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by Ron Wilson The explosion of interest in CE (carrier Ethernet) seems to be at the front of everyone's mind these days. In case you haven't been following the networking [...]

by Ron Wilson STA (static-timing analysis) was nearly an instant success at timing closure 15 years ago, and nothing much has changed since except for creating partitioning/scheduling algorithms to parallelize [...]

by Ron Wilson Mentor Graphics has continued to expand the reach of its product with its core Catapult C synthesis engine. In December, the company added support for control-logic synthesis [...]

By Ron Wilson Crickets, cicadas, katydids, and some other insects make noise by beating their wings. More significantly, they can change the pitch of their wing beats and, hence, the [...]

By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor The US patent system needs fixing to the point that there are debates over just whose interests we should fix first. But no one seems [...]

Ron Wilson, Executive Editor, EDN Once upon a time, you verified a logic design for an FPGA (field-programmable gate array) by compiling it, loading it, and pushing the reset button […]

By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor The SiGe team wanted to produce an RF-front-end module using the best technology for each component but still remaining cost-competitive with monolithic approaches. Entering the [...]

by Ron Wilson Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have announced a significant advance in the retention time of multiatom quantum-memory devices--from a previous maximum of 32 msec to [...]

By Ron Wilson Engineers and scientists have long had an intense interest in energy-scavenging devices that can extract small amounts of electrical energy from such ambient sources as temperature gradients, [...]

by Ron Wilson As the end of the road draws ever nearer for flash memory, researchers are leaving no stone unturned in their attempts to find an alternative nonvolatile-storage mechanism [...]

by Ron Wilson The advantages of imaging individual atoms in electronic materials are obvious. As you learn more about the subtle impact of small quantities of impurities on a crystal, [...]

by Ron Wilson, Executive Editor Providing a reference design for ultra-low-cost handsets to OEMs in Asia means a lot more than sending them a development board and a data sheet. [...]

Ron Wilson, Executive Editor, EDN As system-level ICs grow larger and more complex, they become impossible to observe and stimulate. Internal nodes aren't accessible to bonding pads or even to […]

Edited by Ron Wilson Looking Ahead To ISQED 2008 The International Symposium on Quality in Electronic Design, volume 2008, will take place March 17 to 19 in San Jose, CA. [...]

by Ron Wilson The Georgia Institute of Technology and the Indian Head Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center have developed a novel approach to the formation of nanoporous copper [...]

Edited by Ron Wilson Looking Ahead To DesignCon 2008 This long-standing electronics-design conference will open in its 2008 incarnation at the Santa Clara, CA, convention center, Feb 4 through 7. [...]

by Ron Wilson AmberWave Systems announced recently that it is entering a joint-research and licensing agreement with the University of California-Santa Barbara for exploration of mesoporous materials. These materials constitute [...]

by Ron Wilson Thermoacoustic devices convert heat directly into intense sound waves with relatively high efficiency-reportedly 40% of Carnot-cycle efficiency. (A Carnot cycle employs the principles of the Carnot Theorem, [...]

by Ron Wilson A new carbon-fiber-enhanced plastic material from NEC Research has the potential to both more evenly spread heat in the enclosures on electronic devices, such as cell phones, [...]

by Ron Wilson Holographic-data storage has been one of the continuing research quests that always seems to have great theoretical merit but even greater implementation problems. In principle, the technology [...]

Edited by Ron Wilson Looking ahead Ron Wilson To the International Electron Devices Meeting Convening in San Francisco on Dec 11 through 13 and arguably the world's foremost conference on [...]

by Ron Wilson, Executive Editor Designers in the consumer market work under enormous pressures. Have these circumstances changed the way they design chips and systems? The demands on consumer-electronics design [...]

By Ron Wilson Scientists can force the oscillation at microwave frequencies of nanoscale sandwiches in which a layer of copper film separates two layers of magnetic film. However, the resulting [...]

by Ron Wilson, Executive Editor The promise of wireless USB seems unbeatable--eliminate all those little, somehow inflexible cables that make a rat's nest of everyone's desktops, and turn where to [...]

by Ron Wilson HyperTransport, the physical-layer interchip-communications standard whose claim to fame has been its use on Advanced Micro Devices ( www.amd.com ) CPU chips, has rolled out its most [...]