Contents
December 7, 2000
Cover Story
- Hot 100 Products 2000
Thousands of new electronic products come along every year. All, no doubt, are useful, and many are innovative, yet only a relative few generate real excitement. At EDN, we've noted that our readers respond in a really big way to about a hundred new products each year. Thus was born, in 1993, a year-end feature, the EDN Hot 100 Products. This year, we present our eighth annual installment.
Design Features
- BIST means more measurement options for designers
Use BIST techniques to minimize jitter by accurately measuring it. - High-availability Internet servers: Linux clustering on a CompactPCI
platform
Customer demand for increased bandwidth with minimum downtime has forced network service providers to specify server systems with high-availability features. CompactPCI hardware supporting multiprocessor Linux clusters is one way to keep up with this demand. - From EDN Europe: Navigate the analogue-signal-conditioning maze
Now that you can choose sensors to make virtually any physical measurement, you - Optimizing read range in RFID systems
Determining and improving the read range of RFID tags is especially important as these tags become more commonplace.
Leading Edge
- ADC modules target chromatography, handle other applications
- "Tri" this flash-memory form factor
- USB microcontroller cuts current, handles 1.5-Mbps flow
- CD decoder does MP3
- Linear servo actuator exerts mighty push/pull
- Wire-harness designs get better electrical analysis
- Engineering prototyping gets hot
- Smart motor integrates all controls
- DSP features dual cores, many audio/modem channels
- Microchip Technology moves on acquisition
- CMOS sensors strive for CCD-like success
- LVDS crosspoint switch reaches OC-12
- Cores, software work for VoIP
- Video integration squashes cost, artifacts
- 336 voices sing on a chip
- Reference manual delivers on its vision
- Power-distribution unit monitors Web
- Smart digital fans have programmed functions
- PC-tune-up tips, no screwdriver required
- Grain-of-sand thermistor is lead-free
- Dot-coms are toast
- 24-bit converter misses hum, not codes
- FROM EDN EUROPE: 26.5 GHz spectrum analyzer targets digital-radio measurements
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Web-based tools offer free simulation
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Helping gigahertz processors keep their cool
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Formal-verification tools for embedded software development
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Fishing in the data streat as it flows by
How It Works
- Display enhancements accept no compromises
Wouldn't the product you're designing be easier to conceive if it appeared three-dimensional? A new breed of stereo vision glasses and exotic display technologies make your 3-D dreams come true.
Departments and Columns
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- Analog Angle
Op-amp-gain error analysis
- Tech Toys
Who says engineers can't have fun?
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