Contents
June 25, 2009
Cover Story
- Accelerating consumers' NAS adoptions: assessing your product options
Network storage is a notably bright spot in the otherwise-blah consumer-electronics economy. Carefully select and cull hardware, software, and their jointly implemented features to ensure product success.
Design Features
- Diagnostic ultrasound gets smaller, faster, and more useful
The signal path in ultrasound machines is a multichannel transmitter-receiver system with blazingly fast data rates. Engineers need to weigh a host of options in designing these complex machines. - Little-known flash-memory features protect data and IP
Features from block locking to encrypted-password-access mechanisms can prevent unintentional disruption, malicious damage, or copying.
Pulse
- Analog Devices, Infineon collaborate on air-bag systems
- Tool bundles target FPGAs
- Voices: Avnet’s Jeff Ittel: Think board to go broad
- 1- to 4-GHz, 20G-sample/sec DSOs and MSOs integrate protocol analysis
- POE ICs offer increased power efficiency for PDs
- Chip allows isolated USB
- Scope-based tools support complete debugging and compliance testing of Superspeed USB 3.0
Departments and Columns
- Baker's Best
Is your amplifier offset way out of whack?
- edn.comment
Can’t see the forest ...
- Prying Eyes
Peering into ultrasound machines
- Tales From the Cube
Weather or not: All signs point to “no”
