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ISSUE DATE: DECEMBER 23, 2002

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December 23, 2002 - In This Issue

[Technology Report]
Programmable Logic: To HDL Or Not To HDL?
Strategies for EDA tool usage will change course as gate levels, and ultimately costs, rise in programmable logic designs. For designs below 25,000 gates, the basic tools from logic vendors and many standard design tools are available for very little... — Tets Maniwa

[Product Innovation]
Programmable Clock Generator Solves System-Timing Woes
TIMING WITHIN ALL DIGITAL AND MOST MIXED ANALOG/DIGITAL SYSTEMS COMES DOWN TO ONE DEVICE—THE CLOCK GENERATOR. But with mounting system complexity, a single clock oscillator delivering just one digital signal is no longer adequate. These days,... — Dave Bursky

[Design Application]
Die Products: Ideal IC Packaging For Demanding Applications
Not so long ago, defense and aerospace applications were the traditional drivers of advances in electronic packaging technologies, or "the way electronic systems are assembled." At the time, cost was a secondary consideration, because reliability,... — Larry Gilg , et al.

[Ideas For Design]
Remote Three-Wire RTDs Can Multiplex Accurately To Measurement System
To maintain accuracy when multiplexing several three-wire resistive temperature detectors (RTDs) to a measurement system, multiplexer error voltages must be eliminated. These voltages are produced by the RTD excitation current flowing through the on... — John Wynne

[Ideas For Design]
Synthetic Inductor For Filters And Oscillators Is IR Controlled
Almost all semiconductor products are sensitive to light, but this feature has been especially optimized for photodetectors (photodiodes and phototransistors). These are employed to sense or measure radiant energy in all industrial, consumer, and... — Saurav Gupta , et al.

[Ideas For Design]
Simple Isolated Supply Design Suits Fixed-DC-Voltage Systems
Most high-voltage systems that include low-voltage ICs must inject isolated supplies into their setups. The design and implementation of these supplies is usually quite involved. However, a simple approach is possible for systems in which the... — John Guy

[Editorial]
Here's Hoping For A Brighter And More Peaceful 2003
WELCOME TO OUR LAST ISSUE OF 2002. THIS IS THE END OF OUR YEAR-LONG CELEBRATION commemorating Electronic Design's 50th year as a leading technical publication covering the OEM electronics industry. In preparation for the new year and the... — Dave Bursky

[Pease Porridge]
Bob's Mailbox
Dear Bob: Relating to your information on magnesium and skipped heartbeats at altitude: For those who might have respiratory problems resulting in diminished capacity to transfer oxygen to the blood, it's like being at altitude... — Bob Pease

[Viewpoint]
Many Technologies Contribute To Miniaturization
Electronic miniaturization is not simply a process of making everything smaller. Miniaturization of one phase of a product usually reveals limitations and obstacles in other parts of the overall design and manufacturing process. So progress often... — Gary Pinkerton

[Editor's Notebook]
Shrink-Wrap EDA Tools And Time-Based Licensing Don't Mix
A quiet revolution in licensing models has emerged within the EDA industry over the past couple of years. EDA companies, or at least those whose shares are publicly traded, now understand that Wall Street likes predictability when it comes to... — David Maliniak

[Celebrating 50 Years]
Flashback
FLASHBACK > 10 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 17, 1992 A COMPILER FOR FUZZY-LOGIC-controller (FLC) systems promises to reduce run-time rule evaluations by two orders of magnitude. This development should move... — Staff

[Letters]
Letters
Today's Engineering Curricula With commentary by Robert A. Pease Our Editor's Notebook [Oct. 14, p. 26] on educational software produced this interesting exchange between a reader and... — Various

[Forefront]
Module And IC Bite Into Bluetooth Designs
Shrinking the "Blue Module," a host-controller-interface-level Bluetooth radio module, to 9.8 by 9.6 by 1.8 mm didn't spare integration and performance. In fact, both rose to even higher levels. Developed by Murata Electronics, the Blue... — David G. Morrison

[Forefront]
SystemC Advances Set the Stage For New SoC Design Flow Strategy
A new specification for Open Core Protocol (OCP) users will present a seamless flow for complex system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. Publication of the spec comes via the OCP International Partnership (OCP-IP), an association that provides a common,... — Roger Allan

[Forefront]
Boundary-Scan Tester Flexes Muscle With Multiport Controller
Thanks to the PCI-400 multiple-port controller, the ScanWorks boundary-scan test and in-system programming (ISP) solution is getting a jolt of added performance. The new hardware subsystem consists of a controller card that plugs into a PC and a... — Lisa Fakhry

[Forefront]
Power-Savvy One-Chip Serial ATA Interface Cuts Costs
With Serial ATA on the way, Agere Systems is capping costs and power consumption with a single-chip solution on the drive side. Serial ATA is expected on motherboards around the middle of 2003, so hard-disk-drive and optical-drive vendors are looking... — William Wong

[Forefront]
UL Rolls Out EMC Test Facility For Automotive
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has cut the ribbon on a facility in Novi, Mich., dedicated to electromagnetic-compliance (EMC) testing for the automotive industry. Featuring a staff of more than 15 NARTE-certified (National Association of Radio and... — David G. Morrison

[Forefront]
Reconfigurable ATE System For RF ICs Reaches 2.7-GHz Plateau
Designed to test price-sensitive consumer wireless components, the 3M20 LCRF flexible RF test system can be configured as one or two low-cost RF port modules capable of frequencies up to 2.7 GHz. This system from Third Millennium Test... — Lisa Fakhry

[Forefront]
Switch Chip Holds Promise For Automotive Power Apps
A new self-protected automotive-grade silicon switch offers solid-state reliability and power savings in power-management and load-control applications. Motorola's MC33982 ultimately could replace electromechanical relays, fuses, and discrete circuits... — David G. Morrison

[Forefront]
New Shape Flattens Supercaps In Low-Profile Applications
The "supercapacitor" assumes a new, flatter shape in Cooper Electronic Technologies' PowerStor F series. Intended to fit within PCMCIA cards and other low-profile designs, the supercapacitors come in an aluminum-foil polymer laminate package much like... — David G. Morrison

[Forefront]
Chip Unlocks New Possibilities For Remote Keyless Entry
Remote keyless entry (RKE), a feature found on many cars, is typically built around a one-way data link. Adding two-way communication to RKE can expand its potential uses. For example, cars could warn their drivers of low tire pressure or low fuel... — David G. Morrison

[Forefront]
Parallel-Port Filter Extends EMI Protection
Rising clock frequencies and new sources of RF emissions such as WLAN 802.11 are pushing the demand for electromagnetic-interference (EMI) filtering on IEEE 1284 parallel ports. The PACZIG1284, an integrated filter from California Micro Devices,... — David G. Morrison

[Forefront]
Service Pack Adds Key Protocols To Windows XP
USB 2.0 and IPv6 support comes to Microsoft's Windows XP Embedded operating system courtesy of Service Pack 1. The package also features .Net Framework support. The new Remote Boot permits Windows XP Embedded-based devices without persistent storage... — William Wong

[New Products]

• Flexible Shielded Cable Targets Apps Up To 18 GHz — Lisa Fakhry

• Test Socket’s CAM Lid Guards Package Pads — Lisa Fakhry

• 10-GHz Sockets Support Dense MLF Devices — Lisa Fakhry

• Triad Contact Configuration Rockets Connector Over 5.0 Gbits/s — Lisa Fakhry

• High-Conductivity, Low-Force EMI Gaskets Conform To Various Housings — Lisa Fakhry

• Push/Pull Cooling Setup Highlights Rugged 1U Chassis — Lisa Fakhry

• Converters Boast High-Speed Core, 62 kbytes Of Flash/EE Memory — Lisa Fakhry

• Software Tool Automates Front-End Analog/Mixed-Signal Design — Lisa Fakhry

• SiGe Active Mixer Meets 2.5G And 3G Cellular Demands — Lisa Fakhry

• EDA Software Package Meets Analog Simulation Needs — Lisa Fakhry

• Stamp-Sized Reprogrammable ASIC Smoothes IP Delivery — Lisa Fakhry

• Distributed Processing Solution Speeds ATPG Runtime — Lisa Fakhry

• Custom IC Management Gets A Lift From Tool Suite — Lisa Fakhry

• Design-Capture Tool Broadens Entry, Implementation Horizons — Lisa Fakhry

• Verification Suite Streamlines IC Design Process — Lisa Fakhry

• Power Integrity Tool Saves Weeks In Testing Time — Lisa Fakhry

• Optical Component Test System Provides Full C- And L-Band Coverage — Lisa Fakhry

• Scan Software Squashes Circuit Test Time — Lisa Fakhry

• Logic BIST Capability Slashes Test Costs — Lisa Fakhry

• Picoammeter Merges 500-V Source With 20-fA Current Sensitivity — Lisa Fakhry

• 6U Data-Acquisition Board Integrates High-Speed DSP — Lisa Fakhry

• Test-Management Software Incorporates Real-Time SPC Functions — Lisa Fakhry

• CAN Trigger Option Gives MSOs Time-Correlated Viewing — Lisa Fakhry

• Starter Kits Bypass Programming For PC-Based Data Acquisition — Lisa Fakhry

• Software Brings IEEE 1532 Support To Boundary-Scan Toolset — Lisa Fakhry

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