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Monthly Archives: June 2006

AVR32-based dev kit offers $499 “program-and-go” solution

Friday, June 30, 2006

A $499 development kit for developing multimedia, point-of-sale, navigation, small office/home office network gateway/router, and printer applications is available from Atmel Corporation. The STK1000 kit is based on the company’s AVR32-based AP7000 MCU/DSPs, and includes all the hardware and software needed to develop complete, ready-to-ship applications. Hardware included: Single-board computer with Atmel’s AT32AP7000 system-on-chip 3.5-inch [...]

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Neon-replacement LED tubes, RGB LED, IP video camera, 64-bit CPUs

Friday, June 30, 2006

Today’s new product picks at Electronic Products: Sealed-tube LED light strips from Ledtronics replace neon lights in indoor and outdoor applications An RGB LED from Osram Opto Semiconductors has a lens ideally suited for backlighting LCD panels as large as 102 in. A network video camera from Toshiba Imaging Systems employs a 1/4-in. Fuji Super [...]

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Engineer turns tech skills to stock trading

Thursday, June 29, 2006

I’ve mentioned before how there seems to be a lot of engineers involved in the financial markets, and the July issue of Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine provides just another reminder. It features an interview with engineer-turned-daytrader, Michael Seneadza, also known as “Trader Mike“, who offers his thoughts on the market on his [...]

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Photosensor, P-OLED display, DSL protection module, LNA

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Today’s new product picks at Electronic Products: A photosensor from Osram Opto Semiconductors reacts to different frequencies of the ambient-light spectrum in the same proportions as the human eye A polymer OLED display from One Stop Displays has a 64 x 16-resolution image with no contrast or performance variations over temperature A transformer protection module [...]

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ADI chip helps deliver digital movies

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Analog Devices has announced that its ADV202 JPEG2000 video compression chip is being used in digital cinema movie mastering systems and playback servers by Doremi Labs – a developer and manufacturer of video disk recorders and video servers for the professional video and broadcast markets. The chip is used in Doremi’s DCP-2000 digital cinema server [...]

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Audio subsystem ICs, color sensor, tiny diodes, 4-MSPS ADC

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Today’s new product picks at Electronic Products: Audio subsystem ICs from National Semiconductor contain a mono amplifier, output capacitorless stereo headphone amplifiers, and programmable 3-D sound enhancement A reflective color sensing assembly from TT electronics OPTEK Technology uses an 8 x 8 photodiode array to provide high color discrimination High-performance diode chips from Avago Technologies [...]

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Solar power, waste veggie oil drive “Big Green Bus”

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

To promote the use of alternative energies, 12 Dartmouth students are traveling across the U.S. in a bus powered by waste vegetable oil and a solar panel donated by Sunpower Corp., a subsidiary of chipmaker Cypress Semiconductor. During the 10-week tour, the “Big Green Bus” will make more than 55 stops and travel more than [...]

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