Communications

NEC Electronics today announced the availability of its four new single-chip IO-Link solutions for IO-Link slave applications based on the close cooperation between NEC Electronics and its business partners ELMOS Semiconductor AG and TMG-Karlsruhe. The new IO-Link solutions combine NEC Electronics’ All Flash 78K0R 16-bit microcontroller and IO-Link transceiver, with integrated IO-Link slave protocol stack in a single package. The part numbers d...

Toshiba has launched a family of low-voltage, low-capacitance switches that provide bus switching for applications requiring high-speed bidirectional data transfer. Devices in the new TC7MBL/WBL/SBLxxxxC family will suit a variety of designs requiring high-speed bus switching and isolation including mobile phones, digital cameras, consumer electronics equipment and flat panel displays.

Industrial computing and networking specialists Amplicon have launched a new online video initiative to assist customers with the configuration and commissioning of Amplicon’s most complex products and technologies. The video scheme is designed to dramatically shorten the learning curve for new products and provide a helping hand, potentially saving engineers many hours of frustration.

Agilent Technologies has announced it will demonstrate its latest LTE test solutions at the LTE Americas 2009 conference in Dallas, Texas, Nov. 4-5. Demonstrations include Protocol & Device Validation Test, Drive Test, Signal Analyzer and Installation and Maintenance tools for spectrum analysis/cable antenna test.

Avago Technologies has announced yet another expansion of its family of SFP+ optical transceiver modules for next-generation 10 Gbps Ethernet equipment designs. The new additions to Avago’s SPF+ transceiver series include the 10/1 Gbps dual-rate AFCT-701SDDZ 10GBASE-Long Range (LR) single mode and AFBR-703SDDZ 10GBASE-Short Range (SR) multimode fiber transceivers for use in enterprise and data center applications. The dual-rate operation al...

In response to the emerging network enabled home appliance market as well as the support the increasing number of internet connected industrial products, EPSON Electronics has developed the S1S60000 single-chip network controller. Available from 2001 Electronic Components, the S1S60000 incorporates all of the protocol stack functions and other elements needed to connect household and industrial appliances to a network As protocols required for TC...

ADLINK Technology announced the release of comprehensive distributed motion and I/O solutions providing motion control of up to 256 axes and I/O control of up to 2,016 control points through the integration of dedicated and time-deterministic motion & I/O field buses: Motionnet and High Speed Link (HSL).

With the ECM-US15WP DATA MODUL AG offers a new 3,5“ Embedded Single Board Computer, based on the latest Intel Atom Menlow-XL platform. The ultra low power ECM-US15WP comes with fanless Intel Atom Z510P 1.1GHz or Z530P 1.6 GHz CPU and Intel SCH US15WP.

DFI releases the new ES951 fanless embedded system equipped with the 3.5” subcompact NP951-B16C SBC. Featuring an Intel Atom N270 Processor and Intel® 945GSE / ICH7M chipset with low power consumption, the ES951 is ideal for embedded computing applications requiring a compact passively-cooled platform.

Wavesat Inc., a leading supplier of 4G broadband wireless semiconductor solutions, today announced that its “Odyssey” chipset is the first – and currently the only -- to be widely deployed in Willcom’s new “XGP” broadband wireless network, which entered commercial service this month in Japan. The Odyssey chipset is featured in Willcom’s GX001N XGP PC Cards manufactured by a leading manufacturer of wireless terminals and consumer dev...