Design News - August 15, 2005

Cover Story

For Automakers, It's Bandwidth, Bandwidth, Bandwidth

Pipe flow: It's a hydraulics term, only remotely associated with the likes of microprocessors and software. But over the next ten years, "pipe flow" is going to be transformed into an electronics term, as automakers face a computing dilemma that will dwarf anything in the history of the desktop world.

Departments

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Ask the Search Engineer
Calamities
The Case of the Lurching Lift Truck
Cool Software Tricks
Creating Parametric Ribbon Cables
Designer's Corner
A Starter Breaks the Mold
Magnetostrictive-based Transducer Provides Feedback
Expo
Fluid Power
Electronics
Software/Hardware
Motion Control/Power Transmission
Featured Product
Embedded-System Programmers Draw the Lines
Flash
New and Notable Product Design
Gadget Freak
Gadget Freaks, We Have a Problem!
Green Scene
Tin Whiskering Borders on Urban Legend
Mail
Readers Sound Off
My View
It's Not Easy Being Green—Just Ask GM
Rant
So Albert, What Will You Do For An Encore?
Slant
Embedded Knowledge Can Drive Innovation
Trend Watch
White Goods
Silicone Enhancements
Application-Specific Embedded Operating Systems
Weblog
The Perfect Site

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