Electronic Design UPDATE e-Newsletter | April
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Click here for more info. industry view |Prompt Standardization Of Advanced Features Opens Doors To New Markets For PCI Express By Larry Chisvin
Chief Operation Officer, PLX Technology
After effectively superseding the PCI bus, PCI Express interconnect technology is now entrenched in its early high-growth markets: PCs, workstations, servers, and storage systems. It has started to penetrate other markets as well, and it is on track to become more popular than any previous interconnect standard. Read the full article...
Beta Transformer is introducing a new ultra low profile 0.130" maximum height, dual transformer. The DSS-2000 Series has a side-by-side configuration and is available in ratios compatible with 3.3, 5.0, 12, and 15 Volt transceivers. The 0.130†height makes it particularly attractive for today's smaller MIL-STD-1553 board topologies.
The DSS-2000 Series uses a robust header-style design which meets all the requirements of the MIL-PRF-21038 specification. It operates over the full military temperature range of -55°C to +130°C.
Click here for more info. industry view |Prompt Standardization Of Advanced Features Opens Doors To New Markets For PCI Express By Larry Chisvin
Chief Operation Officer, PLX Technology
After effectively superseding the PCI bus, PCI Express interconnect technology is now entrenched in its early high-growth markets: PCs, workstations, servers, and storage systems. It has started to penetrate other markets as well, and it is on track to become more popular than any previous interconnect standard. Read the full article...
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out exclusive videos from CTIA, Mobile World Congress, APEC, and Embedded World exhibitions and see the technology of
tomorrow from major players in the electronics industry.
In case you haven't noticed, we live in a cell-phone-centric world. Steve Largent, president and CEO of CTIA said at one of the keynotes during the recent conference, "We are living through our cell phones." At first I was skeptical of such a statement, but thinking about it, he's right. Read the full article... focus on components |
Expanding the company's family of ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 radio
modules, the latest Matrix module employs the Texas Instruments' CC2430
transceiver platform to provide an integrated, drop-in ZigBee radio
system. Tailored for low-power networks, the module suits home and
building automation, industrial control, security, and remote sensor
applications. Read the
full article...
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Technology Editor Bill Wong gives some highlights of things to come
at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC). Read the
full article...
In case you haven't noticed, we live in a cell-phone-centric world. Steve Largent, president and CEO of CTIA said at one of the keynotes during the recent conference, "We are living through our cell phones." At first I was skeptical of such a statement, but thinking about it, he's right. Read the full article... focus on components |
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ZigBee Radio Module Enlists Powerful
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ESC 2008 PREVIEW
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ESC Silicon Valley: Learn Today, Design
Tomorrow
ESC Silicon Valley is where the global design engineering community gathers to learn, collaborate and celebrate innovation. ESC is celebrating 20 years of educating the creators of technology at the San Jose Convention Center from April 14 - 17 with over 350 exhibiting companies and over 200 new courses to this year's conference. Register today! Use Code: UX2-D Engineering TV | The Disappearing Polymer Polypropylene carbonate (PPC), is a polycarbonate plastic material, a copolymer of carbon dioxide and propylene oxide. In the ceramics industry, polypropylene carbonate and polyethylene carbonate are used as sacrificial binders, especially alumina and silicon carbide; the polymers evaporate during sintering as they decompose completely above 300°C.
Click here to watch the video.
news from the editors |
The topic of licensing and certification comes up every now and then
in engineering. There are always two camps that emerge in these
discussions—those who say "who needs it?" and a support group that
thinks it is good and necessary. Read the
full article...
Maxim Integrated Products' DS3102 clock timing IC monitors and
generates clocks for Sonet/SDH, synchronous Ethernet (Sync-E), PDH, and
wireless systems. It's designed for full carrier-class Stratum 3 clock
synchronization for G.8262-compliant synchronous Ethernet equipment.
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full article...
Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. said it has achieved all optically
regenerated transmission, which enables unlimited transmission of
160-Gbit/s optical signals with a single wavelength. To do so, OKI
developed an all-optical 3R Regenerator, which uses a specialized
optical-repeater technology with functions for reamplification,
reshaping to remove optical signal wave distortion, and retiming to
avoid timing-jitter accumulation. Read the
full article...
A ZigBee-based energy-management system, called Link2Web, has been
successfully deployed at an industrial facility in Sweden, reducing the
facility's energy costs by 37% over the course of one year. The
announcement was made by MeshNetics, a provider of ZigBee modules and
embedded software, and BFM AB, an energy-management company, at the
Light and Building exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany. Read the
full article...
ESC Silicon Valley is where the global design engineering community gathers to learn, collaborate and celebrate innovation. ESC is celebrating 20 years of educating the creators of technology at the San Jose Convention Center from April 14 - 17 with over 350 exhibiting companies and over 200 new courses to this year's conference. Register today! Use Code: UX2-D Engineering TV | The Disappearing Polymer Polypropylene carbonate (PPC), is a polycarbonate plastic material, a copolymer of carbon dioxide and propylene oxide. In the ceramics industry, polypropylene carbonate and polyethylene carbonate are used as sacrificial binders, especially alumina and silicon carbide; the polymers evaporate during sintering as they decompose completely above 300°C.
Click here to watch the video.
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IEEE Announces A New Wireless Engineering
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Clock Generation And Synchronization Hold The
Key To Advanced High-Speed Telecom Performance
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Oki Demonstrates All-Optical 160-Gbit/s,
Long-Distance Data Transmission
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Wireless Management Unit Slashes Energy
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Register now! quick poll | Last month, Fujitsu announced a 2.5-in. hard-disk drive with speeds up to 7200 rpm and a 320-Gbyte capacity, using just 2.3 W. What does this indicate about the role of HDDs in the future?
Presented by Winland Electronics
April 30 @ 2pm ET Developing a wireless sensor network can be an awesome challenge or a simple matter of picking the right module, depending on who you ask. Off-the-shelf solutions have certain advantages, but may not be the best overall solution to your problem. Home grown or custom solutions can be designed to overcome specific challenges, so they can be critical for certain projects. Learn more about the technical pros & cons of both options in this live course.
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upcoming industry events | International Symposium On Physical Design
Portland, Ore.
April 13-16 Embedded Systems Conference
San Jose, Calif.
April 14-18 Next Generation Networks & Basestations
Bath, England
April 22-25 ED bookstore |
Read up on Communications/Test Editor Louis Frenzel's reviews and
recommendations on two reference guides from the industiral networking
industry. Industrial Ethernet, 2nd Ed., by P.S. Marshall and J.S.
Rinaldi introduces how Ethernet carries the TCP/IP protocol suite, and
there is also coverage on Ethernet hardware. The second book, Industrial
Data Communications, 4th Ed., by L.M. Thompson, covers a rainbow of
topics within the serial-data communications field. Read the
full article...
Whether you're considering a move to embedded Linux, or you're fully immersed in embedded Linux development, there are steps you can take to ensure a successful project and avoid some of the common pitfalls of working with flash in this environment. Download this free whitepaper to learn more about ways to make your embedded Linux projects successful.
Register now! quick poll | Last month, Fujitsu announced a 2.5-in. hard-disk drive with speeds up to 7200 rpm and a 320-Gbyte capacity, using just 2.3 W. What does this indicate about the role of HDDs in the future?
- The HDD is here to stay.
- Competition with flash will balance both technologies.
- Flash's dominance is inevitable.
- Eventually, both technologies will be replaced by more exotic storage.
Click here to take the poll. Remember to scroll down, the poll is at the bottom of the page.
Presented by Winland Electronics
April 30 @ 2pm ET Developing a wireless sensor network can be an awesome challenge or a simple matter of picking the right module, depending on who you ask. Off-the-shelf solutions have certain advantages, but may not be the best overall solution to your problem. Home grown or custom solutions can be designed to overcome specific challenges, so they can be critical for certain projects. Learn more about the technical pros & cons of both options in this live course.
Click here for more information.
upcoming industry events | International Symposium On Physical Design
Portland, Ore.
April 13-16 Embedded Systems Conference
San Jose, Calif.
April 14-18 Next Generation Networks & Basestations
Bath, England
April 22-25 ED bookstore |
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Industrial Networking Texts: Two
Selections
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