CONTENTS November 2005
 
Cover Story 
WHO are you buying your EDA software FROM?
by Michael Santarini, Senior Editor
 
Design Feature 
Cheap shot
WiFi and Bluetooth fight for bandwidth
By Richard A. Quinnell, Contributing Editor
Choosing and using microprocessor memory interfaces
By Victor Echevarria, Rambus
 
Special Report 
Choosing the right stacked memory-packaging architecture for todays microelectronics applications
By Michael Steidl, Amkor Technology, Inc.,
 
Pulse 
Linear 16-bit SAR ADC for automated test equipment and medical imaging
Edited by Robin Lange, Managing Editor
USB and USB OTG carkit transceivers for handsfree, mobile applications
Monolithic, 32-channel DACs feature offset and gain calibration
PLL clock generation IC replaces expensive crystal oscillators
PIC microcontroller for passive-keyless entry and wireless authentication
Complete three line protective solution from 9 Corporation
Agilent intros high-speed serial pulse data generator
Low power 90nm WLAN single chip solution
DC/DC converter yields low-profile PoE supply
By Bill Schweber
Cellphone LED driver features 1A total output current & 95% efficiency
EcoSmart charger reference design reduces energy waste
MOSFET chipset supports notebook buck
Chinese chip vendors push TD-SCDMA terminals
Supercaps packaged for high energy storage tasks
By Graham Prophet
Triple-input video switch IC handles high-definition video
 
EDN Asia.Comment 
New issues in implementing IPs
by Kirtimaya Varma, Editor-in-Chief
 
Interview 
For designers were a one-stop shop
By Kirtimaya Varma, Editor-in-Chief
 
Design Ideas 
Power-supply interrupter fights ESD-induced device
Emerson Segura, Lifescale Global Diagnostics Inc, Toronto, ON, Canada
Squeeze extra outputs from a pin-limited microcontroller
Abel Raynus, Armatron International Inc, Malden, MA
Precision active load operates as low as 2V
Joel Setton, Crolles, France
 
New Products 
Semiconductors
Displays
Manufacturing
Boards, Cards & Modules
 
Power Supplement 
Applications emerge to boost embedded power
Kirtimaya Varma
MCU/MPU Finder Powered by RENESAS
 
WEBCASTS
 
KNOWLEDGE CENTER
Panasonic Key Devices Guide 2008:
 
Fairchild Semiconductor :
 
 
FEATURED CHANNEL 
Power Sources / Controllers
 
 
 
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