News & Analysis
Renowned Inventor Dean Kamen to Deliver Keynote at National Instruments NIWeek 2006
Dean Kamen, President of DEKA Research & Development Corporation and founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), will deliver the closing keynote address to more than 2,000 attendees at NIWeek, the world’s largest virtual instrumentation conference and exhibition, Aug. 8-10, in Austin, Texas. In his speech, “Inspiring Present and Future Scientists and Engineers to Innovate,” Kamen will discuss the role of s...
Ford is Director of Sales at Powerstax
Powerstax plc has announced the appointment of Richard Ford as Director of Sales. Richard has been a major influence in the growth of power supply sales with a leading UK distributor and will now bring his expertise to Powerstax’s international business.
Micro ATX form factor Industrial Motherboard
RDS has announced the D2151-S from Fujitsu Siemens Computers. It adopts Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron D LGA775 CPU (Supports 1066/880/533MHz FSB) and is specifically designed as an Industrial Motherboard around the Micro ATX form factor.
Every leading power supply manufacturer will show at electronica 2006
Every major power supply manufacturer will be at electronica 2006, the largest trade fair for the global electronics industry. There is no other event in the electronics industry calendar that provides visitors with the chance to see and discuss the latest advances in power sourcing from all the power supply industry’s key players from the United States, Europe and the Far East.
PnpNetwork Licenses two Diamond Standard processor cores
Tensilica has announced that PnpNetwork Technologies, Inc., of Seoul, Korea, has licensed two Diamond Standard processor cores for their digital mobile broadcasting chip designs for mobile consumer broadcast TV applications and video-enabled handset designs. PnpNetwork will use the Diamond Standard 330HiFi for high-quality audio processing and the Diamond Standard 212GP as a control processor for their chip designs.
30 MIPS Digital Signal Controller
Microchip's dsPIC Digital Signal Controller offers a performance of 30 MIPS, self-programming capable Flash memory, and industrial and extended temperature ranges. The dsPIC30F6015 features an advanced pulse-width modulation peripheral designed for power-conversion, motor-control and lighting applications, a 1-million samples per second (MSPS) 10-bit analogue-to-digital (A/D) converter, 144 Kbytes of Flash program memory and operation at full...
World Cup fans score on-the-go with Microtune's tuner technology
Microtune's tuner technology was built into a variety of products that enabled avid fans of the World Cup to watch their favorite team on-the-go from mobile TV phones, in cars and on laptops. By providing the core technology that lets consumer devices receive live digital TV broadcasts, Microtune is helping usher in the era of mobile TV - one that was "kick"-started by the 2006 World Cup event.
Advanced AVC / H.264 Encoder
VITEC Multimedia, a provider of leading edge digital video products and technology since 1988, has introduced its VMC-5400, a capture and compression board designed for developers and integrators of mission critical video-based equipment and video broadcast applications.
Active and passive microwave components and subsystems described in new catalogue
New from microwave and RF component specialist Link Microtek is the latest catalogue from L-3 Narda West, which contains detailed information on the company's wide range of active and passive microwave components and subsystems.
Multi-Channel Analogue Adder/Subtractor
Lee-Dickens has introduced the BD940, a signal converter that will add or subtract between two and four scaleable input mA or Voltage signals and one internal scaleable constant. The BD940 then converts the result into an isolated standard transmission voltage or current signal.