CONTENTS May 2002
 
Cover Story 
Expanding options bring surround sound to the forefront..and the back…and the sides…and the ceiling…and the floor
Brian Dipert, Technical Editor
Why make your potential customers travel to movie theaters, performance halls, and video arcades to enjoy surround sound? Ever-evolving technology, in conjunction with DSPs and memory, create an immersive audio experience no matter where you hear it.
 
Design Feature 
MEMS FLEX THEIR TINY MUSCLES
Graham Prophet, Editor, EDN Europe
The idea may be counterintuitive, but for a large class of filtering tasks, nonlinear filters can preserve signal fidelity better than their linear cousins.
Scrub data with scale-invariant nonlinear digital filters
By Ron Pearson, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
The idea may be counterintuitive, but for a large class of filtering tasks, nonlinear filters can preserve signal fidelity better than their linear cousins.
 
Pulse 
µC family ensures interchangeability
— Akira Fukuda in Japan
Taiwan's first in-house designed USB 2.0 controller offers 480 Mbps
— Chris Hall in Taiwan
AC'97 audio codec features 6-channel amplification
— Chris Hall
Three-terminal ceramic capacitor excels in LSI decoupling applications
— Katsumi Yamashita in Japan
Tiny flash memory controller conforms to USB 1.1 standard
— Asha Yoon in South Korea
UV LED delivers real power at 400 nm
— Bill Schweber in the USA
Wirewound inductors defy size constraints
— Bill Schweber
Low-resistance MOSFETs target 42-V autos
— Bill Schweber
 
EDN Asia.Comment 
A decade of service to the Asian electronics industry
By N.S. Manju Nath, Editor
 
Design Ideas 
Optimize linear-sensor resolution
Steve Woodward, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
High-side current sensor has period output
Greg Sutterlin, Maxim Intergrated Products, Wexford, PA, USA
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Panasonic Key Devices Guide 2008 :
 
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