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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Line card supports distributor’s green design contest

Thursday, July 31, 2008

      Elecronics distributor Premier Farnell’s Live EDGE Design Contest just received a boost from a couple of its suppliers today, as manufacturers National Semiconductor, Ohmite Manufacturing, and Vishay Intertechnology have become global sponsors of the environmentally based contest. “We are delighted to see the commitment from our global suppliers to support this year’s 2008 Live [...]

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The Wearable Motorcycle – “Deus Ex Machina”

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Jake Loniak, a Transportation Design student at the Art Center Pasadena in CA, designed a project called ‘Deus Ex Machina’ (God Out of a Machine). His project is an electric, single passenger, vertically parking, and wearable motorcycle – which gives first impression that it is some type of sci-fi robot.    With seven artificial vertebrae [...]

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National’s new solar technology maximizes energy use

Thursday, July 17, 2008

National Semiconductor announced that it has entered the photovoltaic market with new technology designed to increase the overall energy output of solar electric power generating systems. National’s SolarMagic™ technology extracts the maximum power efficiency of each photovoltaic panel, even when some panels in the array are compromised by shading, debris or inherent panel-to-panel mismatch. Today’s [...]

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When is a Product Cross a Good Cross?

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

I had a call the other day from one of our FAEs asking whether one of our standard logic products was a good cross to a competitor’s product with a different number. First thing that I did was to check the basics: yes the function matched; the package was the same including a detailed examination [...]

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Photo shots from last night’s digitallife preview in Manhattan

Friday, July 11, 2008

The digitallife summer press preview was held on July 10, 2008 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan.  Almost 30 exhibitors attended the show.  Here are some of my pictures from the show. Shown above is Open Air Cinemas (www.openaircinema.us) complete backyard movie theater package called CineBox Home.  This package includes everything from the projector, speakers, and [...]

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FPGA I/O Structures Evolve to Meet Increased Throughput Demands

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Designers of CPUs, ASICs and memories use every transistor available in their I/O section to provide the highest communication bandwidth.  Often these devices have to interface with FPGAs, so the designers of FPGAs have a different challenge: provide a programmable interface that not only is able to meet the interconnection bandwidth requirements of these ICs, [...]

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Cathodic Protection of Steel in Concrete Using LXI Connectivity

Thursday, July 10, 2008

The LXI Standard provides new and innovative solutions to an array of problems. One example of this is the innovative solution one of our customers deployed to solve the problem of concrete-encased steel corrosion. Concrete loses its durability when the reinforcing steel corrodes. Exposure to deicing salt results in dramatically reduced structural life span.

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