Tackling System Design Challenges Through Early Verification

 By Paul Barnard, The Mathworks

For design teams in a number of industries, the cost of system verification is now their top challenge. With Model-Based Design, system-level verification can be performed earlier in the design process through modeling and simulation, shortening design cycles.

What's All This 2401BG Stuff, Anyhow?

 By Bob Pease

Back about 1965, when I was at Philbrick, we were doing some business with Amelco Semiconductor. I had designed a good hybrid op amp (the Q85AH) and Amelco was trying to build it, but they had some test problems, and some yield problems... so I flew out to help find and solve their problems.

Stars Of The Really Small Screen

 By Louis E. Frenzel, Communications Editor

Even average television viewers spend several hours a day watching the tube. But the type of viewing is changing. New standards have been established, services are available, and hit shows soon will be arriving in the palm of your hand.

 Electronic Design Pop Quiz
Sponsored by Toshiba

Do you have an eye for camera design? Do you understand image sensor technology, dynamic range, aliasing and more? Then take the professor’s challenge and test your “camera smarts” to be entered to win one of six $50.00 Amazon gift cards! Take this quiz now.

 Electronic Design Pop Quiz
Sponsored by Intel

The embedded Internet is bringing transformative changes to the embedded world. The era of intelligent connectivity is dawning. And the industry is about to hit the fast-forward button. Are you in? Take the quiz to test your knowledge.

Hitting An HD HomeRun

 By Bill Wong, Embedded/Systems/Software Editor

This multimedia PC system project is based on Silicon Dust’s HD HomeRun, a network-based HDTV tuner. It actually has a pair of tuners with independent inputs. These can be connected to the same source via an external splitter or different sources such as an antenna and a cable system.

Adjustment-Free Fan Controller For Under $1

 By Jim Keith

No frills here—just inexpensive functionality. This circuit activates a cooling fan when the temperature of a target high-power-dissipation device, such as a processor chip, exceeds a predetermined limit.