Communications
CETECOM and Altair Semiconductor Conduct Successful LTE Testing Session
CETECOM and Altair Semiconductor, a 4G chip company developing the world’s most advanced mobile semiconductors for handheld devices, today announced the successful completion of a joint LTE test session.
5.7 to 15inch Intel Atom Fanless IP65 Panel PC Range
Announcing a further expansion of its panel PC products, Datasound Laboratories launches a family of 5 new products designated the AHM-6xx7 range. Panel sizes include 5.7” (640x480), 8”, 10.4” & 12” (all 800x600), and finally a 15” (1024x768).
CSR accelerates Android smart phone race with availability of CSR Synergy for Android
CSR announced the launch of Synergy for Android, a new version of its groundbreaking, embedded wireless system software. Synergy for Android is a complete plug-and-play, multi-radio software platform that provides end-users of Android-based handsets with advanced connectivity capabilities. It also enables OEMs to quickly and easily develop differentiated handsets with a richer set of features than the standard Android platform can support. CSR...
Pickering Interfaces Introduces new LXI High Voltage Matrix
Pickering Interfaces is expanding its range of LXI compliant products with the introduction of a new LXI High Voltage matrix, 60-311. The 60-311 is a matrix designed for high voltage switching applications. Designed to withstand voltages up to 1kV with up to 2A of carry current, the 60-311 provides a dense and cost effective solution to matrix switching solutions where high user voltages may be encountered. The LXI Class C compliant device uses...
AirHop Communications and Continuous Computing demonstrate world’s first coordinated real-time self organising network solution for small cells on picoChip platform
AirHop Communications and Continuous Computing today announced a small cell reference design, based on picoChip’s fully integrated picoXcell(TM) PC302 High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) platform, which addresses the needs of mobile operators for solutions that can automate deployment and optimise performance in tomorrow’s small-cell networks. This innovative reference design builds on industry-leading Trillium(R) protocol software from Continuou...
National Instruments Adds Vision Capabilities to NI CompactRIO and NI Single-Board RIO
National Instruments announced the addition of machine vision capabilities to NI CompactRIO and NI Single-Board RIO hardware devices that provide engineers with an integrated measurement and control platform for industrial and embedded systems. With this integrated platform solution, CompactRIO becomes one of the only programmable automation controllers (PACs) on the market to perform vision tasks, providing a more efficient, all-in-one design wi...
Avago Technologies - Ultra Low Noise Amplifier for Cellular Infrastructure Applications
Avago Technologies announced the latest edition to its family of ultra low noise, high gain, high linearity Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) active bias amplifiers for use in cellular infrastructure applications. Avago’s MGA-633P8, which is an easy-to-use GaAs monolithic microwave IC (MMIC) low noise amplifier (LNA), provides ‘Best in Class’ performance and has a compact footprint. Additionally, it has a common printed circuit board layo...
Broadband Power Amplifier for 4G base stations
Nujira and RF Micro Devices announced that they will be demonstrating an efficient broadband power amplifier (PA) design for 4G base stations at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, February 2010. The design integrates the new RFMD RFG1M family of high performance gallium nitride (GaN) amplifiers with Nujira's Coolteq.h envelope tracking power modulators.
Embedded World 2010: Industrial Networking for Automation in Focus
Silica is appearing at this year’s Embedded World fair in Nuremberg (March 2nd – 4th, 2010) entirely under the banner of “Networking for automation systems”. There will be a live demonstration of controlling a high-stack shelving system based on EtherCAT (Ethernet for Control Automation Technology) standards. The high-stack shelving system is used as an example to show how many things industrial Ethernet can do.
MAX14770E: +5V, fail-safe, PROFIBUS-DP/RS-485 transceiver for rugged industrial environments
Maxim introduced the MAX14770E PROFIBUS-DP/RS-485 transceiver. Maxim's next-generation BiCMOS process technology enables the device to achieve fast (20Mbps) data throughput while integrating robust (±35kV, HBM) ESD-protected structures in a small TQFN package.