Embedded-system design: Exploring trade-offs By Markus Levy, Technical Editor
Embedded-system design is about trade-offs. EDN explored the labs of five leading semiconductor vendors to examine a variety of processor and system-level trade-offs. See what we discovered.
Design Features
Memory cards: designing with a full deck By Brian Dipert, Technical Editor
Winning at poker and winning at engineering have at least one thing in common: a good set of cards. Play your hand right-discarding the cards you can't use and holding onto the ones you can-and you'll end up a winner. Choose wrong, though, and the chips won't be headed your way.
Designing elliptic filters with maximum selectivity Celestino A Corral, Motorola Inc
The elliptic filter is the best choice for meeting stringent magnitude-response requirements, and a design technique helps you to maximize the band-edge selectivity without increasing filter order.
8-VSB versus OFDM: morethan a tempest in a TV? Dan Strassberg, Senior Technical
Editor
The United States and Europe
use different modulation schemes for digital TV. The Europeans say that their
OFDM system is more robust. A US broadcasting company agrees, but the FCC
doesn
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