Programmable-logic directory By Brian Dipert, Technical Editor
The second annual EDN PLD directory highlights the architectures available for your next design. Find out what's new, what's obsolete, and what's evolved in PALs, PLDs, and FPGAs.
Design Features
EDN ears-on project: Listening to Class D By Joshua Israelsohn, Technical Editor
You needn't look further than Class D audio amplifiers to find a technology whose proponents tend toward exuberant advocacy at best and bald-faced hype at worst. Although these ICs are not yet the be all and end all of audio amplification that their makers would have you believe, they are remarkably good-certainly more listenable than the clamor about them.
Electrical-design considerations for PCI-X and 66-MHz PCI
cards By J Stoddard, MakeSans Systems, and A Goodrum, Compaq Computer Corp
As PCI-X and conventional, 66-MHz PCI devices and systems increasingly appear in a range of industry-standard computer architectures, system designers confront new challenges in developing cost-effective products that comply with the PCI-electrical specifications.
