Contents
January 6, 2005
Cover Story
- Smart phones: the next embedded interface
Representing the convergence of PDA and cellular devices, smart-phone technology promises to be a fitting user interface for the early stages of the pervasive-computing era.
Design Features
- Evolving to AdvancedTCA-compliant devices
Chassis designs are shifting from proprietary to standard backplanes. - A thousand points of bright: turning up the volume on solid-state lighting
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Mixing it: DSPs and MCUs fall in together
Once in separate chapters of the microprocessor data book, control processors and DSPs are being brought together to present an optimal solution, at the lowest cost, for a wide range of consumer and industrial tasks.
Leading Edge
- Format-tuned codec, encoder contend for relevance
- FROM EDN EUROPE: MEMS technology builds faster smart power chips
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Signal analyser peers deeper into spectral data
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Catch software runtime errors at compile time
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Is anybody there?
- Media, chip set address portable systems’ requirements
- 4-Gbps FibreChannel test module generates traffic, performs protocol analysis
- Host controller powers USB storage devices
- Servoamp drive is small, versatile, powerful, and networked
- Ultracapacitor-pack standardization reaches 15V
Departments and Columns
- edn.comment
Sweating the details
- Signal Integrity
Everything matters
Digital Den
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Video room service
Product advances state of the art in wireless home-video networking. But there's still a long way to go.
