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CARS, TRUCKS, AND BUSES are now almost as electronic as they are mechanical. Electronic content will only increase as more and more vehicles incorporate advanced functions, such as stability control [...]

AS OPTICAL LINKS continue to increase both the speed and the total number of ports on logic cards, the backplane is playing an increasingly important--yet overloaded--role in keeping network traffic [...]

IN THE EARLY DAYS of semiconductors, digital-system design was almost completely a hardware-intensive-tools task. User-customizable-logic chips (with the exception of software-configurable microprocessors) just didn't exist. Instead, you dealt with collections [...]

Design engineers suffer from an embarrassment of riches with regard to processor architectures, and digital signal processing is no exception. The dropping prices of low-end DSP chips and the ever-improving [...]

Spin chips use the back EMF of a brushless dc motor to control its speed, thus eliminating any need for the expensive Hall-effect sensors normally used to adjust commutation. Although [...]

Although advances in processing speed, memory density, and mass-storage capacities have made the desktop computer a viable platform for video applications, these advances don't provide the power and capacity to [...]

Serial EEPROMs provide an opportunity to add nonvolatile memory to your system at very low cost, both in terms of price and system resources. Newer devices also have the ability [...]

Set-top-box development kit * Provides all of the system-level components needed to integrate Microsoft TV Client with the National Geode hardware-reference platform * Includes production-quality device drivers tailored to the [...]

Multichip synchronous DRAM * Memory is configured as 8M x 72 bits * Available in a 219-bump plastic BGA that measures 25x32 mm * 3.3V device comes in 100-and 125-MHz [...]

DEBUGGING HIGH-END EMBEDDED APPLICATIONS IS NO LONGER STATIC. SEMICONDUCTOR VENDORS, TOOL DEVELOPERS, AND INSTRUMENT MAKERS HAVE COMBINED TO SUPPORT THE NEXUS STANDARD, WHICH RELIES ON ON-CHIP HARDWARE FEATURES AND DEFINES [...]

THE CIRCUIT IN Figure 1 provides a simple and inexpensive way to provide illumination for a dark doorway. Pressing the doorbell button momentarily rings the doorbell and turns on the [...]

RISC controllers allow tradeoffs among cost, flexibility, and ease of use It's not often that you get to choose between design flexibility and level of integration when IC vendors introduce [...]

There's an old saying, 'Whenever anything becomes common knowledge, it's probably wrong.' Take RISC technology: these days, RISC proccessors have fallen into a kind of ho-hum, lockstep, taken-for-granted technology. Many [...]

AT-to-SCSI links get smaller; SCSI II next IC makers are readying a collection of AT-to-SCSI chips and chip sets that improve performance, save precious board space, cut development time, and [...]

Network interface controller simplifies Ethernet for workstations and bridges If you're designing LAN bridges or including Ethernet in your workstation design, take a look at the DP83932 network interface controller. [...]

Hardware modeling system creates simulation models of your ASICs The LM-1000 hardware modeling system addresses some of the problems associated with doing system-level simulations of designs involving semicustom ICs. It [...]