CONTENTS June 2006
 
Cover Story 
High-resolution-disc formats fight each other
by Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor, EDN
With blue-laser competitors Blu-ray and HD DVD both gearing up for high-volume production, a clear picture of the format winner hasn’t yet emerged. Red-laser formats remain credible alternatives in some applications, but both usage-rights restrictions and display-and-vision limitations put all their futures in doubt.
 
Design Feature 
EPIC updates stretch stackable systems
by Warren Webb, Technical Editor, EDN
Two new board-level standards offer PC/104 designers more real estate, a link to fabric technology, and continued compatibility with legacy hardware.
Interfacing electronics to people
by Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor, EDN
Electronic embedded systems continue to find their way into more medical systems.
 
Special Report 
Ensuring serial protocol signal integrity with FPGAs and embedded transceivers
by Bob Blake, Altera Corporation
 
Pulse 
Figuring out the no-cost route
by Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor, EDN
Handset-technology advances dominate Barcelona confab
Maury Wright Editor-in-Chief, EDN
Innovations & Innovators
 
EDN Asia.Comment 
Driving towards codesign
by Kirtimaya Varma, Editor-in-Chief
 
Interview 
“FPGA has become an intrinsic part of design methodology”
by Chitra Giridhar, Bangalore Correspondent
 
Design Ideas 
Op amp can source or sink current
Alfredo H Saab and Steve Logan, Maxim Integrated Products Inc, Sunnyvale, CA
Single switch selects one of three signals
Felix Matro, JL Audio Corp, Phoenix, AZ
Microprocessor’s single-interrupt input processes multiple external interrupts
Abel Raynus, Armatron International Inc, Malden, MA
Thermal considerations matter for Class D amplifiers
John Guy, Maxim Integrated Products, San Jose, CA
 
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