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Testing and Analysis for Measuring Food Qualities
A food company seeks ways of objectively measuring and analyzing taste, mouth feel, texture, flavor, and eating quality of foods, leading to an analysis method that is accurate and repeatable across many foods and across time.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
All electronic devices generate heat due to their unavoidable internal losses and inefficiencies. The higher the efficiency rating of the device, the less internal heat is generated...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
The PMC, or PCI Mezzanine Card, follows the IEEE P1386.1 standard for printed circuit boards. PMCs combine the electrical characteristics of the PCI bus with the mechanical dimensions of the Common Mezzanine Card,...
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Diamond Systems (Mountain View, CA) has announced Neptune, an ultra-high-integration EPIC form factor single board computer that combines state-of-the-art CPU and I/O technology with Diamond Systems' high accuracy...
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Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) has released new processors with extended seven-year lifecycle support, a new chipset, and a carrier-grade server. The processors are based on Intel's high-k, metal gate...
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Congatec AG (Deggendorf, Germany) and SECO (Arezzo, Italy) have jointly created a new form factor for embedded computing. The Qseven format will complement the low power and small size of next-generation embedded...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Luminary Micro (Austin, TX) has released communications modules and reference design kits for Ethernet-enabled display applications and serial- to-Ethernet communications...
Products: Electronics & Computers
LynuxWorks (San Jose, CA) unveiled the LynxSecure 2.0, its next-generation separation kernel and embedded hypervisor. LynxSecure 2.0 virtualizes the underlying hardware to enable multiple different...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Master Bond (Hackensack, NJ) has introduced Master Bond UV10SP-2A, a one-component, flexible, UV curable polymer system for bonding, sealing, and coating with an attractive balance of pertinent physical,...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Active Silicon (Chelmsford, MA) has released the Phoenix D48CL-3CPCI32, a conduction-cooled, 3U CompactPCI Camera Link frame grabber. Designed for extremely rugged environments, the Phoenix operates in...
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Aitech Defense Systems Inc. (Chatsworth, CA) offers a compact, multi-I/O PMC for I/O environments. The low-power, single-width M705 features up to five dual-channel, dual-redundant MIL-STD-1553B channels, 16 ARINC-429 receive...
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Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) expanded its mixed-signal and digital-storage oscilloscope portfolio with 10 new models that comprise its InfiniiVision 7000 Series. The InfiniiVision 7000 Series offers bandwidths up to...
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Strategic Test Corp. (Woburn, MA) offers two new 250 kHz 16-bit data acquisition cards for PCI Express. The UF2e-4721 has 16 analog inputs and the UF2e-4020 has 8 channels. Features include the options for dual- timebase...
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Emerson Network Power (Tempe, AZ) has released the Centellis™ 500, a fully deployable MicroTCA™ system that uses innovative plastic packaging, and Emerson's MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH) and high-performance processor...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
A silicon photomultiplier (SPM) is a new type of semiconductor detector that has the potential to replace the photomultiplier tube (PMT) detector in many applications. In common with a PMT detector,...
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The field of optical microscopy experienced significant gains in resolution and speed following the introduction of lasers. Unfortunately, these gains came at the expense of sample degradation...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Point Source (Hamble, UK) introduces the iFLEX-Mustang, a fiber-coupled solid-state laser with on-board modulation. Using single-mode and polarization preserving fiber, the iFLEX-Mustang...
Products: Photonics/Optics
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (Santa Clara, CA) offers laser bars with a wavelength of 910 to 980 nm that achieve an optical output of 120W under real-world conditions and a typical efficiency of 70%. The laser bars have a 50% fill...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Toshiba Imaging Systems Division (Irvine, CA) introduces the remote head IK-TF7H7U camera. The progressive scan model delivers true color video output of 1024 × 768 pixels at 30 frames per second at full frame and up to 90...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Optical Surfaces Ltd. (Surrey, UK) offers Fabry-Perot etalons in a range of shapes and sizes up to 150 mm in diameter with matching accuracies to lambda/300. Etalons are used in telecommunications, lasers, and spectroscopic...
Products: Photonics/Optics
SCHOTT (San Jose, CA) introduces infrared (IR) materials, including Zinc Sulfide (ZnS) and Infrared Chalcogenide glasses. SCHOTT offers its IR material in large sizes and custom shapes, and as windows, domes, or lens blanks....
Products: Photonics/Optics
Extech Instruments (Waltham, MA) introduces its InfraCAMTM SD Thermal Imaging InfraRed Camera that enables the proactive condition monitoring of electrical systems to detect hot spots and avoid electrical...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Optical Research Associates (Pasadena, CA) introduces CODE V® 9.81 optical design software with aspheric lens tolerancing capabilities that are valuable in the fabrication of optical elements. The Fabrication Data...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Gamma Scientific, Inc. (San Diego, CA) introduces the RadOMA-LED Goniometric System for LED angular and LED spectral measurements. The system combines the RadOMA multi-element array technology with Gamma’s 940 LED...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Aculight Corporation (Bothell, WA) introduces an improved ArgosTM single-frequency, continuous-wave (CW) optical parametric oscillator (OPO). Argos provides multi-Watt, widely tunable output in the near- to...
Products: Photonics/Optics
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Products: Photonics/Optics
The Imaging Solutions Group (ISG) (Rochester, NY) offers the 5-megapixel LightWise LW-5-S-1394 camera in color and monochrome versions. All camera controls are done via the 1394 interface, which includes a fully...
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