Hot 100 Products 2001 By Staff
Thousands of new electronic products come along every year. All, no doubt, are useful, and many are innovative, yet only a relative few generate real excitement. At EDN, we've noted that our readers respond in a really big way to about a hundred new products each year. Thus was born our year-end feature, the EDN Hot 100 Products. Take a look.
FROM EDN EUROPE: Smart power switches simplify low-voltage
systems By David Marsh, Contributing Editor
Low-voltage automotive, consumer, and industrial equipment traditionally requires complex analogue circuitry to guarantee load protection. By combining power MOSFETs, gate drivers, and multiple protection
circuits in a single package, today's intelligent power switches simplify the digital-control-to-dc-load
connection for current levels reaching more than 100A.
Debugging advanced mixed-signal microcontrollers By Jim Divine, Cygnal Integrated Products
Classic in-circuit emulators are inadequate for the latest generation of advanced mixed-signal controllers, which integrate precision-analog functions with high-throughput processor cores. On-chip-debugging support is moving into the 8-bit microprocessor space and impacting development-system trends.
