CONTENTS February 2010
 
Cover Story 
Smooth operators communicating for communications test
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, EDN
LXI and PXI instruments and related software provide the synchronization necessary for making complex measurements, and they enable test automation in the lab.
 
Design Feature 
Lessons from the last mile
By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor, EDN
Chip designers' struggles to provide triple-play HD service to telephone, cable, and wireless customers are changing the nature of SOC architecture.
Industry standards lead push toward energy-efficient computing
By Lee Harrison, Peritus Power
Environmental concerns and rising energy costs are spurring industry and government groups to develop requirements for high-efficiency AC and DC power conversion, leading to energy-efficient servers. Meeting the newest specifications will demand knowledge of competing power-conversion topologies, co
 
Special Report 
High operating temperature range DC/DC converters
By Steve Roberts, RECOM Development & Trading GmbH & Co. KG
 
Pulse 
TI revolutionizes design of wireless networking apps with eZ430-Chronos
By Stephen Las Marias, Editor, EDN Asia
Cortex-M3 microcontroller cuts energy consumption
By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor, EDN
Light guide film technology for backlight solutions
By Stephen Las Marias, Editor, EDN Asia
Stable quartz oscillator uses SAW technology
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, EDN
GaN-on-Si architecture for enhancement mode power switching devices
By Stephen Las Marias, Editor, EDN Asia
WinSystems highlights Atom board, CompactFlash
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, EDN
Power MOSFETs capable to 225°C
By Stephen Las Marias, Editor, EDN Asia
Diversity tuner improves mobile TV reception without external antenna
By Stephen Las Marias, Editor, EDN Asia
PWM controllers improve efficiency at light load
By Stephen Las Marias, Editor, EDN Asia
DC/DC µModule regulator rated at 4A
By Stephen Las Marias, Editor, EDN Asia
 
EDN Asia.Comment 
New issues at 32nm
By Kirtimaya Varma, Editor-in-Chief, EDN Asia
 
Design Ideas 
Unused port adds a PWM/analog channel to a microcontroller
By Vishwas Vaidya, Tata Motors Ltd, Pune, India
Take advantage of unused pins to generate a PWM signal and then filter it into analog.
Capacitance meter uses PLL for high accuracy
By Jim McLucas, Broomfield, Colorado
An improvement on an old design lets you measure capacitors from 10pF to 1µF.
Fader switch uses inexpensive controller
By William Grill, Lenexa, Kansas
Control the brightness of an LED or incandescent lamp.
 
New Products 
Development kit integrates a 530K LE FPGA
Contact-free capacitive level switch allows complete media compatibility
MiniCore module features six serial ports, 32 I/Os
Starter kit for ARM Cortex-M0 MCUs
Module brings USB 2.0 bus analysis support for bench oscilloscopes
Oscilloscope boasts extensive analysis capabilities, mixed-signal models
14-bit ADCs consume 275mW per channel at 250MSps
60V DC/DC converter touts 2.5µA quiescent current
Triple linear regulator optimized for noise sensitive distributed power
SFP+ controller supports all SFF-8472 functionality
IC delivers greater AC/DC power converter system efficiencies
LED driver family offers multiple dimming options
 
India Supplement 
India’s evolving role in the semiconductor design ecosystem
By Vivek Raghavan, Magma Design Automation India
Gearing up for 2010
By Stephen Las Marias, Editor, EDN Asia
India: A global design hub for the semiconductor industry
By Vamsi Boppana, Xilinx India
India – the design powerhouse
By Jaswinder Ahuja, Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt Ltd
India’s design strengths and competitive advantages
By Gangatharan Gopal, Altera India
True innovation from India
By Rajiv Kapur and Sandeep Bhatia, Broadcom India
India’s unique electronics ecosystem
By S. Uma Mahesh, Indrion Technologies
 
Prying Eyes 
Visionaire Lighting’s Solar Vision Pole: shedding light on off-grid lampposts
By Margery Conner, Technical Editor, EDN
Certain applications justify paying a premium for high efficiency, long life, ruggedness, and light-color-temperature control, and these applications represent the sweet spot for HB LEDs (high-brightness light-emitting diodes).


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Power Technology E-newsletter 
Dual-input, Single-output Power Supply Selector Switch Reduces System Size while Improving Integrity EDNA, February 08
Analog Devices completes sale of CPU voltage and PC thermal monitoring business to ON SemiconductorEDNA, January 08
Fairchild’s Green FPS Power Switches Increase Efficiency, Reduce EMI in Power Supply Designs EDNA, December 07
 
Test and Measurement E-newsletter 
Agilent Technologies and Anite Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver 3GPP LTE Test Solutions for Wireless R&D EDNA, November 07
WiMAX Technology Leaders Aeroflex and Sequans Partner to Speed Product Development and Deployment of WiMAX Test EDNA, October 07
Tektronix’ IMS Solution Proves Successful in Industry Forum Tests EDNA, September 07
 
     
 
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