Industry News (2011/09/26)

Supertex’s AT9919 LED-lamp-driver IC

Published:2011/9/26 22:49:00 Author:Amy

Supertex, Inc., a publicly held mixed signal semiconductor manufacturer, recently introduced AT9919, an LED lamp driver integrated circuit (IC), targeting in use of solid-state lighting applications in automobiles, such as head lights, tail lights, brake indicator lights, dome lights, and panel backlights. AT9919 drives LEDs using a buck topo...   (View)

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The Non-contact AMR Sensor Used in Low Magnetic Field

Published:2011/9/26 21:30:00 Author:Li xiao na

The Murata was founded in Japan. The meaning of Murata is “village rice paddy”. It is not a very big company, but it has the advanced technology. Its products include monolithic ceramic capacitors, SAW resonators, piezoelectric sensors, ceramic filters, iezoelectric buzzers, short-range wireless communication modules, military ceramic devices, connectors, isolators, power suppliers, circuit modules, EMI suppres...   (View)

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TDK EFE300-400M Series of Power Supplies

Published:2011/9/26 20:54:00 Author:Amy

The TDK, the world’s leading manufacturer of industrial power supplies, has developed the warranty of its EFE300-400M series of digitally controlled 300 to 400W power supplies from three to five years. Since its introduction in 2008, they are based on the product’s conservative design and field-reliability data. Mainly used in medi...   (View)

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36-V Automotive Op Amp in the SOT-553 Micro Package

Published:2011/9/26 6:36:00 Author:Amy

WIN Enterprises, a worldwide developer and producer of embedded controllers and platforms for OEMs, has released the PL-80320, a fanless box computer for embedded applications powered by VIA Nano/Eden processors. Robust enclosure the fanless device with compact package can be employed in a range of applications including indust...   (View)

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Building-Automation Systems in Mechatronics

Published:2011/9/26 6:17:00 Author:Amy

It is said that buildings occupies over one-third of the energy consumption in the United States. According to information, the application of control and automation to buildings can contribute to energy saving, environment protection, health improvement and occupants safety. The widely use of automation in HVAC consumes 20% of the energy in the United States. A survey of the literature pertaining to contro...   (View)

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Google Allows to Attach STANDOUT Metadata Tags to Stories

Published:2011/9/26 4:21:00 Author:Amy

As we all know, Google delivers news content from providers automatically. Recently, it stated that there is a twist in its algorithm. It can recognize the featured stories from others. The news organizations can now attach “standout” metadata tags to exclusives, scoops or investigative projects. US edition of Google news even can consider including a featured label with the story on its news homepage and...   (View)

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M4 Becomes the Tendency of Cortex-based Microcontroller

Published:2011/9/26 4:12:00 Author:Li xiao na

Because of the DSP capability, the M4 is the essential watershed architecture for Cortex-based microcontroller. Now, Cortex-M series heavyweight, STMicroelectronics has introduced its first (View)

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The Success of Electronex electronics design and assembly expo

Published:2011/9/26 3:29:00 Author:Phyllis

The 2011 Electronex electronics design and assembly expo was held on 14 to 15 September 2011 at the Melbourne Park Function Centre. The Surface Mount & Circuit Board Association Conference 2011 was hosted at the conference centre next to the expo and delegates heard from both local and international speakers on a number of topics. Over 1000 attendees visited the expo over the two days in all, while the ...   (View)

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Goepel Introduces Two Additional JTAG Digital I/O Modules

Published:2011/9/26 2:30:00 Author:Li xiao na

GOEPEL electronic was established in the year of 1991 and headquartered in Jena, Germany. It is a worldwide leading vendor of professional automated inspection (AOI/AXI), automotive test solutions, industrial vision solutions, functional testers and JTAG/Boundary scan solutions as well as technology innovator of IP based instrumentation. ...   (View)

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Signal Integrity Problems Emerge in the Task

Published:2011/9/26 2:12:00 Author:Phyllis

The maintenance of signal quality at 10-Gbits/sec speeds is far more difficult than in the 1-to-3 Gbits/sec range. To initiating the first designs in the 10-Gbits/sec realm, one has to confront new realities that will dominate signal-quality issues, like backplanes and network interfaces move into that speed range. Discontinu...   (View)

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Techniques to Deal with the sub-micron design Variation

Published:2011/9/26 1:29:00 Author:Li xiao na

The demand for the variation-aware custom IC becomes high when the process geometries continue to shrink. The electronic design community has recognized this fact. Many parts of the custom IC design will be influenced y the variation, such as analog/mixed-signal, RF, I/O, memory and standard cell libraries. It results in actu...   (View)

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