Electronic Design articles from October 2007

Electronic Design archives from October 2007

January's smartphone stars don't seem so smart today.(Editorial)
October 11, 2007... The recent releases of the Motorola Q9 and Q9m smartphones got me thinking about last January's Consumer Electronics Show. Ed Zander, CEO of Motorola, proclaimed in his keynote that users no longer needed to lug around a notebook computer....

What's all this safety margin stuff,anyhow?(PeasePorridge)(simple series R-C network for safety )
October 11, 2007... Sometimes it's easy to tell if you have a safety margin. With a voltage regulator, or any linear amplifier, if it was oscillating, you could add a fix--often, a simple series R-C network from the input or output to ground. Good. But is it good...

With PV technology,spread electronic mayo on your roof.(PointOfView)
October 11, 2007... Designers often think small to save space, creating smaller devices with more functionality in the same area for reduced costs to enable new mass-market applications. Nowhere is this more visibly convergent than in the photovoltaic (PV) power...

For multicore graphical programming support, try LabVIEW 8.5.(TechView)
October 11, 2007... The best just keep getting better. Version 8.5 of National Instruments' Lab-VIEW graphical programming environment brinGS a lot to the design table, like enhanced multicore support including integration with FPGAs. Among its impressive...

Model library supports virtual platforms.(Tech View)
October 11, 2007... Not all aspects of electronic-system-level (ESL) design have proved as worthy as others. Yet the virtual platform has seen some of the broadest adoption among ESL technologies. These fully functional software models of complete systems have...

FPGA synthesis adroitly handles late incremental design changes.(TechView)
October 11, 2007... FPGA synthesis comes with pitfalls that are becoming more of a liability as the devices themselves grow in complexity. Timing closure can take multiple synthesis iterations. Also, design iterations are getting longer. Last-minute design changes...

Silver-zinc laptop batteries gain traction at IDF.(Analog & Power)
October 11, 2007... Don't write off lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries just yet, but their competition is gaining ground. Formerly known as Zinc Matrix Power Inc., ZPower appeared at last month's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco to discuss an early,...

SAS and SATA protocol analyzer targets portable and field testing.(TechView)
October 11, 2007... The increased adoption of the fast Serial ATA (SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interfaces has brought about a need for improved and faster testing. Catalyst Semiconductor's portable STX-131 is ideal for field engineers and service...

WLAN analyzer identifies and classifies all 802.11n traffic.(TechView)
October 11, 2007... Wi-Fi hotspots and access points are everywhere, and their number is still increasing. Most new and replacement hotspots will incorporate the IEEE's new 802.11n wireless local-area network (WLAN) standard, which incorporates multiple-input...

64-Core chip spins SMP design to higher performance levels: the Tile64 takes advantage of the iMesh interconnect to open up parallel programming opportunities in network and video applications.(LeapFrog)
October 11, 2007... Typical general-purpose symmetrical multiple-processor (SMP) multicore designs contain about eight cores. Specialized architectures, on the other hand, push the number of cores into the hundreds. Tilera ups the ante for SMP with its 64-...

Active auto safety markets shine beyond 2009: buckle up for a tour of new technologies like TPMS and other intelligent sensors that are about to make driving safer than ever.(Engineering Featusre)(Cover story)
October 11, 2007... Safety sells. That statement seems to sum up the general feeling among automotive-components makers and market analysts. Auto-component makers see a consistently upward track for activesafety products--devices, systems, and assemblies that aid...

IC packages IC feel the squeeze: packing more IC functionality into smaller form factors stacks the deck against IC makers and foreshadows difficult interconnect challenges.(Technology Report)
October 11, 2007... How much can one package take? As consumer electronics design features scale down to 45-nm and even 32-nm nodes, IC makers are pushed to the limits to shoehorn more functionality into these packages-and lest we not forget the even thornier...

"New" aproaches to RF and wireless test: the SDR architecture is just one of the technologies applied to help speed and simplify complex measurements.(Engineering ESSENTIALS)
October 11, 2007... With frequencies soaring to new heights, wireless and RF testing gets pushed to the limit in terms of complexity and cost. In fact, higher frequencies in the gigahertz range are now commonplace. Simple AM and FM/PM have disappeared, replaced by...

Clean cabling versus home high def.(Embedded)
October 11, 2007... I usually like standards. They can crop up in standards organizations and committees and make it easier to plug thinGS together. Then, de facto standards can grow organically--and get pushed by companies with big bucks. Unfortunately, such...

Flash drive hops onto header.(Embedded News)
October 11, 2007... Silicon Systems' SiliconDrive USB 10-pin Module pluGS into the 10-pin USB 2.0 header found on most motherboards, thereby providing a rugged, solid-state bootable device. It's available in versions up to 4 Gbytes and incorporates Silicon...

Celeron-based panel pitches fan.(Embedded News)
October 11, 2007... The fanless iGO17/19 widescreen LCD panels from iGoLogic house a 1.5-GHz Celeron processor, 512 Mbytes of double-data-rate (DDR) RAM, 802.11b/g wireless local-area network (WLAN) support, a Compact Flash socket, and a 2.5-in., 40-Gbyte hard...

What can we say about DLNA?(Embedded)(Digital Living Network Alliance )
October 11, 2007... Home multimedia devices will start sporting the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) logo this year, and the number of products adopting this standard will likely increase. Most vendors of multimedia hardware are members of DLNA and have...

Flexible enclosure system meets UL Type 12 standards.(ComponentView)
October 11, 2007... Designed for use in UL Type 12 industrial environments, the CC3000 Operator Interface Enclosure System from Hoffman protects human-machine interface (HMI) devices in accessible, attractive, and customized enclosures. The CC3000's modular design...

With their unique interlocking design, the Plasticase Style H.(Enclosures Briefs)
October 11, 2007... With their unique interlocking design, the Plasticase Style H enclosures from Bud Industries Inc. can be stacked several high without slipping. Unlike some plastic enclosures, the Style H models offer front and rear panels that slide out for...

OKW enclosures inc. has extended its railtec-b din-rail.(Enclosures Briefs)
October 11, 2007... OKW enclosures inc. has extended its railtec-b din-rail enclosure series with models that allow a combination of 5.0-mm pitch screw terminals and pc-board plug headers to be fitted in the same enclosure, on one or two levels. The top part has...

The s-series cabinets from optima EPS feature a modular.(Enclosures Briefs)
October 11, 2007... The s-series cabinets from optima EPS feature a modular approach that permits users to specify various sizes, depths, and options. The cabinets offer a wide range of bezel sizes and options for frame size, mounting rails, base, doors, color,...

Focus on materials.(ComponentView)(Semiconductor industry)(List)
October 11, 2007... Focus on Materials Company Model/Type Description Fujipoly Sarcon thin Silicone rubber; come in www.fujipoly.com films eight types in six ...

Go green with 100-W and higher audio power amplifiers.(Design View)
October 11, 2007... We know Class D audio amplification offers advantages in efficiency and size for battery-powered devices. What you may not know, however, is that these advantages can now extend to amplifiers up to 500 W thanks to solid-state driver ICs...

Constant-current source creates slope-compensation ramp in SMPS.(INNOVATIVE DESIGNS FROM READERS)
October 11, 2007... A switched-mode power supply (SMPS) employing peak current-mode control (PCMC) requires a ramp signal to slope-compensate the inner (current) control loop. Slope compensation stabilizes the current loop, which would otherwise exhibit...

Multivoltage supervisor shuts down supply and monitors faults.(INNOVATIVE DESIGNS FROM READERS)
October 11, 2007... Reliable system operation often depends on the quality of the power supplied. Supply voltages that are too low can cause faulty operation as the microcontroller, FPGA, or ASIC begins to send bad data to memories or peripheral devices. Too high...

Speaking of dream jobs, how about this one?(IssueOverview)
October 19, 2007... Welcome to this year's edition of Your Most Important Issue of the Year. A major focus of this year's issue is "Dream Jobs." This got me thinking about my own job and how it all started for me. As an engineering student at Manhattan...

THE EE profession: dreams versus reality; it's your job to bring other people's dreams to life.But have you made your own dreams come true yet?(SurveyOverview)
October 19, 2007... Perhaps better than most people, engineers understand the difference between dreams and reality. After all, they're often presented with someone's dream (in the form of a design specification) and then are asked to make it real. Engineers...

Design FAQs: RF detectors for wireless devices.(FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS)(Interview)
October 19, 2007... What is an RF detector? An RF detector monitors or samples the output of an RF circuit and develops a dc output voltage proportional to the power at that point. What do you do with an RF detector? RF detectors are used primarily to...

EEs join the six-figure club: average incomes surpass $100,000 as jobs grow to an all-time high.So how does your salary match up?(SalarySurvey)
October 19, 2007... The average U.S. engineer now makes $102,748 in salary and bonuses, marking the first time EEs have reached six figures in the four years that we've done our salary surveys. And there's more good news, as the engineering and tech services...

Global warming strikes the cubes and benches: engineers who have experienced chilly conditions recently are starting to feel a thaw in the air, though worries about your careers remain.(JobSatisfaction)
October 19, 2007... Engineering has been a tough profession over the past few years. Averse to market risk in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the market constrained its investment in R&D. Offshore outsourcing and an influx of lower-priced labor...

Education and R&D can save the future: before we can create the next generation of electronics, we need engineers hard at work on their research and development--as well as the engineers to do that work.(FoundationsOfTomorrow)
October 19, 2007... The only thing that's more important to engineers than the project on their table is the next project to come down the line--at least, it should be. The electronics industry is constantly being reinvented as new technologies keep Moore's...

Differing interests define engineering dream jobs: engineering stars and electronic design readers alike were able to engineer their dream jobs based on both passion and talent. those who haven't quite found theirs yet see hope in tomorrow's technologies.(Dream jobs)
October 19, 2007... In his senior year at the University of California, Electronic Design reader Thanh Nguyen remembers the chair of the physics department cancelling class so students and professors could watch NASA's firstever shuttle launch. As Columbia lifted...

Boldly go where few EEs have gone before: Rick Mastracchio and Scott J. Kelly, two veteran astronauts with electrical engineering backgrounds, were on board the space shuttle endeavor's August mission to the International Space Station.(Dream jobs)
October 19, 2007... Admit it. When you were a kid, you dreamed about becoming an astronaut. Maybe you were inspired by NASA's Apollo program--or Star Trek. Maybe you dream about it today. And maybe that led you to a career in engineering. Things weren't all that...

Wizard of Woz keeps casting his spells: what would you do after founding a technology giant? Steve Wozniak uses those resources to keep innovating and following his creative impulses.(Dream jobs)
October 19, 2007... For many, "Vice President in charge of R&D" sounds like a good job--reputable, good pay, and maybe even exciting. But tack the words "at Apple Inc." to the end of that title, and you have, well, a whole different barrel of apples. Steve...

Young EE carves his own path to success: already a veteran at the age of 24, Ryan Patterson takes aim at the next generation of Robotics and spaceflight--and the next generation of engineers.(Dream jobs)
October 19, 2007... Ryan Patterson considers himself lucky. As a toddler, he started "tinkering" by stuffing knives into electrical outlets and twisting light bulbs into sockets. He watched his dad wire their family home, and he absorbed the basics like current...

Spencer Klein: mapping theneutrino sky.(Dream jobs)
October 19, 2007... One of the world's next best "telescopes" will not peer out into space. Instead, it will probe deep into the ice of the South Pole for a better picture of the high-energy universe. The project, dubbed "IceCube," will use 4800 optical...

Mike Collette: merging film and digital tech for superior pictures.(Fiore, Kristina)
October 19, 2007... When Mike Collette visits a few of the national parks this fall, he'll be bringing his work with him. As president of Better Light Inc., a digital-imaging technology company he founded 15 years ago, he will shoot breathtaking landscapes on...

Ricky Howard: programming autonomous spy satellites (cloak and dagger optional).(Dream jobs)
October 19, 2007... Since they fly low and home in on a specific area, spy satellites must constantly reboost to maintain a view of their assigned position. That eats up fuel, and when a satellite's power runs out, the crafty contraption is kicked. But what if...

Ryan Bloomfield: expensive toys take flight.(Dream jobs)
October 19, 2007... Ryan Bloomfield likes being part of a team that makes "toys" on a grand scale. People usually fly the personal aircraft he works on at CubCrafters in Yakima, Wash., just for fun. "We really do make a high-end toys," says Bloomfield, an...

Jason Lucier: engineering for the jet set.(Dream jobs)
October 19, 2007... When the new Boeing model 787 airplane launches for commercial use in May 2008, passengers will be able to travel around the world on one of the most efficient jets ever designed. Until then, only test flight engineers like Jason Lucier will be...

Hall of fame.(improvement of human-machine interfacing)
October 19, 2007... They had some humble beginnings. Colleagues laughed at one Hall of Famer's notion of a distributed network and packetized information. Similarly, another Hall of Famer was ridiculed when he suggested that people could use computers to solve...

Cold war comm work lays grounds for 'net shopping.(HALL OF FAME)
October 19, 2007... To maintain the Cold War stalemate with the Soviet Union, the United States knew it had to develop a hefty communications system that could withstand a nuclear strike and allow for retaliation. If the Soviets knew the U.S. could strike back,...

Serious thoughts about fun and games.(HALL OF FAME)
October 19, 2007... Nolan Bushnell, popularly revered as the father of electronic games, is still inventing and dreaming of new ways for people to use technology for fun. In fact, he is forging a different direction from today's shoot 'em up, beat 'em down, tear...

A simple question yields a complex career.(HALL OF FAME)
October 19, 2007... Some say that asking the right question is more important than having the right answer. But if you're Aart de Geus, you'll do them both, and you'll do them both pretty darn well. Synthesis programming as well as all of the computeraided...

The mouse that roared.(HALL OF FAME)
October 19, 2007... For better or worse, your computer and its connections to information and other people worldwide were the vision of Douglas C. Engelbart. It all started as he contemplated his impending marriage while driving to work back in 1951. "I was...

The historian of the computer age.(HALL OF FAME)
October 19, 2007... These days, Donald Ervin Knuth spends most of his time in his study, poring over books, papers, and essays in an attempt to finish his life's work, The Art of Computer Programming. Forty years of advances in computer science are congealing, one...

Engineer, entrepreneur, photographer.(HALL OF FAME)
October 19, 2007... Walter O. LeCroy made a capital career out of helping EEs do their jobs. The digital and analog oscilloscopes that LeCroy Corp. manufactures allow engineers to test and measure signal voltages. But he found help and a key component for...

A mechatronics approach to FPGA development.(basics of Design)
October 25, 2007... As field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) continue to drop in price while adding significant capability, their use has expanded greatly in industrial control and monitoring applications. And since FPGAs are in-system/ field-programmable and...

Power Electronics Technology conference gets a makeover.(Editorial)(Conference news)
October 25, 2007... I'll be travelling to Dallas, Texas, to cover the Power Electronics Technology Exhibition and Conference, formerly known as PowerSystems World. If you ever attended that event, you know that it attracted a mixed bag of power companies. In one...

Bob's mailbox.(PeasePorridge)(Column)
October 25, 2007... Bob: As we were landing at O'Hare Airport last week, I was observing the runway and taxiway lighting. I immediately noticed that the lights are now LEDs. Would you believe that even these are designed to operate off the standard 6.6-A constant...

And they're off! WiMAX,LTE,UMB, and the race to 4G wireless.(PointOfView)
October 25, 2007... By the yardstick of typical wireless standards, the development of WiMAX has been meteoric. In 2001, it became an acronym. By 2004, it was an approved standard for fixed service. By late 2005, it was an approved mobile standard. And today, it's...

TI wireless tech to connect medical devices with HealthVault.(TechView)
October 25, 2007... For diabetes patients, a quick stick of the finger will soon reveal more than blood sugar levels. With glucometers that can wirelessly connect to Microsoft's HealthVault online health information center, patients can upload their stats and...

Do they play nice together? Don't look at chips and reference designs in isolation.(TechView: Analog & Power)
October 25, 2007... What's more important in new product announcements--new levels of performance, or the availability of design tools that make those performance levels accessible? Many designers no longer have the luxury of enough development time to breadboard,...

COTS LCD controller boards tackle harsh environments like pros.(TechView: Digital)
October 25, 2007... With the proliferation of devices being deployed to harsh environments, commercial off-theshelf (COTS) parts are needed to keep up with the demand. And since LCDs can be found in just about every new design, it would be nice to have a...

Design FAQs: resistor trimming.(FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS)
October 25, 2007... What kinds of applications utilize precision resistor trimming? Obvious applications include setting operational-amplifier gain and offset and voltage regulator output (Fig. 1a and 1b). But there are many others, such as sensor bridges and...

ATPG tool meets growing demand for scan test compression.(TechView: EDA)(Automatic Test Pattern Generation)
October 25, 2007... As IC design sizes continue to double every 18 to 24 months, those charged with testing the finished product are challenged on multiple fronts. Test-data volume and testing time are expanding, while manufacturing throughput is reduced. The...

True-3D chip-layout editor facilitates stacking of disparate wafers.
October 25, 2007... Say you wanted to create a chip in which a processor fabricated in 32-nm process rules would be combined with memory done on a 65-nm process and analog blocks fabricated at 180 nm. This leads you to consider chip/wafer-stacking technologies,...

Design FAQs: NAND flash memory.(FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS)
October 25, 2007... What is NAND flash memory? NAND flash is a type of nonvolatile memory that is accessed like a mass storage device (e.g., a hard drive). A form of electronically erasable programmable readonly memory (EEPROM), NAND flash is programmed,...

Programmable spread-spectrum clock generators make EMI reduction a snap.(TechView: Wireless)
October 25, 2007... Today's increasing processor speeds and bus and networking data rates have made electromagnetic interference (EMI) a major headache. EMI compromises a design and interferes with nearby circuits. It also forces special hardware measures to meet...

Embedded 32-bit cores hit 1 GHz: advanced pipeline designs and SIMD support push the limits of 32-bit microcontroller architectures.(LeapFrog)(single-instruction, multiple-data instructions)
October 25, 2007... The demands of multimedia are pushing hardware to extremes, requiring advanced architectures and support for multimedia single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) instructions. DSP and graphics support also are part of the mix. Yet ARM's...

Cooperation: leads to complex real-world simulations: controlling simulated environments can exercise hard designs as well as process-control software.(EngineeringFeature)
October 25, 2007... If you build it, they will control it. These days, the building is going on virtually since soft systems are faster and easier to build. Some systems may never be turned into physical entities, but knowing what will work ahead of time can save...

WiMAX: the real deal: broadband wireless gets ready for business.(TechnologyReport)
October 25, 2007... Like any emerging technology, WiMAX (short for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) has taken years to become available to the public. Even so, it took less time than most new wireless technologies. It developed quickly from an idea...

Battery ICs charge, gauge, and authenticate: OEMs and battery pirates are constantly in a quality-control tug of war. So how do companies ward off deviants and dodge the lemons?(EngineeringESSENTIALS)
October 25, 2007... Battery-management ICs fall into three basic categories: chargers, gas gauges, and authentication chips. Chargers control how a charging current is safely applied to a battery pack. Gas gauges tell the system how much charge is stored in the...

Practical ways to estimate,implement, and verify SoC decoupling capacitance.(DesignView)(systems-on-a-chip)
October 25, 2007... Deep-submicron systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) require a power-grid voltage drop of much less than 10% of [V.sub.DD]. Decoupling capacitors, or decaps, help achieve this goal by minimizing switching noise. Determining the amount of decap required for...

Highlights.(Brief article)
October 25, 2007... Estimating Decap For accurate analysis of decap requirements, you need good estimates of dynamic power consumption. A practical approach for getting these estimates in the early design stages is to characterize the design for power based...

Protect current-sense amplifiers against overvoltage transients.(INNOVATIVE DESIGNS FROM READERS)
October 25, 2007... Certain current-sense amplifiers have to contend with frequent overvoltages. For example, a current-sense amplifier that monitors batterydischarge currents in an automobile must withstand high-voltage "load dump" pulses produced when loads are...

Microcontroller interface delivers standard 4-To 20-mA output.(IdeasForDesign)
October 25, 2007... Voltage-to-current converters that feed grounded loads are common in industrial measurement and control applications. The conventional "textbook" circuit uses both positive and negative supply rails. An earlier article by this author...

Simple circuit additions power microcontroller through its.(IdeasForDesign)
October 25, 2007... Many small microcontrollers require so little power that often they can draw what they need through their loads. This can simplify a system, reduce its cost, increase its reliability, and provide unexpected benefits. One example is an...

OLEDs set to become staples of high-res displays: Samsung SDI and Clairvoyante have teamed up to make OLED performance and manufacture practical for handheld applications.(eepn in Electronic Design)
October 25, 2007... On Oct. 9, Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. revealed that it will create the market's first high-resolution active-matrix (AM) display panel using organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Samsung SDI will use Clairvoyante's...

Shielding considerations for high-speed microminiature connector systems; Bigger TVs and smaller phones are dominating the market. But before you design your next moneymaker, make sure your components have the right protection.(eepn in Electronic Design)
October 25, 2007... As applications such as flat-panel displays and mobile phones enter the giga-level transfer-speed range, connector makers are being challenged to provide compact designs that offer sufficient shielding to manage impedance control and noise...

Switching regulators offer high efficiencies even at low loads.(POWER SOURCES)(Brief article)
October 25, 2007... The 78SR Series 2A switching regulators deliver high operating efficiency in applications requiring 3.3-or 5-V outputs at up to 2 A from 8-to 32-V inputs. At a nominal 12-V input, full-load efficiencies approach 96% for 5-V models and 93% for...

DC-DC converter packs 150-W punch with minimal derating.(POWER SOURCES)
October 25, 2007... Groomed for IBA and DPA applications, the latest member of the Sensei series of isolated dc-dc converters provides 30 A/150 W of output with minimal derating at elevated temperatures. In an industry-standard, 58.4-by 36.8-mm quarter-brick...

15-W DC-DC converters boast small form factor.(POWER SOURCES)
October 25, 2007... Measuring just 1.0 by 1.0 by 0.4 in., the models in the THN-15 series of isolated 15-W dc-dc converters come in encapsulated, shielded metal packages. The series includes 20 single-output models with wide 2:1 or ultrawide 4:1 input voltage...

Dual-voltage power system debuts.(POWER SOURCES)
October 25, 2007... Addressing dynamic, changing environments, the Infinity NE dual-voltage power system employs a universal power shelf that allows provisioning of power in terms of the number of slots instead of individual power modules. Any of the unit's slots...

200-W supplies nourish industrial and medical equipment.(POWER SOURCES)
October 25, 2007... Pumped for industrial equipment, data communications, and medical applications, the GNT200 power-supply family sports a wide input range and delivers up to 200 W of output power. The internal supplies feature an industry-standard, 3-by 5-in....

Environmentally sealed switches handle harsh environments.(SWITCHES, KEYPADS, & RELAYS)(Brief article)
October 25, 2007... Designed to meet the needs of applications requiring an environmentally sealed and robust solution, the WT toggle and WR rocker series switches conform to IP67 (front panel) and IP60 (back panel) IEC60529 standards. They feature single-unit...

Low-Z analog switches shave on-resistance.(SWITCHES, KEYPADS, & RELAYS)
October 25, 2007... The dual-supply, high-voltage SPST DG467, DG468, DG447, and DG448 and the SPDT DG449 analog switches manage to trim on-resistance values down to as low as 10 [OMEGA] (DG467 and DG468) and 25 [OMEGA] (DG447 and DG448). The devices are offered as...

Locking toggle switch prevents accidental actuation.(SWITCHES, KEYPADS, & RELAYS)
October 25, 2007... To prevent accidental switching, the 100K series toggle switches integrate a locking mechanism and are available with multiple configuration and termination options. Sporting stainless-steel housings, the components specify a life expectancy of...

400-to 800-MHZ VCO HAS LOW PHASE NOISE.(PASSIVE COMPONENTS)
October 25, 2007... Featuring a typical phase noise of -105 dBc/Hz at a 10-kHz offset and excellent linearity, the CVCO55CW-0400-0800 VCO operates from 400 to 800 MHz with a control voltage of 0 to 12 V. Maximum consumption is 25 mA with an input of 5 V. Pulling...

Thin-film low-pass filters consume little space.(PASSIVE COMPONENTS)
October 25, 2007... Sporting subminiature case sizes, the company's latest thin-film, low-pass filters are available on 99% alumina substrate and 50-[OMEGA] terminations for solder or epoxy mounting. Features include passband cutoffs at 5.5, 7, and 8 GHz, a...

Miniature FM antenna improves sensitivity.(PASSIVE COMPONENTS)
October 25, 2007... Delivering a 5-dB better sensitivity and a 25% smaller footprint than the company's RadioAnt, the Activv antenna integrates directly inside a handset and provides a combination of FM reception, impedance matching, and signal amplification. Both...

2-W chip resistors reside in 2512 packages.(PASSIVE COMPONENTS)
October 25, 2007... Featuring copper elements on an alumina substrate with wraparound copper terminations and a protective overcoat, the LR series 2-W, current-sense flat-chip resistors come in 2512 packages, suiting them for a variety of applications with limited...

Accessory makes enclosures easy to wear and store.(CABINETS & ENCLOSURES)
October 25, 2007... Enhancing the Soft-Case series enclosures is an accessory that allows them to be worn on a belt and then stored on a wall or in a cabinet afterwards. The belt/wall clip kit includes three parts: a belt clip and a mounting boss that attach to...

Backplane power connectors meet PICMG open standards.(CONNECTORS & SOCKETS)
October 25, 2007... Covering two bases, the company's AdvancedTCA Zone 1 power connector supports applications specified by PICMG 3.x, while its CompactPCI power connector addresses platforms employing Eurocard form factors per PICMG 2.11. The ATCA power connector...