Contents
March 5, 2009
Cover Story
- The 2009 DSP Directory: Dig Into DSPs
This repository of embedded-signal-processing resources will help you Find the best processor candidates and development tools for your project.
Design Features
- Driving the convergence between fixed and mobile communications into the mainstream
Sustainable consumer demand for converged Wi-Fi-plus-cellular applications and services will depend on carrier-grade FMC services that deliver a good end-user experience. Before you can achieve these benefits, however, FMC products need to deliver the same quality as today's cellular-only services.
Pulse
- Point cooling advances for hot ICs
- Researchers create speedy, rugged carbon-nanotube memory
- 20-GHz-bandwidth real-time-sampling digital scopes boast performance improvements, new features
- Scope-based audio-bus, power-analysis tools target embedded-system designers
- Bourns hot-dips trimmers to eliminate tin whiskers
- LED chip sets help pico projectors bring big displays to small devices
Design Ideas
- Microcontroller converts digital-temperature-sensor readings without floating-point arithmetic
- Discrete-component buck converter drives HB LEDs
- Drive a single-coil latching relay without an H-bridge circuit
- Limit switches control dc-motor H bridge
- Implement a clip-detection circuit for BTL Class D amplifiers
Departments and Columns
- edn.comment
Time for a change in patent law
- Signal Integrity
Not your fault
- Tapeout
Mitigating tapeout risk
- Supply Chain
Distributors’ credit practices crucial
- Supply Chain
China’s semiconductor market to fall
- Supply Chain
ECHA opens REACH consultation on authorization list
- Tales From The Cube
A lesson in humidity? No sweat
