December 6, 2012

Each year sees co-design software vendors vying with each other to produce the best tools, innovating with the most improvements, gaining customer mind share, and battling it out with competitors to win more seats and grow their user base. This year was no exception when it comes to improvements made in the co-design battlefield....More

The plain old telephone system (POTS)wiring is still useful and makes an excellent medium for M2M and other remote monitoring and control applications....More

Freescale's QorIQ processors scale to meet the wide range of hetnet basestations needed for 4G while Linear's Dust Networks' Smartmesh wireless modules make wireless sensor networks a snap....More

The ISO 26262: Road vehicles — Functional Safety standard provides explicit guidance concerning interference, with special attention to the risks associated with interference between components having different automotive safety integrity levels, or ASILs....More

Love or hate it, Windows 8 has arrived and will have a major impact on a wide range of computing platforms, from the desktop to embedded devices....More

Nuvation's T-REX 160-mph, 0-to-60 in 5 seconds Electric Vehicle provides a development platform for battery management using Maxim Integrated's chips and a way for the engineering services company to market its IP....More

A memorial to Hans Camenzind, who invented the 555 IC and other devices, written by his son, Peter....More

December 4, 2012 (New York, NY): The results are in! The best technologies, products, and standards winners for 2012 have been announced and published in Electronic Design’s annual Best Electronic Design edition. The December 6 issue also features the year’s best Ideas for Design, along with six new inductees into the magazine’s Engineering Hall of Fame, which was founded in 2002....More

A fast 16-bit 250 MSPS ADC with JESD204B interface is a good choice for wireless basestations....More

Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, the inventors of VisiCalc the first personal computer spreadsheet, are inducted into the Electronic Design Engineering Hall of Fame....More

JESD204B SERDES Tx and Rx facilitates connecting multiple high-speed, high-res data converters to FPGAs or ASICs. story describes how it does that with reduced pin-count and low, deterministic, latency....More

The Best Electronic Design 2012 awards for Components go to FCI for the AirMax VS cable assembly, TE Circuit Protection for the 2Pro AC device, MicroPower Direct for the MPL-03SE series, and MicroOLED for its 0.61-in OLED microdisplay....More

AEI's Steve Sandler looks back on 2012 with his eye on brick and point-of-load switching frequencies, Gallium Nitride power devices, EMI challenges, test equipment, battery power, and the training needed to keep engineers current....More

Vicor's Stephen Oliver makes the case for 400-V dc power as the first stage in power distribution in an intermediate bus architecture for telecommunications and the data center....More

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and well-known philanthropist, is inducted into Electronic Design's Engineering Hall of Fame....More

All told, 2012 wasn’t the most dramatic of years for storage. But with changes such as these, IT professionals should feel enthusiastic heading into 2013....More

Best Medical story of 2012 is Analog Devices AD8232 AFE, which leverages some of the technology of an earlier clinical ECG AFE to crack wider markets....More