THE DESIGN LANDSCAPE
Adaptive engineering
Designing products in the global era.
—Maury Wright, EDN Worldwide
Jobs follow the market
Globalization's impact on the EE profession.
—Margery Conner, EDN Worldwide
Online exclusive: A living wage
It's not what you make, it's what you spend.
—Margery Conner, EDN Worldwide
Free impact
Design hazards impact costs.
—Greg Frazier, Avnet Supply Chain Services
STANDARDS
Standard procedures
The development of standards is vital to the industry yet fraught with compromise and conflict. And now it's a global issue.
—Bill Schweber and Maury Wright, EDN Worldwide
HD stalled
Coalitions and countries duel over high-definition DVD.
—Maury Wright, EDN Worldwide
3G's third player
The Chinese alternative to 3G technologies, TD-SCDMA, faces an uncertain future.
—Oliver Xu, EDN China
Korea seeks 3G balance
A report from ground zero in the competition between CDMA 2000 and WCDMA.
—Kwon Yong Wook, EDN Asia/Korea
Online exclusive: The land of opportunity
India expects to have 120 million cell-phone users by 2008.
—Vinod Kataria, EDN Asia/India
Online exclusive: To standardize or not?
Do standards matter to you and your design? Unfortunately, there is no standard answer.
—Bill Schweber, EDN Worldwide
MOBILE
Unintended benefits
What drives cell-phone definition and design, and why does it matter to designers of other products?
—Bill Schweber, EDN Worldwide
Phone design hinges on serial links
The demand for small phones with big display performance is driving a move toward new serial interfaces.
—Norihiro Satsukawa, EDN Japan
Feature packed
A guided tour of Japan's cell-phone trends.
—Mayumi Amagai, EDN Japan
Global brands go mobile
Think mobile content is just for geeks? Mickey Mouse begs to differ.
—Mark Handler, Walt Disney Internet Group International
Online exclusive: Analog IC vendors laugh last (again)
Far from antiquated in this digital world, analog design plays a more vital role than ever before.
—Bill Schweber, EDN Worldwide
Online exclusive: Next-gen packets
Boosting 3G downlink data rates.
—Svetlana Josifovska, EDN Europe/UK
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KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
ANALOG
Design in an analog world
A global perspective on project management with distributed resources.
—Joshua Israelsohn, EDN Worldwide
Advice for the multisite design team
—Tony Gribben, Cadence Design
Think globally, act locally
—Bob Conrad, Fairchild Semiconductor
Cultivate the common cause
—Dick Meaney, Analog Devices
Online exclusive: Analog geography
—Chris Mangelsdorf, Analog Devices
POWER
Addressing the power crisis
Technological advancements improve efficiency to meet new government regulations.
—Dhaval Dalal, ON Semiconductor
Blue sky, clean air, and economic promise
As we consider the consequences to future generations, there is an inextricable link between the cost of energy and our standard of living.
—Alex Lidow, International Rectifier
EDA, SOCs, AND ASICs
Global language, local source
US-based companies dominate the EDA industry.
—Gabe Moretti, EDN Worldwide
Moore's Law challenges European semi players
Development costs for complex chips explode with every step up in technology.
—Franz Joachim Rossman, EDN Europe/Germany
Online exclusive: EDA customers shout out
Firsthand demands of Mentor Graphics EDA customers.
—Tom Floodeen, Mentor Graphics
EMBEDDED SOFTWARE
Coding goes global
Pervasive computing and communications challenge software-development teams worldwide.
—Warren Webb, EDN Worldwide
Software center
India is emerging as a software powerhouse and the center of choice for global handset vendors when it comes to software stacks and applications.
—Pradeep Chakraborty, EDN Asia/India
Open for business
Cellular phones move toward standard—and open—operating systems.
—Svetlana Josifovska, EDN Europe/UK
MEMORY AND SENSORS
Flash forward to the future
The global digital-consumer trend signals a potential changing of the guard in the flash-memory industry.
—Brian Dipert, EDN Worldwide
Sensing trends
Five key issues for the image-sensor market.
—Brian Dipert, EDN Worldwide
TEST
Test teams race to meet 3G timetables
As higher bandwidth and mixed-mode services come on-stream, maintaining seamless availability will be a growing challenge.
—Graham Prophet, EDN Europe
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