EDN hands-on project: building pocket power By Warren Webb, Technical Editor
Astonishing portable computing and growing popularity and power has lured legions of system developers to the Pocket PC platform. This hands-on project examines the software tools that you can use to build your own pocket applications.
Design Features
Sense of self: enabling systems to monitor—and control—their
environment By Nicholas Cravotta, Technical Editor
There's nothing quite like having to explain to your boss that your entire network is down because a $12 fan died. Proper management of the enclosure environment lets you pre-empt such
disastrous and embarrassing failures.
Interface concerns within 10-Gbps fiber-optic modules By Aaron Schultz, Quake Technologies Inc
Designing the semiconductor components required to make a fiber-optic module is challenging, but the job doesn't stop there. Far from being just a simple assembly of components, a module design must include two interfaces for each device. At
10-Gbps data rates, the quality of interface design can limit a module's performance.
Flight-data recorders: Orange is good, black is bad By Gabe Moretti, Technical Editor
When a flight goes wrong, the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder provide investigators with evidence to establish what happened on the flight deck and in the plane before the accident.
Tech Trends
Decoding and virtualization bring surround sound to the
masses By Brian Dipert, Technical Editor
You may plan to include only two speakers, just a set of headphones, or support for one- and two-channel sound sources in your next design. Not to worry. Psychoacoustics, processors, and plenty of memory can still give your customers an immersive audio experience. "Hear" is how.
