Auto electronics prep for a multimedia future By Maury Wright, Technical Editor
It's not just your home and office electronics that may soon handle streaming video and multichannel audio. Designers are feverishly pursuing a mobile environment-from power systems to in-vehicle networks-in which the Internet, wireless links, personal communication devices, entertainment electronics, and traditional car systems converge.
Design Features
Embedded technology transforms the automobile By Warren Webb, Technical Editor
If you are looking for opportunities on the leading edge of electronic technology, check out the latest changes in the family car.
Log and limiting amps tame rowdy communications signals By Bill Schweber, Technical Editor
When you're dealing with signals that have wide dynamic range, you need logarithmic and limiting amplifiers to get the maximum usefulness and minimum error.
Getting the most from Fast Ethernet ICs David Jones, Level One Communications Inc
Highly integrated Fast Ethernet ICs decrease system costs without diminishing system performance. However, controlling EMI, ensuring performance and interoperability, and protecting against ESD are still crucial to producing the desired end product.
10 tips for generating reusable VHDL S Meiyappan, K Jaramillo, and P Chambers, VLSI Technology Inc
Your ability to reuse blocks expressed in an HDL is critical to designing systems on chips. Here are some tips you can use to generate VHDL-based blocks that you-and others-can reuse in subsequent chip designs.
