Contents
November 23, 2006
Cover Story
- Low-cost kits: the new FPGA-designer trend
Dominating communications and complex industrial applications, FPGA makers are looking toward design wins in lower end automotive and consumer devices. With today's devices blurring the distinctions between CPLDs and FPGAs, low-cost design kits help first-time users tackle sophisticated systems.
Design Features
- Display of power: Portable devices get bigger LCD screens without bigger batteries
Consumer-electronics developers face a host of challenges when designing for small, portable-system applications. - Modeling gaps in state-of-the-art mixed-signal SOC design
With the emergence of SOC designs, the industry has moved away from the IDM model. To ensure that your designs will emerge from the foundry as your simulations predict, you must employ standardized and enhanced compact models that are compatible with all the applications in your circuit. - Designing antialias filters for ADCs
Continuous-time ADCs can benefit signal-chain design. An overview of discrete- and continuous-time systems details the differences.
Pulse
- Voices: Microsoft's Amir Majidimehr: a "window" to the world of digital media
- Interface chip provides complete USB connectivity
- S-band mission payload to launch on W2A satellite
- Bipolar transistors achieve speed record
- Virtex-5 adds PCI Express and 10-Gbit-Ethernet cores
- Two suppliers' handheld DMMs offer differing features
- Input board shrinks data-acquisition footprint
- PC/104 Ethernet switch supports virtual networks
Departments and Columns
- Baker's Best
The difference between latency and settling time for ADCs
- edn.comment
Triple-play update: Telcos falter; cable companies soar
- Prying Eyes
Piecing together a Pocket PC
- Scope
Scope: CES, mobile TV then and now
