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January 10, 2002
Cover Story
- Expanding options bring surround sound to the forefront...and the back...
and the sides...and the ceiling...and the floor...
Why make your potential customers travel to movie theaters, performance halls, and video arcades to enjoy surround sound? Ever-evolving technology, in conjunction with DSPs and memory, create an immersive audio experience no matter where you hear it. - FROM EDN EUROPE: Off-the-shelf components make light work of machine
vision
Making systems recognise objects and their properties is central to many of today's automated processes. Once the domain of artificial-intelligence experts, vision systems and software packages enable industrial-strength applications in minimal time and without specialist knowledge.
Design Features
- Dynamic voltage scaling conserves portable power
With portable applications on the rise, designers are turning to dynamic power-conservation techniques to delay the inevitable dead battery. - Put an instrument in your Palm
Software tools put custom programs in a PDA.
Leading Edge
- 64-bit PCI board suits real-time, embedded systems
- Spec gives you USB on the go
- Forum targets service dependability
- Embedded Windows XP debuts
- AC-cord lockout keeps your system yours
- Book illuminates IC layout and design for novices
- DSOs break speed barriers in dramatically different ways
- Chip integrates DSP and RISC
- Chip set touts HomePlug 1.0 compliance
- Bluetooth update
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Floating-point DSP power increases
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Software aids EMC studies and component design
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Parallel architecture tames nonlinear problems
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Fully deterministic RTOS meets automotive standard
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Pluggable-IP standard goes public
Tech Trends
- VoiceXML distributes voice to the masses
Tomorrow's next-generation cell phones promise access to the Internet. But why wait? VoiceXML now enables any phone to browse the Web.
Departments and Columns
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Innovation is never over
- Signal Integrity
Fiber-optic encoding
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FROM EDN EUROPE: The power of πr2
