Contents
August 7, 2008
Cover Story
- White spaces: Ready for development permits or off-limits?
Is wireless spectrum scarce or abundant? Two coalitions' fresh perspectives on a long-standing issue have produced promising early results, but old-guard opponents are raising implementation roadblocks.
Design Features
- Free software encircles embedded design
Open-source software has become a staple in the embedded-system industry as designers struggle with escalating software complexity on limited budgets. - High-voltage, low-noise dc/dc converters
You can make a 1-kV dc/dc converter with only 100 µV of noise.
Pulse
- Miniature photocoupler features high-speed isolated switching
- 10-Gbps links span 30m in copper
- FPGA start-up aims at ASIC market
- Broadband low-noise amplifier provides mobile-TV reception from VHF to L band
- Voices: 15 steps to starting your own electronic-kit business
- Battery-operated, 6.2-GHz real-time spectrum analyzer incorporates DPX technology, GPS, and mapping
- ASML boosts immersion litho performance
- Embedded computer offers multicore performance
- Digital isolators reach 2 Mbps, pack in as many as four channels
- USB-powered battery charger goes faster, cooler, safer
Departments and Columns
- Baker's Best
Photo-sensing circuits: The eyes of the electronic world are watching
- edn.comment
Semicon West boosts solar power
- Prying Eyes
Revisiting electronic ink
- Tales From The Cube
Dumping the noise
