Linux strafes the embedded landscape By Warren Webb, Technical Editor
Linux, the open-source, royalty-free operating system that dared to challenge Windows on the desktop, has set its sights on the much larger embedded-system market. Learn the basics, and, as a bonus, get all the free code and development tools that you need to put Linux to work for your next project.
Design Features
Little ICs generate big voltages By Bill Travis, Senior Technical Editor
ICs and small modules simplify the task of generating the high voltages for displays and their associated backlights.
Get those boards talking under Linux Alex Ivchenko, United Electronic Industries
Roll up your sleeves and learn how to design device drivers for data-acquisition boards.
DMOS delivers dramatic performance gains to LDO regulators Dave Heisley and Bert Wank, Burr-Brown Corp
LDO regulators with pnp pass elements nearly obsoleted the early npn linear regulators. CMOS technology brought further gains via PMOS LDO regulators. Now, n-channel LDO devices, which use BCDMOS technology, overcome the primary limitations of earlier devices.
Applying network processing to Layer N switching Charlie Jenkins, Solidum Systems Corp
Telecomm switches have been around now for more than a century, but in the datacomm world, switching is barely a decade old. With the convergence of the telecomm and datacomm worlds, network-processing devices enable new switch architectures to provide circuit-based features in a connectionless world.
Media security thwarts temptation, permits prosecution By Brian Dipert, Technical Editor
Rampant piracy of unprotected digital media has content developers and distributors scrambling to constrain, redefine, and exploit this "new world order." In developing your media-recording and -playback devices, beware of creeping security elegance that, left unchecked, will give rise to gadgets nobody wants-or can figure out how-to use.
