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March 4, 2004
Cover Story
- Hands-on project: And then there was one
Five years ago, I built a multimedia-enhanced PC platform for the living room. Now for the encore: Just how much could I squeeze into one box, how small could the box be, and would the result meet or beat the multiple boxes it replaced? - FROM EDN EUROPE: Plug in: Safeguard ac powerline quality
Today's proliferation of electronics creates power-quality problems that are sufficiently severe to attract regulatory action. With legislation in place within the European Union and the United States and Far East looking to follow, standards provide designers with tools to ensure compliance.
Design Features
- A universal approach to hot-swapping power in telecommunication systems
Maintain good power to all modules while removing bad modules and inserting new modules into a running system. - Juggling jobs: hardware/software co-design
Increasingly, engineers find themselves having to balance the concurrent development of the hardware and software components of a product.
Leading Edge
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Low-power transceiver adds CDR for medical-implant data
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Go serial for simpler mobile-phone-display interconnect
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Devices and standards progress for cellular handsets
- FROM EDN EUROPE: ARM, Synopsys bid to shape IP verification with "how-to" manual
- $20 module replaces RS-232 wiring
- Tiny reed switch is hard to see, easy to use
- Power IC tackles basic, inefficient “droppers”
- Avoid “tuner in a can,” yet receive more video
- Integrated TDM drops glue, increases flexibility
- Keep an eye on keeping an eye on power
- Quarter-brick supply delivers big power, fast response
- Consortium unveils HyperTransport 2.0
- Approach radically alters design and manufacture of large electronic systems
- Embed logic-analysis probes in your Xilinx FPGA
Departments and Columns
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Is there any design left in engineering?
- Signal Integrity
Maximizing noise partitioning
- Sightings
The outlook for new technology
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FROM EDN EUROPE: The shape of rings to come
