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TAKING A BITE OUT OF POWER: TECHNIQUES FOR LOW-POWER-ASIC DESIGN

- BY MICHAEL SANTARINI • SENIOR EDITOR
EVEN IF YOU ARE DESIGNING AN ASIC OR SOC THAT DOESN’T TARGET A LOW-POWER APPLICATION, YOU NEED TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH LOW-POWERDESIGN TECHNIQUES, BECAUSE THE NEWEST GENERATION OF SILICON-PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES INHERENTLY LEAKS POWER.

OLED-based micro-screen enters production

- Graham Prophet

EZ-Color controller family simplifies HB-LED-lighting-system designs

- Margery Conner

SIGRITY I/O PLANNER SPANS IC, PACKAGE, AND PCB

- Michael Santarini

Prototyping board supports direct 8- to 32-bit MCU upgrade

- Graham Prophet

ST adopts Cortex-M3 in new ARM-MCU line

- Graham Prophet

PCI Express speeds data acquisition

- Warren Webb

6-axis MEMS motion sensor comes fully calibrated

- Graham Prophet

Monochrome TFT for cars, industrial products

- Graham Prophet

IP PROCESSOR CORE IS FULLY SYNTHESISABLE AT 1 GHZ

- Graham Prophet

EDN COMMENT: EDA-show season lacks sparkle

- BY GRAHAM PROPHET, EDITOR

TALES FROM THE CUBE: The eyes have it

- BY JEROME JOHNSTON • CIRRUS LOGIC

Recycle precision potentiometers as useful voltage sources

- Mark Thoren, Linear Technology, Milpitas, California

Circuit breaker provides overcurrent and precise overvoltage protection

- Anthony H Smith, Scitech, Bedfordshire, England

E-loads lighten PSU test burden

- BY DAVID MARSH • CONTRIBUTING TECHNICAL EDITOR
DESPITE THE ARRIVAL OF DIGITAL TECHNIQUES, OPTIMISING POWER-SUPPLY PERFORMANCE MOST OFTEN INVOLVES MULTIPLE ITERATIONS OF COMPONENT SELECTION OR OPERATING-POINT ADJUSTMENTS THAT REQUIRE A STANDARD TEST SET-UP. ELECTRONIC LOADS PROVIDE A UNIFORM PLATFORM TO SIMPLIFY YOUR TEST PROCESSES.

Estimating ZigBee transmission range in the ISM band

- BY SHREHARSHA RAO • TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
DESIGNERS OF SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS DEVICES IN THE 900-MHz AND 2.4-GHz BANDS NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT PARAMETERS AFFECT THE TRANSMISSION RANGE, AND HOW THEY AFFECT IT. MOREOVER, THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO APPLY THEM IN FORMULAE FOR STATISTICALLY CALCULATING THE PATH LOSS AND RANGE FOR BOTH INDOOR AND OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS.

ADSL2+ and VDSL2 network chips

8-pin MCUs add memory, peripherals

0.5W white-LED package

EDA tool checks data across clock domains