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Silicon Labs Unveils Energy Harvest WSN

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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Another Alternative: LED

Published:2011/5/30 1:50:00 Author:Phyllis

Energy efficiency is a good reason for home owners to turn to LED lights and away from incandescent bulbs. It is still at the early stage to scratch the dimming and color-tuning possibilities of power LEDs. As a matter of fact, the LEDs are not a novelty as they have to fit straight into the sockets vacated by incandescent bulbs and work with no changes to the house wiring. The current watchword of LED powe...   (View)

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XCede Backplane Connector Line Was Announced by FCI

Published:2011/5/27 7:18:00 Author:Amy

0FCI released XCede vertical backplane headers and right-angle daughter card receptacles designed for 25 Gb/s performance. Vertical backplane header configurations provide two, four or six differential signal pairs per column wafer with four, six or eight wafers per signal connector module. The vertical header range also includes options with two-wall, three-wall, or four-wall connector shrouds. Among the ...   (View)

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IP67- to IP69K-sealed Connectors for Harsh Environments

Published:2011/5/27 5:01:00 Author:Amy

CONEC has started to provide a full series of sensor actuator circular connector products for the industrial automation market. CONEC’s SAL Series connectors can be used various over molded sizes and styles, such as M12, M8 and 7/8 . They possess specific constructions designed especially for the industrial automation and food/beverage industries, which are sealed to IP67 and IP69K requirements to service ...   (View)

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Roboteq’s New Programmable Motor Controller Possesses Advanced Features and Small Size

Published:2011/5/25 22:35:00 Author:Amy

Roboteq, Inc’s SDC2130 motor controller has more advanced characteristics with small size. It can directly drive two DC motors up to 20Amps each at up to 50Volts, or one motor up to 40Amps. This kind of controller is intended for industrial automation systems, mobile robots, mechatronics, or any other medium power motor control applications. The analog joystick, standard R/C radio, USB or RS232 interface se...   (View)

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Energy Micro Provides Tiny Gecko MCUs for Start Kit

Published:2011/5/23 6:04:00 Author:Amy

ARM CortexTM-M3, based EFM32 Tiny Gecko microcontrollers (MCUs), has been announced by Energy Micro with the introduction of a starter kit. Referenced EFM32TG-STK3300 priced at $69, the kit provides users with all the functionality needed to create ultra-low-power system designs. Tiny’s LESENSE interface with wake-on-touch capability runs independently of the Cortex-M3 core and enables a mix of up to 16 ...   (View)

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Silicon Announced More than Hundreds IC Clock Products

Published:2011/5/20 1:02:00 Author:Amy

Silicon Laboratories, the leading manufacturer of high performance analog and mixed signals IC, announced that they plans to expand the clock IC products assembling to meet the forceful market demand of programmable timing components. The company has released more than hundreds models of clock generator and clock distributor. They can serve the demand of consumer, industry, communication and embedded field applicat...   (View)

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The New Edge-lit Technology Employed by GLT

Published:2011/5/19 2:46:00 Author:Phyllis

Global Lighting Technologies has incorporated its technology of edge-lit guide to extensive Far East mass production capable of creating an improved troffer downlight that is more efficient, brighter and offering four different color temperature with less LEDs. This new troffer down light assembly, which represents a decrease of approximately 70% from previous versions, is edge-lit using only 100 LEDs. ...   (View)

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Cree Announced 1000-Lumen LMR4 LED Module

Published:2011/5/18 6:19:00 Author:Amy

According to the report, Cree Inc. has announced the 1000-lumen LMR4 LED module. It can deliver 66 lumens per watt efficiency in a fully-integrated solution in the application of downlight. The Cree LMR4-1000 is a kind of 2700-K LED module that delivers 1000-lumen output at more than 90 CRI. It can replace 100-watt incandescent bulbs in downlight applications. The features of the module are as follo...   (View)

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Terms on LED

Published:2011/5/18 1:15:00 Author:Phyllis

The luminous intensity of a small element of surface area in a given direction is divided by the orthogonal projection of this area onto a plane at right angles to the direction. Luminance is a photometric measure of the luminous intensity per unit area of light travelling in a given direction. It describes the amount of light that passes through or is emitted from a particular area, and falls within a given soli...   (View)

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Intersil Released a New Current Mode PWM Controller---ISL6726

Published:2011/5/17 1:35:00 Author:Amy

Intersil corp., the global semiconductor designer and manufacturer of high performance analog and mixed signals, announced a new current mode PWM controller—ISL6726. This component is simplified via functions integration and parts reduce. In addition, ISL6726 is reliable for special duty ratio of low external components voltage. The component is most suitable for isolation active clamp normal shock and asymmetrical...   (View)

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Practical LED Industry Applications

Published:2011/5/16 22:35:00 Author:Phyllis

The chain of LED industry can be divided into five parts. They are raw materials, upstream industries, midstream industries, downstream industries, and test/production equipment. Most of the raw materials are III-V compound semiconductor crystal like gallium arsenide single crystal substrate material and aluminum nitride single crystal. There are other available raw materials like high purity gallium metal and hi...   (View)

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Linear Released LT3645

Published:2011/5/16 2:55:00 Author:Amy

Linear Technology Corporation has released LT3545. The component contains a 500mA IOUT, a 36V buck switching voltage regulators and an integrated LDO. It adopts 3mm x 3mm QFN or MSOP-12E package. LT3645 has 55V transient protection when it works in the VIN range of 3.6V~36V, which is very suitable for load dump and cold start in automobile application. The internal switch with 0.75A can reach 500mA of constant outp...   (View)

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WHDI Technology Will Be Massively Adopted in Wireless Video

Published:2011/5/13 2:39:00 Author:Amy

AMIMON corp., the market leader of wireless HDTV semiconductor solutions, claimed that due to increasing market demand of WHDI technology, many electronic manufacturers like ASUS, BOE, Galaxy, Malata, Panda Group, Winstar and 35.com, and many accessory manufacturers claimed that their new WHDI products have adopted AMIMON’s WHDI chip set. These companies have released various WHDI devices, such as embedded WHDI wir...   (View)

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NXP＇s New Generation of LVDS DDR Interface DAC

Published:2011/5/10 21:36:00 Author:Phyllis

NXP Semiconductors released a new generation of LVDS DDR interface digital-to-analog converter with 16-bit dual-channel which supports up to 1.25 G sample/s output update rates. The electronics giant claims that the high-speed DAC provides not only the best single tone performance in spurious free dynamic range but also two-tone intermodulation between a 200 MHz broad output bandwidth. Primarily designed fo...   (View)

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The Future of LED Lighting

Published:2011/5/10 3:25:00 Author:Phyllis

LED light still has a long way to become the mainstream. What’s on the market nowadays are the early solid-state lighting products in various form factors and designs. It’s still too early to predict how LEDs will develop and what features and applications will appear in the following years. At present, the LED lamp market is still in its early stage with uncertain demand due to high prices and unclear ...   (View)

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3-GHz HDMI Receiver Supports Up to 3D and HD

Published:2011/5/6 4:59:00 Author:Amy

It is said that the industry firs 3-GHz (gigahertz) HDMI receiver for advanced television solutions is unveiled by Analog Devices, Inc. The ADV7619 dual input receiver incorporates HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) specification version 1.4a supports up to 3D display resolutions and extended colorimetry. It is not like 2.25-GHz ICs, ADI’s ADV7619 3-GHz, dual-port receiver is effective for next- ge...   (View)

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COTS Single-phase PDU for Military Apps Is Unveiled

Published:2011/5/5 21:02:00 Author:Amy

A commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Power Distribution Unit (PDU), the MPD 100R-003 model, which used for critical military computer systems, radar, avionics and telecommunications applications, has been introduced by Marway Power Solutions. The MPD 100R-003 model supports 24 amps continuously at 120VAC and targets communications and computer device required a single-phase, EIA-310 compliant PDU in a compact ...   (View)

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Fastest ADLINK SATA 6 Gb/s industrial-grade SSD Was Announced

Published:2011/4/29 1:23:00 Author:Amy

It is sad that ADLINK Technology Inc. has introduced the ADLINK ASD Series of industrial-grade solid state drives (SSDs) which is the fastest SATA6 Gb/s. It is designed for use in harsh environments and rugged applications. The new SSDs feature a SATA 6 Gb/s (SATA III) interface in order to match the data transfer capabilities of second generation Intel® Core™ processor-based platforms. The company sai...   (View)

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LED Open Signs Help to Attract More Customer for Stores

Published:2011/4/27 4:04:00 Author:Phyllis

Walking on the street and looking around, what can catch your eyes? Yeah first are those beautiful windows that full of wonderful things inside there, they attract you to walk into the shop and take out your credit card. But today I would like to talk about something else beside shopwindows that also is important for luring customers, that is the LED Open Signs. LED products are always famous for its advant...   (View)

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