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Monthly Archives: May 2006

Webcast to address analog support for digital media-based systems

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Analog circuit design issues that affect the performance of digital-media-based video applications will be addressed in an upcoming live webcast by Texas Instruments and Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. Titled “Analog Support for Digital Media-Based Systems”, the one-hour Analog eLab webcast will take place on Wednesday, June 14, 2006, at 11:00 a.m. CST. Topics to be [...]

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Flanged LED, RFID chipset, bulk degausser, machine vision software

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Today’s product picks at Electronic Products: A warm-white LED lamp from Data Display Products is a drop-in replacement for T1 3/4 midget flange-based incandescent bulbs An RFID chipset from Anadigm allows vendors to design and maintain a single combination HF and UHF reader A bulk degausser from Fujitsu Computer Products of America provides fast and [...]

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ZigBee kit simplifies wireless home automation design

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Freescale Semiconductor has announced a wireless connectivity kit with an easy-to-use interface and framework for designers developing point-to-point, 802.15.4, and ZigBee applications. The BeeKit tool kit includes the company’s BeeStack compliant ZigBee protocol stack, and a developer configuration tool that supports the company’s ZigBee-compliant platforms based on the HCSO8 MCU. From the release: Freescale’s BeeStack [...]

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Liquid-cooled cold plates, piezo micromotor, 2GB miniSD card, PoE reference design

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Today’s product picks at Electronic Products: Liquid-cooled cold plates from Amulaire Thermal Technology work with coolants such as water, water-glycol, and liquid metals, and can have microchannels with fins as small as 0.15 mm wide and 0.7 mm high, with 0.15 mm spacing Measuring 1.5 x 1.5 x 6 mm, a piezoelectric linear micromotor from [...]

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Li-ion battery packs, open-frame LCDs, PCB test points, RF transformers

Friday, May 26, 2006

Today’s product picks at Electronic Products: Li-ion battery packs from Micro Power Electronics include protection circuitry and a microcontroller-based challenge/response authentication system that prevents the use of an invalid battery pack 15-in. open-frame LCDs from Planar Systems deliver an XGA image with a brightness of 550 nits A line of rugged test points from Keystone [...]

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Digital Home Center reference design

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Freescale Semiconductor has announced a comprehensive reference platform for the design of home networking products that let consumers access, manage, back-up, and share digital content from any location. The design combines the HipServ software platform from home networking software provider Axentra and Freescale’s MPC8349E mITX reference board, which is based on the MPC8349E PowerQUICC II [...]

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Tantalum caps, QVGA LCD, LVDS fanout buffers, mini cylindrical connector

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Today’s product picks at Electronic Products: Lead-frameless solid tantalum chip capacitors from Vishay Intertechnology are available in values of 1 µF (16 V) to 47 µF (4 V) in 0603 and 0805 case sizes A 3.5-in. QVGA color LCD from One Stop Displays is intended for use in MP3, cellular phone, and other devices that [...]

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