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Articles in September, 2006 issue of EDN

• Making waves: Eight years later, details still matter.
  by Strassberg, Dan
• Load-transient-response testing for voltage regulators.
• SDR goes to war.(software-defined radio)
• RF-signal-analysis instruments: now faster and smarter.
• Solenoid-protection circuit limits duty cycle.
• Voltage-regulator droop.
• Power-conversion and -management IC squeezes into embedded-system space.
• PIC microprocessor drives 20-LED dot- or bar-graph display.
• Medical devices demand stringent isolation techniques.
• 1-MHz gain-selectable amps compensate for bandwidth roll-off.
• Hall-effect hot-swap controller debuts.
  by Rako, Paul
• Digi-Key: growing up, privately.(Company overview)
• PC-centric architecture speeds HD-DVD to market.
• Test set speeds next-generation wireless-device calibration.
• Spectrum analyzer adds phase-noise-measurement set.
• IC and DMM form direct-read-out temperature probe.
• Composite-VGA encoder/decoder eases display upgrade.(Brief article)
  by Schwiering, Werner; Thompson, Brad; Granville, Fran
• Magnetic material may put new spin on computing.
• Scope.
• Miniaturization enables innovation-- past, present, and future.
• 32-nm CMOS begins to take shape.
• Tiny computer holds embedded treasure.
• "Brick-wall" lowpass audio filter needs no tuning.
  by Puyal, Diego; Molina, Pilar
• Five questions about resistors.
• Kamen clobbers big-company management.
  by Wright, Maury
• India's CDAC develops digital hearing aid.
• SPST pushbutton switch combines power-control, user-input functions.
• Stacking up.
• Modular instrumentation: LXI challenges PXI.
• PC's serial port controls programmable sine-wave generator.
• Perceptions and realities.(Syscomp Electronic Design Limited)(Personal account)
• Mixed-signal module boosts wideband performance.
  by Webb, Warren
• Dual computers boost system performance.(Brief article)
  by Webb, Warren
• Preprocessing switch speeds data in DSP clusters.
• Electronic circuit replaces mechanical push-push switch.
• Abracadabra: making system interconnect disappear with FPGAs.
• Vibration powers wireless sensor.
• I²C interface connects CompactFlash card to microcontroller.
• Your name in lights, on your body.
• Software and processors: here, there, and everywhere.
• Designing dual-modulus dividers in an FPGA.
• Process coaxes carbon nanotubes into service as vias.
• An overview of on-chip compression architectures.
• Scope.
• EDN at 50.(Editorial)
• Dynamic RAMs.
• Software turbocharges IC-logic simulation.
• High-impedance buffer amplifier's input includes ESD protection.
• Fast-settling picoammeter circuit handles wide voltage range.
• Free tool tracks verification plans.
• The right video architecture can make all the difference.
• Using Spice to ease your life.
  by Baker, Bonnie
• Receivers target high-volume GPS and DVB-H applications.
• The thermal cost of performance.
• Dynamic frequency scaling optimizes SOC performance.
• Nanoscale cavity amplifies LED output by seven times.
• Immersion-lithography road map hits dead end.
• Sportslike competition drives science and technology education.
• Circulating currents: The warnings are out.
  by Rako, Paul
• Does virtualization drive the future?
• Audiophile amplifier offers 0.00003% THD1N.
• Changing the PWM signal to dc.
• Megabit DRAMs led PC boom, despite claims that they were "too capacious".
• Speedy Spice-accurate simulator targets analog, RF.
• Clash of the wireless-USB standards.
• Scope.
• Minimum energy and power demands in analog ICs and the impact of self-heating effects in tiny transistors.
• Modeling skin effect in Spice.
• New US passports contain secure identification chips.
• Biometric sensor and preboot software lock down laptops.