Contents
May 27, 2004
Cover Story
- The team rises to the top
As Fred Weber sets his sights on AMD's next strategic opportunities, he shares his thoughts on managing a large design team, his intense work ethic, and tips for tomorrow's engineers and innovators.
Design Features
- Simple circuitry for cellular-telephone/camera-flash illumination
Successfully implementing flash lamps involves understanding numerous practical considerations. - Fuel-cell technology: The glass is half full......with methanol fuel
Fuel cells for portable and handheld electronic products haven't even reached infancy. Even so, product designers need to know that designing them in will require good measures of thought and planning. - The eyes of the machine
Machine vision continues to find its way into more types of applications.
Leading Edge
- Another “analog” book? Yes, and worth it!
- Tool improves collaboration between electrical and mechanical engineers
- Network search goes low power and small
- RFID IC avoids collisions, reads at greater-than-15m distances
- Isolation IC is tight, fast, and furious
- Tiny Linux computer fits portable applications
- ICs improve “either-OR” power dilemma
- SMT LED shrinks to match applications
- Peripheral improvements improve living-room experiences
- Latest LabView emphasizes graphical development of real-time systems
Design Ideas
- Circuit provides 4- to 20-mA loop for microcontrollers
- Minimize the short-circuit current pulse in a hot-swap controller
- Reduce EMI by sweeping a power supply's frequency
- Get just enough boost voltage
- Processor's PWM output controls LCD/LED driver
- Method provides automatic machine shutdown
- Circuit makes simple high-voltage inverter
Departments and Columns
- Baker's Best
What does the ADC SNR mean?
- edn.comment
Has engineering become the Rodney Dangerfield profession?
- Signal Integrity
On-chip bypassing with end termination
