News & Analysis
ip.access Chooses Keithley for Mass-Market Femtocell Production Testing
Keithley Instruments has announced that ip.access, a developer of femtocell and picocell solutions, has purchased Keithley’s award-winning Radio Frequency (RF) test solutions. ip.access has selected Keithley’s Series 2800 RF Vector Signal Analyzers and Series 2900 RF Vector Generators as the solution for its production testing of WCDMA femtocell base stations.
Eurotech's low power single board computer.
Eurotech has been working with Intel Corporation as an early adopter of Low Power Intel Architecture (LPIA) devices. As a result of this work Eurotech have now released the new PROTEUS single board computer. The PROTEUS is available in two configurations, allowing it to be deployed either as a stand-alone device, or as a COM Express module.
Toshiba launches 90 lumen white LED
Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the availability of a new high-power, high-brightness white LED for commercial, residential and industrial lighting applications. The TL12W02-D device can provide a typical flux of 90 lumens from a driving current of only 250mA.
Driver module for high brightness LEDs
Code Mercenaries launches a new product line for LED lighting applications. This is a new strategic branch of operations for Code Mercenaries. In the last few years LEDs have become a viable alternative for general lighting applications. Compared to traditional light sources LEDs offer a much longer life cycle and in most cases a significantly better energy efficiency. But the technical hurdles in designing LED based luminaires are higher than wi...
TI's new low-power, floating-point processors
Texas Instruments has announced three devices that it says transcend traditional floating-point processors, enabling engineers to easily design more portable, connected, cost-efficient and high-precision end products. The three devices, based on TI’s new C674x DSP core, merge the inherent advantages of floating point with a combination of connectivity peripherals, low power and low cost that, until now, has only been available with fixed-po...
IAR Systems selected by Micromint for industrial SBC design
IAR Systems has announced that Micromint, a leading supplier of single-board computers and industrial embedded controllers, has selected IAR Systems as its tools partner for its latest computer board targeted at the industrial market. The new Eagle 100 board commenced shipping in August this year, and each unit includes a KickStart version of IAR Systems flagship C/C++ compiler IAR Embedded Workbench. A developer’s kit is available with IAR J-L...
TI's lowest power video ampifiers
Texas Instruments has introduced a flexible four-channel video buffer that consumes 57 percent less power than its closest competitor. The new device also includes a power-down feature to lower system power consumption even more and help enable manufacturers to achieve ENERGY STAR compliance in set-top boxes (STBs) and personal and digital video recorders (PVRs and DVRs). The balance of ultra-low power and reduced space and cost also makes the am...
Redline adopts picoChip for its RedMAX 4CTM Mobile WiMAX basestations
picoChip has announced that Redline Communications, a leading provider of standards-based WiMAX access and broadband wireless infrastructure products, has selected picoChip’s PC8532 modem to power its next generation RedMAX 4C Mobile WiMAX basestations. picoChip’s industry leading, complete and robust reference designs are the market’s only solutions to deliver true IO-MIMO with uplink CSM – a critical feature of mobile WiMAX.
Video drivers from Intersil
Intersil has introduced two 200MHz single supply video drivers, the ISL59833 and ISL59837, each equipped with charge pumps that create negative voltage and remove the need for external negative rails.
LED featuring six terminals and three chips from CML-IT
Now available from CML Innovative Technologies (CML-IT) is a medium power LED from Samsung featuring six terminals. The 5252 series LED benefits from three chips which can be connected in series or parallel, making the LED useable in a multitude of different applications. Instead of assembling three LEDs you now only need one LED, saving costs and assembly time.