Electronic Design UPDATE: April 11, 2007

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Electronic Design UPDATE e-Newsletter | April 11, 2007

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Today's Table of Contents:

Feature Story: OIF Signs New Implementation Agreement
Editor's View: Veteran Electronics Hobbyists Finding New Ways To Enthuse Today's Youth
Focus On Components: Family Of LED Lamps Directly Replace Incandescent Bulbs
Now on electronicdesign.com: ESC San Jose Videos
News From The Editors:
Vision Sensors Offer Unlimited Color Spectrum Analysis
Mini DC-DC Converters Boast High Efficiency, Load Regulation
S-Video Drivers Increase Battery Life While Removing Glitches
Free IPC-7351 Land Pattern Calculator Aids Board Designers

Electronic Design UPDATE edited by Christine Hintze, Associate Editor..feature story | OIF Signs New Implementation Agreement By Louis E. Frenzel, Communications, Test & Measurement Editor

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has approved the External Network to Network Interface (E-NNI) implementation agreement (IA). E-NNI defines the key requirements for the exchange of network topology and status information between control domains within an automatically switched optical network (ASON)...

Read the full article.....editor's view | Veteran Electronics Hobbyists Finding New Ways To Enthuse Today?'s Youth By Louis E. Frenzel, Communications, Test & Measurement Editor

A short while back, I wrote an article entitled "Whatever Happened To The Electronics Hobbyist?" Most of you agreed with my conclusions, but your comments revealed some interesting alternative viewpoints. Maybe my somewhat gloomy view is not so gloomy after all...

Read the full article.....focus on components | Family Of LED Lamps Directly Replace Incandescent Bulbs

Featuring optical-grade epoxy and single-contact bases, the Series B3127 9-mm bayonet-based seven-LED-cluster lamps from LEDtronics are direct replacements for a range of dc and ac incandescent bulbs.

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..news from the editors | Vision Sensors Offer Unlimited Color Spectrum Analysis

Two new color vision sensors from Banner Engineering Corp. accurately discern even the most minute color variations. Developers can program the two-piece PresencePLUS Pro version or the one-piece PresencePLUS P4 to detect a specific color and unlimited color variations within the camera'?s field of view.

Read the full article.... Mini DC-DC Converters Boast High Efficiency, Load Regulation

BEAR Power Supplies says its new BPS Series of high-voltage dc-dc converters deliver up to five times greater efficiency and 10 times tighter load regulation than similar competitive products.

Read the full article.... S-Video Drivers Increase Battery Life While Removing Glitches

Intersil'?s ISL59114 and ISL59116 low-power composite video drivers provide low-pass reconstruction filters for smoothing out switching glitches and quantization noise.

Read the full article.... Free IPC-7351 Land Pattern Calculator Aids Board Designers

PCB Libraries is giving away its IPC-7351 Land Pattern Calculator to PC-board designers. This LP Calculator, which is a scaled-down version of the LP Wizard, calculates CAD library parts that comply with the latest revision of IPC-7351.

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..quick poll | In Where Is The Universal Device Driver?, Embedded Editor Bill Wong says there are two ways to get to a "?unified?" device driver. Which approach do you favor?

Make different hardware look identical to the driver
Parameterize the driver so supporting hardware means simply adding a table
Neither

Let your voice be heard. Vote now on www.electronicdesign.com. The Quick Poll is located at the bottom of the page, so don't forget to scroll down!..product picks online | Power Supply Boasts 1U Height, 15-W/in.³ Power Density Embedded PCI Express Board Features Intel Core 2 Duo NAND Flash Controller Targets Processors Without Native Interfaces Conformally Coated Ceramic Capacitors Move Up To Automotive Grade Coaxial VCO Features Very Low Phase Noise ..upcoming industry events | 5th International Basestation Conference April 24-27, 2007 Bath, U.K. Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI'07) May 9-11, 2007 Porto Allegre, Brazil Wireless Communications Association (WCA 2007) June 11-14, 2007 Washington, D.C. See more industry events.....Electronic Design UPDATE e-Newsletter Contacts Editor: Mark David ([email protected]) Advertising/Sponsorship Opportunities: Bill Baumann ([email protected]). To unsubscribe %%$email%% click here. To change your e-mail address, send an e-mail, indicating your old e-mail address as well as your new one, to: [email protected]. To subscribe, visit our e-newsletter subscription center at www.elecdesign.com/Subscribe/. Read the Penton Media Privacy Policy.