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Departments and Columns
Inside Nanotechnology
Lithography for sub-20-nm processes
Signal Integrity
The undo machine
Supply Chain
Inventory's bumpy road to smooth somewhat this year
Tales From The Cube
An engineer walks into a bar …
edn.comment
Die size does not determine IC cost

Design Ideas
Test continuity with an LED
Reliable 555 timer doesn’t falsely trigger
Flash an LED from ac-mains power
Transistors drive LEDs to light the path
Use an optocoupler to make a simple low-dropout regulator

Features
Design Feature
Using enhanced triggering to verify and debug complex designs
Designing battery-management systems
Charge-recovery circuit maximizes piezoelectric-actuator efficiency

Pulse
CST teams with Cadence on PCB, package co-design
IC manages FlexRay traffic
Scopes and probes target power, performance, and price sweet spot
Multicore DSPs and base-station SOC target use in embedded processing
Xilinx adds FPGA-DSP-development kits