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LED Design Kit Offers Plethora Of Lighting Technologies
Board Interfaces GPIB To Modbus
JIC Enclosure Family Receives CE Certifications
GMR Current Sensor Sports Wide Range
HomePlug SoC Interoperates With TIA-1113/IEEE 1901 Standards
RFIC Switch Simplifies GSM/AMR And Short-Range Wireless Designs
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WHAT'S NEW
NEWS
ITU-T Makes Progress On Home Networking Standard
The International Telecommunications Union’s Standardization Sector (ITU-T) has agreed on the PHY and architecture portions of the G.hn specification for next-generation home networking, according to the HomeGrid Forum. Read more...

FinFETs Create Smallest SRAM Cell Ever
At 0.128 µm2, a new SRAM cell using fin-shaped FETs (FinFETs) is the smallest such cell ever developed, according to Toshiba Corp., IBM, and AMD. Read more...

DESIGN HOTSPOTS
·ANALOG·
New Power Approaches May Fuel Analog Job Opportunities In Security And Health Applications · By Don Tuite

Direct Conversion Creates Pull For Continuous-Time Sigma Delta · By Don Tuite

·POWER·
Energy-Harvesting Synergies · By Don Tuite

The Field Of Energy Harvesting Begins To Ripen · By Don Tuite

·EMBEDDED·

Hypervisors And Separation Kernels · By Bill Wong

·EDA·
Use Algorithmic Synthesis To Solve Your FPGA Prototyping And Design Issues · By Simon Napper

PEASE PORRIGE · By Bob Pease
  • Bob's Mailbox
  • Guru Bob Pease opens up some new mail from devoted fans and desperate engineers...

Power Tutorials
Switch-Mode ICs Promote Efficient Power Management, Part 1: Switch-Mode Fundamentals

Switch-Mode ICs Promote Efficient Power Management, Part 2: DC-DC Controllers And Converters

Design Solution
Characterizing High-Speed Serial Communications Links Requires Some Analog Savvy
A six-step process helps measure, identify, and eliminate clock and data jitter on those blazing serial signals. Read more...


EVENTS
CES 2009
The Engineer's Guide to CES
What's driving the digital economy? Find out at the 2009 International CES, January 8-11, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Get ready for CES

One Powerful Day
Did you see our full day of webcasts on power management and design? View the archived sessions now!


DESIGNED IN
STB SoC Powers Digital Media Player

LAB BENCH ONLINE
Consumer Electronics Series: Vudu: Movies On Demand
Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a look at Vudu’s Internet movie delivery service and hardware. Read more...

NEW PRODUCTS SHOWCASE
Tony Masterson, COO/CTO of Zenverge, talks about a family of single-chip Advanced Media ICs, which are the first to support transcoding, decoding and encoding of multiple formats at up to four times HD performance. Watch it now...

Deborah Word, Director of Sales at Epson Toyocom, talks about the company's QMEMS process and the new TG5025BA TCXO. Then Editor-in-Chief, Joe Desposito, tries out a golf putter that uses one of the company’s gyro sensors. Watch it now...


ED BOOKSTORE
Programming 32-Bit Microcontrollers In C: Exploring The PIC32
By Lucio Di Jasio

NEW WHITE PAPER
Liquid-Level Monitoring Using a Pressure Sensor
Presented by National Semiconductor
Storage Strategies For AdvancedTCA Platforms
Presented by Emerson Network Power


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SPECIAL ISSUES
Special Issue 2008 Megatrends
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IDEAS FOR DESIGN
Micro-Structured Transducer Accurately Measures Pressure
Tame Switching Supply Noise While Maintaining Efficiency
Controller Maps Auto's Electric Drive Voltage To Existing Thermal Fuel Gauge
Using Copper Traces As Ballast Resistors Ensures Balance

 

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