CONTENTS August 2002
 
Cover Story 
Homeplug:Every outlet a network port
By Greg Vrana, Contributing Editor
If power-line-networking vendors do it right, connecting your PC, printer, or stereo together will just
 
Design Feature 
Managing design constraints
Gabe Moretti, Technical Editor
As product-design cycles become shorter due to increased competition, any action that can help increase the productivity of the engineering team is valuable.
Software:the Achilles' heel of network processors?
Nicholas Cravotta, Technical Editor
The difficulty of programming network processors and coprocessors has for the past few years tripped up the success of these devices. Has anything significant changed, or is this market fated to continue to only slowly stumble forward?
 
Pulse 
Audio codec supports virtual speaker system
— Chris Hall in Taiwan
2-in-1 CF controller is world's first
— Chris Hall
Bluetooth baseband controller offers cost-down design
— Chris Hall
Linear power baseband controller offers cost-down design
— Chris Hall
USB camera DSP provides improved solution for mobile phone cameras
— Asha Yoon in South Korea
High-performance processor has re-configurable internal circuit
— Akira Fukuda in Japan
Multichannel 12-bit DAC features 14-bit increment mode for fine-tuning
— Bill Schweber in the USA
Power IC is well matched to appliance induction heaters
— Bill Schweber
Hot swap controller provides critical sequencing
— Bill Schweber
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