Contents
June 24, 2004
Cover Story
- Sound bytes: audio converters
If it weren't for audio converters, some of our favorite products would just be spinning their wheels.
Design Features
- Right-sizing an Internet connection
Connecting an embedded system to a network brings benefits but adds cost and complexity. Fortunately, the technology is available to make the connection the right size. - Complex—in every sense: RF-waveform generation and measurement
Bandwidth is like land—there's only so much of it. That's why the analog modulation of yesteryear just can't do the job in the 21st century.
Leading Edge
- $50 data-acquisition units connect to PCs via USB
- Graphics advancements span PCs to cell phones
- Behavioral-synthesis product uses SystemC models
- Core stresses performance and power
- Pick a card, any card…and read it
- Gear motor is small, does it all
- 240A controller drives robotic vehicles
- Smallest computer fits portable designs
- 8-GHz RF-signal/spectrum analyzer offers open Windows XP interface, streams data to Matlab
- Enhanced WiFi chips integrate USB, enable new applications
- Watching high-speed ADCs? Don’t blink
- EDA tool links to Simulink
Tech Trends
- Driving out complexity with abstraction tools
Embedded development tools continue to incorporate higher levels of abstraction to balance the increase in design complexity.
Departments and Columns
- Signal Integrity
Data coding for low noise
- Analog Angle
Anatomy of a precision-voltage reference
- On the verge
Regulating time
