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COMMUNICATIONS-CENTRIC TEST GEAR: SHARPENS SYMBOL RECOGNITION

- BY MAURY WRIGHT • EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
DESIGNERS PURSUE NEXTGENERATION WIRELESS DEVELOPMENTS WITH MODULATION-AWARE TEST TOOLS, THOUGH EVOLVING STANDARDS PRESENT PROBLEMS FROM THE PHY TO THE DATA LAYERS.

USB-bridge controller supports multilevel-cell NAND flash

- By Maury Wright

x8 ADCs shrink size, power for portable scanner sockets

- By Graham Prophet

National Instruments aims at high-volume applications

- By Warren Webb

SPECTRUM ANALYSERS SHOW TRANSIENT RF EVENTS

- By Graham Prophet

IBM millimeter-wave wireless technology inches toward commercialization

- BY MATTHEW MILLER
RESEARCH UPDATE

Silicon fatigue: not a myth

- BY MATTHEW MILLER
RESEARCH UPDATE

STMicroelectronics claims first 45-nm CMOS-RF chips

- BY MATTHEW MILLER
RESEARCH UPDATE

SILICON NANOCRYSTALS SHOW PROMISE FOR SOLAR CELLS

- BY MATTHEW MILLER
RESEARCH UPDATE

RT/Ethernet MCU reference-board designs

- By Graham Prophet

IC BOOSTS STEREO IN PORTABLES

- By Graham Prophet

Longer memory, smarter triggers for high-end ’scopes

- By Graham Prophet

ICs address speedy Ethernet devices’ need for EMI, ESD protection

- By Margery Conner

EDN.COMMENT: If it’s January it must be…

- BY GRAHAM PROPHET, EDITOR

TEST & MEASUREMENT WORLD: Software wrapper links Matlab to instruments

- By Martin Rowe, Senior Technical Editor, Test & Measurement World

POWER MONITOR: Price parity ahead for Li-ion and NiMH

- BY JEFF SHEPARD, DARNELL GROUP

Use the MCLR pin as an output with PIC microcontrollers

- By Antonio Muñoz, Laboratorios Avanzados de Investigación, Huesca, Spain, and Pilar Molina, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Depletion-mode MOSFET kick-starts power supply

- By Gregory Mirsky, Milavia International, Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Dual-input sample-and-hold amplifier uses no external resistors

- By Marián Štofka, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia

Improved optocoupler circuits reduce current draw, resist LED aging

- By Peter Demchenko, Vilnius, Lithuania

Robots on the march

- BY ROBERT CRAVOTTA • TECHNICAL EDITOR
ROBOTICS IS GAINING MOMENTUM AS AN ENGINEERING DISCIPLINE. A VARIETY OF AVAILABLE PLATFORMS AND TOOLS SUPPORTS IT. THIS ARTICLE IS THE FIRST OF A TWO-PART HANDS-ON PROJECT EXPLORING THE TOPIC.

HIGH-BRIGHTNESS LEDs bring new applications and standards

- BY MARGERY CONNER • TECHNICAL EDITOR
AS HIGH-BRIGHTNESS LEDs INCREASE IN POWER, THEY WILL ENABLE NEW APPLICATIONS RANGING FROM ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING TO MEDICAL PRODUCTS. ENERGY STAR LIGHTING STANDARDS ARE EVOLVING TO KEEP THE FOCUS ON TOTAL SYSTEM EFFICIENCY.

SOLID-STATE LIGHTING OFFERS EFFICIENT RELIEF FOR LIGHT-STARVED COUNTRIES

- By Alan Li, Intersil
AS HIGH-BRIGHTNESS LEDs INCREASE IN POWER, THEY WILL ENABLE NEW APPLICATIONS RANGING FROM ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING TO MEDICAL PRODUCTS. ENERGY STAR LIGHTING STANDARDS ARE EVOLVING TO KEEP THE FOCUS ON TOTAL SYSTEM EFFICIENCY.

High power RGB LED

USB-charge-protection device

50-cent ST7 micros

5V step-up dc/dc

Fanless DAQ module

Intelligent Li-ion charging

Vehicle-bus analyser