Managing Internet-enabled devices By Nicholas Cravotta, Technical Editor
You've got a device-maybe even 1000 of them-connected to the Internet. Now what do you do?
Design Features
Environmental-stress screening improves electronic-design
reliability By V Lakshminarayanan, Centre for Development of Telematics
Environmental-stress screening is a powerful tool for electronic-systems designers. It helps you design and develop highly reliable products that will operate in different environments.
The ACPI advantage for powering future-generation computers By George Lakkas and Bogdan Duduman, Intersil Corp
The ACPI specification is a platform-independent, industry-standard approach to OS-based power
management. ACPI allows inexpensive power-management hardware to support very elaborate power-
state transitions, maximizing the computer's power
consumption and resource-utilization efficiencies.
Ancient material yields latest passives By Bill Schweber, Executive Editor
Ceramics meets modern materials science (and art, too) to produce high-value, stable, nearly invisible capacitors.
Tech Trends
50-Mbps wireless LANs: not yet a done deal By Dan Strassberg, Senior Technical Editor
At 11 Mbps, Ethernet-based IEEE 802.11b is the clear leader. Another 802.11-series standard, 802.11a, promises to quintuple 11b's data rate. But challenges from competing standards and the 5-GHz carrier frequency suggest a less-than-smooth journey to widespread deployment.
