CONTENTS April 2002
 
Cover Story 
SMALL GEOMETRIES LEAD TO LARGE PROBLEMS
Gabe Moretti, Technical Editor
The deep-submicron portal ushers designers into a different world, in which digital turns to analog, and logic design is entwined with physics. Designers are challenging EDA vendors to provide the tools necessary to meet the manufacturing capabilities of semiconductor companies.
 
Design Feature 
DATA-ACQUISITION SOFTWARE:IT MAY BE A NEW BALLGAME,BUT OLD RULES STILL APPLY
Dan Strassberg, Senior Technical Editor
Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET may create new rules for developing, deploying, and maintaining data-acquisition and instrumentation applications, but few of the changes will occur overnight.
GAMING AS SERIOUS BUSINESS
Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor
The low cost, appropriate features and availability of Gameboy resources might make you consider using it as a nongaming, handheld terminal.
VOICEXML DISTRIBUTES VOICE TO THE MASSES
Nicholas Cravotta, Technical Editor
Tomorrow's next-generation cell phones promise access to the Internet. But why wait? VoiceXML now enables any phone to browse the Web.
PUT AN INSTRUMENT IN YOUR PALM
Jon Titus, Editorial Director, Test & Measurement World
Software tools put custom programs in a PDA.
 
Pulse 
RMS-to-DC convecter brings new architecture to basic meters
Bill Schweber
Intergrated RC passive provides smooth impedance matching
Bill Schweber
Switcher IC ups power,cuts loss
Bill Schweber
Triple-band power amplifier modules are versatile
Chris Hall in Taiwan
Driver and controller handles large data output in STN LCDs
Asha Yoon in South Korea
Ceramic capacitors increase capacitance to 100 µF
Katsumi Yamashita in Japan
 
EDN Asia.Comment 
Embedded Java could be your cup of tea
By N.S. Manju Nath, Editor
 
Design Ideas 
Software makes full use of 8051's interupt system
Deng Yong, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Improve FET-based gain control
Ron Mancini, Texas Instruments, USA
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