who brings leadership, creativity, and out-of-the-box thinking to technology, a product, or a business, and this year's winner is no exception. More
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ACE AWARDS STUDENT OF THE YEAR: Aaron GoldsteinSuzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, Online, March 27, 2012Understanding both the value and the challenges of collaboration, Goldstein values his peers as much as he values those who have helped guide his early career. More
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Smart wireless for your worldPallab Chatterjee, Contributing Technical Editor, March 1, 2012The luxury of RF is now a required component. As a result, what is considered RF is forever changed. More
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CEVA launches new low-power DSP cores for the broadest comms standardsJunko Yoshida, EE Times, February 21, 2012CEVA Inc is announcing a new family of "universal advanced communications engines," called CEVA-XC4000. More
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Small-signal bandwidth in a Big Bandwidth eraBill Laumeister, Maxim Integrated Products Inc, February 2, 2012Understand the interplay between bandwidth and op-amp specifications. More
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Sorting out 4G: Are we there yet?Janine Love, Contributing Editor, January 30, 2012Thanks to clever marketing campaigns and branding, the general public believes that 4G has arrived. The performance of 4G/LTE mobile handsets has improved, and designers are pushing the outer limits of performance in all parts of the handset. In many cases, the limitation is available spectrum, so designers must develop creative approaches until governments act. More
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Freescale, Inside Secure team on smart-meter reference designR Colin Johnson, EE Times, January 24, 2012Freescale Semiconductor has partnered with Inside Secure in a smart-meter reference design that cure security ills associated with near field communication (NFC) technology. More
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TI ups its smart grid offeringsNicolas Mokhoff, EE Times, January 23, 2012Texas Instruments claims the industry's first demonstration of a radio frequency system-on-chip that integrates an IEEE 802.15.4 (2.4 GHz) radio, an ARM Cortex-M3 processor, and enough flash and RAM to run the ZigBee IP stack and SE2.0 profile. More
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Trial shows active antenna can raise cell capacity 40%Peter Clarke, EE Times, January 23, 2012A US network trial for the LTE 700-MHz active antenna from startup Ubidyne has demonstrated a 40% increase in cell capacity. More
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DesignCon memory previewJanine Love, Editor, EE Times' Memory Designline, January 9, 2012Here are some memory-related DesignCon presentation and forum highlights. More
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Our editors' favorite gadgetsStaff, December 15, 2011Our editors reflect on some of the gadgets and gizmos that they personally find most useful, most fun, or most intriguing. More
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It's a bird! It's a crane!Earl Schlenk, Engineer, December 15, 2011This tale recounts how a cigarette break resolved a perplexing microwave failure. More
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Broadcom promotes new 802.11ac Wi-Fi standardBy Sylvie Barak, EE Times, December 13, 2011Broadcom has declared its allegiance to the forthcoming 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard, which it hopes will replace the current 802.11n standard in its consumer electronics hardware lines by the end of 2012. More
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Hot technologies: Looking ahead to 2012Staff, December 12, 2011Our editors reflect on some of the hot trends and technologies in 2011—and look ahead to 2012. More
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Ultra-low-power wireless makes inroads into many applicationsJanine Love, Editor, EE Times' RF/Microwave Designline, December 12, 2011Low-power and ultra-low-power wireless devices continue to improve our 'quality of experience' in life, by giving us peace of mind, convenience, and new forms of entertainment. More
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