Contents
February 2, 2006
Cover Story
- Co-design
EDA vendors are helping IC and package designers more effectively work together.
Design Features
- Friend or foe: Battery-authentication ICs separate the good guys from the bad
All battery packs are not created equal: Unauthorized after-market packs may contain cells that can self-destruct when you charge them at the higher voltages that new lithium-ion technologies demand. Battery-authentication ICs use advanced security methods to weed out counterfeits. - Decision time: EDN's 2005 Innovator/Innovation
Finalists
You pick the winners in our 16th annual program honoring engineering excellence. - Dual threshold voltages and power-gating design flows offer good results
Dual threshold voltages and power-gating design flows manage both leakage power and performance with little effort. - FROM EDN EUROPE: Low-cost ARM kits ease 32-bit migration
With 32-bit microcontrollers now so cheap that they rival 8-bit devices in value-for-money terms, a new generation of low-cost evaluation tools displaces traditionally expensive development systems to ease entry into high-performance embedded computing.
Pulse
- Networking processors decrease cost, increase integration
- Scientists boast about their small measurements
- Optical modulator heralds terabit/sec data rates
- If these walls could heat-and cool
- TI's first DaVinci products offer "easy video"
- OS steps up to support proliferating multicore CPUs
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Agilent expands mid-range DSO offering
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Set-top-box chips improve ease-of-use
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Fast display mode upgrades DSO's signal coverage
- FROM EDN EUROPE: SOM concept adds versatility to embedded computing
- FROM EDN EUROPE: SiGe power amp targets PHS handsets to WiFi
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Advanced TCA boards target complex Comms applications
- CANBus, serial networks distribute motion control
- 16-bit processors get a boost
Departments and Columns
- Baker's Best
Frequency-domain analysis helps with delta-sigma
- edn.comment
CES stars: tough to find in mediocre year
- Signal Integrity
Specsmanship
- Analog Domain
Initial inertial gestures
- Reality Check
MP3 pioneer stirred RIAA action, exited market as major players entered
- Tales From The Cube
Hardware designer on an electric chair
- edn.comment
FROM EDN EUROPE: Farewell to the CRT
