* Departments and Columns

  Bakers Best
    o The electrical-overstress ghost
  Mechatronics In Design
    o Impedance: an essential multidisciplinary concept
  Prying Eyes
    o Remote phosphor expands reach of LED light
  Tales From The Cube
    o Acid test
  edn.comment
    o Why write about networking ICs?
   
* Design Ideas
 
    o Anticipator circuit speeds signal settling to a final value
    o Schmitt trigger provides toggle function
    o Active multiplexing saves inputs
    o Transistor tester identifies terminals
    o Finely tune the hue of blue-light sources

* Features

  Design Feature
    o Surpassing the bandwidth limitations of cache-based processing architectures
    o Hardware choices for MPLS and backbone bridging

* Pulse

    o Dual ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore features 28-nm, low-power programmable logic for high-end embedded systems
    o Thermal nanotape aims to cool hot spots
    o System accurately characterizes, tests compliance of PCIe 3.0 receivers
    o Air hybrid cars could halve fuel consumption
    o FPGA-reference-design kit eases HDR-video-surveillance-camera development  
    o Midrange scopes feature pivoting displays
    o Multicore embedded processors accelerate 4G LTE applications
  Voices
    o NXP's Rick Clemmer: short-range technology, long-range opportunity