EDN articles from August 2004

EDN archives from August 2004

Munity, no bounty.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)(Letter to the Editor)
August 5, 2004... "Your pay is designed to keep you sullen but not mutinous. If you're satisfied, it's too high; if you quit, it's too low." --Sherman Siegel, Leters to the Editor, The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2004

Tiny computer follows embedded-system road map.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... TARGETING INDUSTRIAL-PC CONTROL and embedded-defense-system applications requiring high-speed processing and low power consumption, General Micro Systems recently introduced the P60x, a 4X4-in. single-board computer based on Intel's latest...

Book helps engineers excel with Excel.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... THE WORD "COOKBOOK" implies both praise and derision in engineering parlance, but such a book can sometimes be a great help. Excel by Example: A Microsoft Excel Cookbook for Electronics Engineers by Aubrey Kagan shows you how you can use the...

Optimize your design's power consumption.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)(TMS320C5503, TMS320C5507 and TMS320C5509A)
August 5, 2004... TEXAS INSTRUMENTS' TMS320C5503, TMS320C5507, and TMS320C5509A DSPs target low-power, real-time-signal-processing applications by supporting a power consumption of 0.12 mW at 1.2V in standby. To further optimize power consumption, expanded and...

Dilbert.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)
August 5, 2004... THE CORNER CUBICLE OPENED UP. I PLAN TO MAKE IT MINE. THAT'S RIGHT: I'LL BE SITTING IN THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS CUBICLE IN THE ENTIRE ROW! FEAR ME! BUWAHA! FROM THERE I WILL CONTROL THE WINDOW SHADES AND HARNESS THE SUN! PLEASE... NO...

Single-IC tuner brings digital TV home.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... TARGETING ADVANCED SATELLITE set-top boxes and high-definition TV, the Zarlink ZL10038 IC complies with the Digital Video Broadcast-Satellite 2 international standard, which the vendor says is the first such device to do so. This broadcast...

Multiprotocol offload engine unifies server wires.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)(Ethernet-processing units)(SLQ1010 AN and SLQ1004)
August 5, 2004... THE SLQ1010 AN, SLQ1004 are the first devices in a family of EPUs (Ethernet-processing units) from newcomer Siliquent that offload host-processing overhead and relieve memory-bus bottlenecks to enable high performance, low latency, and...

FPGAs pack a cost-conscious counterpunch.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)
August 5, 2004... XILINX'S LATEST economy-minded FPGAs, the 90-nm-based Spartan-3 devices, are more than a year beyond their public unveiling and belatedly ramping into production, judging from the diminishing number of lack-of-availability complaints on...

Monolithic digital coupler is small but intense.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... WHEN YOU NEED to get a digital-logic signal from Point A to Point B without physical connection for either safety or performance reasons, you can use a galvanically isolated coupler based on capacitive, magnetic, or optical techniques. The...

MEMS make a nonvolatile-memory match.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)(Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... Although MEMS (microelectromechanical-systems) technology may seem an unlikely match for nonvolatile memory, Cavendish Kinetics says it's an excellent fit. The company offers IP (intellectual property) for building such memory on standard-CMOS...

Looking forward to smaller geometries.(baker's best)
August 5, 2004... THE INDUSTRY IS LAYING the groundwork for the next technology migration. The geometries of digital- and analog-IC silicon processes are shrinking. As a consequence, IC devices continue to have lower power-supply-voltage requirements, silicon...

Designing a zener-diode regulator.(analog angle)
August 5, 2004... IC REFERENCES ARE POPULAR with circuit designers because they are accurate and exhibit low drift. Some of my future columns will cover the three types of IC references: buried zener, bandgap, and XFET. You develop the reference-design procedure...

Eschewing instant gratification.(edn.comment)
August 5, 2004... WE LIVE IN A CULTURE THAT EXPECTS and demands instant gratification. Whether you are a consumer who wants information from the Web or access to music or video or an engineer who wants to see the results of your latest coding efforts, you want...

Feedback techniques for crossing the isolation boundary.(Power designer[SM]: expert tips, tricks, and techniques for powerful designs)
August 5, 2004... Power converters are often categorized into two basic types: isolated and non-isolated. These categories refer to the relationship between the input power ground and the output power ground. Many applications require isolation between the...

Flat speaker delivers volumes of sound: contrary to conventional understanding, a flat speaker can be both a product panel and a source of high-quality sound.(how it works)
August 5, 2004... IT'S NOT EASY to overturn 80 years' worth of established thinking on how to reproduce sound and to simultaneously provide packaging benefit. Since Chester W Rice and Edward W Kellogg in the mid-1920s invented the moving-coil-drive unit at...

31st field guide microprocessor directory: new processor offerings continue to include targeted, integrated peripheral sets that span all architecture sizes.(Cover Story)
August 5, 2004... WELCOME to the 31st annual EDN Microprocessor/Microcontroller Directory The number of companies and devices the directory lists continues to grow and change. The size of this year's table of devices has grown more than 25% from last year's....

Heat wave: FPGAs confront increasing, evolving power consumption: innovative FPGA designs can moderate the escalating power problem at expense of performance, but a technology shift may prove to be your best bet.(tech trends)
August 5, 2004... HISTORICALLY, those of you who include programmable-logic devices in your system designs probably focused your power-consumption prediction and reduction efforts on dynamic, or "active," power draw. This emphasis existed for good reason: Until...

Video difference amplifier brings versatility to low voltage applications--design note 343.(Design Notes)(Advertisement)
August 5, 2004... Introduction The LT[R]6552 is a specialized dual-differencing 75MHz operational amplifier ideal for rejecting common mode noise as a video line receiver. The input pairs are designed to operate with equal but opposite large-signal...

DDS simplifies polar modulation: basic modulation mathematics and DDS (direct digital synthesis) provide designers with an all-digital technique for generating polar-encoded carrier signals.(design feature)
August 5, 2004... POLAR MODULATION is a technique whereby a sinusoidal signal, or carrier, having constant radian frequency [[omega].sub.c], is time-varied in both magnitude and phase. You can think of polar modulation as transmitting information that both the...

Analysis of board layout helps cure jitter problems: in a design in which you must reduce tight timing, routing all timing-sensitive lines in buried stripline layers minimizes one source of jitter and lowers the overall required timing budget.(design feature)
August 5, 2004... ALL HIGH-SPEED-digital-product designers face the critical electrical-performance challenges of meeting a timing budget, meeting a noise budget, and passing an EMC (electromagnetic-compliance)-certification test. Designers need to account for...

LED driver doubles as fault monitor.(design ideas)(Light Emitting Diodes)
August 5, 2004... LEDs FIND WIDE USE as indicators and as light emitters in devices such as optocouplers. In some applications, the LED or the emitter may be located remotely at some distance from the main unit. Typical examples are dashboard mounted automotive...

Current source enables op amp's output to go to ground.(design ideas)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... THE LM324 is a cost-effective choice for an up amp, especially when you need to apply ground-level inputs. Although its output purportedly includes ground, its poor current-sinking capability limits the applications. At output voltages lower...

Circuit distorts duty cycle for CML inputs.(design ideas)(current-mode-logic)
August 5, 2004... TO TEST A GIGABIT SPEED data-recovery chip, you need a clock with a controllable duty cycle. Because most pattern and clock generators have a fixed duty-cycle output of 50%, the design may require a small circuit to distort the duty cycle. The...

Build a charge pump with ultralow quiescent current.(design ideas)
August 5, 2004... PORTABLE BATTERY-powered devices often spend most of their life in standby mode, in which the quiescent current of an internal boost converter continuously bleeds the battery. The quiescent current during standby can be larger than the actual...

Cooling and enclosures.(components showcase)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... Fan tray assemblies * Comprise three, six, or nine fans per unit, delivering more than 100 cfm per fan * Offer standard EIA 19 x 1.75 in. (1U) panel mounting with depths of 7 to 17.25 in. * FT-1973, FT-1976, and FT-1979, $120.45...

Integrated circuits.(components showcase)
August 5, 2004... Class D digital amplifiers * Six-channel (CS44600) and eight-channel (CS44800) devices enable high sound quality with a system dynamic range of more than 100 dB * Integrated power-supply-rejection technology helps mitigate audio noise...

Test and measurement.(components showcase)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... 3U PXI digitizer module * Acquires as much as 25M samples/see on all four channels with 12-bit vertical resolution for sonar, LIDAR, and ultrasonic measurements * Offers eight input ranges, programmable input offset, and 16 to 128...

Letter from the editor.(Editorial)
August 5, 2004... Much of the growth in the power supply industry is coming from portable applications--from power management ICs, to battery chargers and adapters, to recharge able batteries, to fuel cell development. Driven by wireless technologies pushing...

Market overview: portable: power market on the move.(Special Supplement)
August 5, 2004... portable applications are driving much of the growth in the power supply industry--from management integrated circuits (ICs), to battery chargers and adapters, to rechargeable batteries, to fuel cell development. The market for external ac-dc...

Wireless technologies lead the portable pack.(Special Supplement)
August 5, 2004... the market for portable power supplies is booming. Wireless mobility is driving a wide variety of portable applications, including industrial equipment, medical devices, communications, computing and fuel cells. Within these markets are...

New features demand new power management IC's.(Special Supplement)
August 5, 2004... sophisticated power management is a given in today's portable electronic devices. Every new feature added to portable devices is another opportunity for new power management components. Camera phones, advanced color displays and USB...

How to supply a cellular telephone camera with flash illumination.(Case Study Spotlight)
August 5, 2004... SOLUTION: Solution size and performance for the built-in flash illumination for their 2 mega-pixel camera phone were the two critical considerations for the customer. Two practical choices exist for flash illumination= White LEDs (Light...

A green power AC adapter design driven by power requirements.(Case Study Spotlight)
August 5, 2004... SOLUTION: A major customer of Fairchild Semiconductor, who had worked with us in the past, appreciated our AC adapter technology, but told us that more power minimization was needed. Our performance offerings for AC adapters is based...

Photo op.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)
August 19, 2004... "I... secured a new cell phone that, in addition to being a phone, receives email and takes extremely low-quality photographs.... Now, when I'm not using my phone's cellphone feature ('Hello? Hello? Hello?'), I can use the camera feature......

Isolated, eighth-brick dc/dc converters deliver 100W.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)
August 19, 2004... ARTESYN'S TYPHOON SERIES, a family of high-efficiency, 100W-output, low-profile, open-frame, single-board, isolated dc/dc converters in industry-standard eighth-brick packages, is pin-compatible with quarter-brick packages. The units deliver...

Complete fob trims your RKE-design effort.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)
August 19, 2004... WHEN USING RKE (remote keyless entry) in your product design, you need to provide both the product itself and the key fob with an encoder. The OKW AM-110 Series of encoder transmitters simplifies your task, because it implements the entire...

BGA relay lets you go with the (re)flow.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)
August 19, 2004... Electromechanical relays--the antithesis of ICs--are still vital for many applications, such as automatic test equipment and RF-signal steering. The B41 series from Coto Technology gives you four form-A reed relays in a BGA package, simplifying...

DSO aims to become standard for evaluating 2- to 12.5-Gbps serial data.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... TEKTRONIX'S NEW TDS-8200 modular (sequential equivalent-time) sampling oscilloscope and 82A04 phase-reference module allow bandwidths as great as 70 GHz. The company claims that the products incorporate the only single-ended and differential...

Dilbert.
August 19, 2004... WE CAN'T AFFORD TO HIRE QUALIFIED EMPLOYEES. MY PLAN IS TO HIRE DUMB PEOPLE AND BE ANGRY AT THEM. I FORGET--WHAT'S THE WORD FOR PRETENDING THAT PEOPLE CAN CHANGE THEIR BASIC NATURE? MOTIVATION?

GaAs driver power amp fits multiband base-station needs.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... Handsets may get all the glamour, but base stations are equally important for mobile, wireless access. The RF3800 series of six driver power amplifiers from RF Micro Devices, which are GaAs (gallium-arsenide) HBT...

Low-power microcontroller integrates 16-bit, dual 1-MHz ADCs.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)
August 19, 2004... SILICON LABORATORIES has extended its precision mixed-signal-microcontroller product line, combining a 25-MIPS 8051 core with dual independent, 16 bit, 1M-sample/sec ADCs. The C8051F064 family's typical THD and spurious free dynamic range are...

Optocoupler uses light, ignores heat.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... OPTOCOUPLERS ARE useful for digital-signal isolation, but they have temperature limitations. Vishay claims that its single- and dual-channel units are the first that are rated for 100[degrees]C, due to design and packaging enhancements. The...

Reduce logic in low-power devices.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)
August 19, 2004... Fairchild has introduced several 4-, 6-, and 8-bit, low-voltage logic functions in ultracompact DQFN (depopulated-very-thin-quad-flatpack-with-no-leads) packaging, which is as much as 75% smaller than similar TSSOP devices. The devices...

Universal RF transmitter targets low-rate wireless connectivity.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... ANALOG DEVICES has announced three single-chip RF transceivers for low-rate wireless-connectivity applications. The low-power ADF7012 UHF-transmitter IC operates at 50 MHz to 1 GHz and enables multiple-frequency implementations for transmitting...

RFID family provides secure, low-cost access control and tracking.(Leading edge: what's hot in the design community)
August 19, 2004... A FAMILY OF HIGH-FREQUENCY RFID standard products based on 13.56-MHz technology supports cryptographic capabilities for applications requiring enhanced security, such as security and access control, time and attendance tracking, and asset...

What's that glitch?(signal integrity)
August 19, 2004... HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GLITCH such as the one at Gate A in Figure 1? This nonmonotonic glitch appears symmetrically in both rising and falling edges, although that scenario is not always the case. Can you guess what causes it? If you have a...

Divining deceptive data.(edn.comment)
August 19, 2004... WE'RE INUNDATED with numbers. Hard scientific data is the basis for some of these numbers, some are admittedly vague or have large uncertainties, and some are pretty much worthless. In the last category, I put those so-called survey and study...

A man, a LAN, a plan: building and maintaining the ever-mutating, multimedia-capable home network.(digital den)(Column)
August 19, 2004... I FIRST SET OUT almost a year ago to write all article describing my experiences setting up and maintaining a complex home network. But every time I plopped down at the keyboard with a few hours reserved for the task, something network-related...

On the same track: although IC designers get most of the glory, pc-board designers have for many years used architectural design for fabrication approaches that IC designers are just now adopting.(Integrated Circuit)
August 19, 2004... THE DAC (Design Automation Conference) is the premier event of the EDA industry. It is the best opportunity for vendors to exhibit their products, for designers to obtain an overview of the latest technology, and for all industry participants...

High performance amplifiers: high performance analog solutions from Linear Technology.(Advertisement)
August 19, 2004... Most Precise Instrumentation Amp Has Digital Gain Control The industry's most precise rail-to-rail instrumentation amplifier, the new LTC[R]6915, features digitally controllable gain. The gain can be programmed on-the-fly to 0, 1, 2, 4, 8,...

Low-rate networks take control: rest assured: as businesses strive to increase efficiency and reduce labor costs through automation, low-data-rate networks are poised to become the workhorses of the wireless world.(design feature)(ZigBee Alliance)
August 19, 2004... ALTHOUGH MUCH RECENT DESIGN and media attention has focused on high-bandwidth, video-capable wireless networks, the market for low-cost, low-data-rate RF links promises to be even larger. Automating just a few of the multitude of repetitive...

A switch for any occasion: Texas Instruments offers engineers myriad choices in switches.(Safe bet series: a special from TI Standard Linear and Logic)(Advertisement)
August 19, 2004... That Texas Instruments stays at the cutting edge of technology is no accident. The company has been investing in new technology, and remains committed to doing so, keeping it on the forefront of innovation in new product development. Nowhere is...

Sensors Plug&Play: new standard for automated sensor measurements.(The measure of innovation: a special series sponsored by National Instruments)(Transducer Electronic Data Sheet)(Advertisement)
August 19, 2004... BEFORE THE ADVENT OF SMART-SENSOR TECHNOLOGY, setting up sensor-based data-acquisition systems was tedious and tune consuming. Data-acquisition systems can monitor thousands of sensor outputs. Without smart transducers, the acquired data is...

Voltage sequencing made simple: new and different ICs address the needs of voltage sequencing.(design feature)
August 19, 2004... AS MULTIVOLTAGE SYSTEMS and ICs proliferate, the need for voltage sequencing becomes increasingly more critical to ensure that systems power up properly before operating. This need is also important for eliminating latch-up in complex Its, such...

Evaluating oscilloscopes: dig deeper: read between the lines of banner specifications--bandwidth, sample rate, and record length--to drill down to the nuances and less glamorous features that affect efficiency and even the validity of your design.(design feature)
August 19, 2004... FOR YEARS, electronic system performance increased in step with steadily increasing semiconductor integration and functions, simulation-model improvements, architectural changes, and more. Through all these increases, interdevice-signaling...

Dual-voltage regulator meets USB-power needs.(design ideas)
August 19, 2004... THIS DESIGN IDEA stems from the limited availability of IC voltage regulators that can meet key USB-power specs, coupled with the need for turn-on sequencing and rise-time control at each output. As always, for PC-related designs, minimum cost...

Scalable latch requires no capacitors or clock.(design ideas)
August 19, 2004... CIRCUITS THAT LATCH one-of-N switches usually use a digital approach. Such circuits are often useful in human-interface situations, such as audio-mixing consoles, video-feed selection, or current-loop-control redundancy systems. In high...

Phone-line-voltage monitor meets FCC specs.(design ideas)
August 19, 2004... WHEN YOU DESIGN equipment that interlaces to a phone line, it is often desirable to be able to monitor the dc voltage on the line. This ability can be useful, for example, to determine whether a line is in use before attempting to go off-hook...

Flyback controller improves cross regulation for multiple output applications--Design Note 344.(Design Notes)(synchronous rectification)(Advertisement)
August 19, 2004... Introduction Flyback converters are often used in power supplies requiring low to medium output power at several output voltages. With a flyback, multiple outputs incur little additional cost or complexity--each additional output requires...

Instrumentation amp has differential outputs.(design ideas)
August 19, 2004... STATE-OF-THE-ART ADCs accept differential inputs, allowing you to differentially implement the entire signal path from sensor to converter. This structure provides significant performance advantages, because differential signals increase the...

Miniature spdt slide switches.(Switches and relays)(Product information)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... * Offer two surface-mount configurations and three slide actuator sizes * Carry a rating of 0.3A at 4V dc with an operating temperature range of -10 to +60[degrees]C * EG1260 series, contact vendor for price E-Switch,...

Power rocker switches.(Switches and relays)(Product information)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... * Single pole (CM) and double-pole (CN) panel mount rockers are rated for 16A at 125V ac (1/8 hp) or 10A at 250V ac (1/3 hp) * Functions include spdt and dpdt on-none-on; on-none-off, on-off-on; mom-off-mom; and on-off-mom * CM series,...

20A slim relay.(Switches and relays)(Products Informations)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... * 1 Form A device has a nominal operating power of 780 mW and offers coil voltages of 5, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24V dc * Measures 30.1 X 15.7X23.3 mnr * FTR-K3, $1.10 (100,000) with a 12V dc coil Fujitsu Components America Inc,...

Microelectronic relay.(Switches and relays)
August 19, 2004... * Single-pole, normally open SSR delivers 75% lower on-resistance and as much as 37.5% higher load current capacity than similar devices * Handles maximum load current of 550 mA in ac/dc mode or 825 mA in dc-only mode with respective...

Illuminated bicolor switches.(Switches and relays)(CIT Relay & Switch)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... * Momentary 24V-de pushbutton switches available in spdt and dpdt versions with 100-mA gold or 500-mA silver contacts * LED options include combinations of blue, green, red, and yellow * JC series, contact vendor for price CIT...

Short-travel key switches.(Switches and relays)
August 19, 2004... * Handle as much as 100 mA and boast an operating life at full load of 1 million actuations * Racon 8 devices measure 8.4 mm square with an operating force of 2.5N; Racon 12 devices measure 12 mm square with an operating force of 3.5N ...

Panel-sealed pushbutton switches.(Switches and relays)
August 19, 2004... * Power models are rated for 3A at 12SV ac, 250V ac; or 30V de; logic-level versions are rated for 0.4 VA maximum at 28V ac/dc * Options include incandescent and LED illumination; spdt and dpdt with momentary or alternate action; and round,...

6U VMEbus single-board computer.(Embedded Systems)
August 19, 2004... * Offers a 1.6- or 1.8 GHz Pentium M processor 745 and E7501 chip set * Accommodates an optional PMC carrier board that adds two 64-bit PMC slots * Cheetah-V, from less than $4500; PMC carrier, $595 Momentum Computer Inc,...

Multimedia PMC module.(Embedded Systems)
August 19, 2004... * Provides audio I/O, video capture/display, and a USB 2.0 controller * Accommodates screen resolutions of 1900 x 1200 pixels with as many as 16.7 million colors * Sirena/PMC, $866 (100) Peritek Corp, 1-510-531-6500,...

Serial communications M-Module.(Embedded Systems)
August 19, 2004... * Furnishes two Channels that can be configured as either full-duplex RS-422 or half-duplex RS-485 interfaces on the front-panel connector * Both optically isolated channels operate at as much as 2 Mbps in synchronous or asynchronous modes...

USB-to-CAN device.(Embedded Systems)(Universal Serial Bus)(Controller Area Network)(IXXAT Inc)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... * Active CAN module plugs into a USB 1.1 port * Employs a 16-bit microcontroller to enable loss-free transmission and reception of messages in CAN networks * USB-to-CAN compact, $275 IXXAT Inc, 1-603-471-0800, www.ixxat.com

Rugged ETX module.(Embedded Systems)
August 19, 2004... * Offers a choice of low-power Pentium III and Celeron CPUs on an ETX form-factor module that plugs into an application-specific baseboard * Operates over -40 to +85[degrees]C with high resistance to vibration and shock * ETX 700, less...

Piezo electric alarms.(Literature Link)
August 19, 2004... Floyd Bell adds Turbo series alarms to its product line. Twice as loud and half the size of industry counterparts. Revolutionary rear mount, push-on, quick-lock attachment ring creates a tamper proof alarm that assembles 5 times faster than...

Discrete SMD semiconductor databook.(Literature Link)
August 19, 2004... Central Semiconductor Corp. manufactures a broad range of discrete devices including: small signal transistors, bipolar power transistors, diodes, rectifiers, transient voltage suppressors, current limiting diodes, bridge rectifiers, Schottky...

Multi-axis, multi-motor motion control ICs.(Literature Link)
August 19, 2004... PMD, the leader in IC-based motion, introduces the Magellan[TM] Family of Motion Processors. Available in 1-4-axis versions these flexible, programmable chips control DC brush, brushless DC, microstepping and pulse & direction motors. Magellan...

Globar[R] series 500sp non-inductive bulk ceramic slab resistors.(Literature Link)
August 19, 2004... Offers 15 watts per inch of length power dissipation and excellent pulse/overload capability for current limit/soft start, snubber and dynamic braking applications in motor controls. Resistance range from 0.2ohm to 600ohm. Kanthal Globar A...

High performance IC sockets and adapters.(Literature Link)(Advertisement)
August 19, 2004... Industry's largest selection of BGA sockets and test, prototype, and production adapters. Innovative products include family of solder-less GHz Bandwidth BGA and MLF sockets, hundreds of adapters for IC package conversions and IC package...

LPKF laser & electronics rapid PCB prototyping--new color catalogue.(Literature Link)(Advertisement)
August 19, 2004... This extensive catalogue describes a full line of high performance Rapid PCB prototyping equipment including, data sheets, selection guides and a full set of application notes for circuit board plotters, through-hole plating technology,...

Middlebrook's course is back!(Literature Link)(Advertisement)
August 19, 2004... A live presentation of Dr. Middlebrook's career-enhancing 3-day course "Structured Analog Design" is now available on the DVD ROM Technical Tt erapy for Analog Circuit Designers. Also available is a 3-hour sequel on a CD ROM The GFT: A Final...

Total Power.(Literature Link)(Advertisement)
August 19, 2004... Total Power Int'l provides customers with the highest quality power products today. We provide AC/DC power supplies ranging from 5-1500 Watts. Available in U-Bracket, Box, Open Frame, L-Bracket, Wallmounts and External Sizes. DC/DC Modules come...

New comprehensive catalog.(Literature Link)(Advertisement)
August 19, 2004... Free catalog featuring a complete line of interconnect devices including test-points, jumpers, PLCC-sockets, shunts, headers and fuse-clips with product specifications. Components Corporation www.componentscorp.com Enter/Circle #...

Sensors and tachometers.(Literature Link)(Advertisement)
August 19, 2004... Monarch Instrument an ISO 9001 company, offers LASER, OPTICAL, INFRARED, PROXIMITY, MAGNETIC and INDUCTIVE SENSORS. Programmable Panel Tachometers 5-999,990 RPM, 4-20 mA output, 2 Alarms, 0-5 VDC output and more. N.I.S.T. traceable certificate...

2004 Neutrik[R] Product Guide.(Literature Link)(Advertisement)
August 19, 2004... Neutrik[R] offers a new 48 page full color Product Guide which includes photos, ordering information and technical specifications. Full lit packet includes new product bulletins for Ethercon Ruggedized RJ45 series and Speakon STX series....

Batteries short form catalog with technical data on CD-ROM.(Literature Link)(Advertisement)
August 19, 2004... Panasonic's broad line of battery sizes and chemistries is condensed for review in this new 16-page, 4-color catalog with technical data and company overview on enclosed CD-ROM. Batteries covered include NiCd, NiMH, Lithium, Li-ion, VRLA and...