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INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Saelig Company, Inc. (Pittsford, NY) has introduced JoyWarrior24F14, a high-resolution USB-connected 3-axis acceleration sensor with 125μg sensitivity. The new USB-powered JoyWarrior24F14 offers acceleration...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Kontron (Poway, CA) has introduced the world’s first PCIe/104™ embedded single board computer (SBC) based on the Intel® Atom™ E600C processor series, pairing an Intel Atom E600 series processor with an...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
The new Vision1040™ PLC and integrated HMI from Unitronics (Quincy, MA) allows machine manufacturers and system integrators to add both a brilliant 10.4” color touch-screen equipped with 9 programmable function...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Many scientific, technical and engineering applications in finance, medical imaging, modeling, simulation, and...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
In the design process, after the first prototype returns from fabrication, engineers often use traditional test equipment to make low-level measurements such as digital rise times, voltage thresholds,...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The desire to consolidate datacenter I/O has existed for several decades. It has been driven by I/O hardware providers who didn’t want to develop multiple versions of the same I/O card for different...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Automated industrial control systems are an integral part of today’s manufacturing facilities. As these systems’ capabilities advance, the engineer shifts from someone who oversees...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Emerson Network Power (Carlsbad, CA) has introduced the DS2900, a high-wattage 12V front-end distributed power supply. The Emerson DS2900 is rated for up to 2900W of adjustable output power at 240A. In...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Rochester Electronics (Newburyport, MA) provides authorized reverse engineering services to recreate, manufacture and distribute pin-for-pin replacement parts with matched cycle for cycle timing for...
Products: Electronics & Computers
OMICRON Lab’s (Houston, TX) new universal injection transformer, B-WIT 100, was developed for the stability analysis of switched mode power supplies and control loops of any kind. Due to its special design, the...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Sunstone Circuits (Mulino, OR), the printed circuit board (PCB) prototype solutions provider, is launching the newest version of their design software, PCB123® v4. This free-to-use, no license required design-tool has an...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Falcon Electric, Inc. (Irwindale, CA) has introduced a long-life battery in its SSG Series™ Industrial-Grade Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS) Plus product line. The units are available in models from 1.5 to...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Lineage Power Corporation (Plano, TX), a Gores Group company, has expanded its Picot LynxTM DC-DC converter family with a new 2-amp model that is an energy-efficient, non-isolated, point-of-load (POL) converter. The 2A...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Historically, processors from the PowerPC® family, now known as Power Architecture® processors, have been the dominant choice for implementing Digital...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Military systems represent extreme environments for COTS electronic equipment. Many systems involve multiple enclosures, often from different suppliers. Equipment layout, the...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Systems engineering is not about developing electronics, mechanical, or software designs. Systems engineering is really about four things:
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
DC is not always DC. When systems are developed to operate on DC power, the DC electrical environment will have noise and may experience other disturbances. This article will explore considerations for generating low...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
The OpenVPX Industry Working Group, a 28-company team founded by Mercury Computer Systems, collaborated with a common goal and accelerated the completion of a system architecture specification for open...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
VPX systems offer tremendous performance for the Mil/Aero market, including naval, airborne, and ground-based computing systems. The architecture provides an unprecedented combination...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Before the advent of OpenVPX, designers of embedded systems took advantage of the extreme connectivity offered by VPX (VITA 46), but were faced with a virtually unlimited number of possible implementations. Specific...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Xilinx, Inc. (San Jose, CA) has launched the industry’s first high-density, rad-hard reconfigurable FPGA. The new devices are built on the second-generation ASMBL™ column-based architecture of the...
Products: Electronics & Computers
The PIXCI® SI2 frame grabber from EPIX (Buffalo Grove, IL) supports two high-resolution SILICON VIDEO® cameras with resolutions from 0.3 to 10 megapixels on the x1 PCI Express bus. With 64 MB of onboard memory and...
Products: Electronics & Computers
STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland) has introduced the STM32TS60, a single-chip multi-touch “resistive” touchscreen controller that detects up to 10 simultaneous touches with fingers, nails, or stylus,...
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Keithley Instruments (Cleveland, OH) has released a free tutorial CD that offers practical and helpful techniques for obtaining the most accurate and precise measurements possible using advanced electrical...
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The MAXQ622® microcontroller with integrated USB transceiver from Maxim Integrated Products (Sunnyvale, CA) features an ultra-low stop-mode current (300nA, typ.) and intelligent supply switching to extend battery life in...
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Available in both air- and conduction-cooled configurations, the Ensemble™ 6000 Series OpenVPX HCD6410 High Compute Density Module from Mercury Computer Systems (Chelmsford, MA) combines eight high-performance...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
VPX is like a three act play. Act one was the launching of a new high density platform for critical embedded computing applications. Leveraging the wildly popular VMEbus in 3U and 6U Eurocard formats, VPX added the capability...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) has introduced the OpenVPX™/VITA-65 compliant VPX6-6902 Serial RapidIO® (SRIO) switch card. This rugged 6U VPX board,...
Products: Electronics & Computers
GE Intelligent Platforms (Charlottesville, VA) has announced the SBC622 rugged 6U OpenVPX-compliant single board computer. At 2.53GHz, the SBC622’s Intel Core i7 processor is 30% faster than its...
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