Corralled: get hold of wire delays By Gabe Moretti, Technical Editor
The physical and dynamic characteristics of wires on a die dictate the topology of an IC. Soon, they will dictate its entire architecture.
Design Features
IEEE 1394 drives expand video-storage options By Randy S Lawson and Allison Hicks, Texas Instruments
Consumer-electronics manufacturers are considering IEEE 1394 disk drives to solve the cost, upgrade, and reliability problems with today's embedded approach to digital-media storage.
The taming of the slew By Jim Williams, Linear Technology
Deriving a slew-rate-measurement approach requires understanding slew rate's relationship to amplifier dynamics.