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• 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...
• 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...
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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...
• 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.
• 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.
• Design mingles with test across domains
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Jul 9, 2009
  The lines between electrical-engineering disciplines are continually blurring, with traditional test products taking on design chores and vice versa.
• 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...
• Simple circuit smoothly drives stepper motors
  
  Author: Uwe Schüler, Institute of Physiology, Tübingen, Germany; Edited by Martin Rowe and Fran Granville | Date: May 28, 2009
  The circuit in this Design Idea drives low-power, unipolar stepper motors using only a shift register, a few resistors, and low-power transistors. Adding an inexpensive 4053 analog switch allows bidirectional switching.
• 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...
• Texas Instruments announces dual 14-bit, 250-Msample/sec ADC
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: May 13, 2009
  ...adding that it targets communications applications, defense imaging systems, and wideband and portable test-and...to improve small-signal analysis in defense and radio-receiver applications. The device forms a part of a complete...
• Counterfeit components remains a huge electronics supply chain problem
  
  Author: By Rob Spiegel, Contributing Editor | Date: Mar 3, 2009
  ...manufacturers. According to SMT’s Sharpe, the military, aerospace, and medical industries are still using leaded product, much of...mitigate counterfeit materials from entering the defense industries.” Access to the IDEA-STD-1010-A...
• Lithium-ion cell-measurement instruments offer 48 24-bit-resolution inputs
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Mar 19, 2009
  ...make high-voltage, high-precision battery-stack and cell-balance measurements in commercial and military hybrid-vehicle applications. They accept direct voltage inputs of any value in the range of ±100V from a single cell or from a...
• 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.
• Counterfeit components find new markets
  
  Author: By Rob Spiegel | Date: Apr 9, 2009
  ...directives. According to Tom Sharpe, vice president of independent components distributor SMT Corp, the military, aerospace, and medical industries are still using products containing lead. Many of these products are obsolete, and the chip manufacturers...
• “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.
• Flexible charge pump offers another means of producing electricity
  
  Author: By Fran Granville | Date: Dec 5, 2008
  ...wires into electricity. Potential applications include medical sensing, environmental monitoring, defense technology, and personal electronics. The team previously developed nanowire nanogenerators and microfiber nanogenerators that depended...