Current Issue

February 2010

Cover Story

 

UNDER THE LID ANALOG TEST IS SUDDENLY THE CRITICAL INGREDIENT

- BY RON WILSON • EXECUTIVE EDITOR
AFTER YEARS OF ATTENTION TO DIGITAL-TEST TECHNOLOGY, ANALOG TEST IS EMERGING AS A ROADBLOCK TO COST REDUCTION.

Pulse

 

IR qualifies DirectFET MOSFET package for automotive designs

- by Graham Prophet

National opts for familiar outline for dc/dc modules

- by Graham Prophet

Analog aims DSPs at embedded control tasks

- By Graham Prophet

PROCESSOR PUSHES POWER EVEN LOWER

- By Robert Cravotta

Solid-state-drive counter attack packs a two part punch

- by Brian Dipert

Energy harvester targets piezoelectric transducers

- by Fran Granville

Department and Columns

 

EDN.COMMENT: “Greening” the Internet

- BY GRAHAM PROPHET • EDITOR

BAKER’S BEST: Common-mode range can bite hard

- BY BONNIE BAKER

Test & Measurement World: ANECHOIC CHAMBERS RISE FROM THE PITS

- BY MARTIN ROWE • SENIOR TECHNICAL EDITOR, TEST & MEASUREMENT WORLD
THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND QUALIFICATION OF A CHAMBER DEPEND ON THE PRODUCTS THAT IT WILL TEST.

SIGNAL INTEGRITY: It’s a Gaussian world

- BY DR HOWARD JOHNSON

TALES FROM THE CUBE: Burn-in, burn-in: dc inferno

- PAUL BREED • NETBURNER

Design Ideas

 

Circuit uses two reference voltages to improve hysteresis accuracy

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

Resistor network sets gain for fixed-gain differential amplifier

- Miles Thompson, Maxim Integrated Products, Sunnyvale, California

Excel spreadsheet measures analog voltages

- Yury Magda, Cherkassy, Ukraine

Features

 

EDN HOT 100 PRODUCTS 2009


ANALOG FLOATING-GATE TECHNOLOGY COMES INTO ITS OWN

- BY PAUL RAKO • TECHNICAL EDITOR
NO LONGER AN ANOMALY, ANALOG FLOATING-GATE TECHNOLOGY NOW FINDS USE IN EVERYTHING FROM CARS TO GREETING CARDS.

Congestion management clears a path through 10 GbE

- BY ZHI-HERN LOH • FULCRUM MICROSYSTEMS
WITH THE NEW IEEE STANDARDS FOR CONSOLIDATION AND THE ABILITY TO BUILD HIGHLY SCALABLE HIGH-SPEED ETHERNET NETWORKS, ETHERNET WILL BECOME THE ONLY FABRIC YOU NEED FOR CONVERGED DATA CENTERS, AND IT WILL LOWER THE COST OF SUPERCOMPUTER NETWORKS.

INNOVATIVE PACKAGING improves LEDs’ light output, lifetime, and reliability

- BY MARGERY CONNER • TECHNICAL EDITOR
HB-LED PACKAGING DESIGN CONTINUES TO ADVANCE, CONTRIBUTING ALMOST AS MUCH TO PERFORMANCE AS THE LED CHIP ITSELF.

Product Roundup

 

13.5GHz SPDT switch


High performance audio codec


Three-axis digital accelerometers


16bit, 1Msample/s SAR ADC


ARM microcontrollers


Virtex-6 FPGA based XMC card


FETs increase thermal conductivity


Integrated voltage regulator



 

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