Current Issue

December 2010

Cover Story

 

A Magic Touch: The Concept’s Sound, But Implementation Options Abound

- BY BRIAN DIPERT • SENIOR TECHNICAL EDITOR

Pulse

 

ICs deliver 500W of off-line power

- Edited By Fran Granville

CMOS ICs generate 8 independent clocks

- Edited By Fran Granville

Vicor adds mains-to-48V converter module

- Edited By Fran Granville

3-D Hall-effect magnetic encoder simplifies sensors’ mechanical design

- Edited By Fran Granville

TI DSP architecture blends fixed-and floating-point and has “no bottlenecks”

- Edited By Fran Granville

Opening eyes at 28 Gbit/sec

- Edited By Fran Granville

Touch and sound together on a flat panel

- Edited By Fran Granville

Multi-core processing for MCU and DSP applications

- Edited By Fran Granville

Department and Columns

 

EDN.comment: What took you so long?

- BY GRAHAM PROPHET, EDITOR

Test & Measurement World: PXI RF development shifts focus

- By Richard A. Quinnell, Contributing Technical Editor, Test & Measurement World
Much of the drive to improve PXI’s RF performance came from the wireless communications industry.

Mechatronics: Control design: pervasive and perplexing


Feedback, feedforward, and a disturbance observer get the job done.

Baker’s Best: Absorb current spikes and noise with a simple technique

- By Bonnie Baker

Design Ideas

 

Circuit achieves constant current over wide range of terminal voltages

- Donald Boughton, Jr, International Rectifier, Orlando, FL

Limit inrush current in low- to medium-power applications

- JB Castro-Miguens, Cesinel, Madrid, Spain C Castro-Miguens, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain

Electronically tint white-light source

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

Accurately simulate an LED

- Jon Roman and Donald Schelle, National Semiconductor Corp, Santa Clara, CA

Features

 

Voltage references hold steady

- By Paul Rako, Technical Editor
These ubiquitous parts keep getting better, and selecting them involves carefully weighing many specs and trade-offs.

Understanding system-level energy-management techniques and test

- By Gina Bonini, Tektronix
Review test examples of system-level energymanagement design techniques for PCIe and low-power DDR memory.

Product Roundup

 

Automotive accelerometers


Thermal circuit protector


1000°C NTC temperature sensors elements for efficient car engine management


2.8V - 36V integrated load switches


USB 2.0 development kit


LED lighting platform


Differential attenuating amp



 

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