Contents
September 16, 2004
Cover Story
- Seeking clarity: Image sensors peer into a blurry future
Are sensors' days of predictable resolution growth and size reductions nearing an end? If so, what other innovation opportunities exist, and which technology will win the CCD-versus-CMOS tug of war?
Design Features
- SOC ASICs: overcoming verification and validation challenges
Devices are gaining complexity, and design cycles are getting shorter, but you can find failures early and avoid re-spins. - Optimize your protocol-stack design
Getting the most out of one aspect of your design need not mean giving up another. - EDA tools for FPGAs break down the complexity gridlock
FPGA devices offer execution speed and gate capacity that rivals many ASIC implementations and fosters the growth of EDA tools in that market.
Leading Edge
- System simulator promises fewer design headaches
- Tool extends support for SystemVerilog
- Electronic circuit breaker offers flexibility that passive units can’t
- Capacitor adds lead, loses ESL
- Test for designers
- 900-MHz modems feature 20-mile range
- Graphical tools reconfigure embedded hardware
- Modules, software turn Palm PDAs into data-acquisition systems
- “Universal contact” not for alien life forms
- 1500W supply has industry’s highest power density
- Content matters in smart-network gear
- Software-development tools adding more smarts
- Tool adds high-caliber resistance and capacitance engines
Tech Trends
- Embedded Linux nears real time
With new kernel updates and multiple latency-reduction options, Linux has become a viable alternative for many real-time-embedded-system designs.
Departments and Columns
- edn.comment
Reaching reliability relapse?
- Signal Integrity
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