Contents
January 24, 2008
Cover Story
- Choosing system-on-chip processes: a tough decision
IC-process selection today is a complex, multivariable optimization problem with financial, technical, and emotional dimensions.
Design Features
- Digital video pushes the embedded-technology envelope
The video revolution in consumer devices has produced lower hardware costs along with expectations for higher performance embedded designs. - Using FPGAs for HDTV design
Designers have begun to apply dynamic image-processing algorithms in FPGAs to convert and map digital-video signals onto display panels. Multiple video-processing techniques and building blocks exist to handle, process, and display clean, smooth pictures on flat-panel HDTVs.
Pulse
- ARM targets NFC smart cards with Cortex variant
- Book delves into serial ports; they never were “obsolete”
- 8A step-down regulator comes in surface-mount module
- Voices: Security and virtualization in embedded software
- Maxwell/Lishen alliance could offer ideal energy/power profile for hybrid vehicles
- Processor and tool enhancements include real-time trace
- LCD controller serves multiple monitors
Departments and Columns
- Tales From The Cube
Blown fuse has a meltdown
- Baker's Best
Delta-sigma ADCs in a nutshell, part 2: the modulator
- edn.comment
Overengineering: How much is too much?
- Prying Eyes
The Dimage X50 digital camera
- Scope
Scope: DATE 2008, IP acquisition
