CONTENTS April 2008
 
Cover Story 
Communications-centric test gear sharpens symbol recognition
By Maury Wright
Designers pursue next-generation wireless developments with modulation-aware test tools, though evolving standards present problems from the PHY to the data layers.
 
Design Feature 
RFI: keeping noise out of your designs
By Paul Rako, Technical Editor, EDN
Noise from cell phones, digital oscillators, and even fluorescent lights is assailing your electronic designs. Learn what causes this noise and what you can do to increase your system's immunity to radio-frequency interference.
Digital video pushes the embedded-technology envelope
By Warren Webb, Technical Editor, EDN
The video revolution in consumer devices has produced lower hardware costs along with expectations for higher performance embedded designs.
 
Pulse 
TI’s MCU families offer twice the performance and battery life
USB-controlled RMS RF power meter
“World's fastest” RS-485/RS-422 transceiver with top ESD protection
Battery-powered Icicle Kit based on “industry’s lowest” power FPGA
Flexible multi-standard broadcast radio front end IC provides excellent reception
16-Channel LED driver for high performance large-size LED displays
Flexible, yet robust processor offers top multimedia performance
High-Voltage, monolithic two-switch forward DC/DC regulator
Promising technologies for 32nm generation system LSIs and beyond
Thermal simulation reduces time to design complex burn-in test system
Next-generation 10Gb/s Ethernet SFP+ transceivers
Controller kit enables easy prototyping, debugging for designers
Fujitsu’s 64KByte high-capacity FRAM RFID tag for aviation apps
200V dual high-voltage TMBS Trench Schottky rectifier
Next generation 808nm laser diode bars
 
EDN Asia.Comment 
Last fall’s Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco included a section on technologies that helped extend the computing time of laptop computers. Medis Technologies demonstrated its fuel-cell-based, $1
By Kirtimaya Varma
 
Design Ideas 
Use the MCLR pin as an output with PIC microcontrollers
Antonio Muñoz, Laboratorios Avanzados de Investigación, Huesca, Spain, and Pilar Molina, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
High-speed clamp functions as pulse-forming circuit
Marián Štofka, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
Depletion-mode MOSFET kick-starts power supply
Gregory Mirsky, Milavia International, Buffalo Grove, IL
 
New Products 
Ceramic capacitor merges two Kemet technologies
MLF resistors provide improved pulse-power characteristics
2W current-sense resistors come in 1206, 2010, and 2512 packages
Cinch intros ModICE with breather
Board-to-board SMC connectors with interlocking capability
Increased EMC protection with Sofix connector
Chip resistor offers Joule effect ignition for fast firing times
Power inductors offer higher current, lower resistance for DC/DC converter choke coils
Switching regulated power supplies
120- & 240-W DIN rail-mount power supplies
Harsh-environment 1000- & 1500-W power supplies for industrial apps
24W desktop is CEC Level IV compliant
Toshiba to launch rechargeable batteries
50- & 100-W external AC-DC power adapters
55W desktop switcher require no internal cooling fan
Tiny implantable medical battery
Aeroflex adds encryption support to base station tester
2-channel, 125 MS/s 8-bit arbitrary waveform generator
Enhanced emulators generate connection-multiplexing traffic
Aeroflex enhances conformance test systems for A-GPS location services
UF2e-7005 125 MHz 1 to 16 channel digital bit stream PCIe card
High temperature low power transceivers
Power-supply controller saves space, cost in LCD TVs
Audio processor with high-efficient audio codec
Tiny 5V/30mA boost converter
ProASIC3L family balances low power, speed
PCS duplexer minimizes power consumption
TD-SCDMA scanner for 3G China market
Anritsu expands capability of W-CDMA test system
TDC includes six independent stopwatches
Boost converter manages multiple high-brightness LEDs
Single-conversion silicon tuner for ATSC and NTSC apps
IC consumes half the power, offers twice the performance
High-definition set-top-box decoder with integrated demodulator
Flash data memory added to baseline PIC MCU architecture
Dual 800mA/400mA synchronous boost regulator
1 to 7A LDO controller with 80% efficiency
Gobal marine AIS enhancement
Flexible 11.3Gbps high-speed equalizer
100V linear regulator saves board space, cost for telecom apps
 
Prying Eyes 
Microfuel cell enables ubiquitous computing
By Margery Conner, Technical Editor, EDN
Fujitsu’s 64KByte high-capacity FRAM RFID tag for aviation apps
 
 
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