Fiber battles copper for gigabit serial links By Bill Schweber, Technical Editor
You can now get gigabit connectivity with minimum fuss via standard module and connector families, and you can switch between copper and fiber links without significant redesign.
FROM EDN EUROPE: Active power factor correction David Marsh, Contributing Editor
Explosive growth in consumer and office electronics presents electricity generators with increasingly nonlinear loads. Poorly behaved loads reduce supply capacity and can even threaten supply integrity. The European Commission introduces standards to combat the problem, but how do you ensure that your products meet new regulations?
Design Features
C for yourself: programming 8-bitters By Markus Levy, Technical Editor
Time-to-market pressures have forced embedded-system developers to program microcontrollers in high-level languages. Although some compiler vendors continue to squeeze out extra performance and higher code density, some semiconductor vendors are developing new compiler-friendly 8-bit architectures. You
Implementing power management for instantly available PC cards
Fabien Franc, California Micro Devices
Enabling a PC to respond to important stimuli, such as incoming faxes, while it appears to be off to save energy, presents some intriguing power-system-design challenges.
Device connectivity: a whole new set of secret handshakes By Nicholas Cravotta, Technical Editor
Getting our myriad devices-from PDAs to PCs-to communicate requires a common language and protocol. Several candidates for the job have very different ways of determining who
