Subpar wars: high-resolution-disc formats fight each other, consumers push back By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor
With blue-laser competitors Blu-ray and HD DVD both gearing up for high-volume production, a clear picture of the format winner hasn't yet emerged. Red-laser formats remain credible alternatives in some applications, but both usage-rights restrictions and display-and-vision limitations put all their futures in doubt.
Design Features
Interfacing electronics to people By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor
Electronic embedded systems continue to find their way into more medical systems.
RF-interference-design considerations for portable-device batteries By Macwien Krishnamurthi and Ahmad Kamal Shamsuri, Motorola
Today's use of ever smaller yet more complex batteries in mobile-communications applications requires designers to use advanced design techniques to protect batteries from RFI. Users must consider a number of phenomena and design issues to ensure that their designs conform to both RF and battery-management-system parameters.
Optimizing heterogeneous architectures By Bruce Lee, Texas Instruments
A systems approach to multicore-DSP architectures extracts the high performance that today's applications require.
FROM EDN EUROPE: For a few dollars less By Graham Prophet, Editor
FPGA vendors are lining up to offer dense logic parts at price points of just a few euros, and capable design software suites that are either free or nearly free—time to take a second look at what you might pack into a programmable part?
