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Penny + Giles has launched a contactless sealed linear transducer that provides reliable, fit-and-forget position sensing for rugged industrial applications. The robust SLT190 is aimed primarily at the off-highway (construction, agriculture) and utility vehicle markets and is suitable for the harsh conditions of steering position applications, lift mechanisms, and hydro-pneumatic active suspension systems. This transducer has a short body to stro...

RF Engines Limited (RFEL), the supplier of high performance FPGA-based design solutions, now has available a new datasheet on its ‘HyperSpeed’ range of high-performance FFT cores on its website www.rfel.com. The cores are factory scalable in terms of transform length and processing parallelism and can be built to optimally process complex data streams with very high sample rates from 400MS/s to several GS/s. The cores use a parallel p...

Tundra Semiconductor has announced that Peter Schmidt has been appointed Director European Sales, effective immediately. Tundra continues to grow its customer base in the European communications and computing storage markets and is committed to being aligned geographically with customers and to providing the best support and products for their ongoing success.

As Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) deployments continue to expand worldwide, Texas Instruments is now looking beyond 3G - to Long Term Evolution (LTE). An initiative of the Third Generation Partnership Program (3GPP), LTE encompasses higher data rates and flexibility in frequency allocations needed to support IP-based applications set to deploy between 2008 and 2012. In order to accelerate original equipment manufacturers' (OEMs) ...

Review Display Systems Ltd has introduced a compact rugged PC system sealed to IP67 for applications where dust and water and a shortage of space present real problems for the systems designer. The AEC-6710 is housed in a rugged aluminium chassis measuring just 165mm x 65.6mm x 197mm. The unit meets Mil-Std-810F for storage and vibration; it also has an operating temperature range of minus fifteen to plus sixty degrees centigrade.

Avago Technologies today announces the completion of full Telcordia GR-468-CORE qualification of its next-generation 850 nm vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSEL). These VCSELs are currently in volume production for use in its higher speed fiber optic products. The company is a leading supplier of innovative semiconductor solutions for advanced communications, industrial and commercial applications. III-V technologies such as VCSELs play...

The new NTB (Net-Top-Box) 115 from specialist Digital Signage ONELAN, is being accepted into mass transit markets, such as buses and trams. The NTB115 has a 12V power input that simplifies integration into mobile applications. It can also be used with wireless connectivity to enable media update schemes when buses are in a depot overnight.

National Instruments has announced the availability of a new version of LabVIEW, the graphical design platform for test, control and embedded system development, for use with Windows Vista. NI LabVIEW 8.2.1 includes both the desktop development environment as well as related application software including the LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA modules. NI also released new 32-bit and 64-bit hardware drivers with support for the 32-bit and 64-bit ...

Telit wireless solutions has extended its agreement with Arrow to cover the UK and Ireland after continued, successful collaboration in Nordic and Baltic countries and southern Europe. Telit, a global wireless communications developer, designs and manufactures a range of GSM/GPRS- CDMA and UMTS/HSDPA based cellular communication products for the ‘machine-to-machine’ (M2M) market. Target applications for Telit’s products include automated m...

IDT has announced a JEDEC-compatible integrated register and phase-locked loop (PLL) for DDR3 registered dual in-line memory modules (RDIMMs). The device’s integrated PLL supports the industry’s widest range of operating clock speeds, from DDR3-800 to DDR3-1600 with a propagation delay of less than 1 nanosecond. Designed for a new generation of high performance servers and workstations, the IDT 74SSTE32882 offers twice the speed of today’...