Current Issue

September 2010

Cover Story

 

EM Simulation For EMC: Keeping A Lid On Interference

- By Paul Rako, Technical Editor
Field-solver simulation can do your work, but you have to do the thinking.

Pulse

 

Cut resistive losses in PSU standby mode

- Edited By Fran Granville and Marie Hawksby

2GB DDR2 SO-DIMMs for industrial/aggressive environments

- Edited By Fran Granville and Marie Hawksby

30-MHz generators produce predefined functions, precision pulses, and low-jitter arbitrary waves

- Edited By Fran Granville and Marie Hawksby

Online tool simplifies, speeds POL design

- Edited By Fran Granville and Marie Hawksby

Can light beams replace electronic signals in future computers?

- Edited By Fran Granville and Marie Hawksby

MCU controls multiple fans for precise energy management

- Edited By Fran Granville and Marie Hawksby

NI advances IEEE 802.11n WLAN test

- Edited By Fran Granville and Marie Hawksby

Open-source development board: $4.30

- Edited By Fran Granville and Marie Hawksby

Pseudogap-phase research could be key to room-temperature superconductivity

- Edited By Fran Granville and Marie Hawksby

Department and Columns

 

The brain as FPGA?

- BY GRAHAM PROPHET, EDITOR

It’s what’s inside that counts

- By Jordan Dimitrov • Electrical Engineer

Test & Measurement World: RF fading simulation

- By Roland Minihold, Rohde & Schwarz

Beyond timing, accuracy, and repeatability

- By Bonnie Baker

Design Ideas

 

Eight-digit counter works with common anode or common cathode

- Charaf Laissoub, Valeo Interior Controls, Créteil, France

Count objects as they pass by

- Vladimir Rentyuk, Zaporozhye, Ukraine

Modified DDS functions as baud-rate generator

- Vardan Antonyan, Glendale, CA

DC- voltage doubler reaches 96% power efficiency

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

Microcontroller’s serial port measures pulse width

- Vishwas Vaidya, Tata Motors Ltd, Pune, India

Features

 

A new calculation for designing multilayer planar spiral inductors

- By Jonsenser Zhao • Pulse
A new, simple, and accurate expression lets you calculate the coupling factor between multilayer PCB inductors.

Why modems are going soft

- By Pascal herczog • Cognovo
The emergence of highly efffficient parallel processors and compilers has demonstrated that the silicon area and power consumptption of some Vector Signal Processors are now sufffficiently competitive for use in multi-mode LTE/3G-HSPA/GSM modems. The benefits of faster time to market, reduced cost and faster in-field evolution and enhancement are already being seen within the cellular communications industry.

ESL synthesis: tips for implementing a viable ESL-synthesis flow

- By Nancy Wu, Gary Smith EDAEDA
Here’s a checklist of what to do and what not to do when performing ESL synthesis. ThThe items discussed help set realistic expectations for those about to take the plunge.

Product Roundup

 

DIOFETs for PoL converters


USB touch interface


HDMI companion IC for mobiles


AEC-Q100, 600-V gate drivers


2.4 GHz FSK transceiver for star networks


Multistate digital VGA


1.575GHz CMOS LNA


-36-V, 200-mA LDO



 

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