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July 8, 2004
Cover Story
- Waiting for the big gig: Ethernet at 10 Gbps
Ethernet at 10 Gbps promises to decrease the cost of transporting data, leading to an explosion of new network services. But do we need the bandwidth—even at bargain prices?
Design Features
- Pick a card: card formats
The number of memory- and I/O-card formats your systems potentially need to support is increasing. Insight into how the cards may fall will help you select a winning hand. - Divide and conquer complex chip designs
Few designers would debate the advantages of using a hierarchical-design approach for developing a complex chip.
Leading Edge
- FROM EDN EUROPE: VME board hosts 30 million gates of configurable resources
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Recycle power for I/O efficiency
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Custom-silicon programme targets low-volume projects
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Virtex-4 makes its entrance
- FROM EDN EUROPE: FPGA soft cores reach 200 MIPS
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Nanoscale MEMS challenge flash memory
- Devices allow transparent expansion of PCI and PCI-X to PCI Express
- ZigBee now comes in a box
- Microprocessors offer connectivity options
- MEMS-design software provides EDA approach
- Dueling graphics juggernauts trade announcement, improvement jabs
- Tool provides hierarchical verification
- CompactPCI computer breaks $1000 barrier
- TDM operates over PSN without headaches
- Move away from fixed hardware to SPI-4.2
How It Works
- Achieving the ultimate soundtrack
A portable digital hard-disk recorder brings realistic audio to movie and TV audiences.
Tech Trends
- Power control: winning big
Back-to-basics knowledge can make ac as easy to control as dc.
Departments and Columns
- Baker's Best
Number of bits versus LSB errors
- edn.comment
Harnessing the hard-drive metamorphosis
- edn.comment
FROM EDN EUROPE: Regulating the playpen
