Contents
January 22, 2004
Cover Story
- Break on through: the open-source-development platform
The open-source Eclipse project is poised to impact the world of embedded-development tools.
Design Features
- Overcoming DDR-2-interface challenges
Faster clocks mean ever smaller data-valid windows. - Eyes and ears everywhere: networking embedded devices
Extending the network to deeply embedded devices becomes a reality with low-cost wireless transceivers.
Leading Edge
- DVD controllers deliver the write options
- Digital-multimedia interface grows up
- Tweaks tailor processor performance, power draw
- Processors provide Layer 2 traffic management
- Audio DSP does double duty
- Tiny embedded computer delivers PC power
- System offers thermal and stress analysis for electronic systems
- Serial controller simplifies embedded displays
Tech Trends
- Speedy simplicity: serial-storage interfaces
The era of stardom for the cumbersome and slow parallel-storage interface is drawing to a close as nimbler, younger serial contenders take the stage.
Departments and Columns
- Baker's Best
When things go wrong, listen for the heartbeat
- edn.comment
Living in the materials world
- Signal Integrity
Common-mode analysis of skew
