EDN Europe January 2006 Archive
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FEATURES:
New battery technologies hold
promise, peril for portable-system designers
For the near
future, most portable systems will have to rely on some form of the
now-venerable lithium-ion battery. Fortunately, lithium-ion cells are improving
in cost, robustness, and even energy capacity. But beware the perils that
'clone' battery packs can pose for your system.
By Margery
Conner,
Technical Editor
Powerline's
other data channel
While the arguments rage about the
feasibility and the desirability of routing broadband signals over the main
power network, you might be forgiven for overlooking narrowband
data-over-powerline, that continues to offer a reliable, if modest-capacity,
channel for the same 'no-new-wires' benefits.
By
Graham Prophet, Editor
Common-driver
library architecture
Using a CDL-based architecture for device
drivers can significantly reduce the time to develop, maintain, validate, and
support device drivers for multiple platforms.
By Chet Douglas and Boji
Tony Kannanthanam, Intel
PULSE:
Popular
benchtop-DMM line offers expanded capabilities
EDA tool adds pc-board-layout,
FPGA-design features
Digital scopes fell last barrier
to analogue-like performance
TI's first DaVinci products offer
'easy video'
Mix measured and simulated
circuit data
EDA tool pairing tackles ESL
'model gap'
FPGA adds ADC to yield
mixed-signal single chip
Flash, 8-bit processor targets
motor control
OS steps up to support
proliferating multi-core CPUs
DESIGN IDEAS:
Low-cost BER tester measures
errors in low-data-rate applications
DMA eases CPU's workload for
waveform generation
Bipolar current source maintains
high output impedance at high frequencies
DEPARTMENTS &
COLUMNS
Getting a fix on
wireless By Graham Prophet, Editor
Reality Check: An abacus in your
pocket
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