CONTENTS March 2010
 
Cover Story 
From magnetic to solid state, spin-free: What a long, strange storage trip it’s turning out to be
By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor, EDN
To seriously compete with hard-drive makers, semiconductor vendors must amass a robust, sustained supply of silicon for solid-state drives. They also must address plenty of misconceptions about the newer technology's capabilities and limitations.
 
Design Feature 
The evolving landscape of digital signal processing
By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor, EDN
The continual evolution of microprocessors and a widening base of developers who need digital signal-processing technology are causing a trend away from stand-alone DSPs.
Analog floating-gate technology comes into its own
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, EDN
No longer an anomaly, analog Floating-gate technology now finds use in everything from cars to greeting cards.
 
Special Report 
Little-known flash-memory features protect data and IP
By Bill Stafford, Numonyx
Features from block locking to encrypted-password-access mechanisms can prevent unintentional disruption, malicious damage, or copying.
 
Pulse 
Power MOSFETs feature reduced top-side thermal impedance
By Stephen Las Marias, Editor, EDN Asia
Biochip-based test aims at speedy disease diagnosis
By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, EDN
Cortex-M3-based flash MCUs improve impedance matching, lower power up to 50%
By Stephen Las Marias, Editor, EDN Asia
ICs tackle accuracy in multiphase-metering applications
By Margery Conner, Technical Editor, EDN
Chip provides speedy MPEG transcoding, trans-scaling
By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor, EDN
Power MOSFETs offer 200V, 250V ratings
By Stephen Las Marias, Editor, EDN Asia
Touch-screen controller provides tactile feedback
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, EDN
32-bit processor pushes deeper into 8-bit territory
By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor, EDN
Function-level visibility improves application optimizer
By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor, EDN
Analog FastSpice RF delivers noise analysis for RF circuits
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, EDN
VeriWave launches video-over-Wi-Fi test
By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, EDN
 
EDN Asia.Comment 
Guessing game in ROHS
By Kirtimaya Varma, Editor-in-Chief, EDN Asia
 
Design Ideas 
Compact, four-quadrant lock-in amplifier generates two analog outputs
By Stefano Salvatori and Marco Girolami, Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
Generate a pair of quadrature-phase digital signals.
Precision tilt/fall detector consumes less than 1.5mW
By Marián Stofka, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
Detect X-axis position and indicate it with an LED.
Eight-function remote uses one button, no microcode
By Jay Davis, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, Wichita, Kansas
Simplify the operation of a remote control.
Inverted regulator increases choice and reduces complexity
By David McCracken, Aptos, California
A simple approach for any high side overcurrent-protection circuit references the entire circuit to the high-side rail.
 
New Products 
Mid-bus probe for PCI Express 3.0
Tester now with signaling for GSM, WCDMA and LTE
Class-D audio amplifiers capable to 600W
GaN HEMT MMIC power amplifier offers 25W output
Four-channel integrated video filters targeted at STBs, DVD players
MPU combine video decoder, 2D acceleration
eSATA redriver with cable-detect feature supports SATA II speeds
“Zapper” STB ICs for worldwide digital TV access
Ultra-compact AC/DC power module rated at 20W
Piezoelectric energy harvesting power supply delivers 100mA
FPGA-evaluation boards come with design software
AMC module features front panel SRIO interface
DMC module enables low power wireless display capability for notebooks, netbooks
Pico-ITX board touts 64-bit software support
 
Power Supplement 
Power efficiency is the way to go
By Stephen Las Marias, Editor
Trends in flat TV energy efficiency requirements
By Bernie Weir, ON Semiconductor
GaN-based technology: A new game in conversion electronics
By Michael A. Briere, for International Rectifier Corp.
Air conditioner motor control with dual sensorless FOC and active PFC
By Ronny Schulze, Infineon Technologies
Energy efficient designs for a “greener” planet
By Kalyana Chakravarthy and Mohit Satsangi, Freescale Semiconductor India
Energy conversion: Demanding challenges for the power semiconductor industry
By Aseem Wahi, Semikron International GmbH
A highly integrated solution for AC adapters
Jhih-Da Hsu and Chi-Sheng Chao, Fairchild Semiconductor
Designing a Solar Cell Battery Charger
By Jim Drew, Linear Technology Corp.
Power-aware Verification Spans IC Design Cycle
By Rahul Arya, Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt Ltd
 
Prying Eyes 
Inside a cellular femtocell
By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor, EDN
The solution to smartphone data traffic is a problem for femto-basestation designers.


ADVERTISEMENT
 
 
ON-DEMAND WEBCASTS


 
FEATURED CHANNEL 
Analog ICs / Discretes
 
 
 
ADVERTISEMENT
 
 
 
 
 

RSS
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

POLL
What type of environmental regulation do you think will be most beneficial for the tech industry?
Proper recycling and disposal
Push for power efficiency and energy conservation
Chemical/lead regulation
View results
 
     
 
Power Technology E-newsletter 
Power.org Releases Power Architecture 32-bit Application Binary Interface Supplement
EDNA, May 11
POL Regulators Designed for Energy-efficient Computing
EDNA, March 11
Fairchild Revolutionizes Power Savings
EDNA, January 11
Lattice Transforms Board Power and Digital Management
EDNA, November 10
 
Analog E-newsletter 
12V Dual-channel Synchronous Buck Converter Features Integrated FETs
EDNA, February 10
Power MOSFETs features reduced top-side thermal impedanc
EDNA, January 10
 
     
 
KNOWLEDGE CENTER
 
Texas Instruments: DaVinci™ Technology
 
Texas Instruments: Safe Bet Series
 
 
INDUSTRY LINKS
 
Photonics Association (Singapore)
Singapore Industrial Automation Association (SIAA)
Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA)
 
 
OUR SPONSORS
 






Keithley Instruments
With more than 60 years of measurement expertise, Keithley Instruments has become a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems from DC to RF (radio frequency). Our products solve emerging measurement needs in production testing, process monitoring, product development, and research...
 
 
 
     
 

EDN India | EDN Taiwan | EDN Korea | EDN Japan | EDN China | EDN | EDN Europe

 
ABOUT EDN Asia | CONTACT US
   
© 2012 EDN Asia All rights reserved.