CONTENTS December 2006
 
Cover Story 
CIRCULATING CURRENTS: THE WARNINGS ARE OUT
by Paul Rako, Technical Editor, EDN
Understanding how to avoid or minimize the effects of circulating currents can make your designs more robust. Every engineer should know the techniques for neutralizing this insidious phenomenon.
 
Design Feature 
SDR goes to war
by Nicholas Cravotta, Contributing Technical Editor, EDN
The JTRS is working to bring interchangeable SDR to the military. But will it be good enough for commercial applications?
The right video architecture can make all the difference
by Ron Wilson, Executive Editor, EDN
Digital-video broadcast and the iPod phenomenon have ignited a race to bring video to the palmtop. Processing architectures are at the center of the struggle.
 
Special Report 
Integrating boundary scan into multi-GHz I/O circuitry
by Sylvia Patterson and Krista Dorner, Avago Technologies
 
Pulse 
Miniature, 1W dc/dc converters with 3kV isolation
Transceivers operate up to 20MBps/250kbps for low EMI
2 to 18GHz down converter for EW and ECM applications
Tunable antenna varicap diodes for digital terrestrial broadcast capable mobile phones
PMICs for Intel XScale processor with low supply current
Gen2 Summit protocol analyzer
Paper-thin Wi-Fi power amplifier
NI extends SignalExpress Tektronix Edition to new oscilloscopes
8-channel 8-bit DACs with high linearity
Robust RS-485 transceivers in tiny MSOP package
Compact baseboard for ETX 3.0
Decorative flexible light LEDs for consumer and industrial apps
 
EDN Asia.Comment 
Happy golden anniversary, HDD!
by Kirtimaya Varma, Editor-in-Chief
 
Interview 
"Most OEM companies will make 45nm products at foundries"
by Kirtimaya Varma, Editor-in-Chief
 
Design Ideas 
Ultralow-cost, two-digit counter features few components
Noureddine Benabadji, University of Sciences and Technology, Oran, Algeria
Two-wire, four-by-four-key keyboard interface saves power
Stefano Salvatori, University of Rome, Rome, Italy; and Gabriele Di Nucci, EngSistemi, Rome, Italy
Gain-of-three amplifier requires no external resistors
Marián Stofka, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
 
New Products 
Semiconductors
Displays
Test & Measurement
 
Global report 
Global Report 3: Worldwide analog, power, system, and IC design
BY MAURY WRIGHT, EDITOR IN CHIEF
Chip Design
Analog
System Design
Power
 
Global Designer 
ETSI adds IP support to DAB, simplifying a DVB-H migration
Maury Wright Editor-in-Chief, EDN British Telecom
Chinese fab gets popular IP blocks
Maury Wright Editor-in-Chief
Main players will pick DVB-H for mobile TV
 
Prying Eyes 
Tiny computer holds embedded treasure
by Warren Webb, Technical Editor, EDN


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Power Technology E-newsletter 
Power.org Releases Power Architecture 32-bit Application Binary Interface Supplement
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