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March 2, 2006
Protocols, PoE, And The Less-Is-More Objective
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Ericsson Power Modules has joined the Power Management Bus (PMBus) Implementers Forum. The company now can contribute to the development of a future, standardized digital power-management platform that it believes will benefit its customers in the short and long terms. The PMBus open-standard digital power-management protocol facilitates communication with a power converter or other device by defining the... — Paul Whytock

December 23, 2002
Shrink-Wrap EDA Tools And Time-Based Licensing Don't Mix
A quiet revolution in licensing models has emerged within the EDA industry over the past couple of years. EDA companies, or at least those whose shares are publicly traded, now understand that Wall Street likes predictability when it comes to... — David Maliniak

December 9, 2002
Butterfly Standards
One of my favorite sci-fi plots starts with a man entering a time machine with the dials set to some year in the ancient past. After the press of a button and loads of special effects, the man emerges in the midst of dinosaurs. Startled, he steps... — William Wong

November 25, 2002
If Performance And Cost Are Key, Why Overdo The Integration?
The advent of the 90-nm CMOS processes enables a boatload of logic and memory within a single IC, measured in tens of millions of gates. The first-order thinking is that it's always possible to add a little more circuitry into the mix and eventually... — Tets Maniwa

November 11, 2002
Power Supplies Keep Developing Even After They Are Introduced
Usually, new components only make headlines when they're first introduced. However, additional details will often surface after a product launch, or a competitor's announcement of something similar may offer another perspective. But in the... — David G. Morrison

October 28, 2002
Scripting Is Not Enough
I've been looking at a number of microcontroller development kits from Atmel, Cypress Semiconductor, Parallax, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Ubicom, and Rabbit Semiconductor. It's surprising how inexpensive the kits are and how easy it is to get started using... — William Wong

October 14, 2002
Educational Software Can Help New Engineers Lacking The Basics
It's a refrain you hear over and over from engineering managers: New recruits fresh out of university-level programs just aren't up to snuff in some electronic engineering concepts that are prerequisites to success in the system-design realm. This is... — David Maliniak

September 30, 2002
Shrinking Geometries Bring The Vanishing, Ideal Transistor
The latest Spice transistor models contain provisions for modeling the complex junction characteristics. They can even extend the simulations to include RF performance. In many ways, the CMOS transistor is moving toward the performance of an ideal... — Tets Maniwa

September 16, 2002
Fall Conferences Herald New Opportunities For Job-Seeking EEs
Let's face reality. It has been a very bad year for much of the electronics industry—a year full of bad financial news and, for engineers, a year of too many layoffs. The story of lost engineering jobs may itself have gotten lost amid the bigger... — David G. Morrison

September 2, 2002
And The Winner Of This Year's Science And Engineering Fair Is...
I have a vested interest in science fairs. My kids have been involved with them for many years. Along with some excellent science teachers and mentors, and two parents who are engineers, the fairs have helped keep my children's interest in science and... — William Wong

August 19, 2002
SystemC Seeing Some Interest And, More Critically, Tool Support
For some time now, advocates of various high-level design languages have sparred over which approach to design at a level of abstraction above register transfer level (RTL) might be best. Many of these approaches have centered on C/C++-based... — David Maliniak

August 5, 2002
The Move To Serial Bus Interfaces Promises Pin-Count Reductions
It seems that no matter which system-design conference you attend, there will be a session or two on serial buses that promise to eradicate wide parallel buses and other interconnections. Such buses are commonly found on connector backplanes, as well... — Dave Bursky

July 22, 2002
OLEDs Need Niche To Notch Victory Against LCDs
A panel session at the recent Society for Information Displays (SID) conference in Boston posed the question "OLEDs Versus AMLCDs: Do OLEDs Have A Chance?" That simple question sparked a spirited debate between industry experts representing active... — David G. Morrison

July 8, 2002
Embedded Linux: Is It Dead Yet?
It's raining penguins. Or rather, that's what many people would like you to think. Linux vendors are laying off scores of workers. Linux publications are folding. So is it doom and gloom time for Linux lovers? Now might be a good time to... — William Wong

June 24, 2002
EDA Tool Interoperability Effort Plods Along Despite Obstacles
Imagine that your design automation tools could all work through a common design-data application programming interface (API) and access a universal design database. The OpenAccess initiative, launched in 1999 under the aegis of the Silicon... — David Maliniak

June 10, 2002
More Options For RF Power-Amplifier Designers
Recent advances in the performance of silicon-based lateral diffused MOS (LDMOS) power transistors have given RF power-amplifier (PA) designers a viable alternative to create competitive solutions for infrastructure equipment in the 900-MHz to 2.5-GHz... — Ashok Bindra

May 27, 2002
Latest Bricks Lay Foundation For Distributed Power Designs
We're accustomed to hearing Moore's Law quoted regularly to describe progress in the semiconductor world. But could a similar trend be developing among dc-dc converters? Mahmoud Sayani, director of marketing and business development at Celestica Power... — David G. Morrison

May 13, 2002
Are You Getting Caught In The .Net Or Addicted To That Cup Of Java?
Embedded network devices from cell phones to set-top boxes are useless in isolation. Plus, though they may work with their peers, they rarely implement a peer network, instead requiring a server. Sun Micro-systems would like that platform to be Java,... — William Wong

April 29, 2002
Web-Based Design Tools Bear Fruit For Engineers
It's Friday morning. You've just been asked to come up with a prototype of an almost, but not quite standard, Utopia multiplexer by Tuesday afternoon. You frantically call around to distributors, but no one can deliver the configuration you're... — David Maliniak

April 15, 2002
Up Periscope: Time To Get A Fresh Perspective
The economy finally seems to be recovering in these early days of spring. Now it's time to raise your periscope and take stock in your position after months of almost silent running. This past year's tough economic climate has forced many companies to... — Dave Bursky

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