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| By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor, EDN |
| SOCs for set-top boxes, television monitors, disk players, and mobile media players have or soon will have HD capability. But another aspect of this evolution—one that could prove even more challenging to SOC designers and test engineers—is that, along with HD video comes a significant increase in the quality of the accompanying audio. |
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| By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor, EDN |
| With per-sensor pixel growth slowing, how else can digital-still-camera manufacturers differentiate from each other? How does this differentiation bring them into greater competition with videocameras? To what degree will camera phones supplant them both? And where will sensor suppliers turn to continue filling their fabs? |
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| By Jürgen Neuhäusler, Senior Systems Engineer, Texas Instruments |
| As portable devices get smaller, battery sizes need to be reduced for smaller available spaces. Average power demand also needs to be lowered through power-saving modes of operation. |
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| By Mark Jordan and Florian Bogenberger, Freescale Transportation and Standard Products Group |
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| By Robin Lange, EDN Asia |
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| By Kirtimaya Varma |
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| By Kirtimaya Varma |
| Wim Roelandts, Chairman, President, and CEO of Xilinx, recently spoke to EDN Asia on FPGA-related issues and Xilinx’s Asia plans |
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| Sigurd Peterson, Sig3 Consulting, Aloha, OR; Edited by Brad Thompson and Fran Granville, EDN |
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| By David Cripe, Chatham, IL |
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| Marián Štofka, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia |
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| By Kirtimaya Varma |
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| By Peter Green, International Rectifier |
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| By Luo Junyang, Liu Jianwei, and Jeoh Meng Kiat, Infineon Technologies |
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| By Dhaval Dalal, Systems Engineering Director, ON Semiconductor |
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| By Robert Mammano, Staff Technologist and TI Fellow, Texas Instruments Incorporated |
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| By Linnea Brush, Senior Research Analyst, Darnell Group, Inc. |
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| By Dan Strassberg, EDN |
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| By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor, EDN |
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