Sunday, December 30, 2007

Integrated Receiver For High Frequency Applications On A Tiny Chip

The receiver is just a few square millimetre and is suitable for new safety systems, image sensors, and radio communication for high bitrates. The receiver is an electronic circuit including antenna, low noise amplifier, and frequency converter monolithically integrated on gallium...
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Five key tips for using an oscilloscope

The oscilloscope is one of the most widely used pieces of test equipment. It is used my many engineers almost every day and as a result it sometimes helps to recap some simple but important tips that enable the best to be gained from this type of test equipment.When making measurements using an oscilloscope there are a number of pitfalls...
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Friday, December 28, 2007

Dual Multiband Transceiver with FPGA Offers Improved Signal-to-Noise, SFDR

Pentek released its Model 7141 Dual Multiband Transceiver with FPGA. It is a complete software radio system for connection to HF or IF ports of a communications system. The device's signal-to-noise ratio and the spurious free dynamic range are improved by 10 dB, when compared to...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Sony becomes latest to quit rear-projection TVs

Sony Corp said on Thursday it would stop making rear-projection televisions, becoming the latest company to distance itself from a technology once seen as a promising rival of LCD and plasma displays in the flat-TV market. Sony said it would focus its resources...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Integrated Circuits And How They Affect You

Integrated circuits have played a large role in the development of all the technological wonders that populate the world today. But what is an integrated circuit? How does it apply to you? How has their development changed your life? To answer these questions, we must first work to understand them as a whole. Integrated circuits, or...
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Monday, December 17, 2007

SiBar™ Devices Help Protect High Data Rate Telcom and Datacom Equipment

Tyco Electronics expands its Raychem™ brand SiBar™ thyristor series to include new bi-directional transient voltage surge suppressors with an expanded range of voltages and lower capacitance to help protect high-speed ADSL/VDSL modems, Ethernet and Power-over-Ethernet and other high data rate communications equipment. Product Features GR-1089...
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New Scale Debuts World's Smallest Linear Motor

At 1.5 x 1.5 x 6 mm, Latest Piezoelectric SQUIGGLE Motor is Half the Size of Other Micro-Motors; Offers Ten Times the Precision and Push Force May 25, 2006 - Victor, NY - The latest SQUIGGLE motor from New Scale Technologies,...
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New High-Power LED Driver from Catalyst Semiconductor Optimized for Rapidly Growing, Mid-Size LCD Panel Market

Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. (NASDAQ:CATS) a supplier of analog, mixed-signal and non-volatile memory semiconductors has expanded its line of high-power LED drivers with a new device optimized for the rapidly growing mid-size LCD panel market. The new CAT4139 boost converter provides a switch current up to 750mA and drives LED strings up...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Link Partners

Offer Elevators Installation Upgrades,Modernisation and Repair ServicesQuality Function Deployment tools and Information for real life applicati...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

Rohde & Schwarz unveils fast production tester for wireless devices up to 6 GHz

The R&S CMW500 non-signaling tester delivers high speed, accuracy, and high scalability when used in the production of wireless devices. Featuring a frequency range up to 6 GHz and an IF bandwidth of 40 MHz/70 MHz (analyzer/generator), the production tester has been designed to anticipate future technological developments, This ensures...
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NI intros high-performance Smart Camera family

National Instruments has announced the NI 1722 and NI 1742 Smart Cameras to provide engineers and scientists with high-performance systems at a low cost. The NI Smart Cameras are embedded devices that combine an industrial controller with an image sensor and integrate with NI vision software to offer image processing directly on the cameras,...
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Sunday, December 09, 2007

Nanotube-producing Bacteria Show Manufacturing Promise

The research team believes this is the first time nanotubes have been shown to be produced by biological rather than chemical means. It opens the door to the possibility of cheaper and more environmentally friendly manufacture of electronic materials. The team, including Nosang V. Myung, associate professor of chemical and environmental engineering...
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