Published:2011/6/27 5:18:00 Author:Amy
ByteSnap Design is an embedded systems software development and electronics design consultancy, creating innovative, robust and high quality electronics and software products for our customers. Recently, it has released a ZigBee Smart Energy-compliant module that provides metering and control in smart energy systems. By adopting the ZigBee Smart Energy protocol, the ZMM-01 can use the command-set specified by the s... (View)
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Published:2011/6/24 2:23:00 Author:Phyllis
Speaking of car lights, many people may not feel strange. As there are so many cars on the street nowadays, they have become a necessary in people’s daily life to take people from one place to another. When the darkness falls on, the car lights light up the road and make driver see clear and ensure the safety. One should be careful to choose the appropriate car lights. LED lights are the best choice for the... (View)
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Published:2011/6/23 3:53:00 Author:Amy
Recently, AMD officially launched the next generation high-performance AMDFusionA series APU (codenamed Llano ) for global mainstream consumer computing. A series APU adopts the CPU + GPU heterogeneous computing, which can bring the sense of technologies of the future computing experience for consumer PC users. Meantime, it has outstanding high-definition and 3D image display, all-day battery life without sacrific... (View)
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Published:2011/6/23 3:26:00 Author:Phyllis
Light Emitting Diodes or LEDs, are different from traditional lights sources in the way they produce light. The working principle of incandescent bulbs is to heat a tungsten filament until it glows or emits light. The fluorescent lamp emits ultraviolet (UV) radiation through exciting mercury atoms by an electric arc excites, striking the internal phosphor coating of the glass tubes, and the UV radiation will conv... (View)
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Published:2011/6/22 4:32:00 Author:Amy
In structure of switching power supply topology with a transformer, when switch turns off, the loss caused by voltage and current overlap is the major part of switching power loss, while in the circuit, stray inductance and stray capacitance, as power switch off, will cause over-voltage and oscillation in the circuit. If the peak voltage is too high, it will damage the switch. Meanwhile, the existence of the osc... (View)
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Published:2011/6/21 3:15:00 Author:Amy
Micro-electro-opto-mechanical system (MOEMS) is an emerging technology which has become one of most popular technology. It adopts MEMS of photonic system with internal micro-mechanical light modulator, micro-mechanical optical switches, IC and other components. The MOEMS technology features miniaturization, multiplicity and microelectronics and has a seamless integrating the optical components with electrical parts... (View)
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Published:2011/6/21 2:02:00 Author:Phyllis
At the International Supercomputer Conference held this week, six OEMs will show systems that running a standard version of Intel’s Many Integrated Core architecture (MIC). Intel will also report progress which programming the highly parallel coprocessor eared for high performance computing clusters. Companies like Colfax, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SGI and Supermicro will show these systems. At least one ... (View)
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Published:2011/6/20 5:07:00 Author:Amy
According to generated signal type, the signal generator can be classed into sine wave signal generator, function generator, pulse generator, a random signal generator, and dedicated signal generator. Sine wave signal generator can provide the most basic sine wave signal which can be used as reference frequency and reference amplitude signal and applied in gain and sensitivity testing and calibration of instruments... (View)
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Published:2011/6/20 2:24:00 Author:Phyllis
With so many different and exciting lighting choices nowadays, which one is the most functional and efficient ? The answer is definitely LED lights. They are becoming more and more popular as they are powerful and efficient. As the technology develops they are also becoming somewhat more affordable. LED lights are all around if you what to look for, most people just are not aware of them yet. LED lights are used in... (View)
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Published:2011/6/17 2:03:00 Author:Phyllis
Nowadays, the most common size of LED lights are 4-inch and 2-inch. Both of them can be used for different purposes. LED lights can make the room look amazingly good. A lot of people choose to install LED light in their bathroom’s roof. The 4-inch LED can be used so that lights can surround the square panel where installed the shower. LEDs do not have color restrictions. One can get the brightest and the darkest s... (View)
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Published:2011/6/16 2:23:00 Author:Phyllis
LEDs are known by many people as they emit more light, produce less heat and use less electricity. They are used in many applications from flash light to nifty LED TVs today. Today, let’s talk about how does the LED come and who invented it. As LEDs are swing by the local hardware shop for a light bulb upgrade but unknown to many consumers and they have revolutionized and will continue to revolutionize the world i... (View)
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Published:2011/6/15 3:41:00 Author:Phyllis
LED is quickly becoming the dominate light bulb in the lighting industry will completely take over the market in the coming five years. LEDs based on economical friendly technologies for the home and business are expanding markets and have attracted more and more attentions for lower electricity bills and ease global warming. What consumers want are light bulbs and lamps that can be installed with no more additio... (View)
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Published:2011/6/14 4:06:00 Author:Amy
Signal generator is used to produce oscillator signal with its characteristics parameters controllable. It is easy to simulate different signals in various conditions, which is of great significance for product R&D and circuit experiment. Here we are going to discuss the principle, category, applications and other basic knowledge of signal generator to introduce how to use signal generator. Meantime, collect nu... (View)
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Published:2011/6/13 4:10:00 Author:Amy
Since May this year, NVIDIA has released a new generation of Tesla M2090 GPU product claiming the fastest high efficiency parallel processors over the world. It is applied in Hewlett-Packard’s new ProLiant SL390 G7 server. The HP SL390 series servers can be embedded eight M2090 at most. Meantime, SL390 G7 product can provide the mixed computing environment for GPU and CPU combination. In the conference of ... (View)
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Published:2011/6/9 2:06:00 Author:Amy
Broadcom Corp., the dominator of offering global innovative wire and wireless communication semiconductor solutions, announced that there are two new products added on the catalogue of Broadcom’s leading secure single-chip SoC products series, which are BCM 5882 and BCM5883. These two models are the most integrated secure single-chip system processor, which provides a highly expandable and economical information se... (View)
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Published:2011/6/7 0:50:00 Author:Amy
It is said that ST Microelectronics NV (Geneva, Switzerland) has announced the SPV1040. It is a monolithic step-up converter with high efficiency and low power and voltage offering power supply to products which even adopts a photovoltaic cell or fuel cells. Their capability of handling low input is extremely important. The working voltage rang of ST’s SPV1040 is 0.3 V to 5.5 V input. It can achieve maximu... (View)
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Published:2011/6/4 20:58:00 Author:Amy
Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) announced that as for wireless communication systems, its new PLL (phase-locked loop) synthesizer can be regarded as the industry’s best combination of integration, performance, flexibility and the widest continuous frequency-range coverage for a single RF device. The ADF4351 contains a high-performance, on-chip VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator) and supports dual output ports. And it en... (View)
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Published:2011/6/2 3:27:00 Author:Amy
NXP Semiconductors N.V.(Nasdaq: NXP)published PC1788 microprocessor several days ago. This is the fist time to adopt ARM® Cortex™-M3 technology and with LCD controller MCU integrated. The products have been on the market. LPC178x series have the highest 96kb on-chip SRAM and 32 bits external memory interface to achieve the purpose of low-cost and high-quality picture application. What’s more, LPC178x seri... (View)
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Published:2011/6/2 2:05:00 Author:Phyllis
Selecting appropriate lighting in a media room is important for the room’s overall look and its performance. One can add drama, stereo music, game and other entertainments to the room by installing various kinds of lighting. Find out what kind of bulbs to use and the position of the lights can help creating a multi-functional and enjoyable media room or home theater. If you still have no idea about how to choose ... (View)
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Published:2011/6/1 2:26:00 Author:Amy
According to the news, Silicon Laboratories Inc. released a wireless sensor node (WSN) reference design which adopts Si10xx wireless microcontroller (MCU) family as foundation. It adopts energy harvesting source to achieve power supplied. As we all know, it has been years since harvested energy sources came out as system power supply, but it is still challenging if take wireless sensor nodes within very lo... (View)
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