Electronic Design UPDATE: July 26, 2006

Electronic Design UPDATE edited by Lisa Maliniak, eMedia Editor

Houston, We Have A Problem: Losing The Past
By William Wong, Embedded/Systems/Software Editor

My wife and I decided to watch one of our favorite movies, Apollo 13. I pulled out the DVD, popped it in the player, and… nothing. It was rather frustrating. We had watched it relatively recently with no indication that the media was going bad. No dropped frames. No problems trying to read the disk...

Low-Cost Audio DSP Meets Car And Home Theater Needs

An eight-channel audio DSP from Texas Instruments delivers higher fidelity to car audio while providing cost-effective audio processing for home theater systems. The TAS3108’s audio processing enables up to 7.1-channel processing in digital TVs, home theater-in-a-box systems, and automotive head units and external amplifiers...

Archived Webcast: RoHS—What About China?

Do you sell products in China or import into China? If so, this webcast is for you. China has taken a somewhat different approach to the European Union's RoHS directive in a number of critical areas, which will very likely have a major impact on you and your business—whether you're a manufacturer, distributor, importer, or retailer. View today!

Power Rectifier Products Boast Small-Signal-Device Footprint
Diodes Inc. has unveiled its high-current-density PowerDI323 product platform with new Schottky rectifiers and Zener products. The PowerDI323 product platform aims to meet the demands for portability by providing smaller, more efficient discrete devices...

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Wi-Fi's Five-Pronged Attack Alters The Wireless Landscape
Products based on the 802.11 WLAN standard stay strong, thanks to a steady stream of new innovations and applications.

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SIC Of Figuring Out The Best ASIC Solution?
Programmable ASICs—application-specific (or sporadic?) integrated circuits—bridge the gap between FPGAs and standard-cell ASICs.

\[ Leapfrog: First Look \]
One Smart Serial RapidIO Switch
This pre-processing Serial RapidIO switch reduces DSP cluster processing load by 20% or more.

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Will Your 802.11n Products Have Next-Generation Performance?
Channel emulation is critical to ensuring repeatable testing of MIMO technology because it submits RF signals to real-world multipath conditions.

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Submit Photos And Get Paid!

Grab some photos showing the "guts and glory" of you (and your team) at work. We need them for our "Day in the Life of an Electronic Designer" photo essay, which will appear in Electronic Design's Oct. 20 special issue. There's a $500 Grand Prize for best photo series and $250 prize for best photo, and we pay $50 if we use any of your photos in the issue. Please include the names and titles of all photo subjects, as well as company name and the type of work-in-process illustrated by the photo. Digital photos should be in .tif or .jpg formats and must have resolution of at least 300 dpi. Deadline for submission is Sept. 15. E-mail digital photos to Managing Editor Richard Gawel at: [email protected].

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