98 Innovator/Innovation Competition By Staff
From this roster of finalists, make your choices for the most innovative products and people in the electronics industry. Then use our online ballot to cast your votes.
Design Features
Sensors smarten up By Bill Travis, Senior Technical Editor
A new smart-sensor standard promises to bring order to the chaotic world of sensors and their interfaces to µCs and networks. Emerging 1451.2-compliant products ease system-design efforts and cut cost and size.
DVD flourishes despite format feuds By Maury Wright, Technical Editor
Despite manufacturers' bickering over rewritable DVD formats and the lack of widespread acceptance of a DVD-audio spec, DVD technology remains on a sure course to serve in applications from living rooms to supercomputers.
New Java variants target deeply embedded systems By Graham Prophet, EDN Europe Editor
Portability, security, simplicity, and shrink-wrapped tools: Java has a lot to offer for embedded design. Now, formalised definitions of Java's compact variants, together with new licensing terms, demand a fresh look at the language as an option for smaller systems.
BER: an invaluable tool in integrated-receiver-decoder
testing Tom Waschura, SyntheSys Research Inc
Bit-error-rate testing plays a vital role in successful integrated-receiver-decoder product development and manufacturing. Error-rate testing verifies compatibility with system requirements and can provide nearly priceless diagnostic information during the critical integration testing.
