Go the distance By Warren Webb, Technical Editor
A step beyond servers and browsers, Web-services technology links embedded devices to powerful applications and information sources anywhere on the Internet.
Design Features
Design for test or suffer the consequences By Gabe Moretti, Technical Editor
The complexity of today's ICs and pc boards requires intricate and extensive testing, significantly increasing both development and manufacturing costs.
Sensor calibration turns old technique into new trick By Bill Schweber, Executive Editor
By adding modern developments in optical and signal processing to a 125-year-old method, you can calibrate accelerometers despite displacements that are less than a wavelength of light.
Tech Trends
Automation frees high-speed design By David Marsh, Contributing Technical Editor
Until recently, typical design environments were just software tools for translating schematics into pc boards. But today's high-speed circuits now force such tools to address the timing and signal-integrity issues that can challenge your entire product-design cycle.
Features Logical combination? Richard A Quinnell, Contributing Editor
Convergence products need both RISC and DSP processors, but merging them may not be the answer.
Editorial Watch this space By Matthew Miller, Special Projects Editor
Once a month in this space, we'll be delivering viewpoints on the convergence space—the market that's growing out of the collision of computers, communications, and consumer electronics.
