CONTENTS December 2005
 
Cover Story 
2005 Microprocessor Directory:
Charting your course
Follow the silicon-bread-crumb trail in this directory to find
 
Design Feature 
Pryingeyes: Contactless traveling
by Maury Wright, Editor-in-Chief, EDN
Electronic passports embed contactless chip technology to streamline passage through customs and significantly hinder counterfeiters.
Thermal integrity: A must for low-power- IC digital design
by Michael Santarini, Senior Editor
This year¡¯s Design Automation Conference had no shortage of established vendors and start-ups introducing power tools purporting to give digital-IC designers a better way to estimate power.
The right way to use instrumentation amplifiers
by Charles Kitchin and Lew Counts, Analog Devices
Avoid common application problems when connecting real-world signals to instrumentation amplifiers.
 
Special Report 
Faster and more flexible embedded systems
by Jay Gould, Xilinx Inc.
Programmable platform FPGA devices and intelligent tools combine to create higher performance processing solutions.
 
Pulse 
DA7xx DSPs provide 50% more performance than previous gen devices
Small microwave analyzer for mobile use and production up to 43GHz
Multiphase PWM controllers include high-current MOSFET drivers
STMicro¡¯s ST7Lite MCUs include enhanced timer and interface peripherals
STMicro¡¯s ST7Lite MCUs include enhanced timer and interface peripherals
Micronas intros small, high performing COFDM demodulator
Low profile MINI memory modules
Logic analyzers feature higher speed and bigger screens and squeak to No. 1 in market share
Improved Hall-effect switches add packaging options, better specs
White LEDs get hotter in intensity
PIC microcontrollers allow easy migration
Nanograss provides effective thermal-transfer surface
¡°Plastics¡± return to original meaning, but with light
GLOBAL DESIGNER: Indian semiconductor companies upgrade engineering skills
GLOBAL DESIGNER: Energy-efficiency standards play a role in external-powersupply design
 
EDN Asia.Comment 
IP vs EDA
 
Interview 
¡°There is a lot of activity these days in VoIP¡±
by Raymond Foo
 
Design Ideas 
Wide-range regulator delivers 12V, 3A output from 16 to 100V source
Wayne Rewinkel, National Semiconductor, Schaumburg, IL
Ultra-low-noise low-dropout regulator achieves 6nV/¡îHz noise floor
Ken Yang, Maxim Integrated Products Inc, Sunnyvale, CA
Buffer amplifier and LED improve PWM power controller¡¯s low-load operation
Gregory Mirsky, LaMarche Manufacturing Co, Des Plaines, IL
 
New Products 
SEMICONDUCTORS
DISPLAYS
BOARDS, CARDS & MODULES
PASSIVE
 
India Supplement 
India Emerging Global Design Hub
Kirtimaya Varma
KNOWLEDGE CENTER
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