Contents
May 12, 2005
Cover Story
- Cosmic radiation comes to ASIC and SOC design
As IC-process geometries shrink, single-event effects, such as soft errors and latch-ups, will soon become primary concerns for designers of ASICs and SOCs.
Design Features
- Black boxes capture car-crash data, controversy
Capable of recording mechanical and human performance before and during a crash, motor-vehicle event-data recorders have attracted the attention of safety and privacy advocates. - Reliable sign-off at smaller nodes
Nanometer timing sign-off requires power and signal-integrity analysis. - Suppressing interference in adaptive-cable-equalizer designs
Effective use of equalizer ICs requires proper layout. - FROM EDN EUROPE: Sensors and ICs simplify current measurements
Today's drive towards energy efficiency at every level makes current the fast-growing measurement. Designers can now choose from a bewildering variety of hardware to best implement techniques that have minimal impact on the host circuitry.
Leading Edge
- FROM EDN EUROPE: PHY chip defeats Cat5 wiring fumbles
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Actel adds ARM7 to S-o-FPGA offering
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Control-chip design made easy
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Big-chip synthesis tools move on
- New transistors and diodes? Is this a joke?
- Processor blade chops AdvancedTCA schedules
- Quadrature counter simplifies encoder feedback
- Free service offers access to parts
- Ultrabright LEDs offer low current, tight package
- WiMax SOC supports TDD and FDD flavors, channel agility
- Active mixer integrates baluns and enhances port isolation for base-station receivers
- Processor increases low-voltage-application performance
- Ethernet device gets small
- Serial-data-analyzer family adds enhancements, 11-GHz-bandwidth model
- Revamped T&M software simplifies use of its vendor’s and a competitor’s products
Tech Trends
- Sine construction: DDSs form precision oscillators
DDSs provide rapid, phase-coherent, linear tuning for applications from subsonic to RF.
Departments and Columns
- Baker's Best
Turning Nyquist upside down by undersampling
- edn.comment
Society's top honors freeze out electronics
