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MAKING WAVES: Eight years later, details still matter

- By Dan Strassberg
Understanding waveform-generator operation and specifications before you buy is as important today as it was eight years ago.

Interface chip provides complete USB connectivity

Biometric sensor and preboot software lock down laptops

Hall-effect hot-swap

FPGAs offer “lowest static power”

Scopes search and scan 2-GHz signals

Power-conversion and -management IC

Test set speeds next-generation wireless-device calibration

Bipolar speed record

VoIP reference design

COTS principles shape 30W dc-dc converters

Software-radio navigation receiver awaits Galileo

EDN.COMMENT: Philips exits semis, creates NXP

- BY GRAHAM PROPHET, EDITOR

Milestones that mattered: Megabit DRAMs led PC boom, despite claims that they were “too capacious”

- BY MAURY WRIGHT, EDITOR IN CHIEF

PRYING EYES: Tiny computer holds embedded treasure

- BY MAURY WRIGHT, EDITOR IN CHIEF

ANALOG DOMAIN: Stacking up

- BY MAURY WRIGHT, EDITOR IN CHIEF

PIC microprocessor drives 20-LED dot- or bar-graph display

- Noureddine Benabadji, University of Sciences and Technology, Oran, Algeria

PC’s serial port controls programmable sine-wave generator

- Yongping Xia, Navcom Technology, Torrance, California

I²C interface connects CompactFlash card to microcontroller

- Fons Janssen, Maxim Integrated Products Inc, Sunnyvale, California

IC and DMM form direct-read-out temperature probe

- Alfredo H Saab and Bich Pham, Maxim Integrated Products Inc, Sunnyvale, California

Getting the picture on mobile TV

- BY GRAHAM PROPHET • EDITOR

Clash Of The Wireless-USB Standards

- BY RICHARD A QUINNELL • CONTRIBUTING TECHNICAL EDITOR
WIRELESS USB IS READY TO ENTER THE MARKET. UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO LEADING APPROACHES WILL HELP DEVELOPERS CHOOSE THE RIGHT ONE FOR THEIR APPLICATION.

Abracadabra: making system interconnect disappear with FPGAs

- BY ANDY TURUDIC • ALTERA CORP
ADVANCED SIGNAL-CONDITIONING TECHNIQUES CAN SOLVE INTERCONNECT PROBLEMS.

Designing Ethernet into industrial applications

- BY MICHAEL JONES • MICREL INC
THE RIGHT ARCHITECTURAL DECISIONS AND CAREFUL IMPLEMENTATION CAN HELP YOU MEET YOUR DESIGN GOALS.

Rugged 7.5-in. LCD

Synthesising DSP algorithms

DRM receiver design

Backlight inverters

Small footprint MOSFETs

Ultra-fast OS microkernel

Naval rating connector