Exotic memories, diverse approaches By Brian Dipert, Technical Editor
Newfangled memory technologies come and go, but every once in a while, one makes it out of the laboratory and into your next design. All of these candidates aspires to be the next semiconductor success story. Which ones dreams will come true?
Design Features
Bringing displays into the digital future George Diniz and Tim Stroud, Analog Devices
Digital-display interfaces are the future, but most monitors and graphics adapters still use analog technology. Integrating both analog and digital interfaces into your display guarantees its compatibility.
Measurement techniques help hit the 1-ppm mark By Jim Williams, Linear Technology Corp
Part 2 of this series on the design of a 20-bit DAC discusses the all-important techniques for testing the performance-linearity, settling time, and noise-at such minuscule data levels. See Part 3 in the next issue.
Audio receivers tune in to binary broadcasts By Brian Dipert, Technical Editor
Digital audio is more than the music played on PCs, PDAs, or solid-state Walkmans strapped to joggers
Tech Trends
A Web appliance by any other name is still...a PC? By Greg Vrana, Technical Editor
Web appliances are going after two groups of people that both want to browse the Web and send e-mail. But one group loves technology, and the other barely tolerates it. Can you build a device that appeals to both markets?
EDN's 2000 Innovation winners By Staff
Your Web votes have been tallied in our annual competition to recognize the most innovative people and products of the year. At an April 9 reception at the Pan Pacific Hotel in San Francisco, EDN editors honored the winners and the finalists and presented Innovator of the Year Casimer Decusatis with a $10,000 scholarship to donate to the college or university of his choice.
