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Voices: Leveling the playing field for small hardware start-ups 10/22/2009

Chumby designer Andrew Huang is among the first of a new breed of small-hardware-system entrepreneurs using China's electronics supply chain.

For 10G interconnects, the RJ45 once again will dominate 5/5/2009

GUEST OPINION: 10GBASE-T will be adopted as the primary 10GE interconnect for data-center switches and servers for many of the same reasons that RJ45 and twisted-pair cabling already dominate at gigabit speeds.

Know your ceramic capacitor, part two 11/27/2008

Class II and Class III ceramic capacitor advantages, liabilities, and application considerations.

All about surface-mount ferrites 8/21/2008

You may be surprised to learn that the performance of a ferrite bead in any power-filtering application can vary by more than a factor of 10, depending on the magnitude of dc current passing through the part during actual operation.

Voices: Harley Feldberg: the pulse of the industry 3/20/2008

Voices: EDN speaks with Avnet's Harley Feldberg about the economic situation, the growing role of Avnet in the design community, and the changing role of Asia in the industry.

Voices: Chano Gómez on powerline networking's "universal" hope 12/14/2007

How does UPA (Universal Powerline Association) technology cope with powerline noise? Why is it marketed as "200 Mbps" when it provides only a fraction of that? And is there hope for a true powerline standard? DS2's Chano Gomez provides technical and strategic insights.

Reach out and touch: Designing with touchscreens 9/27/2007

Although the touchscreen interface may be digital, the human interface is purely analog.

Roll back the lead-free initiative: 12 ROHS myths 9/13/2007

I'm all for environmental legislation when it actually helps. When it doesn't help, and it harms something else, I question the result.

Internet video provides another channel for Design Idea delivery 6/7/2007

Our goal with video and other multimedia presentations is to provide you information in whichever ways you want to consume it.

Wringing out thermistor nonlinearities 4/12/2007

You can combine a series resistor, a microcontroller, a 10-bit ADC, and a programmable-gain amplifier to overcome the measurement difficulties of a nonlinear thermistor.
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