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• 1G-sample/sec, 12-bit ADC works in base stations and instrumentation
  
  Author: By Paul Rako, Technical Editor | Date: Nov 10, 2009
  ...stations and instrumentation By Paul Rako, Technical Editor -- EDN, 11/10/2009 Targeting applications in wireless-communications, defense, and test-and-measurement equipment, Texas Instruments recently announced the 12-bit...
• Boeing postpones test flights again: How’s your tapeout looking?
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Nov 12, 2009
  Boeing's recent issues offer a cautionary tale for any chip-design team engaged in a complex project.
• Team hardens SiGe circuits
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Nov 12, 2009
  Manufacturers once aimed certain process technologies at radiation-hardened designs. CMOS, for example, started out that way, when RCA (www.rca.com) developed its silicon-on-sapphire process. However, the overwhelming success of bulk-silicon CMOS processes has driven most of the alternatives into
• Gecko's ARM MCU Gives Battery Drain a Knock-Out Punch
  
  Author: Jon Titus | Date: Oct 29, 2009
  ...another option for battery-powered circuits used in utility meters, home and building automation, and alarm systems. Military-equipment manufacturers might look at the EFM32G for low-power expendable or one-shot applications such as...
• “Not I,” said the rat: the tale of the Little Red Hen-gineer
  
  Author: By Steve Lubs, Department of Defense | Date: Nov 12, 2009
  Tales From The Cube: It sometimes pays to shut off all the extra noise—um, information—and handle things your own way.
• 2008 EDN DSP Directory
  
  ...the-fly reconfiguration to any frequency plan as a digital front-end for the telecommunications, defense, and instrumentation markets. The SpectraChip cores provide a digital replacement for analog intermediate-frequency filtering...
• 3.3V mixer downconverts RF with good linearity
  
  Author: By Paul Rako, Technical Editor | Date: Oct 28, 2009
  ...systems. You can also use it for backhaul-wireless service between base stations and public-safety, and military-communications systems. The LTC5541 operates at a -40 to +85°C junction temperature; comes in a 5×5-mm, 20-pin QFN...
• 2007 EDN DSP Directory: NeuroMatrix NM6403
  
  2007 EDN DSP Directory By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor A comprehensive listing of digital-signal-processing resources, including software-programmable processors, programmable fabrics, IP (intellectual-property) blocks, and digital-signal controllers.
• Thermal design guidelines for solid-state lighting applications using LEDs
  
  Author: By Henry F. and Peter A. Villaume, Villaume Associates | Date: Sep 11, 2009
  ...temperature of the LED chip. Do not, therefore, set the allowed maximum ambient temperature higher than necessary. Military applications typically have ambient temperatures like 55°C (131°F) to 70°C (158°F). A specified limit of 50°C...
• 2008 EDN DSP Directory: DIOPSIS (Magic Core)
  
  DIOPSIS 940HF is a dual-core processing platform for audio, communication and beam-forming applications, integrating a floating-point MagicV VLIW DSP and an ARM926EJ-S RISC microprocessor.
• RF switching options: The right fit might come with a loss
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Sep 17, 2009
  Manufacturers are offering SOI and MEMS alternatives to PIN-diode, GaAs, and electromechanical switches for a variety of RF applications, but you need to understand RF-switch specs before you commit to a new technology.
• Precision Mixed Signal - 2007 EDN Microprocessor/Microcontroller Directory - Details on hundreds of
  
  2007 EDN Microprocessor Directory: Different strokes By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor Our 34th Annual Microprocessor and Microcontroller Directory presents you with a palette of processing options and development tools for your project.
• Onboard FPGAs enable high-performance ADC modules to analyze data at unprecedented speeds
  
  Author: By Dan Strassberg, Contributing Technical Editor | Date: Sep 22, 2009
  ...programmable FPGAs. Although much of Acqiris’ work focuses on meeting the data-acquisition needs of defense-and-aerospace- system manufacturers, the new products will also find application in such areas as medical imaging, scientific...
• 2008 EDN MICROPROCESSOR AND MICROCONTROLLER DIRECTORY
  
  ...controllers (RNCs), and general-purpose embedded computing systems in the networking, telecom, industrial, military and aerospace markets. The P4080 is based on 45-nm process technology. It integrates enhanced Power Architecture cores...
• Man pleads guilty, faces jail time and fines in counterfeit IC case
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Nov 25, 2009
  ...certain grade. As alleged in the indictment, on March 3, June 26, and July 14, the defendants entered into contracts with the Navy and other government agencies for the sales of ICs. The indictment alleges that on 22 separate occasions the...
• 2008 EDN DSP Directory: TigerSHARC
  
  Analog Devices' TigerSHARC processors are a family of static superscalar architecture devices that combine RISC, VLIW, and standard DSP functionality with support for fixed and floating-point data types.
• In the days of old, when engineers were bold
  
  Author: By Lynn Smith |
  ...processor, I took a job as chief engineer at a company that developed, manufactured, and supplied military and industrial security-monitoring systems. Job 1 was an intermittent problem in the current model that caused the watchdog timer to reset...
• 2008 EDN DSP Directory: CoreFIR
  
  Actel's CoreFIR is a filter generator that uses a distributed arithmetic implementation methodology to create FPGA-based low- and high-pass digital filters for general signal filtering, detection, and analysis functions.
• Network analyzer for active-device test adds 13.5-, 43.5-, and 50-GHz models
  
  Author: By Dan Strassberg, Contributing Technical Editor | Date: Jun 1, 2009
  ...devices the flexibility to select the right instrument bandwidth for each application. Aerospace and defense engineers who work on systems with frequencies as high as 50 GHz can now benefit from Agilent’s single-connection, multiple-measurement...
• Ramtron expands serial-FRAM line with 32-kbit device
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Jun 19, 2009
  ...is a direct hardware replacement for serial EEPROM in industrial-control, metering, medical, military, gaming, and computing applications. It provides reliable data retention for 45 years when operated at 75°C, a necessary retention time...