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EXPLORING MEMORY ARCHITECTURES: PILLARS OF PROCESSING PERFORMANCE

- BY ROBERT CRAVOTTA • TECHNICAL EDITOR
PROCESSOR-BASED SYSTEMS RELY ON MULTIPLE, HETEROGENEOUS MEMORY SUBSYSTEMS TO DELIVER BETTER SYSTEM PERFORMANCE, COST EFFICIENCIES AND LESS POWER.

Lithium-ion batteries power next generation of electric vehicles

- By Margery Conner

High-integration display processor for automotive TFTs

- By Graham Prophet

ZigBee network device delivers location information

- By Graham Prophet

Freescale’s “controller continuum” eases 8-to-32-bit move

- By Graham Prophet

USB RF power meter in a sensor head

- By Graham Prophet

Flexible processing power for consumer designs

- By Graham Prophet

HYBRID VOLTAGE REGULATOR RESPONDS TO FAST TRANSIENTS

- By Graham Prophet

Fujitsu bids for bigger share of automotive-graphics sockets

- By Graham Prophet

Cadence tunes up logical-tophysical prediction for SoC design

- By Graham Prophet

EDN.COMMENT: Talk is cheap—but not at 10,000m

- BY GRAHAM PROPHET, EDITOR

POWER MONITOR: Conference covers digital power’s progress

- BY JEFF SHEPARD, DARNELL GROUP

Build a complete industrial-ADC interface using a microcontroller and a sigma-delta modulator

- Patrick Weber and Craig Windish, Siemens Energy and Automation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Simple dual constant-current load tests low-current power supplies

- John S Lo Giudice, STMicroelectronics, Schaumburg, Illinois

I2C interface has galvanic isolation, wired-OR capability, improved noise margin

- Michele Costantino, Microsaic Systems, Woking, United Kingdom

Stepper-motor motion controller and driver fit into a CPLD/FPGA

- Stephan Roche, Santa Rosa, California

Autovectorization for GCC compiler

- BY MARKUS LEVY, EEMBC • AND RON OLSON, IBM
YOU CAN USE INDUSTRY-STANDARD BENCHMARKS TO IMPROVE COMPILER PERFORMANCE.

POWER WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED

- BY MARGERY CONNER • TECHNICAL EDITOR
RECEIVING ELECTRICAL POWER WITHOUT A WIRED CONNECTION HAS LONG BEEN AN IDEAL FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES. HOW FEASIBLE IS IT, AND WHAT ARE SOME OF THE OTHER OPTIONS?

HIGH-EFFICIENCY RF-RECTENNA DESIGN

- By Hubregt J Visser, J Theeuwes, M van Beurden, and G Doodeman

The evolution of SERDES designs for cell phones

- BY MICHAEL FOWLER • FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR
APPLYING A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SILICON DESIGN LEADS TO SUCCESS.

Antifuses in space: Actel extends FPGA range for satellites

Silicon-germanium in 12-GHz LNBs

Ultra-small 2.4-GHz antenna

CMOS RF switches for next-generation handsets

High-speed USB

6½-digit DMM uses USB