Advanced wireless technology revamps spectrum analysis By Dan Strassberg, Senior Technical Editor
Spectrum analyzers may not be changing overnight, but, by borrowing technology from the systems whose signals they analyze, RF analyzers of today bear little resemblance to the instruments your father used.
Design Features
Innovations By Staff
Every year since 1990, the EDN Innovator and Innovation of the Year competition pays tribute to the people and products that make a significant impact on the electronics industry. Our job-selecting the finalists-is always difficult. It is now up to you to select the winners.
FROM EDN EUROPE: Where in the world? Embedded GPS heads for high
volume By Graham Prophet, Editor
With its accustomed facility for almost imperceptibly transforming the miraculous into the commonplace, our industry has made satellite navigation part of the currency of everyday life. With a range of options for boards, modules, or chips, you can drop in a location function to almost any product you can imagine needing it.
Enhanced temperature controller is both fast and precise Peter Galan, OCM Technology Inc
Today, industrial applications demand both speed and precision in temperature control. An improved temperature controller meets those demands by adding features you don't find in traditional PID controllers.
Ultracapacitors deliver jolts of power By Bill Travis, Senior Technical Editor
Ultracapacitors, capable of storing vast amounts of electrostatic energy, can supplement or even supplant batteries in many applications.
Tech Trends
Devices clean up power factor in ac/dc supplies By Bill Travis, Senior Technical Editor
Power-factor correction is a major issue in switching power supplies. Regulator ICs effect the correction and supply many other functions to boot.
