Contents
January 9, 2003

Cover Story
- Destination distortion
High-resolution audio strides toward an unclear future.
Design Features
- Supercaps for supercaches
Supercapacitors, ultracapacitors, electrochemical capacitors, double-layer capacitors—all alternative names for devices finding an ever-widening range of applications.
Leading Edge
- Tiny amplifiers improve electrets
- Episode II: a less-"jaggy" Jar Jar
- Network-storage processor targets SAN
- Get in touch with your elemental nature
- Book provides help for SystemC users
- Go fabless
- FEC processor targets metropolitan-area networks
- Book explores software-engineering oxymoron
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Module speeds 802.11a to 162 Mbps
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Accelerate packet processing
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Dielectric resonators increase antenna versatility
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Improve CAN's tolerance of noisy conditions
How It Works
- What is DBS, and what makes it work?
Great picture and sound quality takes a chain of many links.
Tech Trends
- Debunking the distance-learning myth
We've overcome the challenges of electronic distribution, and no technical barriers remain to prevent distance learning from becoming an overnight reality. So, why aren't more companies taking advantage of it?
Departments and Columns
- edn.comment
Surrounded by gray, tangled up in blue
- Sightings
The outlook for new technology
- On the verge
Limited vision


