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• 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.
• NASA Perfects Lunar-Crashing Technology for Only $79 Million
  
  Author: Steve Leibson | Date: Oct 9, 2009
  Leibson's Law: It takes 10 years for any disruptive technology to become pervasive in the design community. This blog is about the disruptive technologies that either have or will win over electronic engineers, some that won't, and why. Please feel free to link to these blog entries! Written by
• 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.
• Hubble to Earth: I’m Baaaaack!
  
  Author: Steve Leibson | Date: Sep 9, 2009
  Leibson's Law: It takes 10 years for any disruptive technology to become pervasive in the design community. This blog is about the disruptive technologies that either have or will win over electronic engineers, some that won't, and why. Please feel free to link to these blog entries! Written by
• Bob Dible on high-tech farming
  
  Author: Paul Rako | Date: Aug 12, 2009
  ...controllers regulating chemicals or seed monitors that are also doing their own thing. It reminds you of the old military systems before the 1553 bus kicked in. Sometimes I am sitting next to a pile of wiring that is rolled up on the floor connecting...
• Robot exoskeletons
  
  Author: Paul Rako | Date: Sep 11, 2009
  ...company name of Cyberdyne. Is not that from some science fiction moves where robots take over the world? Anyway, military applications notwithstanding, the real benefit to these exoskeletons may be in helping handicapped people achieve independence...
• NASA gives us crop imaging analysis, 180 GHz amplifiers and an energy drink. No, really.
  
  Author: Paul Rako | Date: Aug 20, 2009
  Technical Editor Paul Rako looks at analog technology in power supplies, interface, the signal path, and life in general.
• 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...
• 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...
• New RTOS on the block
  
  Author: Warren Webb | Date: Nov 18, 2008
  ...Comments (0) | Real time software is the heart of most complex, safety-critical embedded systems in military and aerospace applications. Many of these systems require software that is certified to development standards such as DO-178B...
• 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...
• 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...