Communications
PLX Announces Industry's Lowest-Power, Dual-SATA RAID Storage Controller with Real-Time Encryption
PLX Technology has announced the OXUFS946DSE, the industry's lowest-power (391mW), highest-performance dual-storage controller that bridges two SATA hard disks with eSATA, FireWire800 or USB2.0 serial interfaces. The new PLX® OXUFS946DSE dual-port RAID controller solution also offers on-the-fly encryption/decryption to protect data. The OXUFS946DSE enables OEMs to provide differentiation in the consumer direct attached storage (DAS) market throu...
INTERFACE MASTERS Technologies Introduces Compact Form-Factor External Passive Bypass Switch for Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking
Interface Masters Technologies has announced a new Desktop form-factor External Passive Bypass Switch family for Gigabit Ethernet (GE) that is designed to integrate with Inline Networking Servers, including WAN Acceleration, UTM, IPS Systems, and Security and Monitoring Appliances such as Firewalls, IDS systems, and Analysis Probes. This low-cost, low power, compact form-factor external bypass switch features passive bypass functionality for maxi...
IBASE Releases Intel GM45-based IB946 Low-Power Half-Size CPU Card
IBASE Technology today announced the new low-power IB946 half-size CPU card that is based on the mobile Intel GM45 chipset supporting 45nm Intel Core2 Duo processors with a 667/800/1066MHz FSB. With the powerful chipset-integrated Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics, IB946 offers excellent 3D graphics dual-independent displays with CRT and LVDS outputs. It is suited for embedded applications that demand vivid graphics video playback such as point-of-sale,...
High Linearity Downconverting Mixers Improve Performance & Reduce Power Consumption in 3G & 4G Wireless Basestations
Linear Technology has announced the LTC554x family of four new high dynamic range downconverting mixers covering the 700MHz to 4GHz wireless infrastructure frequency range. The LTC554x mixers offer outstanding IIP3 (input third-order intercept) of 26dBm, low noise figures of 9-10dB and high conversion gain of 8dB, enabling excellent dynamic range performance for both main receivers and digital predistortion receivers.
CommAgility - FPGA processing AdvancedMC module with PCI Express interface
At the AdvancedTCA Summit CommAgility announced the AMC-V5Fe, a mid-size Advanced Mezzanine Card that includes a high-speed PCI Express interface and a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA. The new module’s combination of high processing power and flexible I/O makes it well-suited for many industrial, scientific and telecoms applications.
Lattice and Affarii Deliver Low Power, Low Cost RRH Solution
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation and Affarii Technologies Limited, a solutions provider for networking and telecommunications applications, today announced that they have developed a complete 3G/4G-based Remote Radio Head (RRH) solution for wireless infrastructure customers. This is the first time a full RRH solution has been made available using low power, low cost FPGAs that allows low power RRHs to be deployed without sacrificing flexibility ...
ADLINK Technology's Advanced DSP-based Servo Motion Controller
ADLINK Technology has announced the release of its most advanced DSP-based servo motion controllers, the PCI-8253/8256 (three axes) and PCI-8253/8256 (six axes). Based on over ten years of experience in developing PC-based motion controllers, ADLINK designed the PCI-8253/8256/8256 to take full advantage of the latest digital signal processing technologies to provide a ±10 V analog motion controller with full closed-loop control, a PID plus feed-...
Fanless Industrial Box PC from Texim
The EPS-910 from Avalue Technology is a well-designed, heat-dissipative and price-competitive industrial-level box PC. The multifunctional features of EPS-910 are said to be tailor-made from customers' demands for stability and expandability.
CommAgility targets high-end wireless and data processing applications with 10G Ethernet/CPRI interfaces
At the AdvancedTCA Summit CommAgility announced today the AMC-V5F-10G, a high performance FPGA-based interface and processing card for the latest wireless baseband and other demanding processing and optical data interfacing applications.
Current sensor features 120 kHz bandwidth, high-voltage isolation and integrated overcurrent detection
The new ACS710 from Allegro MicroSystems Europe is a 120 kHz bandwidth, high-voltage isolation current sensor IC that provides an economical and precise means for current sensing applications in industrial, commercial and communications systems.