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• Clash Of The Wireless-USB Standards 1/10/2006

  Becoming wireless is a natural step in the evolution of the popular USB (Universal Serial Bus), whose developers aimed at simplifying the cabling of PC systems. Now, two approaches to unwiring the USB have arisen, leaving developers with the difficult ....

  Getting the picture on mobile TV 1/10/2006

  WE WILL, IF THE PRODUCT-MARKETING PEOPLE SEE THE FUTURE CORRECTLY, VERY SOON ALL BE WATCHING TELEVISION ON OUR MOBILE HANDSETS. WE WON'T—AS AT ONE TIME THE INDUSTRY'S VISIONARIES WOULD HAVE HAD US BELIEVE—BE DOWNLOADING THAT ....

  ANALOG DOMAIN: Stacking up 1/10/2006

  Advances in IC packaging and back-end manufacturing processes that take advantage of 3-D structures are beginning to blur the line between fabrication and packaging technologies. That the result could substantially increase the IC’s I/O density is an ....

  PIC microprocessor drives 20-LED dot- or bar-graph display 1/10/2006

  The circuit in Figure 1 uses only five I/O lines to drive a dotor bar-graph display of 20 LEDs. Although this version of the design uses a small and inexpensive one-timeprogrammable microprocessor, ....

  Radical FPGA takes on packet processing 1/9/2006

  Start-up Cswitch Corp. this month introduced a novel configurable-logic chip targeting packet-processing applications in networking, wireless ....

  Quad-core DSP packs performance and features 1/9/2006

  The MSC8144 from Freescale packs four StarCore SC3400 DSP cores along with 10.5 Mbytes of internal memory, dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that support SGMII (serial gigabit media-independent ....

  FROM EDN EUROPE: Single-chip receiver for mobiles handles TV and radio 1/9/2006

  Mirics Semiconductor's MS1001 (diagram) is an RF tuner IC that the start-up company describes as a ''poly-band'' device for mobile digital broadcast reception. While several ....

  FROM EDN EUROPE: Big-chip synthesis tools move on 12/5/2005

  For designers of large system-on-chip ICs, Synopsys has introduced the latest evolutionary step in its synthesis tool sequence. From the original Design Compiler, the company moved to physical synthesis and now offers Galaxy IC Compiler. ....

  FROM EDN EUROPE: PHY chip defeats Cat5 wiring fumbles 12/5/2005

  Micrel's KS8001 is a physical medium (line driver) chip for 10/100 Ethernet applications, covering 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 100BASE-FX formats. Described as a fifth-generation part, it includes a function called LinkMD (the ''MD'' being ....

  FROM EDN EUROPE: Differential op-amp improves data acquisition resolution 3/3/2005

  Using a complementary silicon-germanium and CMOS technology, Texas Instruments has built a fully-differential op-amp that is optimised for driving high-speed analogue-to-digital converters at up to 100 MHz. Its (small-signal) ....

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