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February 21, 2008
Cover Story
- Tightened power-efficiency regulations force power supplies to keep up
Both voluntary and mandatory power-regulation standards have forced manufacturers to meet minimum power-efficiency standards or risk losing customers—and, sometimes, markets. New versions of standards and new mandatory federal regulations call for higher efficiencies. These regulations make more sophisticated converter topologies reasonable approaches—even for the lowly wall wart.
Design Features
- As SOCs grow, test-and-measurement instruments move on-chip
Complex ICs are not only absorbing more of the systems around them, but also swallowing the test equipment designers use to bring up, evaluate, and calibrate the chips. - VMM application packages: the next level of productivity
A standardized verification methodology increases output without sacrificing design quality. - USB battery-charger designs meet new industry standards
USB is not just for data transfer any more; there are too many good reasons to use it in such applications as charging handheld-device batteries. New standards address such uses, and new connectors and ICs can make short work of your designs.
Pulse
- MEMS-oscillator maker aims to oust quartz
- Voices: GreenPeak Technologies’ Cees Links: wireless-networking visionary
- GPON-ONT IC delivers Gigabit Ethernet, voice, and video
- AMD unveils 55-nm, sub-$100 graphics processors
- Upgradable scopes capture 1G-sample records on all channels simultaneously
- Octal continuous-time sigma-delta ADC targets ultrasound and industrial applications
- 35-GHz waveform-analyzer plug-in triggers sequential-sampling DSO from differential or single-ended data
Departments and Columns
- Baker's Best
Delta-sigma ADCs in a nutshell, part 3: the digital/decimator filter
- Prying Eyes
TV peripheral encompasses superset processor
- Analog Domain
What does “better” mean?
- Tales From The Cube
A helping hand: 64-bit counter design pays off, slowly
- edn.comment
EDN Innovation: Awards season comes to technology
