Electronic Design articles from July 2005

Electronic Design archives from July 2005

Designing with video signals, chapter 2.(WHAT'S HAPPENING @ Keeping the EE community connected)
July 7, 2005... Dealing with digital video signals in the analog world can be tricky. Arm yourself with knowledge and download our eBook, Analog/Mixed-Signal Components For 21st Century Video, by Analog/Power Editor Don Tuite. Chapter 1 covers the basics, and...

"Sound off".(WHAT'S HAPPENING @ Keeping the EE community connected)
July 7, 2005... "Over ten years ago, I attended the Georgia Institute of Technology--Georgia Tech. I was AMAZED to see the trouble my classmates had in the lab! They could solve equations and draw circuits on paper just fine, but connect a REAL power supply to...

Polling.(WHAT'S HAPPENING @ Keeping the EE community connected)
July 7, 2005... What do you think is the best memory technology for portable devices? Miniature hard drives 7% Embedded flash memory 22% Removable flash memory ...

A butterfly Or USB arm: you choose.(EiED Online)
July 7, 2005... Atmel microcontrollers address a wide range of application areas. But how good are their development tools? Embedded/ Systems/Software Editor Bill Wong finds out when he puts a pair of development kits for the AVR and ARM7 microcontrollers to...

Archived showcast: what to see at DAC.(WHAT'S UP?)
July 7, 2005... Even if you weren't able to attend the Design Automation Conference last month, it's not too late to "see" the show. Electronic Design's DAC Showcast is available as a free archive for you to view at any time. Find out which products made the...

What's cool.(WHAT'S HAPPENING @ Keeping the EE community connected)
July 7, 2005... From The Top 20 Articles On ED Online: 1 Distributors Evolve Beyond The "Component Store Tag ED Online 10360 2 Simple Circuit Creates Magnetic-Card Lock ED Online 6174 3 Whose Linux Is It, Anyway? ED Online 10455 4...

Check it out!!(WHAT'S HAPPENING @ Keeping the EE community connected)
July 7, 2005... Are you up to speed on the Restrictions on Hazardous Substances (RoHs) directive? Educate yourself about this emerging "green" standard at electronic Design's new RoHS Reference Center by visiting www.elecdesign.com/rohs.

EE's vision drives millions in data-center power savings.(EDITORIAL)
July 7, 2005... A strong personal vision drives many of you EEs to "find a better way" to do things. When there's a market opportunity to realize that vision, you can make a huge impact. I can find no better example than Nell Rasmussen, EE and one of the...

What's all this floobydust stuff, anyhow? (Part 14).(PLEASE PORRIDGE)
July 7, 2005... This year I'm going to start off with magazines: It is well known that huge (astronomical!) quantities of magazines--especially National Geographic--have been stored in a million attics across the U.S. This raises the center of gravity of the...

Taming the complexity of network system design.(POV: POINT OF VIEW)
July 7, 2005... Various alternatives have been employed for high-performance networking and packet processing. Traditionally, ASICs have been used for the highest-level requirements. But their significant expense, expanded time-to-market (TTM), increased risk,...

Supercomm 2005: something for everyone.(SUPERCOMM)
July 7, 2005... Supercomm 2005 was huge. Nearly 30,000 visitors and more than 600 exhibitors attended the June show in Chicago, sponsored by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). These folks represent the main telecom system and equipment...

Parallel files earn Ross an early award.(Scope: Electronics at Work and at Play)
July 7, 2005... Researchers normally collect accolades at the end of their careers. But the U.S. Department of Energy goes out of its way to salute up-and-coming talent with its Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. And this year, a...

65-nm processes target next-gen high-speed and low-power ASICs.(TechView: DIGITAL)
July 7, 2005... A Pair of 65-nm CMOS processes lets designers implement ASICs with up to 120 million gates. Developed by IBM, these processes deliver twice the number of gates of the company's previous 90-nm offerings. These copper- and low-k-based processes...

Math accelerator puts a supercomputer inside a PC.(TechView: DIGITAL)
July 7, 2005... Staking a claim to the title of world's fastest 64-bit floating-point coprocessor chip, Clear-Speed Technology's CSX600 can deliver a sustained 25 GFLOPs for DGEMM (matrix multiplication) calculations. Each of the chip's 96...

Engine adds temperature awareness to IC flows.(TechView: EDA)
July 7, 2005... Physical IC design flows are studded with analysis tools for numerous parameters, including leakage power, IR drop, electromigration, and timing. Now, Gradient Design Automation seeks to add thermal analysis to the mix in the form of its...

Design-rule checker bets the farm on parallelism.(TechView: EDA)
July 7, 2005... Promising full-chip design-rule checking (DRC) for designs of any size and at any technology node in two hours or less, Magma's Quartz DRC is a key component of the company's recently announced Cobra 2005.03 release. The truly scalable physical...

Thousands of assertions written automatically.(EDA ROUNDUP)
July 7, 2005... THOUSANDS OF ASSERTIONS WRITTEN AUTOMATICALLY is the promise of anew Verilog-ianguage variant and an associated toolset from startup Assertive Design. Through use of the DesignPSL language, which leverages the ability of the Property...

An AF/microwave design suite.(EDA ROUNDUP)
July 7, 2005... AN AF/MICROWAVE DESIGN SUITE from Eagleware/Elanix has seen significant enhancement with the addition of new capabilities. Genesys 2005 includes the WhatIF frequency planning tool, which analyzes the spurious performance of intermediate...

Ethernet switch-on-a-chip targets the IP DSLAM market.(TechView: COMMUNICATIONS)
July 7, 2005... Telecom carriers now use DSL to implement triple-play (voice, video, and data) services. SwitchCore AB's Xpeedium2Pro switchon-a-chip IC family should help OEMs develop cost-effective equipment that will let carriers tap into these emerging...

Understanding noise in linear regulators.
July 7, 2005... Types of noise in analog circuits may include thermal, flicker, and shot noise, among others. In an LDO application, noise is sometimes confused with power supply ripple rejection (PSRR). Many times the two are lumped together and loosely...

Simple battery circuit extends Power over Ethernet (PoE) peak current--design note 361.(DESIGN NOTES)
July 7, 2005... Introduction Power over Ethernet (POE) is a new development that allows for the delivery of power to Ethernet-based devices via standard Ethernet CAT5 cable, precluding the need for wall adapters or other external power sources. The PoE...

Embedded wireless: too many choices?(EMBEDDED IN ELECTRONIC DESIGN)(Advertisement)
July 7, 2005... So you finally got your device networked with Ethernet and it's time to go wireless. Good luck. First, you must determine whether you need cutting edge support like ZigBee, Ultra-Wideband (UWB), or run-of-the-mill 802.11g. This alone brings up...

ZigBee kit gets jump on development.(EMBEDDED NEWS)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... The JumpStart Kit from Ember comes with half a dozen development-board modules based on Ember's 2.4-GHz EM2420 radio transceiver. Each module includes its own 8-bit microprocessor, a removable low-profile antenna, batteries, and a power supply....

Get Linux mobilized for portable devices.(EMBEDDED NEWS)
July 7, 2005... Mobilinux 4.0 from Monta Vista brings the 2.6 Linux kernel to single-chip cell phones based on hardware such as Texas Instruments' dual-processor OMAP chips. It's much more than an enhanced version of Linux, though, with features including...

Graphical programming IDE streamlines app creation with embedded development module.(NEWS: EMBEDDED IN ELECTRONIC DESIGN)
July 7, 2005... With National Instruments' LabView graphical development environment, even novice developers can create sophisticated data-acquisition or process-control systems by just selecting some virtual peripheral modules and wiring them together....

Try a hybrid flow to overcome hierarchical design limitations.(DESIGN VIEW EDA)
July 7, 2005... In a flat design flow, placement and routing resources are always visible and available. Designers then can perform routing optimization and avoid congestion to achieve a good-quality design optimization. Yet large and optimization-intensive...

Bandpass filter with adjustable Q has constant maximum gain.(shorts)
July 7, 2005... Dome applications, such as audio equalizers, require bandpass filters with a constant maximum gain (at the center frequency, [[omega].sub.0]), independent of the selected quality factor Q. But in a lot of well-known filter structures--such as...

Bootstrapping provides power-supply startup sequencing.(DESIGN BRIEFS: Innovative Designs from Readers)
July 7, 2005... In multiple-output-voltage power supplies, the topology may place restrictions on the startup sequence. This can be particularly troublesome in an isolated power supply, where a lower output voltage must be present before a higher output...

Variable overlaying simplifies firmware design.(DESIGNS BRIEFS: Innovative Designs from Readers)
July 7, 2005... In many instances of microcontroller firmware design, it's necessary, or desirable, to take four individual bytes and access them as if they were a single 32-bit variable, maybe as a pair of 16-bit variables, or even some other combination. One...

Delta introduces a bus Converter into the Delphi Series Of DC/DC Power Converters.(Product Alert)
July 7, 2005... Delta Electronic introduces the 240W E48SB bus converter into the Delphi Series of Board Mounted DC/DC Power Converters. Featuring an eighth brick footprint, single output and nominal 48V input, this isolated bus converter provides up to 240W...

Snap mount aluminum electrolytic capacitors deliver 50% more life without added cost.(Product Alert)
July 7, 2005... For high-reliability power supply applications, the new LBB series snap mount capacitors offer up to 3,000 hours life at 85[degrees] C, with full-rated voltage and ripple... 50% longer life than standard products of comparable price. Its low Z...

Low-profile, conduction cooled inverter delivers 1000VA sine wave voltage in harsh environments.(Product Alert)
July 7, 2005... Designed for railway, heavy-industry and utility applications, Absopulse's PSI 1000 inverter delivers 115Vrms or 230Vrms at 50Hz, 60Hz or 400Hz from a nominal input of 24V, 36V, 48V, 125V or 250VDC (+20%/-15%). The internal modules are...

The ultimate PCB layout and routing Ultiboard 8 And Ultiroute 8.(Product Alert)
July 7, 2005... Rounding out the Electronics Workbench Series 8 Design Suite Ultiboard 8 and Ultiroute 8 allows users to seamlessly take projects from concept through capture and simulation to final layout. Tight integration permits component nudging with...

Industry's first high power density 1A SOT-23 buck switching regulators.(Featured Products)(Advertisement)
July 7, 2005... The LM2734 and LM2736 are monolithic, high-frequency (550 kHz and 1.6 MHz), PWM step-down DC-DC converters in six-pin, thin SOT-23 packaging. With a minimum of external components and support through WEBENCH[R] online design tools, the...

100V power MOSFET drivers. (DESIGN: idea: Thermal Solutions in Power.(Advertisement)
July 7, 2005... The LM5100/01/05/07 high-voltage gate drivers are designed to drive both the high-side and the low-side N-Channel MOSFETs in a synchronous-buck or half-bridge configuration. The floating high-side driver is capable of operating with supply...

Thermal issues and solutions in power management.(Advertisement)
July 7, 2005... Power converter design is a multi-disciplinary process; an effective designer needs to understand analog and mixed-signal circuit design, wound components, electromagnetic compatibility, packaging, and thermal design. Packaging and thermal...

AC-DC current-mode PWM controller.(Featured Products)(Advertisement)
July 7, 2005... The LM5021 off-line pulse width modulation (PWM) controller contains all of the features needed to implement highly efficient off-line single-ended fiyback and forward power converters using current-mode control. The LM5021 features include an...

800 mA sub-bandgap low-noise adjustable voltage regulator.(Featured Products)(Advertisement)
July 7, 2005... The LP3878-ADJ is an 800 mA adjustable output voltage regulator designed to provide high-performance and low-noise in applications requiring very low-output voltages. Output noise is typically 18 [micro]V with a 10 nF capacitor to the bypass...

Need to go green? We can help.(WHAT'S HAPPENING @ elecdesign.com: Keeping the EE community connected)
July 21, 2005... Electronic Design's Restrictions on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Reference Center has the information you need to shift to green designs. The third chapter of our eBook, Electronic Design's Guide To New International Environmental Laws, is now...

"Sound off".(WHAT'S HAPPENING @ elecdesign.com: Keeping the EE community connected)
July 21, 2005... "Perhaps fuzzy logic is riot 'better' than conventional control technology and maybe it is not 'kaput' either? If fuzzy logic were no better and no worse either, in terms of effecting a solution to a problem, then perhaps it is fuzzy logic's...

Polling.(WHAT'S HAPPENING @ elecdesign.com: Keeping the EE community connected)
July 21, 2005... Do you think RFID applications such as smart cards, passports, and drivers' licenses are an invasion of privacy? No, it's a great 25% boost to security Yes, but it's 16% a necessary evil Yes, we should ...

@Intel.ISEF.(EiED Online)
July 21, 2005... Embedded/Systems/Software Editor Bill Wong spent his vacation at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), which highlights the success of young men and women in science, medicine, and engineering. Read about Bill's...

Archived webcast: next-generation in-house PCB prototyping.(WHAT'S UP?)
July 21, 2005... Fierce competition is pushing engineers to adopt in-house prototyping because of its enhanced technological capabilities and clear advantages over outsourcing. Sponsored by LPKF Laser & Electronics, this one-hour webcast hosted by...

What's cool.(WHAT'S HAPPENING @ elecdesign.com: Keeping the EE community connected)
July 21, 2005... From The Top 20 Articles On ED Online: 1 Audio Codecs--The Entertainment-DSP Connection ED Online 10528 2 Monitor Your PC's CPU Core Temperature ED Online 4698 3 Ultra-Fast Processing, Electro-Optics Trigger Military-System...

Next-gen chips propel summer design sizzle.(EDITORIAL)
July 21, 2005... With the semiconductor market forecast calling for growth in the second half of the year, this summer has been prime time for leading chip vendors to present their visions for the coming wave. Hearing the latest at events hosted by LSI Logic,...

Bob's mailbox.(electronic components)
July 21, 2005... Dear Bob: I'm running into a head-scratcher. I am working on a 2-[micro]A current source (pnp transistor plus sense resistor in the emitter lead, and an op amp to control the pnp's base so the voltage across the sense resistor is constant) with...

Debugging survey says: what works, what doesn't.
July 21, 2005... When stored-program computers were first invented, it didn't take long for people to realize that programmers would spend a large part of their time on debugging As British computer pioneer Maurice Wilkes recalls in his memoirs, "By June 1949,...

Jack Kilby: inventor of the integrated circuit.(TechView)
July 21, 2005... In my opinion, there are only a handful of people whose works have truly transformed the world and the way we live in it," said Texas Instruments chairman Tom Engibous. "Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, and Jack Kilby." The world...

NRAM vies for universal memory crown.(TechView)
July 21, 2005... System designers long have envisioned a new type of memory--one that serves the needs of all products and uses equally well. Once perfected, this universal memory would deliver a set of performance and cost metrics that includes: * the...

DC-DC converter IP blocks for 0.18 [micro]m integrate precisely trimmed [V.sub.REF].(TechView: ANALOG & POWER)
July 21, 2005... Four dc-dc converter intellectual-property (IP) cores from LTRIM Technologies with precisely trimmed voltage references made their debut at June's Design Automation Conference in Anaheim. Previously, the company had introduced cores for three...

Kit makes quick work of DC-DC supplies.(TechView: ANALOG & POWER)(Brief Article)
July 21, 2005... Too often, designers tackle the power supply last. When that happens, the UF224 U-frame installation kit from V-Infinity makes it simple to use single-output, 2- by 2-in. boardmount dc-dc converters. There is no need to procure pc-board,...

Delta-sigma ADCs interface easily to sensors.(TechView: ANALOG & POWER)
July 21, 2005... The LTC2480 delta-sigma analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) from Linear Technology feature a front-end design that can be driven directly from bridges, resistance-temperature detectors (RTDs), thermocouples, and other high-impedance sensors....

Multimedia processor delivers 3D graphics, security, and more.(Editorial)
July 21, 2005... The i.MX31 multimedia processor delivers nearly 1 million-polygon/s 3D graphics for low-power portable media appliances. Developed by Freescale Semiconductor, it's based on an ARM1136JF-S processor core with 16-kbyte data and instruction caches...

Security supervisor chips protect pos systems.(TechView: DIGITAL)(Brief Article)
July 21, 2005... The STM140x security supervisor chip family from STMicroelectronics takes aim at point-of-sale (POS) terminal applications. With these pin-and plug-in compatible chips, designers can easily upgrade systems as new features are needed. ...

FPGA tool suite adds native static timing analysis.(TechView: EDA)(Brief Article)
July 21, 2005... With so many ASIC designers moving over to FPGAs for implementation, FPGA tool flows are looking more and more like ASIC flows. Case in point: Actel's Libero IDE 6.2 adds native static timing analysis (STA), among other improvements, to an...

Verification closure tool watches over assertions.(TechView: EDA)(Brief Article)
July 21, 2005... While assertions and assertion-based verification (ABV) help solve many problems, they also spawn new challenges. How do you write them? Did they cover the entire design? And when is verification complete? TransEDA's Assertain is billed as...

3D planar electromagnetic modeling and analysis.(EDA ROUNDUP)
July 21, 2005... 3D PLANAR ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING AND ANALYSIS now comes in a 64-bit version with Agilent EEsof's latest edition of Momentum. With this version, users can see significantly improved accuracy, capacity, and speed for design and verification of...

A streaming coprocessor capability.(EDA ROUNDUP)
July 21, 2005... A STREAMING COPROCESSOR CAPABILITY has been added to CriticalBlue's Cascade coprocessor-synthesis design environment. Streaming permits autonomous transfer of data into and out of the coprocessor with minimum main CPU interaction, freeing the...

Faster InfiniBand, hard disks, and much more.
July 21, 2005... The mailbag is overflowing and the interviews are booked solid, but some products have shot to the top of the stack. Mellanox continues to push InfiniBand where other fabrics have yet to tread. Already at the top of the game, the new...

3U CompactPCI SBC tackles transportation and mobile projects.(NEW PRODUCTS)
July 21, 2005... MEN Micro's F11 single-board computer (SBC) sports a 933-MHz Pentium III or Celeron plus an Altera Cyclone FPGA to customize peripheral interfaces. The compact package contains two Fast Ethernet connections, two serial ports, two USB ports,...

Little micro makes big flash.(NEW PRODUCTS)
July 21, 2005... Atmel's latest 8-bit ATmega AVR microcontrollers are designed for large, low-power applications. The smallest part is the 64-pin ATmega 2561. The AVR's 32 register file is great for C programming. The chip also can wake up interrupts on up to...

ATmega specification.(TechView: EMBEDDED)
July 21, 2005... ATmega Specifications CPU 16-MHz, 8-bit AVR Flash 64 to 256 kbytes RAM 8 kbytes EEPROM 2 kbytes Clock 8-MHz, 2% on-chip oscillator Timers 4 to 16 PWM/timers Analog 8-channel, 10-bit ADC,...

Microwave RF transceiver accelerates WiMAX development.(TechView: WIRELESS)
July 21, 2005... WiMAX equipment is now being developed for consumer broadband and back-haul wireless applications. Based on the IEEE 802.162004 standard, W/MAX is getting easier to design every day. SiGe Semiconductor's latest W/MAX chip set should speed the...

Mobile operating system optimized for portables.(TechView: WIRELESS)
July 21, 2005... DO CELL-PHONE USERS REALIZE that they're carrying a highly sophisticated operating system (OS)? Probably not. Even if they did, would they care? Nope. But those of you who have to design the next generation of cell phones and other mobile...

Frequently asked questions: voltage conversion without magnetic components.(Charge pumps)
July 21, 2005... What are typical charge pump applications? Charge pumps have come far in the past decade, from unregulated single-output ICs to regulated ICs with multiple output voltages. Output power and efficiency also have improved, so the charge pump...

LM2751: regulated 2X, 1.5X switched capacitor white LED driver.(PRODUCT Q&As)(Advertisement)
July 21, 2005... With over 90% peak efficiency, the LM2751 is a constant frequency switched capacitor charge pump with regulated output of 4.5 V or 5.0 V at [+ or -] 5% regulation. Over the 2.8- to 5.5-V input range, the LM2751 can provide up to 120 mA at 4.5-V...

LM2753: charge pump flash LED driver.(PRODUCT Q&As)(Advertisement)
July 21, 2005... With a 3.6-V input, the LM2753 charge pump doubler can drive a flash LED at 250 mA. It operates over an input supply range of 3.0 to 5.5 V and provides a regulated 5-V output. Its output takes less than 10 ns to turn on a flash LED whose...

LM2770: high-efficiency switched capacitor step-down buck regulator.(PRODUCT Q&As)(Advertisement)
July 21, 2005... The LM2770 is a switched capacitor (charge pump) step-down (buck) regulator intended for powering low-voltage digital circuits in portable systems. It can supply load currents of up to 250 mA with conversion efficiencies of up to 85%. Also, it...

Uncooled thermal imaging has mass-market appeal: with these temperature-tuned thin-film filters, inexpensive CCD/CMOS cameras can sense thermal radiation wavelengths of 8 to 15 [micro]m.(LEAPROG: INDUSTRY FIRST: AN ELECTRONIC DESIGN EXCLUSIVE)
July 21, 2005... Low-cost thermal imaging is here, and it's kicking the door open to mass-market applications. The culprit is a CMOS-compatible active thin-film technology platform devised by RedShift Systems Inc. The technology behind the platform is based on...

Boost precision and accuracy with single chip capacitance- and impedance-to-digital converters.(LEADING inside: A series of engineering insights by Analog Devices)(Advertisement)
July 21, 2005... High precision capacitance- and impedance-sensing applications traditionally required a complex collection of discrete components that needed to be skillfully combined together to provide an overall measurement solution. Not only was this time...

U.S. military embraces commercial technology.(ENGINEERING FEATURE: AEROSPACE ELECTRONICS)
July 21, 2005... WE'RE SO USED TO THINKING OF TECHNOLOGY MIGRATING FROM MILITARY applications to the civilian world that it's surprising to find an opposite migration. Satellite communication, spread-spectrum modulation, and fly-by-wire come immediately to mind...

High-speed interfaces supercharge micros: high-performance, on-chip interconnects have become a necessity for the latest speed-merchant MCUs.(TECHNOLOGY REPORT: MICROPROCESSORS)
July 21, 2005... High-performance microcontrollers (MCUs) crave bandwidth, which calls for moving new interconnect technologies like PCI Express, HyperTransport, Serial RapidIO, and Gigabit Ethernet on-chip. What will that mean in the long run? Enhanced...

Wireless sensors land anywhere and everywhere.(TECHNOLOGY REPORT: WIRELESS SENSORS)
July 21, 2005... Rapid-fire advances in "sensor nets"--wireless sensor modules consisting of some combination of a sensor, controller, transceiver, battery, and antenna--are now yielding initial commercial implementations. Progress in hardware device...

Get more power for less by using Class D amplifiers.
July 21, 2005... Decades of development and high-volume production generated mature amplifier technologies that satisfy the requirements of many market segments. Class A designs address the more demanding high-end applications, while Class B and Class AB...

FET-input instrumentation amp maintains 90-dB CMRR To 1 MHz.(DESIGN BRIEFS: Innovative Designs from Readers)
July 21, 2005... Figure 1 shows a benign means of interfacing a low-level, wideband differential signal to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The FET input stage (AD8066) draws only 6 pA of input bias current and presents only 2 pF of differential input...

Low-cost quad op amp drives RF modulator.(DESIGN BRIEFS: Innovative Design from Readers)
July 21, 2005... The video circuit illustrated in Figure 1 combines an audio-subcarrier notch filter and group-delay equalization as required by the ITU-470 standard. It also includes an amplitude-adjustment capability for driving an RF video modulator in NTSC...

Silicon oscillators: high performance analog solutions from linear technology.(Advertisement)
July 21, 2005... When was the last time you considered replacing a crystal oscillator with another clock device? In all likelihood, the answer is "never," and for good reason. After all, what performs like a crystal? The answer may surprise you. At the...

Module blends USB with FPGA.(EMBEDDED)
July 21, 2005... Want to build a custom USB-based interface such as a USB-to-GPIB bridge? Check out the ZestSC1. The 7.5- by 12.5-cm module contains a USB controller, a Xilinx Spartan-3 1000 FPGA, 8 Mbytes of SRAM, and a header with 49 I/O pins. Eight pins also...

Analyzer automates jitter tests on devices to 40 GHz.(TEST & MEASUREMENT)
July 21, 2005... The MP1797A jitter analyzer performs the five most common jitter measurements on 40G transmission devices in accordance with ITU-T Standard 0.172. It uses customized jitter software, a built-in jitter generator and jitter receiver, and...

Laser driver lights up telecom, datacom systems at 2.7 Gbits/s.(COMMUNICATIONS)
July 21, 2005... The SY88982 laser diode driver supports FB and DFB lasers at data rates up to 2.7 Gbits/s. Housed in a 3- by 3-mm, 16-contact MLF lead-free package, it has a minimum 2.4-V laser compliance voltage for high-current dc-coupled applications like...

See SignalExpress in action.(Catalogue Literature Review)
July 21, 2005... National Instruments SignalExpress is interactive software for quickly acquiring, comparing, automating' and storing electronic measure taunts. SignalExpress simplifies your exploratory end automated measurement tasks with a drag-and-drop,...

Battery holders.(Catalogue Literature Review)
July 21, 2005... Featured products include SMT button and cell holders, battery snaps, case hardware, computer clock back up holders, multi-cell holders with covers, auto cigarette lighter plugs, for computers, alarms, controls, instruments, toys, appliances,...

New Aries Shortform.(Catalogue Literature Review)
July 21, 2005... Aries' new Shortform Catalog covers broad range of interconnection and packaging products, including side stackable PinBall BGA Sockets; Correct-A-Chip[TM] adapters, for converting virtually any package type or footprint to any other without...

Rapidly create test, measurement and control systems with LabVIEW.(Catalogue Literature Review)
July 21, 2005... NI LabVIEW is the graphical development environment for creating flexible and scalable test, measurement, and control applications, rapidly and at minimal cost With LabVIEW, engineers and scientists interface with real-world signals, analyze...