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May 29, 2000 - In This Issue

[Technology Report]
Wireless LANs Explode With A Kaleidoscope Of Options
Since the FCC opened up the spectrum in the 2.4-GHz band for unlicensed use, companies such as Proxim, Lucent, and Symbol Technologies have led the charge of proprietary wireless connectivity solutions into vertical markets. These include... — Patrick Mannion

[Technology Report]
It's Time Once Again For The EDA Industry To Take Stock
Every year at about this time, the electronic design automation (EDA) Industry takes stock of itself. With the Design Automation Conference (DAC) just around the corner it's easy to understand why. For many, the success or failure of their company... — Cheryl Ajluni

[Product Innovation]
Triple-Port-PCI-To-PCI Bridge Increases Support For System Expansion Slots
Designers building telecom and datacom equipment crave PCI expansion slots. In their minds, more slots mean more line interface cards for their systems. The PCI bus, while restricted in the number of expansion slots it can support, can be easily... — Joseph Desposito

[Product Innovation]
Field-Programmable Crystal Oscillator Beats The Clock On Delivery
The old adage that "timing is everything" applies doubly for crystal oscillators. Used in countless applications, these workhorse components have more or less become commodity items. Also, they're often among the final pieces of the design to be... — David G. Morrison

[Design Application]
Signal Integrity Tips Ensure FPGA Designers Meet Critical Market Windows
Today, high-speed field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) designers encounter signal-integrity (SI) issues with increasing frequency. Unfortunately, the first indication of such a problem is often a prototype that works intermittently or has an... — Contributing Author

[Design Application]
Going From Windows to Window CE: The Keys To Programming Success
This article is the first of a two-part series. Part II is scheduled to appear in the June 26 issue.—ED Microsoft's Windows operating system—originally designed for desktop and laptop computers—is now available in... — Contributing Author

[Ideas For Design]
Build A Vector Network Analyzer
The vector network analyzer (VNA) is an essential tool for measuring the complex impedance of a circuit at a given frequency. The basic principles of operation are quite simple. So, by following the ideas presented here and adding a few op amps and... — Contributing Author

[Ideas For Design]
Digital Potentiometers Vary Amplitude In DDS Devices
Direct digital synthesis (DDS) devices are used in many applications to generate signals of different frequencies. The devices have frequency registers that enable users to alter the frequency of the signal, and phase registers to allow phase... — Contributing Author

[Ideas For Design]
A Simple-To-Build Superhet Receiver
This idea presents a simple circuit for a superhet radio receiver that can be built up in sections, with each section tested before assembly. The receiver circuitry as presented here can be built for less than $50. Don’t be misled—even... — Contributing Author

[Ideas For Design]
Precision Thermometer Linearizes, Digitally Calibrates Platinum RTDs
Among temperature transducers, the platinum resistance temperature detector (PRTD) is generally accepted as the “gold standard.” PRTDs are available with interchangeability accuracies as tight as 0.1°C over operational ranges extending from... — Chuck Wojslaw , et al.

[Editorial]
Can Computers Be Made As Easy To Use As Appliances?
When I turn on my laptop computer, I typically hear a series of beeps and I see command-line sequences checking my system and eventually, bring me to an opening screen. The total boot process takes about two minutes, which in my humble opinion is... — Dave Bursky

[Pease Porridge]
Bob's Mailbox
Sir: Very good letter and comments about analog test equipment with knobs instead of pull-down menus (Electronic Design, Feb. 21, p. 133). Our company just bought a Tektronix TDS-3014 and I'm frustrated by the menu structure—But... — Bob Pease

[Viewpoint]
Hardware And Software May Be Destined To Merge
With the increasing demand for consumer electronic products, embedded-systems development—made up of both hardware and software components—will undoubtedly dominate the design world. Once this happens, codesign will again become a pressing... — Contributing Author

[Editor's Notebook]
Help Wanted: Those Committed To The Status Quo Need Not Apply
Eight billion CPUs will ship this year, but a scant 2% will be networked. With this as a starting point, speakers at the three-day Intel Computer Continuum Conference (San Francisco, Calif., March 15-17) urged the audience to explore options for the... — Stephen Grossman

[The Design Factory]
Multitasking Engineers Isn't Always A Bad Idea
Companies increasingly view the multitasking of project team members as a necessary evil. They do it, but acknowledge that they shouldn't. Because multitasking is seen as an obvious evil, we should examine its disadvantages and advantages.... — Don Reinertsen

[Letters]
Letters
It Takes Time To Get The Hang Of It I read with some amusement your all too true article, "You Would Think They Could Finally Get It Right" [March 20, p. 48]. I was an inflight comm. maintenance tech. on the... — Various

[40 Years Ago]
Diodes Allow Two-Wire Control Of Limit-Switched Motor
We wanted to control a dc permanent-magnet motor in a system containing limit switches to prevent overtravel. The control had to be accomplished using only one "hot" wire and the common ground lead which were available in the existing cable... — Steve Scrupski

[40 Years Ago]
Washington Report
Air Force Equipment Test Reports made in the course of its activities will be given very restricted distribution in the future. There have apparently been complaints that competitors have obtained copies of Air Force reports in which commercial... — Steve Scrupski

[Forefront]
Expanding Partnership Moves MEMS Toward Commericalization
The commercialization of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is increasing. Just take a look at Microcosm Technologies Inc. of Cary, N.C. Three more companies have joined its MEMS Manufacturing Partnership Program—Applied Microengineering... — Roger Allan

[Forefront]
Sea-Of-IP Design Methodology Delivers Next-Generation System-On-A-Chip Solutions
A design methodology known as Sea-of-IP will enable the creation of complex processor-driven system-on-a-chip (SoC) ICs. Developed by Philips Semiconductors of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the process will lie at the heart of next-generation... — Alfred Vollmer

[Forefront]
High-Speed Fiber-Optic MAN Allows Customer Provisioning On-The-Fly
As service providers and private enterprises expand their bandwidth to keep pace with user demands, a major bottleneck is being formed between the network edge and the backbone. This bottleneck is causing severe underuse of the backbone, which has... — Patrick Mannion

[Forefront]
Silicon-Gernamiumn: Carbon HBTs Are Ready For Mainstream RF BiCMOS Processes
In cooperation with Frankfurt, Germany's High Performance Microelectronics, Motorola's DigitalDNA Laboratories in Tempe, Ariz., has successfully merged the silicon-germanium: carbon (SiGe:C) process module into mainstream RF biCMOS technology. As a... — Ashok Bindra

[Forefront]
Sensor Guides Electric Power Steering Into Mainstream
A new torque-and-position sensor will help drive electric power-steering systems out of the laboratory and onto the automotive assembly line. BI Technologies of Fullerton, Calif., a manufacturer of automotive sensors, developed the device using a... — David G. Morrison

[Forefront]
Mini-Certificate Program For Wireless Servers And Gateways
Wireless servers and gateways can take advantage of a new Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS) mini-certificates issuance service. VeriSign Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., is deploying the service. The company also is working with Motorola,... — Stephen Grossman

[Forefront]
Alliance Leveranges Home Power Outlets To Network PCs And Consumer Applicances
Power outlets exist in every home, but they have never been exploited for data, voice, or video communications—until now. Thirteen companies have teamed up to form the HomePlug Powerline Alliance. This coalition hopes to create specifications... — Ashok Bindra

[Forefront]
Company Wire
• Mindready Solutions, the telecommunications subsidiary of Informission Group Inc., has acquired Beltron Technologies Inc. The two companies will use their joint resources to meet the growing need for telecommunications... — Staff

[Forefront]
Complete Camera Module Delivers Light-To-Byte Solution
A complete imaging subsystem, the PCM2112, can capture 1280- by 1024-pixel high-resolution color images and deliver a digital byte stream. The compact module that contains the high-resolution image sensor has a base footprint of just 26.3 by 25.5 mm... — Dave Bursky

[Forefront]
Triple 8-Bit ADC Blends Digital TV And PC Graphics Together
The THS8083 triple 8-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) was designed to accept analog-component TV or PC-graphics input signals. Consequently, this software-programmable video digitizer can handle a PC's RGB or a digital TV's (DTV's)... — Ashok Bindra

[Forefront]
Design Package Assists In Configuring High-Speed PCI-X Bus Architecture
TymeWare PCI-X is a design package created to assist ASIC and FPGA designers developing PCI-X bus architectures. The package comprises a PCI-X 1.0-compliant synthesizable core, which is a set of RTL synthesizable building blocks and a bus-test... — Stephen Grossman

[Forefront]
Network Interface Modules Allow Remote Motor Configuration
Remote configuration and control are now possible for single-phase ac motor controllers with the S1631XXX (115 V) and SO1731XXX (230 V) network interface modules. These options are part of Anacon Systems' DigiDrive II modular motor-controller... — Roger Allan

[Careers]
Sell Your Ideas To Your Colleagues
Many of us who toil in the trenches have some definite opinions on our product or service, how we perform our jobs, and what we should do differently, now and in the future. Yet, in an existence that appears to strangely mirror Dilbert's, our... — Peter Varhol

[New Products]

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