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Current Issue

July 2009

Cover Story

 

TEE UP YOUR MULTIPROCESSING OPTIONS

- BY ROBERT CRAVOTTA • TECHNICAL EDITOR
A GOOD PROCESSOR TAXONOMY HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES’ SWEET SPOTS. YOU SHOULD PROBABLY LOOK AT MULTICORE OPTIONS IN THE SAME WAY.

Pulse

 

Spectrum analysis revisited to seek out masked signals

- By Graham Prophet

D/A converter shapes sound for small speakers

- By Graham Prophet

IMEC shows integrated spectrum scan for cognitive radio

- By Graham Prophet

A replacement for Dhrystone in MCU benchmarking?

- By Graham Prophet

Op amp has offset calibration to 200 µV

- by Paul Rako

Cadence links FPGA pin allocation to PCB-layout tools

- By Graham Prophet

MONOLITHIC 6A DC/DC STEP-DOWN CONTROLLER

- By Graham Prophet

Akya reveals dynamically reconfigurable-logic technology

- By Graham Prophet

Rotary-encoder IC meets all auto specs

- By Graham Prophet

Department and Columns

 

EDN.COMMENT: TI/Luminary, Intel/Wind River— it’s not over yet

- BY GRAHAM PROPHET, EDITOR

Test & Measurement World: The philosophy of jitter

- By Rick Nelson, Editor in Chief, and Martin Rowe, Senior Technical Editor, Test & Measurement World

Research In Motion’s first 3G-data-capable

- BY BRIAN DIPERT • SENIOR TECHNICAL EDITOR

Design Ideas

 

Implement a simple digital-serial NRZ data-recovery algorithm in an FPGA

- Jef Thoné and Bob Puers, ESAT-MICAS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Cancel sensor-wiring error with bias-current modulation

- W Stephen Woodward, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Simple FSK modulator enables data transmission over low-speed link

- Israel Schleicher, Prescott Valley, Arizona

Features

 

USB 3.0: A SIMPLE IDEA FULL OF CHALLENGES

- BY RON WILSON • EXECUTIVE EDITOR
TCOMBINING 5 GBPS WITH THE CONVENIENCE OF USB SOUNDS LIKE A SURE WIN, BUT MANY ISSUES ARE HIDING BEHIND THE PREMISE.

Product Roundup

 

SiGe MMIC amplifiers


USB-equipped Cortex MCU


Precision op-amp


Cadstar links to MCAD


dc/dc converters



 

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