Current Issue

November 2009

Cover Story

 

DESIGNING AN ACCESSIBLE BOARD

- BY RON WILSON • EXECUTIVE EDITOR
DESIGN-IN ACCESS TO VERIFICATION AND DEBUGGING DURING—NOT AFTER—THE DEVELOPMENT OF A BOARD-LEVEL PRODUCT.

Pulse

 

Online tools compile and download code for Cortex M3 MCUs

- by Graham Prophet

High hot/cold factor boosts HB-LED efficacy

- by Margery Conner

300-mW solar panel for portable products

- By Graham Prophet

Audio PA betters Class-D for battery-driven speakers

- by Graham Prophet

Power-management chip for latest embedded processors

- by Graham Prophet

Multi-core, multithreaded processor supports “green radio”

- By Graham Prophet

Department and Columns

 

SIGNAL INTEGRITY : Working with jitter statistics

- BY GEOFF LAWDAY

EDN.COMMENT: Find your niche in the cell-phone-design ecosystem

- BY GRAHAM PROPHET • EDITOR

Test & Measurement World: Testing the tester components

- By Rick Nelson, Editor in Chief, Test & Measurement World

Design Ideas

 

Unused port adds a PWM/analog channel to a microcontroller

- Vishwas Vaidya, Tata Motors, Pune, India

Emulate SPI signals with a digital-I/O card

- Andy Street, Autoliv Electronics, Lowell, Massachusetts

Features

 

COMPARING COMPARATORS: MEASURE SIGNALS, GET RESULTS

- BY PAUL RAKO • TECHNICAL EDITOR
SIMPLE IN CONCEPT, VOLTAGE COMPARATORS HAVE MYRIAD SPECIFICATIONS THAT COMPLICATE THEIR APPLICATION.

In search of a better DRAM: evolving to floating bodies

- BY DR SERGUEI OKHONIN • INNOVATIVE SILICON
WIDELY INVESTIGATED FLOATING-BODY MEMORIES APPEAR TO BE COMPELLING REPLACEMENTS FOR CONVENTIONAL DRAMs. A NEW FLOATING-BODY MEMORY USES THE INTRINSIC BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR TO STORE SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER CHARGE.

Product Roundup

 

20-GHz mixed-signal ’scopes


Ultrasonic ranging/parking IC


Synthesise logic directly from Matlab


Smart meter reference design


4-GHz MSOs add protocol analysis


Step-down switching regulator withstands 80V transients


Four-port vector analysers



 

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