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ISSUE DATE: MARCH 17, 2003 OPTIONS
Communications security, Advanced TCA, Harnessing system-level design techniques, Adaptable power supply

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March 17, 2003 - In This Issue

[Technology Report]
Cryptochips Help Eliminate The Security Bottleneck
Hackers truly are hyper to steal your sensitive data. Terrorists wish to bring your network to its knees. Ticked-off employees seek cyber revenge. Whacko grad students are eager to test out their latest diabolical virus. Sound paranoid? Not...  — Louis E. Frenzel

[Leapfrog: First Look]
Advanced TCA: A High-End Switch Fabric That Costs Less
Design by committee resulted in a range of standards with a common backplane and support for Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand, StarFabric, and PCI Express. Creating the multiple specifications for this newly approved standard was a massive...  — William Wong

[Design View / Design Solution]
Wring Out Better, Faster Results Through System-Level Design
Full article begins on Page 2 Daunting time-to-market pressures coupled with design complexity caused by converging voice, data, and multimedia technologies leave companies facing a host of serious challenges. Unfortunately, because the...  — Avi Gal , et al.

[Ideas For Design]
Design An Adaptable Power Supply For XENPAK
XENPAK is a multisource agreement (MSA) for a 10-Gbit transceiver package. As part of the XENPAK MSA, each XENPAK module requires input power from an adaptable power supply (APS) that resides on a backplane. ...  — Brian King

[Ideas For Design]
Protect MOSFET Driver From Reverse-Battery Connection
It's vital that MOSFET power-switch drivers be protected from a reverse-battery connection. A small rectifier diode can shield against reversed batteries. But that approach is generally unacceptable for systems whose battery life is crucial. For a 6-V...  — Mark Cherry

[Editorial]
Cyberterrorism Must Never Gain A Foothold Anywhere
In these uncertain times, we must look both outside and inside our borders for potential sources of terrorism. However, even greater vigilance is needed regarding our computer and communication networks. These networks have no borders that we can...  — Dave Bursky

[POV: Point Of View]
A Move To Advanced Packaging For Glue Logic
Advanced packaging technology for logic functions has been ahead of demand for the past five years or so. For much of this period, customers seeking smaller packages for their logic gates have been limited to leaded package styles. These packages...  — Ken Murphy

[Pease Porridge]
Bob's Mailbox
Dear Bob: When scanning the index (electronic design, Jan. 6, p. 20), I saw "K2-W" and put on the brakes. Hey, I bet that's Philbrick's stuff. Yes, it is! I looked in my junk box because a couple of K2s were once in there. No,...  — Bob Pease

[TechView: The Industry]
UMTS-Based Chip Set Gives 3G Big Boost
Adoption of 3G cell phones hasn't set any speed records, especially in the U.S. But 3G is on its way. Notably, Texas Instruments (TI) has invested substantially in the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) 3G standard that uses wideband...  — Louis E. Frenzel

[TechView: The Industry]
EDA Rides The PCI Express
Acceptance of a new standard is a chicken-and-egg affair. Which comes first, acceptance or the wherewithal to accept it? In the case of the emerging PCI Express high-speed interconnect standard for next-generation system design, the EDA and...  — David Maliniak

[TechView: Analog & Power]
Eighth Brick Vies For POL Packaging Standard
The LEN series of nonisolated dc-dc converters will now appear in the eighth-brick package, a format normally associated with isolated converters. By introducing point-of-load (POL) dc-dc converters as eighth bricks, Datel Inc. presents another option...  — David G. Morrison

[TechView: Analog & Power]
Breaking News
Cree now samples silicon-carbide (SiC) Schottky diodes with 1200-V breakdown voltages. The high-voltage rating on these devices makes them suitable as anti-parallel diodes for high-frequency inverters, snubber diodes for high-current IGBT inverters,...  — David G. Morrison

[TechView: Analog & Power]
Hot Products
COST-CUTTING INSTRUMENT AMP DELIVERS HIGH ACCURACY The LTC6800 3-V instrumentation amplifier guarantees an offset voltage below 100 µV with an offset drift of just 0.25 µV/°C. This value of offset drift...  — David G. Morrison

[TechView: Communications]
MEMS-Based Instrument For Optical Signal Processing
The LambdaCommander Optical Spectrum Processor offers designers a new method for processing optical signals for design or analysis. Applications include fiber-optic sensing, optical telecommunications, and life/health science equipment...  — Louis E. Frenzel

[TechView: Communications]
Reconfigurable Logic Makes Software-Defined Radio Practical... At Last
A SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO (SDR) is any collection of hardware and software that enables a single radio to be quickly and easily reconfigured to a desired standard. Until now, software-defined radios (SDRs) were reconfigured by installing new software...  — Louis E. Frenzel

[TechView: Communications]
SiGe Power Amp Extends Range Of 802.11b/g And Bluetooth Radios
Wireless-local-area-network (WLAN) equipment implementing 802.11g is rapidly emerging to take advantage of the higher 54-Mbit/s data rate and 802.11b compatibility. SiGe Semiconductor's RangeCharger SE2529L power amplifier is making the design of such...  — Louis E. Frenzel

[TechView: Embedded]
Chip Stacks JVM, SRAM, Flash
Java processor chip includes a memory interface that shares stacked SRAM and flash memory chips with a host CPU. Java-enabled cell phones with a small footprint require packages like Nanoamp's SmartCombo multichip carrier (MCP) solution,...  — William Wong

[TechView: Embedded]
Hot Products
TOOL SUITE SMOOTHES LINUX, VPN GATEWAY INTEGRATION Building an embedded Linux server or VPN gateway is a snap using the NetMax Professional Suite and VPN Server 4.01 from Cybernet Systems. The servers are managed via...  — William Wong

[TechView: Embedded]
Fast Simulation Makes Analysis Practical
AN ARRAY OF NEW, HIGH-PERFORMANCE simulation tools for Texas Instruments' Code Composer Studio (CCS) DSP development suite makes it practical to test applications for the TMS320C5000 and TMS320C6000 without having hardware in hand. Program simulations...  — William Wong

[TechView: Components & Test]
Advanced Ferrite Materials Target High-Power Designs
Designers of high-power ferrite circuits that require low power loss can now avail themselves of advanced ferrite materials specifically designed for their applications. The P1 and P2 series of materials from AVX Corp. come in a wide range of core...  — Roger Allan

[TechView: Components & Test]
Low-Cost MEMS Accelerometers Open Up Cadre Of New Apps
The dual-axis ±2-g (at full-scale) ADXL311 MEMS accelerometer brings affordability to cost-sensitive markets. With this kind of accessibility, it also will create a host of new applications. Analog Devices leveraged its high-volume MEMS...  — Roger Allan

[TechView: Components & Test]
Passives Market Up, Crystal Oscillator Prices Down
CHINA HOLDS THE KEY to passive component market growth, says iSuppli's Jan. 27 Market Watch. Analyst Shawn Woods believes a shortage of passive components may be on the horizon, caused by the good inventory controls most passive component...  — Roger Allan

[TechView: Digital]
Bus Repeaters Expand Use Of Popular Inter-IC Bus
Rather than accept that it has reached the end of its life, the venerable I2C bus has regained momentum as bus repeaters extend its capabilities. Continued interest in the decades-old serial inter-IC bus (I2C) prompted...  — Dave Bursky

[TechView: Digital]
Low-Cost ARM-Based Microcontrollers Maintain Powerful Edge
The small-sized 32-bit ARM CPU core, coupled with a suite of on-chip peripherals and flash memory, has let OKI craft a new family of low-cost, general-purpose microcontrollers. Priced competitively with some high-end 8- and 16-bit MCUs, the ARM-based...  — Dave Bursky

[TechView: Digital]
Next-Generation Itanium CPU Delivers 30% To 50% Higher Throughput Than Its Predecessor
With 6 Mbytes of cache and a clock speed jump of 50% to 1.5 GHz, Intel's latest Itanium2 processor (Madison) delivers 30% to 50% more throughput than the current version (McKinley). Described at last month's International Solid State Circuits...  — Dave Bursky

[TechView: EDA]
Unified Verification Flow Takes Higher Ground
Cadence's new verification platform provides native support for high-level languages and transaction-level virtual prototypes. Verification of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) is hard and getting harder. Not only are today's verification flows...  — David Maliniak

[TechView: EDA]
Hot Product
Achieving signal integrity becomes increasingly difficult as silicon processes shrink. Analysis tools can find many signal-integrity problems, but it is accurate models that can help turn the tide. Silicon Metrics' SiliconSmart SI tool provides the...  — David Maliniak

[TechView: EDA]
RET Tool Paces Processes
IC manufacturers are struggling mightily with subwavelength feature sizes as silicon processes descend further into the nanometer realm. To combat the problem, Mentor Graphics tweaked its Calibre suite of resolution enhancement technology (RET) tools...  — David Maliniak

[New Products]

• Spot Changes Instantly With 23-in.High-Resolution Monitor  — Lisa Fakhry

• Ultra-Bright GaN LEDs Boast Up To 17,000 mcd  — Lisa Fakhry

• Surface-Mount Indicators Bring Flexibility To PC-Board Layouts  — Lisa Fakhry

• White LEDs Use Packaging To Heighten Color Consistency  — Lisa Fakhry

• Circular Industrial Connectors Meet European Micro-c Standard  — Lisa Fakhry

• Thermoelectric-Cooled RF Sockets Offer Enhanced Control  — Lisa Fakhry

• Custom Connector Designs Possible With Open-Pin-Field Device  — Lisa Fakhry

• Cable Assemblies Bring Flexibility To Low-Outgassing Applications  — Lisa Fakhry

• Low-Attenuation Cable Targets Telecom Apps To 18 GHz  — Lisa Fakhry

• 33-W Isolated DC-DC Converter Features Wide Input Voltage Range  — Lisa Fakhry

• Half-Brick DC-DC Converters Output Up To 40 A  — Lisa Fakhry

• High-Efficiency SIP Converters Deliver Up To 15 A  — Lisa Fakhry

• 5-V Inputs Accepted By Fully Rated Nonisolated Converters  — Lisa Fakhry

• Eighth-Brick DC-DCs Offer Up To 25 A Without Derating  — Lisa Fakhry

• 64-Tap Digital Pots Offer Serial Peripheral Interface Control  — Lisa Fakhry

• Rugged Timing Module Withstands Industrial Temps  — Lisa Fakhry

• High-Res Image Sensor Contains Over 4 Million Active Pixels  — Lisa Fakhry

• RF Diodes With Low Capacitance Back Wireless Applications  — Lisa Fakhry

• Versatile Position Controller Targets Servo Motors  — Lisa Fakhry

• LVDT Position Sensors Fulfill OEM,User Needs  — Lisa Fakhry

• Sensor/Panel Meter Simplifies OEM Force Measurement Applications  — Lisa Fakhry

• ICP Sensor Functions As 4-To 20-mA Signal Conditioner  — Lisa Fakhry

• 75-Ω Comm Applications Can Turn To Coaxial Switch  — Lisa Fakhry

• 1-MHz Low-Voltage Op Amps Offer Rail-To-Rail I/O  — Lisa Fakhry





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