Contents
September 14, 2006

Cover Story
- Making waves: Eight years later, details still matter
Understanding waveform-generator operation and specifications before you buy is as important today as it was eight years ago.
Design Features
- SDR goes to war
The JTRS is working to bring interchangeable SDR to the military. But will it be good enough for commercial applications? - Abracadabra: Making system interconnect disappear with FPGAs
Advanced signal-conditioning techniques can solve interconnect problems.
Pulse
- Process coaxes carbon nanotubes into service as vias
- Magnetic material may put new spin on computing
- Nanoscale cavity amplifies LED output by seven times
- Your name in lights, on your body
- Receivers target high-volume GPS and DVB-H applications
- New US passports contain secure identification chips
- Dual computers boost system performance
- 32-nm CMOS begins to take shape
- Hall-effect hot-swap controller debuts
- Test set speeds next-generation wireless-device calibration
Departments and Columns
- EDN's 50th Anniversary
Milestones That Mattered: Megabit DRAMs led PC boom, despite claims that they were too capacious
- edn.comment
Kamen clobbers big-company management
- Signal Integrity
Voltage-regulator droop
- Analog Domain
Stacking up
- Scope
Scope: ARM Developers Conference, more...
- Tales From the Cube
Perceptions and realities


