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Drive Components Suit Low-Dust Apps
MOSFETs Enable Power Supplies To Meet 80 PLUS Silver Specs
Flexible Cable Outfits Disposable Hearing Aids
19-Way Connector Includes Secondary Locking Mechanism
DIP SMT Rotary Switches Keep A Low Profile
Actuator And Linear Slide Ease Motion Apps
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WHAT'S NEW
NEWS
Silicon Valley Innovation Can Solve The Energy Crisis
The innovation inherent in Silicon Valley is the key to solving the energy crisis and building the foundation for a sustainable future, according to a trio of CEOs from the valley speaking at EcoChip 2009 Read more...

FinFETs Create Smallest SRAM Cell Ever
At 0.128 µm2, a new SRAM cell using fin-shaped FETs (FinFETs) is the smallest such cell ever developed, according to Toshiba Corp., IBM, and AMD. Read more...

DESIGN HOTSPOTS
·ANALOG·
New Power Approaches May Fuel Analog Job Opportunities In Security And Health Applications · By Don Tuite

Direct Conversion Creates Pull For Continuous-Time Sigma Delta · By Don Tuite

·POWER·
Energy-Harvesting Synergies · By Don Tuite

The Field Of Energy Harvesting Begins To Ripen · By Don Tuite

·EMBEDDED·

Hypervisors And Separation Kernels · By Bill Wong

·EDA·
Use Algorithmic Synthesis To Solve Your FPGA Prototyping And Design Issues · By Simon Napper

PEASE PORRIGE · By Bob Pease
  • Bob's Mailbox
  • Guru Bob Pease opens up some new mail from devoted fans and desperate engineers...

Power Tutorials
Power Tutorials For Power MOSFETs, Supplies, UPS, And ICs

Design Solution
Characterizing High-Speed Serial Communications Links Requires Some Analog Savvy
A six-step process helps measure, identify, and eliminate clock and data jitter on those blazing serial signals. Read more...


EVENTS
electronica
Check out our exclusive video interviews with the biggest company and all the latest technology from electronica 2008.

One Powerful Day
Did you see our full day of webcasts on power management and design? View the archived sessions now!

DESIGNED IN
USB Extension License Enhances KVM System

LAB BENCH ONLINE
Consumer Electronics Series: Archos 7 Mobile Video Player
Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a look at Roku’s Netflix Player.Read more...

NEW PRODUCTS SHOWCASE
  Tony Masterson, COO/CTO of Zenverge, talks about a family of single-chip Advanced Media ICs, which are the first to support transcoding, decoding and encoding of multiple formats at up to four times HD performance. Watch it now...
 
Deborah Word, Director of Sales at Epson Toyocom, talks about the company's QMEMS process and the new TG5025BA TCXO. Then Editor-in-Chief, Joe Desposito, tries out a golf putter that uses one of the company’s gyro sensors. Watch it now...


ED BOOKSTORE
Mobile Antenna Systems Handbook, 3rd Ed.
By Kyohei Fujimoto

CES 2009
The Engineer's Guide to CES
What's driving the digital economy? Find out at the 2009 International CES, January 8-11, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Get ready for CES


NEW WHITE PAPER
Liquid-Level Monitoring Using a Pressure Sensor
Presented by National Semiconductor



FEATURED ARTICLE
2008 BEST Electronic Design Winners
Need a rundown of the best technology of 2008? See company listings and the products that have been deemed the technologies-of-the-year by Electronic Design.



SPECIAL ISSUES
Special Issue 2008 Megatrends
  • Leave today's technologies behind and get ready for the next stage in electronics' evolution.


Special Issue The Ideas For Design Issue


IDEAS FOR DESIGN
Micro-Structured Transducer Accurately Measures Pressure
Tame Switching Supply Noise While Maintaining Efficiency
Controller Maps Auto's Electric Drive Voltage To Existing Thermal Fuel Gauge
Using Copper Traces As Ballast Resistors Ensures Balance

 

DESIGN SOLUTIONS
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