Circuit-protection methods yield more robust products By Joshua Israelsohn, Technical Editor
Increasing functional density across virtually all electronic-OEM segments renders valuable silicon ever more susceptible to everyday, real-world hazards. Simple and relatively inexpensive measures can protect your products, your company's reputation, and, in extreme cases, your customers.
Ensure valid design constraints throughout the design process By Ramesh Dewangan and Girish Patil, Cadence Design Systems Inc
Design constraints for building increasingly complex designs can mean missed time-to-market windows, costly re-spins, and longer design cycles. Some tools can help to ensure these constraints are accurate.
Component selection and layout for smart-battery packs By Arun M Sanghani, Motorola Energy Systems Group
Selecting and implementing the key components of today's smart-battery circuits present unique challenges and trade-offs. Analyzing your entire design ensures that it will reliably meet the application's requirements.
How to read a semiconductor data sheet By Ron Mancini, Texas Instruments Inc
The prudent engineer must look beyond the first page of the data sheet; the fine print can kill you.
FROM EDN EUROPE: Low-power differential interface technologies for portable products By Pravas Pradhan and Jeff Ju, Fairchild Semiconductor
Although a number of recent publications have outlined the
benefits of using differential signalling technology over single-ended
technology for serial interfaces, less information exists on the hidden forces
driving such migrations at the signal-transmission level.
FROM EDN EUROPE: Low-cost FPGAs move into consumer designs By Graham Prophet, Editor
Should you use an ASIC or a Structured ASIC in your consumer design? Don't bother with either, say the FPGA makers; there's a new class of low-cost programmable parts competing for those sockets.
Microdisplay technologies: Projection systems lose
contrast By Richard A Quinnell, Contributing Technical Editor
Three technologies are jockeying for market share in the
projection-television market, each making improvements that are erasing the
differences among them.
