Communications

Businesses in the security, digital signage, vending, retail/ POS, advertising and remote management markets looking to add 24/7 unmanned operation of remote assets, even where there is no broadband available, can now achieve this with the Sierra Wireless AirLink Raven XE 3G router from Alpha Micro Components.

National Instruments today announced new field-programmable gate array (FPGA) capabilities for the NI 9144 expansion chassis. By downloading the NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT 1.1 driver from www.ni.com, engineers and scientists can now run National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA code directly on the NI 9144 chassis to execute custom triggering, inline processing and control within an application. By embedding hardware-level FPGA logic direc...

Concurrent Technologies has announced, as part of their critical embedded product range, the release of a new 6U CompactPCI SBC based on Intel’s 45nm process technology. The PP 531/06x a single slot 6U CompactPCI processor board uses the latest high performance mobile dual core processor from the Intel embedded roadmap, the 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor SP9300 or the 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor SL9400.

IBASE Technology Inc., a world-leading manufacturer of single board computers and embedded systems, delivers the Intel EP80579-based ASB200-810 fanless system that housed an IBASE ECX810 ECX embedded board. This system is suitable for fanless platforms requiring multiple LAN ports for use in networking applications for SOHO.

Vishay has announced today that the Vishay Systems family of G4 advanced process control instruments has been enhanced to include remote access via web interface. This makes possible setup, maintenance, diagnostic tests, software updates, and other activities using a standard web browser.

NXP Semiconductors today announced that it has shipped its one millionth FlexRay transceiver to the automotive industry. This landmark shipment reiterates its number one position as the leading supplier of in-vehicle networking technology, making NXP the only provider to ship over a million FlexRay Physical Layer compliant transceivers. It also reflects a rapid increase in the adoption of FlexRay in-vehicle networking technology among car OEMs gl...

Strategic Test Corp. has announced two new 500 MS/s 12-bit digitizer cards for the PCI bus. The UF3-3242 has 2 analog inputs and can sample at 500 MS/s on one channel or 250 MS/s on both channels simultaneously, while the UF3-3240 is a single-channel card that samples at up to 500 MS/s. Both cards are supplied with 128 MSamples (256 MByte) onboard memory which is unique at this speed/resolution segment. The memory can be expanded to 2 GSamples gi...

Two cores at the price of one offers the new innovative COM Express module from the CXB-GM45 family developed by MSC Vertriebs GmbH. The board is assembled with the first Intel Celeron processor with two cores T3100 Dual Core, showing considerable high computing and graphics power.

Maxim has introduced the MAX13223E, a ±70V fault-protected, dual-channel RS-232 transceiver. Pin compatible with the industry-standard MAX3223E, the MAX13223E is the first overvoltage-protected RS-232 transceiver on the market. It integrates ±70V fault protection on the RS-232 interface pins, thus eliminating the need for external fault-protection circuitry, such as polyswitch limiters and zener diodes.

SMSC has introduced the LAN88710 MII/RMII 10/100 Ethernet Transceiver, its second TrueAuto(tm) Ethernet solution. This device is designed specifically to meet the high reliability standards required by automotive applications such as on-board diagnostics or fast software download interfaces for central gateway and telematics modules, navigation systems, radio head units and connectivity devices. The LAN88710 transceiver offers increased access sp...