Electronic Design UPDATE e-Newsletter | November 5,
2008 | FREEmagazine
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High-Performance Stacking Connectors Increase Design
Flexibility
Incorporate flexible configurations into card and system designs with mezzanine connectors from Amphenol TCS. The XCede® Stacker enables parallel board-to-board designs up to 20 Gbps with the highest levels of reliability. The XCede Stacker provides the density and mechanical robustness needed to address increasing I/O counts. Its modular construction and different guidance options allow length to be optimized for each application. Several heights are available, ideal for scaling stackable systems based on 1U increments.
Learn more. leapfrog |Scrappy IC Startup Challenges Big Guns WIth Lossy-Compression ADC For Ultrasound By Don Tuite, Analog/Power Editor
With TI and Analog Devices duking it out for dominance in the front ends of the world’s ultrasound medical devices, it would take some audacity for a fabless startup to design its first product for the same market. But Samplify Systems has announced chips based on a lossy data-compression algorithm. Read the full article... commentary |Startup Sets Sail For Speedier Spice Simulation By David Maliniak, EDA Editor
With analog content on the rise in all manner of systems, it is more important than ever to integrate analog and mixed-signal capabilities into design and verification methodologies. What that means is an increasing reliance on Spice simulation for shakeout of the interface between the analog and digital domains of designs. Read the full article... green design |Environmental Fund Asks Congress To Update Toxic Substances Act By Ron Schneiderman, Contributing Editor
With at least several hundred companies in the United States producing or importing chemicals designated as hazardous by the European Union (EU), the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has issued a report calling on the U.S. Congress to update the nation’s 32-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act. Read the full article...Survey: Environmental Program Doesn’t Have Much REACH By Ron Schneiderman, Contributing Editor
A survey of electronics companies by the IPC, a trade association whose 2700 member companies represent virtually all facets of the electronics industry, has found that more than 40% of manufacturing and purchasing personnel have no understanding of the European Union’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) environmental program as it affects their companies, even though the pre-registration of chemicals was required from June 1. Read the full article... design hotspots | Analog · Using Delta-Sigma Can Be As Easy As ADC (Part 3) | By Dave Van Ess
Power · No-Load Rules Do Not Apply To Telephony Products, Says EPA | By Ron Schneiderman, Contributing Editor
Embedded · Open-Source Software Is Stealing Your Business | By Bill Wong, Embedded/Systems/Software Editor
Incorporate flexible configurations into card and system designs with mezzanine connectors from Amphenol TCS. The XCede® Stacker enables parallel board-to-board designs up to 20 Gbps with the highest levels of reliability. The XCede Stacker provides the density and mechanical robustness needed to address increasing I/O counts. Its modular construction and different guidance options allow length to be optimized for each application. Several heights are available, ideal for scaling stackable systems based on 1U increments.
Learn more. leapfrog |Scrappy IC Startup Challenges Big Guns WIth Lossy-Compression ADC For Ultrasound By Don Tuite, Analog/Power Editor
With TI and Analog Devices duking it out for dominance in the front ends of the world’s ultrasound medical devices, it would take some audacity for a fabless startup to design its first product for the same market. But Samplify Systems has announced chips based on a lossy data-compression algorithm. Read the full article... commentary |Startup Sets Sail For Speedier Spice Simulation By David Maliniak, EDA Editor
With analog content on the rise in all manner of systems, it is more important than ever to integrate analog and mixed-signal capabilities into design and verification methodologies. What that means is an increasing reliance on Spice simulation for shakeout of the interface between the analog and digital domains of designs. Read the full article... green design |Environmental Fund Asks Congress To Update Toxic Substances Act By Ron Schneiderman, Contributing Editor
With at least several hundred companies in the United States producing or importing chemicals designated as hazardous by the European Union (EU), the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has issued a report calling on the U.S. Congress to update the nation’s 32-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act. Read the full article...Survey: Environmental Program Doesn’t Have Much REACH By Ron Schneiderman, Contributing Editor
A survey of electronics companies by the IPC, a trade association whose 2700 member companies represent virtually all facets of the electronics industry, has found that more than 40% of manufacturing and purchasing personnel have no understanding of the European Union’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) environmental program as it affects their companies, even though the pre-registration of chemicals was required from June 1. Read the full article... design hotspots | Analog · Using Delta-Sigma Can Be As Easy As ADC (Part 3) | By Dave Van Ess
Power · No-Load Rules Do Not Apply To Telephony Products, Says EPA | By Ron Schneiderman, Contributing Editor
Embedded · Open-Source Software Is Stealing Your Business | By Bill Wong, Embedded/Systems/Software Editor
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Now Available! The Designer’s Guide to PoE
A focused look at what design engineers need to know about Power Over Ethernet – a protocol for transmitting power and data signals over standard LAN infrastructure. The Guide comprises an engineering analysis by Technical Editors of Penton Media’s Electronic Design Group and includes a subset of market-analysis data from VDC Research’s 2008 PoE study.
Click here to order now. engineer's resource | WEBINAR: Scaling Engineering and Scientific Performance for the Workgroup – What’s the Best Infrastructure for You? On November 6, this webcast will discuss the trends in multicore technologies; considerations beyond raw CPU/MFLOP performance that are important to the user when running high-memory bandwidth applications; affordable and easy to deploy “supercomputing-in-a-box†that can augment the scientific and engineering workgroup; and a special Q&A session.
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.
WHITE PAPER: Create Complex Sequences with a DC Power Supply
Products with list mode can provide more complex sequences with additional triggering functionality without the need for additional test equipment. Learn the benefits of using list mode to create complex sequences and for improved testing and reduced test time. Read today.
IFD of the week |"Greener" Rectifier Loses The Diodes, Adds Power MOSFETs, Efficiency By Christian Rausch, Toptica Photonics AG
A major cause of losses in a conventional power supply using a 50/60-Hz transformer is the bridge rectifier. This article shows how to build a “greener†rectifier, substantially reducing losses by eliminating the diodes in the bridge rectifier and substituting modern low-RDS(ON) power MOSFETs. Read the full article... video of the week | Tektronix's New Oscilloscopes
A focused look at what design engineers need to know about Power Over Ethernet – a protocol for transmitting power and data signals over standard LAN infrastructure. The Guide comprises an engineering analysis by Technical Editors of Penton Media’s Electronic Design Group and includes a subset of market-analysis data from VDC Research’s 2008 PoE study.
Click here to order now. engineer's resource | WEBINAR: Scaling Engineering and Scientific Performance for the Workgroup – What’s the Best Infrastructure for You? On November 6, this webcast will discuss the trends in multicore technologies; considerations beyond raw CPU/MFLOP performance that are important to the user when running high-memory bandwidth applications; affordable and easy to deploy “supercomputing-in-a-box†that can augment the scientific and engineering workgroup; and a special Q&A session.
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.
WHITE PAPER: Create Complex Sequences with a DC Power Supply
Products with list mode can provide more complex sequences with additional triggering functionality without the need for additional test equipment. Learn the benefits of using list mode to create complex sequences and for improved testing and reduced test time. Read today.
IFD of the week |"Greener" Rectifier Loses The Diodes, Adds Power MOSFETs, Efficiency By Christian Rausch, Toptica Photonics AG
A major cause of losses in a conventional power supply using a 50/60-Hz transformer is the bridge rectifier. This article shows how to build a “greener†rectifier, substantially reducing losses by eliminating the diodes in the bridge rectifier and substituting modern low-RDS(ON) power MOSFETs. Read the full article... video of the week | Tektronix's New Oscilloscopes
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Infineon Power ICs Run Seatbelt Pretension
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HDMI 1.3 Receivers Use Anchor Bay Scaling IC
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Read eBook: The Dangers of Counterfeit Battery
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The quantifiable impact of imitation battery packs to the OEM includes increased safety risks for customers, greater product returns due to non-performing batteries, reduced customer satisfaction, and reduced revenue for batteries supplied by the original manufacturer. This interactive eBook provides an analysis of several counterfeit batteries and details some of the safety issues found.
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Nov. 10-13 Advances in Testing Embedded Systems
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Dec. 3-4 ED bookstore |The Art Of Debugging With GDB, DDD and Eclipse Norman Matloff and Peter Jay Salzman
Most developers use only one debugger but it is quite handy to know about others. Likewise, you might want to consider a move from gdb to Eclipse or vice-versa depending upon the platform you might be debugging. This book provides an excellent contrast between each by showing how to perform the same function in each environment. Read the full article...
The quantifiable impact of imitation battery packs to the OEM includes increased safety risks for customers, greater product returns due to non-performing batteries, reduced customer satisfaction, and reduced revenue for batteries supplied by the original manufacturer. This interactive eBook provides an analysis of several counterfeit batteries and details some of the safety issues found.
Read now. quick poll | Major economic downturns often lead to significant innovations. If history repeats itself, where will the next breakthrough come from?
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San Jose, Calif.
Nov. 10-13 Advances in Testing Embedded Systems
Webinar
Nov. 12 IP Based Electronic System Conference & Exhibiton
Grenoble, France
Dec. 3-4 ED bookstore |The Art Of Debugging With GDB, DDD and Eclipse Norman Matloff and Peter Jay Salzman
Most developers use only one debugger but it is quite handy to know about others. Likewise, you might want to consider a move from gdb to Eclipse or vice-versa depending upon the platform you might be debugging. This book provides an excellent contrast between each by showing how to perform the same function in each environment. Read the full article...