CONTENTS July 2005
 
Cover Story 
Avoiding high-performance headaches
Board manufacturers are updating their offerings to participate in the exploding high-performance segment of the embedded-system market.
 
Design Feature 
Hidden applications for the three-terminal shunt regulator
by Michael O’Loughlin, Texas Instruments
Inexpensive semiconductor devices that have more power supply design applications other than shunt regulators.
EDN Asia 2005 DSP directory: Targeted DSPs take aim
by Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor
DSP options continue to expand and are targeting optimized configurations for specific applications. Check out the inaugural online table for a detailed view of current device and core offerings.
Microdisplay technologies: Projection systems lose contrast
by Richard A. Quinnell, Contributing Technical Editor
Three technologies are jockeying for market share in the projection-television market, each making improvements that are erasing the differences among them.
 
Special Report 
Efficient system level verification and performance analysis using SystemC
Yoshio Takamine and Shoichi Hanaki (Renesas); Neyaz Khan, Yoshitaka Suzuki, Chris Dietrich (Cadence)
How to achieve greater than 90% cycle accuracy for functional verification of mixed SystemC and HDL environment.
 
Pulse 
Chipcon launches sub-1GHz
Microchip offers “supersmall” op amps across 10kHz to 10MHz bandwidths
STMicro puts up to 8 dies in multi-chip package
IR expands iMOTION line-up of integrated power modules
NI intros “lowestpriced” USB digital I/O device
Pump high-current LEDs with inductorless driver
Bill Schweber
ADI intros advanced video filtering for consumer video applications Analog Devices’ family
Digital potentiometers that fit in 3 x 3mm TQFN
Oscilloscope software for test and validation of FB-DIMM and 2nd-gen PCI-Express
2-bit logic translator increases design flexibility with wide voltage range
Small single-chip battery charger for Bluetooth headsets
Wire-wound chip inductor
Bill Schweber
Chipcon launches sub-1GHz
 
EDN Asia.Comment 
Matching our passions
by Bill Schweber, Executive Editor, EDN
 
Interview 
Marching to Moore’s beat
Ed Sperling
 
Design Ideas 
Dynamic-load circuit determines a battery’s internal resistance
Jim Williams, Linear Technology Corp, Milpitas, CA: Edited by Brad Thompson
Single-wire keypad interface frees microcontroller-I/O pins
Israel Schleicher, Prescott Valley, AZ: Edited by Brad Thompson
Control a processor’s power supply in real time
Yogesh Sharma, Analog Devices, San Jose, CA: Edited by Brad Thompson
 
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