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October 2004 - In This Issue [Special Report] FPGAs And Virtual Prototypes Share Common Design Space Much has been written about the rise of field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) -based platforms over application-specific-integrated-circuit (ASIC) implementations. During the last few years, FPGAs have certainly increased their size and performance... — John Blyler [Design Application] Oversampling UART Reduces RF Noise In recent years, wireless communications have grown to encompass applications like remote control, remote sensing, and wireless local-area networks (WLANs). The data rates of such implementations vary from a few hundred to several million bits per... — Eli Flaxer FPGAs Help Software-Defined Radios Adapt With the proliferation of wireless standards, future devices will need to support multiple air interfaces and modulation formats. Software-defined-radio (SDR) technology enables such functionality. It uses a reconfigurable hardware platform across... — Deepak Boppana , et al. [Product Features] Tool Helps Designers Find Interface Parasitics As nanometer design projects become more commonplace, the side effects of shrinking process geometries also will grow familiar. The emergence of significant interconnect parasitic elements is chief among these effects—especially for 90-nm... — John Blyler [New Products] Portable Test Solution Covers Up To 7 GHz Increasingly, outdoor base-station construction and maintenance demand the use of handheld spectrum analyzers. Yet those handhelds have been limited in frequency range. As a result, they require additional converters. Traditionally, these handheld... — Nancy Friedrich Switch Frees Boards Of LED And Light Pipe Panel building, instrumentation, and many other applications are tricky to implement. The problem is the risk of mechanical misalignment. To help engineers avoid such misalignment, the right-angle C&K ELUM illuminated pushbutton switch from ITT... — Nancy Friedrich Bluetooth Core Supports Multiple Radios From the beginning, the success of Bluetooth has largely hinged upon the standard's ability to meet the right price-performance point. Although it took some time, the XBlue 1200 Core from IPextreme is one of a number of devices that plans to fulfill... — Nancy Friedrich Graphical-User-Interface Module Eases Integration For embedded mobile system developers, creating user interfaces usually takes time and energy that would have been better spent on areas like product differentiation. Amulet Technologies hopes to simplify this step with its new compact display... — Nancy Friedrich Thermosonic Wire Bonder Goes For The Gold As much of the industry moves toward lead-free processes, gold wire is emerging as an alternative. For example, Palomar Technologies' Model 8000 gold ball-and-stitch thermosonic wire bonder is now available for complex, precision, gold-wire-bonding... — Nancy Friedrich [Column] Combining Bluetooth And Wi-Fi Makes Sense Nowadays, people are increasingly exposed to wireless technologies that promise to improve life while providing a world of new possibilities. Right now, this trend is spotlighting two technologies: Bluetooth and Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi). Bluetooth... — Antonio Salloum ZigBee Prepares To Make A Buzz Next Year After several years in the making, 2004 marks the year that ZigBee technology has been unveiled. 2005 promises to be its big year in the commercial, home, and industrial-sensor and -control spaces. Based upon last year's release of the reliable and... — Jon Adams Letters To The Editor DON'T IGNORE THESE FACTORS I just finished reading "We Are Fighting A Battle That We Dare Not Lose" (July/August 2004, p. 17). I started to write a "classic" response like the ones we have all been taught in... — WSD Readers [News] Mobile Multimedia Gathers Speed With a single mobile device, today's consumers can create their own multimedia worlds. They can enjoy streaming video and audio, digital photography, and 3D gaming almost anywhere they go. In fact, mobile devices are now the sole targets of many... — Nancy Friedrich SoC Design Gains Flexibility For The Future Don't let the innocuous title of this book fool you. Chris Rowen, President and CEO of Tensilica, has prepared a technically accurate but accessible work that explains why the systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) of tomorrow won't be designed like today's SoCs.... — John Blyler Short Clips Magee Group has become a member of the UCLA-affiliated Wireless Internet for the Mobile Enterprise Consortium (www.winmec.ucla.edu). Magee Group founder, Jack Grubman, will join the WINMEC Carrier Advisory... — Nancy Friedrich [Editor's Note] We're Branching Out To Serve You Better With the advent of the Internet, a multitude of new resources suddenly appeared at the engineer's fingertips. Instead of having to rely on phone calls and catalogs, engineers can now browse the web and surf information-filled design sites. In fact,... — John Blyler , et al. [Around the World] Cell-Phone Cameras Expand Opportunistic Photography Photography often revolves around planned events, such as birthdays or weddings. Or, it relies on professional shoots. But even studiously prepared photographs must appear somehow impromptu. The images that photographers treasure most tend to be the... — Stephen Noble Snapshots Spain's Amitelo Communications, Inc. (www.amitelo.com) took steps to incorporate a new division. Amitelo Wireless SL will handle the deployment and development of Amitelo's wireless network for the delivery of broadband and voice... — Nancy Friedrich [On The Wireless Front] On The Wireless Front Boise, Idaho Micron Technology, Inc. recently announced qualification of the 288-Mb, reduced-latency, dynamic-random-access-memory II (RLDRAM II) products, which are now available in volume production.... — John Blyler |
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