Contents
January 8, 2009
Cover Story
- Evaluating value-oriented x86 CPUs: The price of falling prices
EDN Hands-on Project: Economical microprocessors may enable you to easily hit your next design's bill-of-materials cost target, but will they also allow you to accomplish your performance and power-consumption objectives?
Design Features
- Diode-turn-on-time-induced failures in switching regulators
Never have so many had so much trouble with so few terminals. - Choosing a touch technology for handheld-system applications
The demand for larger displays in small handheld devices makes choosing the right touch technology critical.
Pulse
- Precise monitoring maximizes HEV-lithium-ion-battery performance
- RF-communications software spans signal generation and analysis
- MIT researchers claim 50% increase in solar-cell output
- Tests resolve tension over silicon strain
- Future nonvolatile memories may have carbon footprints
- DSO-based software analyzes 20-GHz-bandwidth RF signals
- Portable MSO line for embedded design features $4300, 100-MHz-bandwidth, four-analog-/16-digital-channel unit
- FPGA-based PXI modules improve test-system I/O performance
Departments and Columns
- edn.comment
Broadcast content restrictions: A bad idea that just won’t die
- Signal Integrity
Differential transitions
- Tapeout
Physical design and architectural design
- Supply Chain
Inventory management key to staying afloat in downturn
- Supply Chain
2009 PC outlook slashed
- Supply Chain
Premier Farnell targets unregulated e-waste recycling in developing countries
- Tales From The Cube
A bad-capacitor story ends happily
