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ISSUE DATE: MARCH 19, 2001 OPTIONS
Integrated Bluetooth IC, Power ICs, Bluetooth testing, Embedded Linux, Thermal overstress


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March 19, 2001 - In This Issue

[Technology Report]
Semiconductors Spark Advances In Welding Power
The application of high-frequen-cy switch-mode power-supply (SMPS) technology in welding equipment has yielded many of the same benefits associated with SMPSs in other, nonindustrial designs. By migrating from line-frequency operated supplies to...  — David G. Morrison

[Technology Report]
Test Solutions Rise To Meet The Bluetooth Development Challenge
The unprecedented growth in the Bluetooth standard has led to a great demand for tools to perform design/development, pre-certification, conformance, and manufacturing testing. An assortment of specialized test equipment now offered by the leading...  — Contributing Author

[Product Innovation]
Highly Integrated Bluetooth IC Simplifies Design
Time-to-market will be more important than ever in the highly competitive Bluetooth applications market. Zeevo Inc. (formerly Telencomm Inc.) now gives you a chance to be early—maybe even first—with your Bluetooth-enabled product. Zeevo...  — Louis E. Frenzel

[Design Application]
Harness Robust Debugging Techniques To Improve Embedded Linux Systems
A growing number of embedded developers are experimenting with the Linux kernel and system services as a basis for new application development. But those developers embarking on the use of Linux as a target platform are faced with a number of...  — Contributing Author

[Design Application]
How To Minimize Component Thermal Overstress Failures (Part 2)
Part 1 of this article appeared in our Analog Supplement, Nov. 20, 2000, p. 23. Temperature can accelerate the physico-chemical factors that influence numerous failure mechanisms in electronic components. By varying temperature...  — Contributing Author

[Ideas For Design]
Negative-Resistance Load Canceller Helps Drive Heavy Loads
Though not difficult, driving a load from a voltage reference IC requires some attention. After determining the supply voltage and output voltage, various other design parameters need to be considered. These include the output-voltage temperature...  — Contributing Author

[Ideas For Design]
Precision Thermostat Uses TBH And AC Feed-Forward Compensation
Precision temperature control with relatively high-power heaters driven directly from unregulated "120-V" ac lines is an efficient, inexpensive way to manage large thermal loads. A number of annoying complications can render this straightforward...  — W. Stephen Woodward

[Ideas For Design]
Flyback Power Supply Powers Subscriber Line Interface Circuit
Cable and xDSL modems are experiencing increasing popularity. For this reason, many designs are now required to interface with existing telephones at the subscriber's location. The subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC) within the modem has the...  — Contributing Author

[Editorial]
Get Ready To Cut The Ties That Bind And Go Wireless
The ability to communicate without wires has driven the success of the cell-phone industry to dizzying heights. Now, the wireless networking industry seems poised for a similar growth in popularity. Not only has the growth of the 802.11 wireless...  — Dave Bursky

[Pease Porridge]
Bob's Mailbox
Dear Robert Pease: I enjoyed your Parts IV and V of "What's All This Fuzzy Logic Stuff, Anyhow" series (Electronic Design, Nov. 6, p. 146; Nov. 20, p. 159). Wow! What a claim from the "Fuzzy People!" I worked with...  — Bob Pease

[Viewpoint]
High-Performance DSP IPs Let OEMs Take Back Control Of Their Destiny
In today's market, the availability of high-performance programmable DSP IP has recently become a reality. This development will forever alter the traditional order of power in the high-volume, high-dollar market for DSP-based systems-on-a-chip...  — Contributing Author

[Editor's Notebook]
Information Overload: Good News Or Bad News?
As an engineer, you're constantly bombarded with information. It comes from all directions—the industry, your company, your field of specialization, your colleagues, your competitors, your customers, your vendors, conferences, publications,...  — Louis E. Frenzel

[The Design Factory]
When Should We Review Product Development Programs?
There are two schools of thought as to when you should conduct progress reviews for product development programs. The dominant school advocates event-driven reviews—by this I mean those reviews that are synchronized with key project events....  — Don Reinertsen

[Letters]
Letters
Some Thoughts On Inventing I enjoyed "Do You Possess The Necessary Elements To Successfully Invent?" [Jan. 8, p. 148] and have a few comments. When we computer-model a device, it's tempting...  — Various

[40 Years Ago]
First Field-Effect Transistor Available
A semiconductor amplifying device with up to 100-meg input impedance is now available from an American manufacturer. (Some French firms already have announced field-effect devices.) Crystalonics, Cambridge, Mass., is selling field-effect transistors...  — Steve Scrupski

[40 Years Ago]
For Designers: Logic Nets In Transistor Cans
Logical microcircuits in transistor cans are now being offered by four major companies: Fairchild Semiconductor Corp., Raytheon Co., Philco Corp., General Instrument Corp., and Sperry Gyroscope's Semiconductor Div. Fairchild and Raytheon...  — Steve Scrupski

[Forefront]
Development Tools Make Waves At LinuxWorld Conference/Expo
A plethora of Linux development tools premiered at last month's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York City. Many, like Borland's Kylix, have been much anticipated. Others, such as Transvirtual Technologies' PocketLinux, have been generally...  — William Wong

[Forefront]
Tiny Robot On Track For Big Applications
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., have developed what may be the world's smallest robot. Fueled by three watch batteries, the device "turns on a dime and parks on a nickel," said Steve...  — Lisa Eccles

[Forefront]
Consortium Specifies Common Emulation Interface
Phase one of a specification for a common emulation application interface has been released by the SCE-API Consortium. With this development, third parties and competing emulation vendors can use a common interface to connect third-party tools and...  — David Maliniak

[Forefront]
Group Extends MPEG-4 Video Coding To Internet Streaming
At its January meeting in Pisa, Italy, the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) finished and approved an extension to MPEG-4 video coding. This enhancement uses fine granular scalability as well as the advanced simple profile, optimized for Internet...  — Stephen Grossman

[Forefront]
From The Labs
Plastic components subjected to vibration and bending can crack beyond repair, creating difficulties in applications where components are largely inaccessible after final assembly. But researchers at the University of Illinois may have found a...  — Staff

[Forefront]
Company Wire
Palm Inc., a manufacturer of PDAs, has allied with Sprint PCS to broaden wireless Internet options on mobile handheld devices. As part of the deal, the companies will offer a new co-branded version of the MyPalm portal, which features...  — Staff

[Forefront]
Custom Linear Array Incorporates Up To 48 Precision Op Amps Per Chip
Leveraging its patented electrically programmable analog devices (EPADs), Advanced Linear De-vices has crafted a custom linear circuit array that comprises up to 48 precision op amps on a single CMOS chip. In essence, this high-density op-amp ASIC...  — Ashok Bindra

[Forefront]
Embedded OS Available In Modular Form
Whistler Embedded is Microsoft's latest foray into the advanced set-top box and router market. The company will transform Whistler, its prototype successor to Windows 2000, into a set of discretely licensable modules. Through this division and the...  — Lisa Eccles

[Forefront]
FireWire Provides Web Cam Near Digital-Video Performance
The iBOT FireWire Desktop Video Camera works with FireWire-equipped PCs and Macs. Produced by Mac developer Orange Micro, this device achieves near digital-video performance by using FireWire instead of USB. The iBOT uses the same...  — Lisa Eccles

[Forefront]
Low-Cost, Single-Axis Controller Includes 130 Commands
Single-axis motion control now costs just $28 in OEM lots. The Pilot MC3110 motion processor from Performance Motion Devices Inc. is the first of a family of devices that control brushed servo motors. Models designed for brushless servo motors will...  — Roger Allan

[Forefront]
Processor And Chip-Set Combo Targets Value PCs
A processor and chip-set combination developed by Intel Corp. will function as a hardware building block for value PC designs. According to the company, the 800-MHz Celeron processor is the first Intel desktop value PC processor to include a 100-MHz...  — Lisa Eccles

[Forefront]
Low-Power MPEG-4 ICs Enable Video On Wireless
Video on cell phones and personal digital assistants is going to happen, and Toshiba's codec and decoder chips will help make it possible. The TC35274XB decoder for receive-only applications and the TC35273XB audiovisual LSI codec chips enable...  — Louis E. Frenzel

[Careers]
Skills For A Successful Manager
Throughout my career, I've viewed the management ranks as a territory I couldn't quite figure out, and one in which I could never really participate. Although I have held minor management positions, I never felt comfortable in them, and I inevitably...  — Peter Varhol

[New Products]

• Oscillators And Timing Devices  — Staff

• Embedded  — Staff

• Relays  — Staff





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