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EDN names winners of 19th Annual Innovation Awards 3/31/2009
EDN has bestowed its 19th Annual Innovation Awards, honoring a diverse group of electronics engineers and the ground-breaking products they have produced. The Altera Stratix IV 40-nm FPGA design team is named Innovator of the Year. Read on for a complete list of the winners.Embedded module simplifies local networking 1/22/2009
One of the most popular and simplest approaches to Web-enabling a product is to embed an Ethernet interface and connect it to a corporate LAN.Tiny module delivers Pico-ITXe expansion 11/11/2008
UWB IC targets handset, automotive, and industrial uses 10/30/2008
Staccato Communications’ second-generation UWB (ultrawideband) Ripcord2 IC integrates RF-front-end, digital-baseband, MAC (media-access-controller), and I/O functions. The single-chip, all-CMOS device covers WiMedia bands 1, 3, and 6 and has a frequency range of 3 to 9 GHz. The device uses standard 65-nm CMOS technology.Book helps you resolve BGA-layout issues 10/2/2008
As a circuit designer who also often lays out quite complex boards, I found the temptation to purchase Charles Pfeil’s new book—BGA Breakouts & Routing: Effective Design Methods for Very Large BGAs—irresistible, and I wasn’t disappointed. The approximately 160 pages and more than 100 figures within this quality paperback carry a wealth of information that far exceeds...In-Depth
The boss is always right, even when he's wrong 6/11/2009
It's hard to teach an old, analog-oriented manager new, digital tricks.Evolving to DDR3 technology 5/28/2009
The move from DDR2 to DDR3 requires new design techniques to improve signal integrity and gain the maximum benefit from the latest memory-interface technology.Full speed ahead! 5/28/2009
Tales From The Cube: A rattled engineer needs to make sure his fix is just right for a failed over-speed sensor on an 1800-hp Solar Saturn jet-turbine-driven gas compressor.Mismating mix-up makes for monstrous military mission 4/23/2009
Tales From The Cube: A technician mates together two mismatched connectors, damaging an aircraft and yielding an impossible task.FPGAs reshape embedded design 3/19/2009
Although its use requires a significant change in design methodology, FPGA technology has become a valuable weapon in the embedded-system developer's arsenal.Experts
Not your fault 3/5/2009
Green safety wires do not form a reliable single-point-ground reference system.Technical and political suggestions for Detroit 2/19/2009
Do the Detroit automakers deserve a bailout, or should they be left to go the way of the dinosaurs?Forging new ground using existing COMs concepts 1/23/2009
GUEST OPINION: Although highly popular embedded computing components that have been around for several decades, computers-on-modules (COMs) lacked the continuity needed to make these boards appeal to the various industries for which they were designed.Evolution and innovation 1/22/2009
"A thriving ecosystem, whether in nature or economics, emerges from an evolutionary culture that nurtures diversity, doesn't artificially pick 'winners,' and embraces failure early and often."Differential transitions 1/8/2009
Signal transitions occur wherever your signal passes through a package body, a connector, or a pair of vias.DesignIdeas
