Editor’s Perspective

Lead free and RoHS: Do we need to be concerned? Most design engineers have heard about new environmental regulations governing electronic equipment. They want toContinue

A taxing problem Like many of you I recently spent some time preparing my taxes. For an engineer�for whom solving problems is something that comesContinue

An active plug for passives Lately, when it comes to electronic components, it seems that high-profile devices like superfast CPUs, highly integrated ASICs, and

Power matters Power is the only staple in the electronics buffet. A product may not have logic, a display, buttons and switches, cables, or evenContinue

Thanks for the memory This year's Consumer Electronic Show was one of evolution, not revolution. Sure, there were ever-bigger flat-panel monitors and ever-smaller

Looks good, works better Welcome to Electronic Products Vol. 47, No. 8. What keeps a publication that has been serving engineers for over 40 yearsContinue

It's about time (It's about space) It's been almost half a century since Sputnik marked the start of the space age, and 35 years sinceContinue

Bootstrapping the future If you have been reading the editorials in the various electronics engineering publications (ourselves included), you know that there is a

The blind men and the elephant I write this having just attended the first Digital Power Forum (held by the Darnell group in San Jose,Continue