EDN Europe June 2004 Archive
JUNE 2004
FEATURES:
14th Annual Innovator/Innovation of the Year Award Winners
EDN’s 14th annual Innovator/Innovation campaign recognizes the best
in the electronics industry. At a festive banquet at the W Hotel in San Francisco, EDN
proudly announced the winning innovator and winners in 13 product categories.
By Joan Lynch, Managing Editor, and Staff
Safety check: Wireless sensors eye tyre
pressure
Tyre-pressure monitoring is one of the biggest safety improvements that
electronics technology can give drivers. Direct-pressure-measurement systems have now set
the stage to displace alternative approaches.
By David Marsh, Contributing Technical Editor
From the ashes: The next stage of EDA
Moore’s Law is not dead, and the EDA industry is challenged with keeping it
profitable. This task requires a change in focus from designing silicon structures to
producing systems.
By Gabe Moretti, Technical Editor
Simple circuitry for
cellular-telephone/camera-flash illumination
Most high-bandwidth, real-time scopes come with software to recover embedded
clocks for serial-data analysis. But just how much memory do you need?
By Jim Williams and Albert Wu, Linear Technology Corp
LEADING EDGE:
Easy bridge for Ethernet to RS-232
ColdFire updated with real-time subsystem
A presence in the configurable DSP sector
SMT LED shrinks to match applications
Network search goes low power and small
Another “analogue” book? Yes, and worth it!
ICs improve “either-OR” power dilemma
Isolation IC is tight, fast, and furious
Configurable supply reaches for new efficiency levels
RFID IC avoids collisions, reads at greater-than-15m distances
DESIGN IDEAS:
Circuit forms simple, low-cost, 1-kV driver
Circuit makes simple high-voltage inverter
Circuit controls ratiometric or simultaneous power-up of
multiple rails
Scheme provides automatic power-off for batteries
Method provides automatic machine shutdown
DEPARTMENTS & COLUMNS
Trade winds By Maury Wright, Editor in
Chief
