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October 14, 2004
Cover Story
- Reading between the lines: RFIDs confront the venerable bar code
Security and supply-chain-management concerns are amplifying the RFID hype. Conflicting standards, privacy concerns, and the threat of legislative oversight, though, threaten to mute the volume. Listen in. - FROM EDN EUROPE: Wind chimes in: wind turbines
Capturing the sun's energy via wind power is not new, but today's power semiconductors and control systems make this energy source more viable.
Design Features
- Dealing with 130-nm crosstalk delay
Prevention, analysis, and repair techniques yield successful SOC designs. - Advanced Switching: a new take on PCI Express
By using the Advanced Switching fabric, many associated end systems can simultaneously and directly communicate according to their protocols. - Comparing debugging methods for embedded software
Embedded-software development is an important part of most SOC designs. Choosing the right method to verify the software can mean your project's success or failure. - Ethernet keeps pumping the data
It's hard to imagine a technology that can almost seamlessly embrace a three-order-of-magnitude bandwidth increase using copper wiring that was originally designed for voice services. This first article of a two-part series describes how Ethernet today, as 20 years ago, continues to amaze.
Leading Edge
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Passive matrix offers selective RF-area screening
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Reference designs boost display quality for portable products
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Totally testing TETRA
- DSP delivers high-definition performance
- Make the USB-to-PCMCIA/IEEE-488 link
- Image processing gets its tools going
- SATA controller speeds, supplements mass-storage links
- RJ-45 connector provides the missing POE link
- Graphics progression boosts capabilities of mainstream PCs, high-end cell phones
- Precise position sensor gets IR adjustments
- Resistance may be futile, but you can still measure it
- Single chip delivers processor with full Ethernet support
- Smart-battery fuel gauge corrects for discharge rate, temperature, state of charge, and age
- Real-time-sampling DSO achieves 13-GHz bandwidth, 23-psec rise time, lower noise than 8-GHz units
- Chips smooth out digital-video speed bumps
Tech Trends
- Mano a mano with manufacturing
High speed, low power, and diminishing feature sizes make it impossible for designers to maintain a wall between development and manufacturing.
Departments and Columns
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A new kid on the block
- Signal Integrity
The perfect probe
- Sightings
The outlook for new technology
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FROM EDN EUROPE: You wear it well
