CONTENTS June 2005
 
Cover Story 
Master of some: Direct view-display technology
by Brian Dipert, Technical Editor
The venerable CRT is under siege from all sides as younger, slimmer, and sexier contenders vie for the “king-of-displays” throne. What technology will anchor your next office, den, or living-room purchase, and which alternative will show up in your next camera, cellphone, or PDA?
 
Design Feature 
Assembly required: Using reference-design resources
Reference designs are essential marketing tools for complex silicon products that can reduce a development team's effort to complete a design using a target set of chips.
Industrial-strength analog
 
Special Report 
Microelectronics applications require the right stacked memory-packaging architecture
It's sometimes difficult to achieve a distinctive combination of memory chips to support high data performance, low power consumption, low cost, and high-volume production to meet consumers’ needs.
 
Pulse 
Texas Instruments intros “world’s first” level-shifting integrated chip
Voltage suppression devices provide single line protection
Shrinking PA modules support GSM/GPRS, and EDGE
Bill Schweber
Tiny device packs in features
Robert Cravotta
Smart power module for switched reluctance motors
RadioDesk reference design and protocol for wireless keyboard/mouse
One-chip FM tuner targets consumer audio devices
High performing general purpose DSCs for cost-sensitive applications
Vector signal generator for use in production
MicroPMIC integration saves space and cost
Tektronix develops “world’s fastest” real-time oscilloscopes
 
EDN Asia.Comment 
Core silicon race hots up
by Kirtimaya Varma, Editor-in-Chief
 
Interview 
“It is a myth that Xilinx has no low-k product”
 
Design Ideas 
Bandpass filter features adjustable Q and constant maximum gain
Herminio Martínez, Joan Domingo, Juan Gmiz, and Antoni Grau, Technical University of Catalonia,
Moving-coil meter measures low-level currents
Kevin Bilke, Maxim Integrated Products Inc, Hook Hants, UK
MOSFET enhances voltage regulator’s overcurrent protection
Herb Hulseman, Eagle Test Systems, Mundelein, IL
 
New Products 
Semiconductors
Boards, Cards & Modules
Test & Measurement
Power Sources & Conditioning Devices
 
 
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