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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Digi-Key Corporation Announces Sponsorship of DLP-232PC Design Contest

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Digi-Key Corporation announced today that it has joined with Future Technology Devices International, Ltd. in the sponsorship of DLP Design’s DLP-232PC Design Contest. Engineers worldwide are invited to pit their design skills against their colleagues to come up with the smallest, lowest-cost, and most innovative design using DLP’s tiny USB-to-microcontroller module. The DLP-232PC offers 14 [...]

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80-MPG car is lighter years ahead

Friday, September 19, 2008

Developing alternative fuel technologies is great, but what do consumers do waiting for those technologies to mature and become cost-effective? Well, you can bike to work, but that might cut into your free time a bit. How about simply making cars lighter. That’s what the folks over at Axon Automotive are proposing. The secret, according to the British [...]

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Making the Most of Tantalum Capacitors in Portable Media Players

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

When new thin portable media players were first being designed, the seemingly natural choice for their capacitors—which are widely used in audio systems for coupling applications—were ceramic devices, which were the smallest and thinnest capacitor type on the market. Designers soon discovered, however, that ceramic devices were not the best fit for this application, due [...]

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