EDN Europe back issues from May 2001:
Channelization family targets OC-192 SONET/SDH. (Leading Edge).
May 01, 2001; ... THE CHESS-II (Channelizer Engine tor SONET/SDH) chip set from PMC-Sierra targets broadband Internet-infrastructure equipment in MANs (metropolitan-area networks) to carry voice, video, and data across a single optical backbone. The chip set includes the PM5317 Specctra-9953 ...
Verification tool scores points. (Leading Edge).
May 01, 2001; ... INNOVEDA HAS IMPLEMENTED SIGNIFICANT extensions to its HDLScore tool for code-coverage analysis. The product lets you verify semiconductors, such as FPGAs and ASICs, and semicustom chips. The new enhancements include the ability to filter untestable code. You can also remove expressions ...
Fast op amps boost performance. (Leading Edge).
May 01, 2001; ... USING THE NEW VIP10 PROCESS, National Semiconductor has re-entered the market for high-speed operational amplifiers with a range of chips that you can use in applications such as broadband access, including xDSL modems. National has announced eight parts in the LMH66xx family and promises ...
Web site acknowledges your need for support components. (Leading Edge).
May 01, 2001; ... Even in these days of the so-called SOCs (systems on chips), it's amazing how many additional active and passive components you need for a finished product design. To help you acquire these parts, Partminer Inc and Cahners Business Information (parent company of EDN) have integrated more ...
Soft CPU: "sizzle" now, substance later. (Leading Edge).
May 01, 2001; ... LAST YEAR ABOUT THIS TIME, Xilinx was belittling competitor Altera's (www.altera.com) Nios processor, calling it underperforming, power-hungry, and costly ("Soft CPU core expands its FPGA options," EDN, April 26, 2001, pg 23). Now, almost a year later, the company is singing a slightly ...
Digitizer acts as front-end PC for complex RF analysis. (Leading Edge).
May 01, 2001; ... IF YOU ARE DESIGNING for emerging standards, such as 2.5-and third-generation wireless telecommunications, you will probably need to measure some as-yet-undefined RF parameter or one that evolving standards might define in a new way. With the approach of IFR's 2319E RF digitizer, you can ...
Rapid-I/O. (Leading Edge).
May 01, 2001; ... The RapidlO Trade Association has announced the first public release of the RapidlO Interconnect specification. The spec defines a switch-fabric-based control-plane interconnection between chips or boards within a ...
ST, Hitachi spin off SH architecture. (Leading Edge).
May 01, 2001; ... ST MICROELECTRONICS AND HITACHI plan to place the future development and marketing of the SuperH architecture, the microprocessor architecture that both companies jointly own, into the hands of a new and independent company, SuperH Inc. Both companies anticipate a consequent proliferation ...
Single-die flash disk gets bigger, faster, and more secure. (Leading Edge).
May 01, 2001; ... THE FLASH-MEMORY market has changed a lot since October 1998, when M-Systems introduced its 8-Mbyte Millennium single-die flash disk. Storage density needs have rapidly grown for many applications, pacing the proliferation of rich audio and visual data. Both that data and the systems ...
High accuracy spectrum analyser.
May 01, 2001; ... Rohde and Schwarz's model FSU spectrum analyser breaks new ground with the highest available accuracy, of 0.3 dB total level uncertainty to 3 GHz, and under 0.1 dB linearity error down to -70 dB, and wide dynamic range; displayed average noise level of -158 dBm (in 1 Hz) with ...
Video codec cops a professional attitude. (Leading Edge).
May 01, 2001; ... C-Cube's $550 (20,000) DVxpress-MXT50 incorporates encoding and decoding support for Sony's (www.sony.com) MPEG IMX professional video. MPEG IMX is a 4:2:2 Profile@Main Level format with a 50-Mbps constant-rate (versus the more common MPEG variable-rate) bit stream, comprising only I ...
Programmable logic delivers fast interconnect, abundant memory. (Leading Edge).
May 01, 2001; ... FOLLOWERS of the FPGA and CPLD markets have undoubtedly noticed a baffling recent development. After years spent boosting their on-chip logic capacities and haggling over whose logic-cell structure and on-chip routing is the best, many of the vendors have switched gears and begun touting ...
Market feedback. (Ednmag.comment).
May 01, 2001; ... Throughout the life of the semiconductor business, and the industries that it underpins, cyclical behaviour has been a fact of life. In the case of semiconductor supply and demand, this should come as no surprise to any engineer. We can (very loosely) model it in terms familiar to us. The ...
EDA it's showtime: when the lights go up in Las Vegas for the design automation conference, what will be caught in the spotlight? (Cover Story).
May 01, 2001; ... DAC (THE DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE) has long been established as the key annual event for EDA suppliers and customers - although the increasing maturity of the DATE (Design Automation and Test in Europe) event now makes it a serious alternative if you don't want to make the trek to ...
PCI keeps on ridin' high: PCI, the wildly successful I/O interconnect bus that virtually all desktop PCs and many embedded systems use, continues to transform itself to stay atop the growing technology wave. (Design Feature).
May 01, 2001; ... SINCE ITS INTRODUCTION in the early 1990s, the PCI bus has grown to become the mainstay of the computer industry. PCI's popularity has given designers an array of low-cost silicon, which in turn has fueled additional growth. Generations of processors have come and gone, but the venerable ...
Blindingly fast ADCs: to get meaningful information, not just "data," you need to know how your converter is looking at your signal.
May 01, 2001; ... STUBBORN AS ZAX (Reference 1), our world insists on being analog, and our best means of processing information about our world insist, for the foreseeable future anyway, on being digital. But our world and our means do not stand still. It, or rather all that information about it, moves ...
Exotic memories diverse approaches. (Design Feature).
May 01, 2001; ... Newfangled memory technologies come and go, but every once in a while, one makes it out of the laboratory and into your next design. All of these candidates aspires to be the next semiconductor success story. Which ones; dreams will come true? POOR FORECASTING PLAGUES the memory ...
[micro]C eliminates offboard EEPROM with "virtual-EEPROM" routines. (Design: Ideas).
May 01, 2001 ... Wallace Ly, National Semiconductor Corp, Santa Clara, CA COP8PLASH [micro]Cs] let you allocate some of their internal flash memory as a nonvolatile storage space. This line of flash [micro]Cs accomplishes this task by accessing some memory functions built into the boot ROM. In ...
Circuit forms random-bit-sequence generator. (Design: Ideas).
May 01, 2001; ... A RANDOM-BIT-SEQUENCE generator is basic equipment for prototyping and testing any data-transmission system. You use such a generator when measuring BER (bit-error rate) and pattern-dependent effects in a transmission system. Such effects can include baseline wander, pattern-dependent data ...
High-speed pulse generator has programmable levels. (Design: Ideas).
May 01, 2001; ... LILLIPUTIAN dimensions associated with the submicron geometries of most digital and many analog processes result in much faster circuit operation. As ICs speed up, the rise and fall times of most pulse and function generators, which are typically 5 nsec, become inadequate for measuring ...
Look-up table helps bit flipping. (Design: Ideas).
May 01, 2001; ... IN CERTAIN INSTANCES in embedded software, a programmer needs to flip the order of the bits in a byte so that [B.sub.7] to [B.sub.0] become [B.sub.0] to [B.sub.7] Bit flipping is useful, for example, when a synchronous serial port does not allow programmatic selection of bit order, such as ...
Rolling-code generator uses flash [micro]C. (Design: Ideas).
May 01, 2001; ... MANY SECURITY-ALARM SYSTEMS require the use of a random number. A computer program uses this random number to create a sequence of random numbers to prevent unwanted visitors from gaining entry into a protected facility. You can use a "rolling-code generator" to produce random numbers. To ...
1.4MHz switching regulator draws only 10[micro]A supply current design note 256. (Design Notes: Advertisement).
May 01, 2001; ... Introduction High switching frequency and low quiescent current are no longer conflicting requirements in the design of battery-powered products. Linear Technology's LTC[R] 3404 is the industry's first step-down switching regulator that operates at 1.4MHz while drawing only ...
Capacitor arrays. (Components).
May 01, 2001 ... * Reduced trace distances improves performance at high speed * Footprint 2.0 X 1.25 mm * Four isolated identical value capacitors on 0.5 mm spacing ...
Ultra-miniature coaxial connector. (Components).
May 01, 2001 ... * Use for board-board connections * 22.2 [mm.sup.2] PCB area and 3mm board separation * ...
Dual MOSFET switch. (Components).
May 01, 2001 ... * Use in DC/DC converters in battery-powered appliances * RDS(on) down to 13 m[omega], with improved switching performance * Breakdown ...
GaAs RF ICs. (Components).
May 01, 2001 ... * RF low-noise amplifier has noise figure of 1.5 dB, gain 14.4 dB at 2 GHz * Single and dual Schottky diodes operate to 6 GHz with turn-on voltages of 0.34V at 1 mA * Both in 1.75 mm ...
Heat spreaders. (Components).
May 01, 2001 ... * Self-adhesive ceramic heat spreaders * Aluminium oxide rated at 26w/m-K, or aluminium nitride for higher performance * Height profile 1.53 ...
Reference oscillator. (Components).
May 01, 2001 ... * TCXO complements Semtech ACS8510 station equipment timing generator * Combination provides clock for SONET/SDH Stratum 3 * Frequency 12.8 MHz ...
Film capacitors. (Components).
May 01, 2001 ... * Use in automotive applications such as hybrid drives and high-intensity-discharge lighting * Temperature ratings of - 55 to + 100C ...
Rad-hard MOSFETs. (Components).
May 01, 2001 ... * P-channel devices in 30, 60, 100, and 200V ratings * Lower [R.sub.DS(on)] and gate charge than other rad-hard devices * Withstand total ...
EMI absorber. (Components).
May 01, 2001 ... * Flexible, silicone-based sheet material * Thicknesses of 0.2 to 2.7 mm * EA10 series can suppress unwanted coupling and prevent oscillation in HF ...
2 mm surface-mount connectors. (Components).
May 01, 2001 ... * "Hard metric" 2 mm system replaces press-fit types * Tolerates high-temperature solder processes * Use in ...
High value capacitors. (Components).
May 01, 2001 ... * Capacitance values of 1.0 to 50F * Working voltage 2.5V * Lifetime 1000 hours at 70C and 2.5V * Low ESR of 0.02 to 0.15[omega], ...
Polymer fuses. (Components).
May 01, 2001 ... * Ratings from 0.2 to 1.1A * Interrupt rating 40A at 6 to 30V * 4.5 X 3.2 mm format ...
Off-line switch. (Power Supplies).
May 01, 2001 ... * Integrates MOSFET, oscillator and control circuitry * Output rating of 4 - 23W * Includes fault protection and EMI frequency jitter * ...
DC/DC converters. (Power Supplies).
May 01, 2001 ... * 15 and 20W versions, 24 or 5V output * 300 kHz switching and 82% typical efficiency * Case temperature - 40 to 100C ...
Bench supply. (Power Supplies).
May 01, 2001 ... * Multi-mode 300W; operates as dual independent or single source * Two outputs of 0 - 75V at 0 - 2A * Single output up to 75V, 4A or 150V, 2A * ...
Switch design for PFC. (Power Supplies).
May 01, 2001 ... * IGBT and diode pairs help meet PFC specifications * Four matched component combinations cover 500W to over 1500W * Switch is a high current ...
Low lead-time DC-DC modules. (Power Supplies).
May 01, 2001 ... * Production volumes in 4 weeks * 10 and 15W DC-DC modules * 18 to 36 or 36 to 75V input * 3, 5, 12, or [+ or -]12V ...
180W compact supply. (Power Supplies).
May 01, 2001 ... * Input range 16 to 150 VDC * Outputs from 3.3 to 24V * Single, dual, triple or quad outputs * N + 1 ...
19in rack supply. (Power Supplies).
May 01, 2001 ... * For telecom rectifier and industrial equipment applications * AC-DC converter with 500W rating * Active power factor correction, ...
Low-profile configurable supply. (Power Supplies).
May 01, 2001 ... * Can be customised with no NRE * Low-profile 1.6 in module, universal AC input * Outputs of +5 V at 23 A and + 12V at 9A * Remote sense, ...
EBX platform. (Embedded Systems).
May 01, 2001 ... * SBC based on National's Geode GX1 multimedia processor * I/O includes 10/100 Ethernet, 4 serial, and 2 USB ports * 16 Mbyte on-board flash memory for OS storage ...
Pentium III PC/104 boards. (Embedded Systems).
May 01, 2001 ... * Processor is P-III at up to 800 MHz * Carries 16 to 128 Mbyte SDRAM, with 256 kByte L2 cache * CompactFlash memory up to 128 Mbyte ...
VME military multiprocessor. (Embedded Systems).
May 01, 2001 ... * 9U VME computer with fast interconnect and fast boot * Based on four Merlin MPC7400 cards with crossbar data interconnect up to 960 Mbyte/sec * Full ...
WinCE development kits. (Embedded Systems).
May 01, 2001 ... * Based around the Neutron and Photon embedded SBCs * Rapid development of Windows CE 3.0 applications * Kit includes all hardware, with solid-state ...
Secure smart card solution. (Embedded Systems).
May 01, 2001 ... * Solution is security certified to ISO 15408, level EAL4 Augmented * Software from Gemplus * Hardware is ST's ST19 platform * Card ...
Develop control systems on PC. (Embedded Systems).
May 01, 2001 ... * Rapid prototyping of control algorithms with starter board kit * Interfaces to Matlab and Simulink (The Mathworks) * Graphical development ...
Power analysis tools. (Embedded Systems).
May 01, 2001 ... * Tune embedded system power demand for battery-powered applications * Analyse and optimise clock speed while monitoring real-time performance * ...
Programmable system chip. (Integrated Circuits).
May 01, 2001 ... * Integrates AVR RISC microcontroller with 10k gates of SRAM programmable logic * Includes 36 kBytes of SRAM with serial interface and two UARTs ...
DDR memory modules. (Integrated Circuits).
May 01, 2001 ... * Unbuffered 200-pin double-data-rate (DDR) memories * Small-outline DIMM format * Use rising and falling edges of each clock for ...
Step-up converters. (Integrated Circuits).
May 01, 2001 ... * DC-DC converters with integrated reverse-battery protection * 4 [mu]A quiescent supply current * Input voltage of 1.5 to 5.5V, deliver 150 ...
Small 16-bit DAC. (Integrated Circuits).
May 01, 2001 ... * 16-bit DAC in MSOP-8 packaging * Uses 250 [mu]A at 5V, operates 2.7 to 5V * Optimised for closed-loop feedback systems * ...
PLL clock drivers. (Integrated Circuits).
May 01, 2001 ... * For use in high speed memory systems, including registered DIMMs * Operate at up to 175 MHz with high fanout * Use crystal or oscillator inputs, with clock ...
Low voltage supervisor. (Integrated Circuits).
May 01, 2001 ... * Monitor voltages down to 1.5V, 1.5 to 5V range * Pre-programmed voltage options * Power-on reset * 3.5 ...
Large memory microconverter. (Integrated Circuits).
May 01, 2001 ... * System-on-chip 24-bit data acquisition for sensor-based applications * 62 kBytes of flash/BE allows large programs without use of external memory * ...
Precision motor driver. (Integrated Circuits).
May 01, 2001 ... * Low noise stepping motor drive function * Integrates control functions and high-voltage power MOSFETs * MOSFETs rated 40V and 0.5[OMEGA] on-resistance ...
Turbo code IP. (Communications).
May 01, 2001 ... * Channel coding function for Turbo code encode/decode * Error correction standards to 3GPP for average data rates of 2.048 Mbps, with higher burst rates * ...
Bluetooth IP. (Communications).
May 01, 2001 ... * Single-chip baseband solution to run on Excalibur FPGA * Based on Boost Lite core from NewLogic AG * Implements Bluetooth ...
Infrastructure Bluetooth module. (Communications).
May 01, 2001 ... * Wireless-to-Ethernet router for embedded Internet * Intelligent routing device on 5.9 X 32. cm PCB * Includes single-chip Bluetooth baseband processor, ...
DWDM laser diodes. (Communications).
May 01, 2001 ... * 1480 nm pump laser diode for use in erbium-doped fibre amplifiers * Minimum in-fibre power of 300 mW * Drive current 1A, forward voltage 2.8V, case ...
Expanded addressing 8051. (Microprocessors).
May 01, 2001 ... * 8051 architecture chip addresses 16 Mbyte range * Based on 51 MX core * Program counter extended to 23 bits, stack pointer to 16 bits * ...
DSP care far VoIP. (Microprocessors).
May 01, 2001 ... * IP for voice-over-Internet protocol * Targets low- and mid-range applications, SOHO and small/medium enterprise * Cores enable calls using H.323 and SIP (session ...
8051 tool suite. (Microprocessors).
May 01, 2001 ... * Supports 8051 derivatives from multiple silicon vendors * Upgraded optimising C compiler and CrossView Pro ROM monitor debugger/simulator * Easy and ...