Contents
November 8, 2001
Cover Story
- FROM EDN EUROPE: EDN's 28th annual microprocessor / microcontroller
directory
Innovation spans the spectrum. - Dress your application for success
Choosing the right processor and logic implementation will drive your available trade-off and differentiation options for current and future generations of your application.
Design Features
- Project-coordination tools: Get your act together before you take it on
the road
Though an engineer's work may never be completely done, the right tools can speed your team's efforts. - Take the rough edges out of video-filter design
Incorrectly processed image-frequency information can distort displays generated from digital-video sources. Oversampling and well-implemented video-DAC-output filters can save the day, but improperly designed filters can make matters worse. Before you design your next digital-video system, take some time to investigate video-reconstruction-filter design and trade-offs in oversampling. - Designing dual-band internal antennas
You can fit most cellular phones with an internal antenna if you gain a thorough understanding of the physics of the problem and if your performance expectations remain consistent within some fundamental limits.
Leading Edge
- Connector supports 10 Gbps on copper—not fiber—path
- Surface-mount inductors show it's hip to be square
- RFIC switch is easy to control
- Embedded-panel computer loves sunlight
- InfiniBand switch chip runs at 10 Gbps on eight ports
- MOSFET plus Schottky diode reduce space and cost
- Drive outpaces limits and standards
- New chip packaging
- Communications analyzers build on real-time scopes
- Smaller surface-mount relay is RF-shielded
- Book reveals secrets of large-scale architecture without EDA or CAD
- D-sub connectors beat EMI with integral filters
- Instrument makes many signal-integrity measurements
- Ethernet magnetic module packs two channels
- Group announces Serial ATA spec; bridge chips help you meet it
- From EDN Europe: Make faster measurements on digital signals
- From EDN Europe: Convert large PLD designs to mask-programmed form
- From EDN Europe: Define your own instructions for network processing
- From EDN Europe: Dual-mode silicon solves 802.11a/b problem
- From EDN Europe: Step up Bluetooth performance with second-generation silicon
How It Works
- Wireless network's fast, on-the-go access makes waves
High-speed, no-wires Internet access: Here's how.
Departments and Columns
- ednmag.comment
Don't forget about the end user
- Signal Integrity
Slow-wave mode
