Communications
STB products target Chinese cable & satellite markets
Broadcom has announced two products for deployment in China, an HD STB SoC for China's free-to-air satellite market, and a cost efficient, small form-factor DOCSIS 3.0 STB engineered for the country's growing cable market.
STB brings 60fps video in 10-bit colour to Chinese cable network
Broadcom has announced that Inspur Group, Shandong Cable Network's primary systems integrator, has selected Broadcom's Ultra HD SoC and Wi-Fi SoC for a new line of 4Kp60 cable STBs. Leveraging Broadcom's latest compression and decoding technology, Inspur's Ultra HD STB delivers fluid 60fps video with vivid 10-bit colour to subscribers at four times the resolution of conventional HD displays.
Industrial-grade embedded vision system features PoE
An industrial-grade embedded vision system featuring PoE has been released by Axiomtek. Based on a LGA1150 socket 4th gen Intel Core i7/i5/i3 or Celeron processor, the eBOX671-885-FL features four Gigabit PoE ports, allowing for multiple cabling to cameras and any PoE power device. The PoE system is suitable for multi-camera imaging applications such as security, surveillance and optical inspection applications as well as IoT and M2M-related appl...
Efficient SBC suits digital signage & image processing
Advantech has announced the arrival of the MIO-2263 SBC in a 2.5” Pico-ITX (100x72mm) form factor. Based on the Intel Atom processor E3800 product family, it is the first SoC designed for intelligent systems with quad core computing, high graphics and media performance. MIO-2263 is a fanless SBC designed for operation across the temperature range of -40 to +85°C.
GaAs pHEMTprocess technology provides higher gain/bandwidth
A GaAs (Gallium Arsenide ) pHEMT (pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor) process technology, which provides higher gain/bandwidth and lower power consumption than competing semiconductor processes, has been introduced by Qorvo. The TQPHT09 is a 90nm pHEMT process that supports the company’s next-gen optical product portfolio. This process is suitable for next-gen high frequency, high performance amplifiers required for 1...
Drivers & TIAs enable next-gen optical networks
Optical transport products, designed for long haul, metro and data centre applications, have been released by Qorvo. The portfolio is comprised of three drivers and two Transimpedance Amplifiers (TIA), which deliver multi-channel and low power consumption options that reduce cost, enable outstanding channel-to-channel isolation while shrinking product form factor, and maximise integration and signal fidelity for network equipment manufacturers.&n...
SCB & computing box target industrial & IoT markets
An SBC and a computing box, powered by the TI Sitara AM3352 Cortex-A8 1GHz processor, have been released by Advantech. Equipped with 512MB of DDR3 memory and 4GB flash ROM onboard, the RSB-4220 SBC and the UBC-FA30 computing box are suited the industrial and IoT markets.
Gigabit Ethernet switches feature 24 ports
A family of gigabit Ethernet switches, which feature up to 24 10/100/1000Mb/s copper twisted pair ports and two SFP sockets, has been introduced by Diamond Systems. The Epsilon-24000 managed Layer 2+ Ethernet switch modules are offered in a PC/104 form factor measuring 96x116mm.
Custom video processor suite enables field applications
As high resolution cameras and displays spread to medical, AV, events, military and telecomms applications, the need for practical, real world video processing solutions has grown. Simultaneously, FPGA processing capacity has grown to allow more ambitious designs. Omnitek provides off-the-shelf and bespoke designs for video equipment manufacturers, allowing them to focus on USPs without needing expensive R&D teams.
Compact, efficient SBC offers 14nm Intel Core options
IBASE Technology has launched its IB909 series, a 3.5" disk size SBC with onboard 5th gen Intel Core i U-series processors. The IB909 series offers options of the Intel Core i7-5650U running 2.2GHz, the Intel Core i5-5350U processor (1.8GHz) and the Intel Core i3-5010U processor (2.1GHz), manufactured on 14nm process technology.