Contents
September 18, 2008
Cover Story
- DisplayPort versus HDMI: Do we really need two digital-display-interface standards?
DisplayPort silicon is beginning to appear in PCs, LCD monitors, and graphics cards. But it will probably be at least five years before prices fall and volumes ramp enough to challenge HDMI in consumer electronics.
Design Features
- Silicon germanium: fast, quiet, and powerful
SiGe processes can give analog-circuit designers fast, high-voltage transistors with low noise, whereas BiCMOS SiGe fits into CMOS process flows. - Making the transition from bit banger to gigabit guru
As high-speed serial interconnections infiltrate technology, system designers face a series of new signal-integrity problems to manage.
Pulse
- LabView 8.6 adds wireless, enhances multicore and FPGA features
- PicoChip optimizes processor-array chips for femtocells
- Lithium-polymer accumulator provides hybrid vehicles with staying power
- Self-assembling polymers may create tools for patterning storage media
- 24-bit delta-sigma ADC includes PGA
- Innovation-aid software gets infusion of 1.3 million IEEE documents
- External power adapter combines USB power with interchangeable ac plugs
Departments and Columns
- edn.comment
The turn of Apple's worm: Success accelerates its stumbles
- Signal Integrity
Twisted impedance: Wire proximity impacts line-impedance-approximation formula
- Analog Domain
Know your ceramic capacitor, part one
- Supply Chain
Gaining design-chain traction
- Supply Chain
Industry not prepared for REACH
- Supply Chain
Contract manufacturing shrinks
- Tales From The Cube
Passive part becomes aggressive
