Design News - November 21, 2005

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

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

Feature

Nanotech Surfaces

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