Contents
August 4, 2005
Cover Story
- 2005 Microprocessor Directory: Charting your course
Follow the silicon-bread-crumb trail in this directory to find the perfect device for your project.
Design Features
- WiFi and Bluetooth fight for bandwidth
Bluetooth and WLAN are on a collision course—not in the market, but in the airwaves. - Choosing and using microprocessor memory interfaces
Designers evaluating memory-interface options need to optimize the trade-offs among capacity, bandwidth, efficiency, and system constraints. - FROM EDN EUROPE: Energy consumption demands electronic metering
With utility companies continually replacing electromagnetic energy meters and developing nations stimulating demand, the outlook for electronic electricity measurement looks bright. So what does it take to meet today's demands?
Pulse
- Q&A: Bob Lucky
- Chinese chip vendors push TD-SCDMA terminals
- LCD driver challenges TFT devices in mobile-phone applications
- FROM EDN EUROPE: 6 GHz spectrum analyser mixes production and portable roles
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Processor modeling supports concurrent development
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Programmable array develops magic touch
- FROM EDN EUROPE: "Pre-n" WiFi chip set implements full MIMO proposal
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Supercaps packaged for high-energy storage tasks
- Broadcom makes an entry into Bluetooth stereo headset market
- Software targets communications design
- Tiny filter repels EMI/ESD away from wireless functions
- Serial pulse-data-generator produces 7-GHz patterns
- Easy-to-use math software promises Mathematica’s speed and accuracy
- Test executive/development package adds fault library and editor
Tech Trends
- Beating the blue-laser blues
Customers want unified-format, blue-laser-based storage. Disregarding those desires, competitors are pushing broadly incompatible products into the market, in a high-stakes game of high-tech chicken.
Departments and Columns
- Baker's Best
When undersampling, clock jitter does matter
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Who's next after Unocal, Maytag?
- Prying Eyes
Cheap shot
- Reality Check
SiGe gets GaAs
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FROM EDN EUROPE: London, 7th July 2005
