EDN Europe May 2006 Archive
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MAY 2006 ISSUE CONTENTS
FEATURES:
Simple networks
will free many sensors from wires
With a suitable protocol, such as Zigbee, sensors that don't have a lot to say
or hear needn't consume much energy to keep in touch. Sometimes, an alkaline
cell can provide all the power they need for as long as a decade.
By Dan Strassberg, Contributing Technical Editor
EDN's
2005 Innovation Awards Winners: The envelope, please!
EDN announced the winners of its 16th Annual Innovation Awards on March
3.
Power-management
techniques for multimedia mobile phones
Asia and other markets are racing to launch digital TV and streaming video and
music in handheld formats. These technologies bring benefits, but designers
still face the constraints of incorporating multimedia functions in small form
factors in the face of increasing battery life.
By Crystal Lam, On Semiconductor
Linux joins the
consumer-electronics revolution
Designers are turning to the Linux operating system to meet the escalating
user-interface, networking, and multimedia requirements of today's
consumer-electronics products.
By Warren Webb, Technical Editor
Hands-on project:
designing microcontrollers with low-cost reconfigurability
Reconfigurable microcontrollers offer an impressive array of analog and digital
features to meet your application's requirements.
By Nicholas Cravotta, Contributing Technical Editor
Mobile applications
challenge test-and-measurement tools
Advances in probing and triggering and in simultaneously monitoring multiple
buses—including high-speed serial buses—are adapting logic analyzers to the
world of fast, low-power mobile applications.
By Kris Utermark, Tektronix Inc
PULSE:
- NI simplifies data acquisition with USB
- IP provider mounts structured ASICs on standard-cell libraries
- MEMS-based oscillator threatens quartz; resonator could move on-chip
- AVR µC hits nA current levels
- Converter extends battery life
- Fast-charge Li-ion cells from USB
- Dual-mode platform for mobile phone takes advantage of global expansion
- Device combines signal and power isolation
- RFID and 802 marriage targets asset-tracking systems
- Motor-control package ups HVAC efficiency
- $1 MCU features ARM Cortex core
DESIGN IDEAS:
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Amplifier removes common-mode noise on RGB differential-video-transmission line
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Use a switching-regulator controller to generate fast pulses
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