Contents
March 30, 2006
Cover Story
- EPIC updates stretch stackable systems
Two new board-level standards offer PC/104 designers more real estate, a link to fabric technology, and continued compatibility with legacy hardware.
Design Features
- Hands-on project: designing microcontrollers with low-cost reconfigurability
Reconfigurable microcontrollers offer an impressive array of analog and digital features to meet your application's requirements. - Digital and microwave worlds converge in 10-Gbps-backplane design and test
Getting usable signals through backplanes is far from trivial when speeds reach 10 Gbps. By predistorting and equalizing signals, driver and receiver ICs allow the use of low-cost substrate materials, but good designs are no accident. - Advantages of interleaved boost converters for PFC
Interleaving boost stages can reduce Power-factor-corrected-preregulator power-converter input- and output-ripple currents that in turn reduce the boost-inductor size and the output capacitor's electrical stress. - Electronic dispersion compensation brings native 10 Gbps to networks
At 10 Gbps, dispersion has a dominant effect on optical-link performance for long- and short-haul-networking applications. To handle this dispersion, developers must either upgrade the fiber infrastructure or implement dispersion compensation.
Pulse
- 1U, half-rack switching units' debut kicks off supplier's LXI push
- Voices: Economies of Freescale
- Standard silicon conjures continuous laser
- Plastic substrate allows OLED displays to get bent
- Nanotube-based ultracapacitors could rival batteries
- DAQ chips simplify sensor interfaces
- Headphone amp swaps modes to cut noise, save power
- Silistix introduces tools to take asynchronous design mainstream
- Novas introduces on-the-fly debugging
- Chip improves efficiency of flyback-converter circuits
- Power-management IC suits advanced microprocessors’ power needs
Departments and Columns
- EDN's 50th Anniversary
Milestones That Mattered: RAMAC launched disk-drive revolution
- edn.comment
Happy birthday to us
- Signal Integrity
Terminator II
- Analog Domain
Scaling: a balanced view, part one
- Reality Check
Long-promised game may yet appear
