Contents
August 3, 2006
Cover Story
- The 33rd Annual Microprocessor Directory: Nontrivial pursuit
See how the expanded directory can help you in your pursuit of the perfect processor for your project.
Design Features
- Fabrics get smart
Electroactive textiles serve as switches, sensors, and more. - Accurate clocks optimize network service
Atomic clocks extend signal holdover to maintain accurate network timing and ensure consistent service quality during a GPS outage. - FROM EDN EUROPE: UWB emerges from the noise
Ultra-Wideband (UWB), in its seemingly halting path towards standardisation and product introduction, has already witnessed a technology stand-off, radical change in product objectives, the dissolution of an IEEE working group and much more besides. The arguing may not stop, but silicon is here, and the technology looks increasing usable.
Pulse
- Voices: Digi's Joel Young
- ETSI adds IP support to DAB, simplifying a DVB-H migration
- Chinese fab gets popular IP blocks
- Main players will pick DVB-H for mobile TV
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Adaptive signalling scheme routes broadband content on power wiring
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Spectrum analyser adds phase-noise-measurement set
- FROM EDN EUROPE: Pre-processing switch speeds data in DSP clusters
- FROM EDN EUROPE: GPS and DVB-H receivers in RF CMOS
- Quad-core DSP packs performance and features
- Digital power controllers offer digital and analog architecture
- USB counter/timer boasts 15 16-bit counters
- Radical FPGA takes on packet processing
Departments and Columns
- Baker's Best
Sallen-Key lowpass-filter stopband limitations
- edn.comment
HD-DVD and Blu-Ray lack wow at debut
- Prying Eyes
Wireless USB in a dongle
- Reality Check
Free-space optics: last-mile link fogged in
