Contents
January 5, 2006
Cover Story
- Serial streams shrink embedded-system designs
Mobile- and small-form-factor-product designers turn to fabric technology and off-the-shelf computer modules to beat the competition.
Design Features
- Design challenges steer automotive electronics
The automotive industry uses sophisticated mechanical design tools but could benefit from electronic system design automation. - Choosing high-speed amplifiers for noise-sensitive applications
Voltage feedback, current feedback, bipolar, CMOS—all have advantages and drawbacks. Here's a road map for picking the best type for your application. - Designing RF-IC filters using an automated circuit and layout synthesis
RF-IC designers can automate tedious filter-design iterations by integrating design steps with an electromagnetic simulator. - FROM EDN EUROPE: Powerline's other data channel
While the arguments rage about the feasibility and desirability of routing broadband signals over the mains power network, you might be forgiven for overlooking narrowband data-over-powerline, that continues to offer a reliable, if modest-capacity, channel for the same "no-new-wires" benefits.
Pulse
- Scopes' array of features, performance, size, and price breaks new ground
- Research Update: Physicists force six atoms to act like quantum "cats"
- Research Update: Carbon nanotubes suck heat from high-performance amps
- Research Update: Chip electrically controls the speed of light
- Global Designer: EDA-tool pairing tackles ESL "model gap"
- Global Designer: ADCs use less than 100 mW at 40 MHz and 14 bits
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Digital scopes fell last barrier to analogue-like performance
- FROM EDN EUROPE: TI's first DaVinci products offer "easy video"
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Mix measured and simulated circuit data
- FROM EDN EUROPE: EDA tool pairing tackles ESL "model gap"
- FROM EDN EUROPE: FPGA adds ADC to yield mixed-signal single chip
- FROM EDN EUROPE: OS steps up to support proliferating multi-core CPUs
- Vendor makes GSM-phone-on-a-chip claim
- ADC blazes at 190M samples/sec, but sips power
- Platform simplifies video
- PMC card fits multimedia applications
- SiGe power amp targets PHS handsets to WiFi
Departments and Columns
- edn.comment
802.11n progress: consensus building or end run?
- Signal Integrity
Half-measures
- Reality Check
DAT stirs piracy fears, loses out to plastic discs
- Tales From The Cube
Valuing uncertainty
- edn.comment
FROM EDN EUROPE: Getting a fix on wireless
