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April 1, 2004
Cover Story
- Hurry up and wait: chip-to-chip interconnect
Interchip interconnections now choke traffic flow and limit peak performance. New standards may be the way to overcome this imbalance. - FROM EDN EUROPE: Whatever happened to fuzzy logic?
A handful of years ago, it was common to see consumer products sporting the label "fuzzy-logic control," but those front-panel stickers have faded away.
Design Features
- Managing your supervisor
A look at monitoring and controlling processor voltages. - Hot-swap MOSFET reliability
Hot-swap controllers can increase system reliability, but not if they fail themselves. - Alternative techniques accelerate flash-memory-programming speeds
As flash-memory densities grow, consequent longer programming times lead to increases in manufacturing costs. To meet this challenge, manufacturing engineers are seeking new methods for quickly programming and verifying memories.
Leading Edge
- Optical/electrical jitter analyzer guarantees peak-to-peak errors of less than 0.02 unit intervals
- Small-footprint, moderate-price scopes provide big picture
- FROM EDN EUROPE: À la carte intermediate bus power
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Restructure the costs of IP-based design
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Embedded world sizes up ARM
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Multiprocessor chip wraps up the multimedia phone
- FROM EDN EUROPE: FPGA-design software includes microprocessor IP
- Light guides improve your inner and outer glow
- FPGA adopts a revolutionary stance
- ZigBee radio goes IP
- Embedded encoder compresses real-time streams
- EMI filter passes only good vibrations
- Matched MOSFETs provide in-circuit trim
- Customize your scope’s user interface
- Free download solves start-up shortcoming
- 10-Gigabit PHY devices hit new low
Tech Trends
- If you can't build it, it isn't worth much
Designers and EDA vendors developed design-for-manufacturing, design-for-test, and design-for-yield methods to improve a design's chances for success.
Departments and Columns
- edn.comment
My interoperability dream
- Signal Integrity
Slippery slopes
- Sightings
The outlook for new technology
- edn.comment
FROM EDN EUROPE: An ASIC daydream
Digital Den
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The source of all streams
Designing a digital-video router for next-generation connected homes.
