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Electronic Design Update: August 20, 2008

Aug. 20, 2008
DNA In Your Gadgets?
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scope |DNA In Your Gadgets? By Roger Allan, Contributing Editor
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We all know how DNA technology has revolutionized forensics as the unique identifier for organic life. Now here comes DNA technology for automobiles, motorcycles, marine equipment, clothing, laptops, building materials, packaging, industrial goods, construction equipment, etc. Read the full article... industry view |A Summary Of The DDR Memory Controller Standard—Wait, There Isn’t One! By Graham Allan, Synopsys
The number of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) that require an interface to off-chip memory is increasing. As a result, more and more designers are turning to double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM interfaces such as DDR, DDR2, and DDR3 to address their low-cost, security of supply, storage capacity, and performance requirements. Fortunately for those designers, DRAMs have been standardized since the 1970s. But this still leaves a challenge that most SoC engineers don’t recognize until things start to go wrong. Read the full article... engineer's resource | New Product Showcase: Texas Instruments' Step-Down Converter
Doug Phillips, Worldwide Marketing Manager for Power Management at Texas Instruments, discusses the ultra-thin, 6-MHz, 500-mA TPS62601 step-down converter. Watch it now...
(Note: Video may take a minute to download; click only once.)NIWeek One of the best conferences I go to each year is NIWeek. Another has come and gone, but like always I got a glimpse at some solid technology from the mega-company. National Instruments has been sponsoring their own conference here in Austin, TX for several years now, and it has become a solid industry event. Why? Simply because NI's products like LabVIEW software, data acquisition hardware, and virtual instruments have become so widely used. Your Ideas For Design Can Win $500 Send us your Ideas for Design and we'll pay you $150 for every Idea for Design that we publish. In addition, the year's top design as selected by our readers will earn an additional $500, with two runners-up each receiving $250. You can submit your Ideas for Design via e-mail to [email protected], or you can mail your material to: Ideas for Design Electronic Design 45 Eisenhower Dr., Suite 550 Paramus, NJ 07652 Click here for our guidelines on Ideas for Design. IFD of the week |Add On-Board Power Measurement Capability To Telecom Equipment By Samuel Kerem,
This idea shows how to monitor input voltage and current consumption for telecommunications equipment powered by two independent feeds: -48 V (A) and -48 V (B). Each feed supplies at least -42.5 V to -56.5 V, and for redundancy the feeds are ORed on the module. For maintenance and support purposes, it’s important to monitor input voltage, the feeds’ presence, and the module’s power consumption. Read the full article...
ADVERTISEMENT Looking for the latest design techniques and technology in your market? Check out Electronic Design's Design Hotspots. Here you'll find exclusive content from our editors in Embedded, Power, and Analog technologies as well as Green Design and ROHS. We've also compiled Ideas for Design schematics here for your circuit design sweet-tooth. These spots are chock-a-block with information, so don’t delay! video of the week | NIWeek: NI's RF Vector Signal Analyzer And Generator
Richard McDonell, Senior Group Manager for Test Product Marketing at National Instruments, talks about the new NI PXIe-5663 6.6-GHz RF vector signal analyzer and the NI PXIe-5673 6.6-GHz RF vector signal generator.
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news from the editors |
NVIDIA Showing Fully Interactive GPU-Based Ray Tracer
NVIDIA is demonstrating what it says is the world’s first fully interactive graphics processing unit-based ray tracer this week at SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los Angeles. Based on NVIDIA GPU technology, the ray tracer shows linear-scaling rendering of a highly complex, 2 million polygon, anti-aliased automotive styling application. Read the full article...
Programming Environment Featured On CUDA U Site
Classes have already begun at CUDA U, a new section on the CUDA Zone Web site where users can find instructional material, syllabuses and curricula, and information on schools and programs that offer instruction on NVIDIA’s CUDA programming environment. Read the full article...
Report Cites Chip Programming For iPhone 3G Problems
Problems involving dropped calls and the inability to receive faster 3G service on Apple’s new iPhone 3G may be related to a communications chip made by Infineon Technologies. Sources quoted by BusinessWeek said that faulty software on the chip causes problems when the iPhone needs to switch from wireless networks that allow faster downloads to slower ones. Read the full article... quick poll | The federal government is tapping advanced technologies for homeland security applications. Do you feel safer?
  • Yes. High-tech fills in the gaps in human intelligence.
  • Somewhat, but we can't forget the human component.
  • No. The bad guys will always find a workaround.

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Multi-Protocol SERDES Transceiver Packs Waveform Viewing Technology
Crowned as the industry’s first multi-protocol, 6.375-Gbit/s multi-rate serializer/de-serializer (SerDes) transceiver, the VSC3441 also integrates Vitesse Semiconductor's patented VScope waveform viewing technology. Read the full article...
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product picks online | Ambient Light Sensor Reduces Power, Improves Display Visibility PCIe XMC Module Packs Powerful ADCs/FPGAs Li-ion Cell Cuts Charging Time Network Analyzers Now Extend To 20 GHz Modular Connectors Save Space, Foster Flexibility upcoming industry events | International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems
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Want some insights into “lean” manufacturing? Want to learn from the mistakes made when companies failed in their quest for more efficient manufacturing? Then this is the right book to read. Read the full article...

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