If I only had a drive By Greg Vrana, Technical Editor
The hard drive is at the heart of a new generation of audio and video devices. You have the brains, so all you need is the courage to design this digital storehouse into your next CE device.
FROM EDN EUROPE: New antenna designs reach for the sky By Graham Prophet, Editor
Compared with progress in silicon integration, innovations in one area of portable-radio design-antennas-have been relatively modest. Now, new materials and structures are taking antenna design forward and will, in turn, enable new multifunction handsets.
Design Features
Software holds the key to switching-regulator design By Graham Prophet, Editor
The voltage levels and power densities in today's equipment designs are changing more rapidly than ever before, and efficiency in offline supplies and point-of-load regulators is a necessity. Free software packages can take the strain of generating power-management designs.
Devices that play together, work together By Edward F Steinfeld, Automata International Marketing
UPnP defines common protocols and procedures to guarantee interoperability among network-enabled PCs, appliances, and wireless devices.
Addicted to speed By Joshua Israelsohn, Technical Editor
Fitting broadband services onto a ubiquitous network designed for narrowband has been no simple matter. After years of embarrassing false starts and undelivered promises, DSL may finally be up to snuff for a user base increasingly addicted to speed.
