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January 24, 2002
Cover Story
- Ripples in the process pool
Semiconductor vendors have a greater variety of processes at their disposal than at any other time in the industry's history. It's no surprise, then, that they're trying to convince you that they've made the best choice.
Design Features
- EDN's 2001 Innovator and Innovation of the Year Competition
EDN's Innovator and Innovation of the Year competition was designed over a decade ago with one goal in mind: to find, recognize, and promote the people and products that rock our engineering world. Check out this year's nominees. - Scrub data with scale-invariant nonlinear digital filters
The idea may be counterintuitive, but for a large class of filtering tasks, nonlinear filters can preserve signal fidelity better than their linear cousins. - Using synthesis in the analog-design flow
Analog-synthesis tools can help speed the analog-circuit-design flow.
Leading Edge
- Scalable PCI system delivers blazing 128-GFLOPS processing power
- Compression and interconnect breakthroughs pave a path for advanced multimedia formats
- Module performs engineering-change orders
- Link to Web site for a year for free copy of math package
- Simple IC keeps eye on fan's impending failure
- Hybrid-gate-array technology promises shorter cycle time and lower NRE and unit costs
- Interface material overcomes that sinking feeling
- RF designers get a new beginning
- Single-chip modem meets low-speed needs
- Software lets you check your design in 3-D
- Programmable-logic alternatives offer similar attributes but differing foundations
Tech Trends
- Data-acquisition software: It may be a new ballgame, but hang on to the
old rule book—for now
Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET may create new rules for developing, deploying, and maintaining data-acquisition and instrumentation applications, but few of the changes will occur overnight.
Departments and Columns
- ednmag.comment
Reorg redux?
- Signal Integrity
Not all EMC engineers are bald
