Electronic Design articles from September 2005

Electronic Design archives from September 2005

Megatrends: where are we going?
September 1, 2005... Put your design plans in perspective by taking a look at the big picture. Our annual State of the Industry issue focuses on the megatrends driving both the apprehensions and the opportunities in the electronic design marketplace. Insightful...

"Sound off".
September 1, 2005... "Right on for bringing up the standby power issue. And yes, we do need appliances brought down to as low a standby power level as possible. But we absolutely do not need more of some arrogant paternalistic bureaucracy telling us all is okay....

Virtual embedding.(EiED Online)
September 1, 2005... Virtualization is one way to get two or more operating systems to coexist on the same hardware. A virtual-machine manager will run modified, or sometimes unmodified, versions of guest operating systems. Embedded/Systems/Software Editor Bill...

2006 Engineering Hall of Fame.(WHAT'S UP?)
September 1, 2005... Today's design engineers stand on the shoulders of the giants who came before: Marconi, Tesla, Edison, and others. The members of Electronic Design's Engineering Hall of Fame are those men and women whose accomplishments have shaped the...

What's cool.
September 1, 2005... From The Top 20 Articles On ED Online: 1 Wireless Systems Are Great--If They're Secure ED Online 9290 2 Automatic Switch Handles RS-232 Or RS-485 Serial Data ED Online...

Polling.
September 1, 2005... WHERE DO YOU FIND THE MOST USEFUL INFORMATION ABOUT NEW PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGY? Print magazines 54% E-mail newsletter 19% Google searches 23% Trade shows 2% Fellow designers 2% Express yourself...

Currents quarterly: your resource for the analog and mixed-signal components marketplace.(product information)(Buyers Guide)
September 1, 2005... Summer 2005 Industry's First Dual-Channel RMS Power Detector The AD8364 is the industry's only power detector that measures two complex input signals simultaneously, enabling cellular base station system designers to solve one of their...

Imaging advances bring new eyes to space missions.(Editorial)
September 1, 2005... Congratulations to those of you readers who played a role in NASA's major missions this summer. Between the Deep Impact comet exploration, the dramatic return of the shuttle program via the Discovery mission, Cassini's continued exploration of...

What's all this toaster stuff, anyhow?
September 1, 2005... Well, I never owned a toaster, but I have owned several kinds of toaster ovens. A long time ago, I had a good GE one. But then Black & Decker took over GE, and while the toaster ovens performed okay, they showed me poor reliability after a...

ASICs aren't merely surviving, they're thriving.(POV: POINT OF VIEW)
September 1, 2005... Paraphrasing Mark Twain, reports of the death of ASICs are greatly exaggerated. Despite the popularity of "ASIC bashing," within some sectors of the microelectronics community, there are still many applications where, due to volume and...

Embedded System Conference plays home to Boston revolution.(TechView)
September 1, 2005... Boston is again home to the Embedded System Conference, with all its historical flair. A host of positive developments marks this year's event, slated for Sept. 12-15 at the Hynes Convention Center. These advances include a major shift in...

Speech-recognition module eases system implementation challenges.(TechView: DIGITAL)
September 1, 2005... The RSC-4128 mixed-signal speech-recognition processor from Sensory has been available for a while. Yet designing a system around it has required a mix of analog and digital components and a significant amount of time. By preassembling all the...

Southbridge chip sets validated for PCI Express operation.(TechView: DIGITAL)
September 1, 2005... The SiS965, SiS965L, SiS966, and SiS966L Southbridge chip sets have passed recent PCI Express compatibility validation. Performed by Silicon Integrated Systems in conjunction with fabless IC company JMicron, the validation tests yielded fully...

Higher-speed front-side bus boosts server throughput.(TechView: DIGITAL)
September 1, 2005... By raising the front-side bus (FSB) speed to 667 MHz, two Intel Itanium 2 processors deliver more than a 65% system bandwidth improvement over servers with processors that use a 400-MHz FSB. The FSB connects and transfers data between the...

Transaction-level models are becoming easier to use.(TechView: EDA)
September 1, 2005... Transaction-level modeling (TLM) verification methodologies are propagating down from power users, such as large systems houses and integrated device manufacturers, to the broader design community. As they do so, standards organizations such as...

High-frequency design tool gains in efficiency.(TechView: EDA)
September 1, 2005... With version 10 of Ansoft's HFSS high-frequency/high-speed electro-magnetic design tool, designers can share CAD models and results across existing CAD/CAE design environments. Also, its dynamic-link technology lets HFSS cosimulate with other...

By automating the generation of control registers.(EDA ROUNDUP)
September 1, 2005... Denali's Blueprint tool eliminates the tedious and error-prone processes of manually managing registers. It also enables design, verification, and firmware teams to work more efficiently from consistent and synchronized views of a...

A library of Power-IC pspice models.(EDA ROUNDUP)
September 1, 2005... A LIBRARY OF POWER-IC PSPICE MODELS from EMA Design Automation incorporates over 150 time-domain simulation models for power electronic designs. Designers can use it to plug in a model, representative of the actual IC, and simulate the...

16/24-port gigabit ethernet switches deliver QoS for less.(TechView: COMMUNICATIONS)
September 1, 2005... Gigabit Ethernet switches seem so last year. Yet Vitesse Semiconductor's SparX-G16 and SparX-G24 system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions reduce the number of required passive components in switch designs while adding security, quality of service...

PLD family bridges FPGA and CPLD needs: these programmable-logic devices combine CPLD flash configurability with an FPGA lookup-table architecture for lower-cost, logic-intensive designs.(LEAPFROG: FIRST LOOK: PUTTING NEW TECHNOLOGY IN PERSPECTIVE)
September 1, 2005... Applications traditionally supported by high-density complex programmable-logic devices (CPLDs) and low-capacity FPGAs now have another option--the MachXO series of logic devices. Developed by Lattice Semiconductor, the family brings lower cost...

Low-cost FPGAs the ASIC alternative: featuring more gates and embedded memory, budget-priced FPGAs are getting the nod over ASICs in many volume applications.(TECHNOLOGY REPORT: LOW-COST FPGAs)
September 1, 2005... Now nothing will impede the field-programmable gate array's (FPGA) march into scores of volume applications. New architectures both lower the cost and improve functionality, enabling them to cost-effectively compete with ASICs-even when volumes...

I'm just "left" to rewind.(EMBEDDED IN ELECTRONIC DESIGN: SPECIAL EDITORIAL FEATURE)(Column)
September 1, 2005... It showed up one day, and my wife quickly snarfed it up. She immediately recognized it as a left-hander's timepiece, As you might guess, we have a few left-handed devices around here, including scissors, pencils, and measuring cups. The clock...

PCI Express chips eye embedded applications.(EMBEDDED NEWS)
September 1, 2005... PLX Technology has released a pair of five-port PCI Express switch chips designed for embedded applications. The PEX 8508 has eight PCI Express lanes, While the PEX 8518 features 18 lanes. These can be configured in a variety of combinations....

Kit gets ARM developers up and running quickly.(EMBEDDED NEWS)
September 1, 2005... ARM microcontrollers are extremely popular with developers, but evaluating a chip can be tedious. Oki Semiconductor attacks the problem with its AME-51 (Advantage Microcontroller Evaluation) Kit. It's based on the ML67Q4051 with 128-kbyte flash...

ARM kit equipped with ready-to-use USB projects.(EMBEDDED IN ELECTRONIC DESIGN: NEWS)
September 1, 2005... The MCB2140 development board is home to Philips' LPC2148 ARM power microcontroller with USB 2.0 Full Speed support. Keil's kit includes projects to implement a USB mass storage device or a USB Human Interface Device (HID) that works with...

Environment is a Bridge between UML and RTOS technology.(EMBEDDED IN ELECTRONIC DESIGN: NEWS)
September 1, 2005... With FSMLabs' UML Bridge, i-Logix Rhapsody developers can home in on FSMLabs' hard real-time platforms, including RTLinuxPro and RTCoreBSD, as well as the standard Linux and BSD platforms. Rhapsody is a Unified Modeling Language (UML)...

Real-time operating system reels in real-time DBMS.(EMBEDDED IN ELECTRONIC DESIGN: NEWS)
September 1, 2005... Green Hills Software's real-time operating system (RTOS), the royalty-free Integrity, received a boost from Enea AB with release 6.1 of the Polyhedra memory-resident search and query language (SQL) relational database management system (DBMS)....

System welcomes Ada 2005.(EMBEDDED IN ELECTRONIC DESIGN: NEWS)
September 1, 2005... The new Ada 2005 language standard has a supporter in the GNAT Pro 5.03a. The academic and the GNAT GPL 2005 edition from Adacore are also available as a free download from the Libre site. Ada 2005 adds a wide range of new features, including...

An EPIC tale: PC/104 hitches on to PCI Express: PCI Express energizes EPIC Express, which is like PC/104 on steroids.(EMBEDDED IN ELECTRONIC DESIGN: AN EIED EXCLUSIVE)
September 1, 2005... Express is apropos for the EPIC Express standard's name, because it puts PC/104 on the fast track to the next level. Efforts put forth by Ampro Computer, Micro/sys, Octagon Systems, Versalogic, and WinSystems resulted in the standard. The...

The hardware patch.(HIGHLIGHTS)
September 1, 2005... Although tempting, a serial to USB hardware patch forces a redesign of the embedded application board. In addition, most of the benefits of adopting USB are lost, as the serial port remains the bottleneck of the entire system.

The single-chip solutions.(HIGHLIGHTS)
September 1, 2005... These single-chip solutions are defined as flash microcontrollers with native USB interfaces. Single-chip solutions offer increased performance, decreased component count, and minimized board redesign cost and effort.

The software interfaces.(HIGHLIGHTS)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Most embedded-control designers would rather not venture into the development of Windows drivers. Fortunately, all of the most recent versions of Windows support the USB Communications Device Class (CDC), which makes emulating the serial port a...

VIDs and PIDs.(HIGHLIGHTS)
September 1, 2005... To encourage small business outfits, startups, consultants, and other low-volume productions, some microcontroller manufacturers offer the option to sublicense (at no cost) individual VID/PID pairs.

Migrate your serial application to USB the easy way.(DESIGN VIEW: Software)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The once tried-and-true COM port is missing in action. In its place, most new laptop computers carry a couple of USB ports. In fact, the USB bus was specifically designed to replace most, if not all, of the legacy ports once common to PCs. ...

Micropower power supply beats off-the-shelf solutions.(Powerful Ideas For Design)
September 1, 2005... designers of high-sensitivity, low-noise preamplifiers recognize the benefits of galvanic isolation to reducenoise. Besides the noise benefits of isolation, some preamps have further requirements, such as the ability to float at a large dc...

Instrument measures wire tension.(DESIGN BRIEFS: Innovative Designs from Readers)
September 1, 2005... This instrument measures tension on the wires fixed inside the tubes of the proportional wire chambers used to detect charged particles in high-energy physics research. The material is gold-plated tungsten. The wires measure between 3 and 30 cm...

Component specifier: wire & cable.(NEW PRODUCTS: THE LATEST NOTABLE COMPONENTS AT A GLANCE)(Directory)
September 1, 2005... COMPONENT SPECIFIER WIRE & CABLE TYPE/Model Features P & A CABLE WRAP UV-resistant polyethylene cable Starts at $0.03/ Heli-Tube wrap that's spirally cut for ft; stock ...

EPIC Celeron/Pentium III computer board with GUI and dual Ethernet.(Product Alert)
September 1, 2005... The new SBC4685 from Micro/sys, with an Ultra-Low Voltage Celeron core, provides a powerful, multimedia controller in a 4.5" x 6.5" EPIC-standard footprint. The color VGA interface supports TTL and LVDS flat panels, and CRTs. The AC97 audio...

Long range wireless RS-232 via Bluetooth.(Product Alert)
September 1, 2005... LEMOS/INITIUM have developed a reliable easy to install, low cost, long range Bluetooth wireless serial communication link for the industrial, medical, commercial and consumer markets. The Promi-SD Class 1 allows long range of up to 1,200...

Martek Power raises bar for high density intermediate bus voltage, AC Front End.(Product Alert)
September 1, 2005... Market Power unveiled the new, high density, 12 VDC output AC Front End; the AP1200 series. Delivering up to 100 amps at 12 VDC across the full AC input range of 90-265 VAC in a compact 1U X 2U format; the new AP1200 establishes a new industry...

ISI lead free interposers for DDR2 BGAs.(Product Alert)
September 1, 2005... ISI Lead Free Interposers allow OEMs to use standard eutectic (leaded) SMT assembly processes, even when BGAs are only available in lead-free packaging. DDR2 memory chips are one common application, although ISI supplies interposers for a...

Attention design engineers.(Product Alert)
September 1, 2005... Win $5,000 in our Wireless Design Contest! Our device server technology is used to network equipment so it can be accessed and managed over wireless networks. What could you engineer or enhance with one of our WiPort 802.11 wireless...

Thousands of circuits at your fingertips.(Electronic Design, Discover Circuits, partnership)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Electronic Design's partnership with Discover Circuits has linked two of the electronic industry's best engineering resources. Discover Circuits offers more than 11,000 schematics cross-referenced into over 500 categories, including circuits...

"Sound off".(WHAT'S HAPPENING @ elecdesign.com: Keeping the EE community connected)(Letter to the Editor)
September 15, 2005... "Hydrogen is not viable. It is costly to produce. It is extremely dangerous (remember the Hindenberg). It would be great otherwise, but those two shortcomings are insurmountable. The safety issue is the biggest obstacle; it is too dangerous to...

EiED online.(WHAT'S HAPPENING @ elecdesign.com: Keeping the EE community connected)
September 15, 2005... Keeping Ahead Of Overseas PC-Board Competition Large volume pc-board creation is definitely an overseas venture, but domestic companies still can compete in prototyping and low-volume pc-board generation. Embedded/Systems/Software Editor...

What's up?(Electronic Design's Guide To New International Environmental Laws)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Need to go green? We can help! The European Union, as well as Japan and China, are about to restrict the use of environmentally hazardouz materials in electronic components and systems through the RoHS directive. Our eBook, Electronic...

Check it out!!(WHAT'S HAPPENING @ elecdesign.com: Keeping the EE community connected)
September 15, 2005... Need help with a sticky design problem? Or do you have a tip you'd like to share? Electronic Design's forums let you post questions or provide answers. Join in our discussion groups at www, planetee, com/forums.

Polling.(survey about engineering career selection)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Which electronics hobby most influenced you to choose engineering as a career? Amateur radio 34% Electronics kit building 36% PC repair/upgrade 4% TV/radio repair 12% Other ...

What's cool.(WHAT'S HAPPENING @ elecdesign.com: Keeping the EE community connected)
September 15, 2005... From The Top 20 Articles on ED Online: 1 Synthesis Attacks Tile Abstract ED Online 10895 2 Battery-Powered Sine Generator Covers 100 Hz To 10 kHz ED Online 2257 3 Get Up Close And Personal With...

Invisibly bombarded in the wireless revolution.(analysis of wireless communications)(Editorial)
September 15, 2005... It's somewhat overwhelming to think about the volume of wireless signals radiating around us in a typical urban environment. Imagine having one device that would simultaneously detect and demodulate every wireless signal at any given time and...

What's all this wireless stuff, anyhow?(PEASE PORRIDGE)
September 15, 2005... As Jaye P. Morgan sang 50 years ago, "They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother, when they said that man could fly. They told Marconi, wireless was a phony, it's the same old cry." * For over 60 years, I have been enjoying many wireless...

Design on demand: market drives wireless multimedia.(POV: POINT OF VIEW)(design of chipsets)
September 15, 2005... The future of the cell-phone market can be distilled into one word: multimedia. This fact is evident across the wireless value chain. Consumers want phones with feature-rich content and a reliable connection to the network. Wireless...

Wireless everywhere!(market size forecasts of wireless communications)
September 15, 2005... Wireless is only one of the many electronics topics we cover in Electronic Design. Yet it's one of the hottest technologies today. In fact, it can be found across all of the individual EE fields. In this special issue, we'll look at how...

Microgenerator harvests kinetic energy for wireless devices.(Perpetuum Ltd.'s collaboration with Innos)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Wireless devices depend on batteries--at least for now. Soon, they will be able to draw power from their own kinetic energy. Perpetuum Ltd. and Innos have teamed up to develop a silicon-embedded self-powered wireless device that feeds off of...

Agilent open: N6700 power system.(product details of Agilent Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... A lot of options for a little price. The Agilent N6700 modular power system packs a command processing time of Of course the instrument comes system ready, includes standard PC I/0 interfaces, and lets you develop in the environment you...

Bluetooth System saves stroke victims.(Action Medical Research finances Alistair McEwan)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... Seconds count when strokes occur. Delays in treatment can lead to significant brain damage. Alistair McEwan, a doctor with University College London, has received a grant from Action Medical Research to alleviate those delays by developing a...

Don't write off the PDA market yet.(personal digital assistant)
September 15, 2005... To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of the PDA are exaggerations. Market research company Gartner Inc. says that worldwide PDA shipments totaled 3.6 million units in the second quarter of 2005. That's a 31.5% increase from the same...

Transmit-path DACs for portables shrink power demand while adding features.(digital-to-analog converters of Analog Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... The AD970x series of transmit-path digital-to-analog converters F (DACs) for portables maintains compatibility with prior generations of Analog Devices' TxDAC series while reducing power dissipation and adding an on-chip voltage reference and...

Low-noise LDO regulator provides whisper-quiet voltage for RF signal chains.(TechView: ANALOG & POWER)
September 15, 2005... LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIERS, VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS, and other RF chips can take advantage of National Semiconductor's LP5900. This 100-mA, low-dropout (80 mV) linear regulator offers a 6.5-[micro]V rms noise spec and a 75-dB power-supply...

Advanced SiGe process shrinks features, boosts performance.(product details of International Business Machines Corp.)(silicon-germanium)
September 15, 2005... The 8HP silicon-germanium (SiGe) process doubles its predecessor's performance. This IBM development utilizes 130-nm design rules to achieve a top transistor cutoff frequency ([f.sub.T]) of 200 GHz. Designers can use this performance to...

Satellite TV tuner simplifies digital TV receiver design.(TechView: DIGITAL)
September 15, 2005... COMBINE THE ZL10039 SINGLE-CHIP SATELLITE TUNER with the ZL10313 satellite demodulator chip, and you get an integrated and cost-effective front-end solution for free-to-air (FTA) satellite digital TV receivers and set-top boxes. Developed...

Single-chip RF tuner captures terrestrial digital video signals.(TechView: DIGITAL)
September 15, 2005... THE RF4000 SINGLE-CHIP TELEVISION TUNER targets digital-video broadcast terrestrial (DVB-T) applications. Developed by RF Magic, it enables terrestrial receivers throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia to achieve small physical sizes and...

COT design kit gets fabless houses into 90-nm SOI.(TechView: EDA)
September 15, 2005... Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) promises greater speed and lower power consumption than bulk CMOS processes. But it has been unavailable to the fabless semiconductor world-until now. Thanks to a customer-owned-tooling (COT) SOI design kit from...

A new open verification library standard.(standards of Accellera)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... A NEW OPEN VERIFICATION LIBRARY STANDARD has been approved by Accellera's Board of Directors. The Accellera OVL Verilog/SystemVerilog Assertion technical committee also has approved the standard, Open Verification Library (OVL) 1.0. The OVL...

In a collaboration with the China Academy of Science (CAS).(Mentor Graphics Corp. to build a laboratory)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... IN A COLLABORATION WITH THE CHINA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE (CAS). Mentor Graphics is building a joint laboratory of system design in Beijing. This phase of collaboration builds on an earlier agreement between the EDA Center of CAS and Mentor. The lab...

Simulation engine adds SystemC modeling.(TechView: EDA)
September 15, 2005... WITH USE OF SystemC ON THE RISE, designers need simulators that can handle microarchitecture-level exploration as well as full-system macroarchitecture modeling. Mirabilis Design's VisualSim Architect simulator has been enhanced with the...

Linux goes real-time all by itself.(TechView: EMBEDDED)
September 15, 2005... Real-time Linux is critical to the mobile handset and telecommunications markets. Over the past five years, the standard Linux kernel has made significant gains in delivering better real-time performance (see the figure). At the turn of the...

Module simplifies ZigBee support.(WIRELESS PRODUCTS)
September 15, 2005... The ZigRay Wireless Data Transceiver module from Tecnova is a small-footprint pc board that incroporates a Freescale MC9S08GT60 micro-controller with an MC13192/3 ZigBee transciever. The module is available with or without a ZigBee protocol...

PC/104-Plus module hosts 802.11b/g.(WIRELESS PRODUCTS)
September 15, 2005... The PPM-Wireless is a PC/104-Plus compliant module from WinSystems. It's designed to add 802.11b or 802.11g wireless networking to a PC/104-Plus system. The board's MiniPCI connector accepts a wireless MiniPCI card like Intel's PRO/Wireless...

ZigBee transceiver melds with MCU.(WIRELESS PRODUCTS)
September 15, 2005... Freescale's MC1320X family includes three pin-compatible standalone 2.4-GHz RF transceivers with an integrated Tx/Rx switch designed to mesh with with Freescale's HCS08, HC12, Coldfire, and DSC processors. Integrated versions will use...

Multitasking java virtual machine runs mobile handsets.(TechView: EMBEDDED)
September 15, 2005... MORE HANDSET DESIGNERS ARE CHOOSING JAVA because of its portability, security, and ability to optimize resource utilization. Esmertec's [micro]@PoC Push-To-Talk over Cellular Client for 2.5G and 3G mobile devices is just one aspect of this...

Silicon-on-Sapphire CMOS RF ICs change wireless system design.(product details of Peregrine Semiconductor Corp.)(complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor, radio frequency, integrated circuits)
September 15, 2005... Companies have been fabricating silicon on an insulating substrate for years. This approach lets IC designers make high-frequency, high-performance CMOS that can be used in fast processors or in RF and microwave circuits. The problem, though,...

First pre-production MBOA UWB chip hits the streets.(TechView: WIRELESS)
September 15, 2005... DUE TO THE CONFLICTING VIEWS OF NUMEROUS VENDORS, the IEEE hasn't yet established a single, formal Ultra-Wideband (UWB) standard. Even so, companies that support the proposed orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) solution are moving...

ZigBee-ready radios house RS-232 and USB interfaces.(TechView: WIRELESS)
September 15, 2005... The XBee-PRO radios have a line-of-sight range of almost a mile with a 250-kbit/s data rate. They're upgradeable to full mesh networking with a future flash download. This radio has a USB interface. Pull the XBee radios out of the box and...

RF power transistor trims broadcast-TV transmitter costs.(Freescale Semiconductor MRF6P3300H)(radio frequency)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... High-power broadcast-TV transmitter design should become easier with the MRF6P3300H enhancement-mode MOSFET. Designed for use in TV transmitters of 1, 5, and 10 kW, it can dissipate up to 300 W. It's the next generation of Freescale...

Frequently asked questions: inductive-boost dc-dc converters.(POWER DESIGN FAQs)
September 15, 2005... What is an inductive-boost dc-dc converter? Closing the switch causes current to build up through the inductor. as show in the simplified inductive-boost dc-dc converter circuit (Fig. 1). Opening the switch forces current through the diode...

LM2707: inductive-boost series led driver with programmable oscillator frequency.(product details of National Semiconductor Corp.)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
September 15, 2005... The LM2707 is intended for display backlighting and other general-purpose lighting functions in battery-powered applications. It easily accommodates single-cell lithium-ion batteries and battery chargers. This IC features 18-V output...

LM3557: step-up converter for white LED applications.(PRODUCT Q&As)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
September 15, 2005... The LM3557 is a complete solution for white LED drive applications. With minimal external component count, no dc current leakage paths to ground, cycle-by-cycle current limit protection, and output over-voltage protection circuitry, the LM3557...

LM3224: 615-kHz/1.25-MHz step-up PWM DC-DC converter.(product details of National Semiconductor Corp.)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
September 15, 2005... The LM3224 is a step-up dc-dc converter with a 0.15-[OMEGA] (typ.), 2.45-A (typ.) internal switch and pin-selectable operating frequency. It can convert 3.3 V to multiple outputs of 8, -8, and 23 V, so it is an ideal part for biasing TFT...

Camera sensors capture the cell-phone landscape: equipped with higher-resolution image sensors, camera-based cell phones deliver higher-quality images and work at lower light levers.(LEAPFROG: FIRST LOOK: PUTTING NEW TECHNOLOGY IN PERSPECTIVE)
September 15, 2005... Go ahead. Try and find a new cell phone without a built-in camera. It's not going to be easy. In fact, with these phones offering resolutions of 1 to as many as 5 Mpixels, they're replacing digital cameras in many applications. All of this...

Frequently asked questions: coupling video amplifier.(DESIGN FAQs)
September 15, 2005... What's the difference between ac coupling and dc coupling in video and high-speed amps? Using capacitors on inputs and outputs, ac coupling simplifies circuit design by removing dc voltages on the transmission line and isolating ground...

Eliminated extra voltage supply with integrated triple +3-V video buff.(Intersil ISL59830 )(Advertisement)
September 15, 2005... Intersil's new ISL59830 not only operates on just +3.3 V, but we've integrated the required negative voltage, eliminating the need for output dc blocking capacitors and external voltage regulation--finally, a true single-supply video buffer....

Industry's first fully integrated 16x5 RGB video crosspoint solution.(Intersil EL4544)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
September 15, 2005... Intersil's EL4544 is a 300-MHz fully buffered RGB video crosspoint switch with video sync extraction and pixel-by-pixel overlay for onscreen display. With crosstalk rejection of 70 dB and low offset enabled by an auto-calibration mode, the...

World's only programmable triple analog delay line.(Intersil EL9115)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
September 15, 2005... Intersil's EL9115, a triple analog delay line, compensates skew introduced by CAT-5 cable, enabling high-quality video through 1000 feet of cheap twisted-pair cable. The EL9115 allows three channels to be independently delayed in 2-ns steps, up...