Design News - November 21, 2005

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Cover Story

Logic Analyzers Exclusive Hands-On review

Logic analyzers capture digital signals and display state information, timing information, or both. When testing or troubleshooting electronic equipment, engineers use these instruments to extract microcontroller timing information, monitor sequences of digital events, watch instructions go to and from a microprocessor, and so on.

Departments

Flash
New and Notable Product Design
Calamities
The Case of the Capricious Carburetor
My View
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, it's a Super Monkey!
Trend Watch
The Incredible Shrinking Sensor
Mail
Readers Sound Off
Expo
Motion Control/Power Transmission
Fluid Power
Electronics
Cool Software Tricks
Exporting a COSMOS Graph to Excel
Motorhead
Design Decision: 60 Hz or 50 Hz?
Rarely Asked Questions
Check the Bias Current (Or How to Ensure that a Blessing is Heard)
Rant
Accelerate Innovation
Ask
Ask the Engineer
Weblog
Cooking For Engineers
Green Scene
Environmental News Engineers Can Use
Slant
Choosing Between CCD and CMOS Image Sensors
Gadget Freak
Christina and the Dangerous Duck Slalom

Feature

Nanotech Surfaces

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Design News Partner Zones

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Light Matters: Systems Level Approach to HBLED illumination applications
Its good practice to apply a systems-level approach to high-brightness LED (HBLED) illumination applications. Minimally, the system includes the optical, thermal and electrical characteristics of the of the HBLED, the lens (if any) which is built-in to its package, secondary optics such as external plastic lenses/reflectors to direct the light as your application requires and power driver electronics. Read More

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