[Technology Report] ISSCC 2002 Report In Print: Communications & Digital
Though many segments of the electronics industry have slowed, designers bank on the availability of new technologies and leading-edge chips to stimulate the development of faster computers, better communications systems, and much more. With research...
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Dave Bursky
[Technology Report] ISSCC 2002 Report In Print: Analog & Mixed Signal
A greater need for faster and better data converters continues to motivate designers. To keep pace with the demands of emerging applications, data-converter developers continue to innovate newer architectures and clever circuit techniques, as...
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Ashok Bindra
[Design Application] Use FFTs To Time Align Asynchronous Waveforms
Recently, I wrote automated test software for a multichannel data-acquisition system that I had designed, where sampled waveform accuracy and repeatability were very important. The input waveforms pass through anti-alias filtering, gain, and offset...
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Gerrit Barrere
[Editorial] Ray Weiss: In Memoriam
Brilliant. Opinionated. Gifted. Intense. Analytical. Intuitive. Ray Weiss embodied all of these qualities and more. He was a man of contradictions, viewpoints, and honesty. Encountering Ray was a life-altering experience. You would be so impressed...
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Staff
[Editorial] Building People And Killing Bureaucracy
They called him "Neutron Jack." They said he'd never tame the massive bureaucracy and turn GE into a world-class competitor. But they were wrong. Today, Jack Welch, the retired president and CEO of GE, is considered the CEO of CEOs. Now, under his 20...
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Ray Weiss
[Pease Porridge] What's All This Ripple Rejection Stuff, Anyhow? (Part 1)
Recently, I helped a guy who needed low output ripple on a power supply. His 1000-V output required low, submillivolt ripple. I designed a couple of circuits for him. Details soon. To make sure that I wasn't missing any tricks, I looked up a voltage...
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Bob Pease
[Embedded in Electronic Design] Successful SoCs
What makes a successful system-on-a-chip (SoC)? The processor. What makes a successful software architecture? Development software. Without it, an operating system (OS) and application software just won't exist. Few SoC CPU architectures are...
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] Hot Products
ARMing Linux—Hard Hat Linux 2.0 adds ARM7 and ARM9 support to a long list of supported architectures. Board support packages are included for the CM720T and CM920T evaluation boards. More details can be found at...
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William Wong
[Embedded in Electronic Design] Hardware Directory: SoC Cores
ARM The ARM architecture covers a range of 32-bit processor cores. It can be combined with the ARM Jazelle Java accelerator or third-party Java coprocessors to pump up Java application execution speeds. ARM's...
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William Wong
[Celebrating 50 Years] Reader Polls/Flashback
FLASHBACK>10 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 6, 1992 WHEN THE DOORS SWING OPEN AT THE LONG Beach Convention Center for this year's Buscon '92 West show, Feb. 4-6, attendees will encounter a technical program...
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Staff
[Forefront] OLED Innovation Boosts Display Brightness
Display manufacturer eMagin Corp. of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., has received a U.S. patent for a new OLED design. The patent, "Laterally Structured High Resolution Multicolor Organic Electroluminescence Display Device," pertains to an OLED architecture...
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David G. Morrison
[Forefront] Wireless Show takes Aim At Systems
The newly dubbed Wireless Systems Design Conference and Expo has expanded to systems-level wireless issues. As the Wireless/Portable Symposium, the annual event was known as a cell-phone show. But this year's eight technical tracks range from...
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Roger Allan
[Forefront] Open-Source Repositories Open For Business
Open-source projects now have an alternative to SourceForge.net for management. The competition is coming from Savannah, a site and collaborative software development platform based on SourceForge 2.0. VA Linux Systems, the owner of...
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William Wong
[Forefront] 6-GHz Digital Scope Speeds Comm System Debugging
Using silicon-germanium technology, the TDS6604 digital storage oscilloscope offers designers debugging high-speed systems a 6-GHz bandwidth and a 20-Msample/s rate. It will help enable the transition from a wide parallel bus architecture to a narrow,...
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John Novellino
[Forefront] Mid-Range Digital Scopes Boast Deep Memories, Fast Response
A family of mid-range digital oscilloscopes features deep acquisition memories and very fast response time. Agilent Technologies is aiming the new members of the Infiniium line at R&D applications in the communications, defense, and semiconductor...
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John Novellino
[Forefront] Open-Source DBMS Supports High Availability
Developers requiring high performance and high availability need look no further than Berkeley DB 4.0, an open-source database management system (DBMS) from Sleepycat Software. It includes high-availability, single-master replication, and group-commit...
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William Wong
[Forefront] IC Merges 24-Bit DAC With Configurable DSP
Analog Devices' latest line of digital audio processors economically eases the migration of audio processing from analog to digital. SigmaDSP ICs combine a high-performance 24-bit Δ-Σ DAC with a configurable DSP engine on the same...
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Ashok Bindra
