The links on this page (rotated periodically) provide easy access to consortiums, standards bodies, university research and course material, as well as tutorials of interest to analog and mixed-signal circuit designers. A wealth of analog information is available from engineers and scientists, and occasionally from musicians and philosophers.
SMPS Technology Knowledge Base is devoted to solving problems in switch mode power supply design. The site includes links to books lists, vendor seminars, full-text papers, and design aids. It is maintained by consultant Jerrold Foutz, whose clients have included General Electric Space Systems, Rockwell International and Battelle Laboratories, as well as Army and Navy Branches.
A tutorial on optical networks, which includes an exposure to Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) is available in English from the Korean WDM Optical Network Group. The authors include GH Lee of Samsung Electronics, JT Yu of Korea University, and SR Lee, of ETRI, the national Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute.
Prominent at CES, the Home Audio Video interoperability (HAVi) consortium is promoting compatible software interfaces for multiple consumer appliances on a network like IEEE1394. At the Consumer Electronics Show, the group demonstrated cluster controllers for DVDs, cameras, television sets and 1394-based hard drives.
Membership in the Smart Battery System Implementers Forum now includes some 17 battery makers, 27 semiconductor makers, and influential system vendors like 3Com, Compaq, Dell and IBM. Version 2.0 of the SMBus spec is in review.
Though they'll charge you a nominal fee to download a paper, the Society of Automotive Engineers' (SAE) homepage is a great source of technical information on the products and standards that go into the making of "self-propelled vehicles" - aircraft, as well as cars and trucks.
A listing of analog design tools is available at the EDA tools Café.
Those of you wondering about the possible convergence between Auto PCs and Palm Pilots might check out the messages posted at Cecity
Those of you who live outside of Silicon Valley (as well as those of you inside) might want to consider the general consumers’ view of hi-tech happenings. These show up of on the Technology Pages of The San Jose Mercury News.
A number of Intusoft simulation and filter design demonstration packages for Windows-based PCs are available from Interface Technologies.
The SDR Forum is an open, non-profit corporation supporting the development and deployment of open architectures for Software Defined Radios and advanced wireless systems.
Shavano Music Online has an interesting op amp tutorial. Ordinarily, their online musicians’ magazine focuses on what they call “working Artist and Band information.” This tutorial, intended perhaps for those building audio mixing consoles, might be educational for experienced digital designers coming to analog for the first time as well.
Texas A&M University’s Analog & Mixed Signal Center WWW Board is a general community bulletin board with feelers and responses of particular interest to analog designers.
The five founding companies of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) include Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia and Toshiba. An influential Promoters’ Group includes 3Com, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft and Motorola.
The Home Phoneline Networking Alliance, HomePNA is a company association working on the adoption of a single, unified phoneline networking standard. HomePNA's 2.0 Specification provides a 10- Mbits/s data rate over home phone wiring.
