June 17th 2010 – XP Power today announced the launch of the AEF and AFM series of external AC/DC power supply units. Designed for a wide range of IT and portable medical equipment, the units provide single outputs with power output between 100 – 150 watts. These highly efficient units, up to 94% for the AEF series, comply with the latest energy efficiency standards such as Energy Star Level V, EISA2007 and CEC2008 in the United States and the ErP Directive across Europe. These standards stipulate limits for average energy efficiency and the maximum no load power consumption, which is less than 0.5 Watts for … Read More → "External medical and IT power supplies meet latest energy efficiency standards"

Graphic intensive gaming applications such as video slot, poker and video lottery typically used an industrial PC platform to fulfill their hardware requirements due to long life availability. Combining a gaming I/O controller with an X86 platform in single motherboard provides better reliability and at times a lower cost. Followed by Acrosser’s Intel based All-in-One gaming products, Acrosser has released a logic box gaming solution ACE-S8700 which integrates its powerful gaming I/O controller with VIA VX800 chipset. The ACE-S8700 is competitive with inexpensive price but without sacrificing … Read More → "Acrosser Launches Its Low Cost All-in-One Gamming Platforms ACE-S8700 Uses VIA VX800 Chipset"

WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 17, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed defense and aerospace market, congratulates the VME International Trade Association (VITA), the trade association dedicated to fostering American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited open system architectures in critical embedded system applications, for completing the successful ratification by ANSI of the OpenVPX™ System Specification … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Congratulates VITA on the Successful Ratification of ANSI/VITA 65-2010"

MILPITAS, CA – June 16, 2010 – Linear Technology introduces the LTC5582, a high dynamic range 10GHz RMS detector that sets a new standard in measurement accuracy of RF signals. It offers outstanding ±0.2dB linearity over a 43dB dynamic range at 2.14GHz, regardless of the high crest-factor modulations used in 3G and 4G broadband wireless networks, including LTE, WiMAX, TD-SCDMA, W-CDMA and CDMA2000. In addition, the LTC5582 can accurately measure signal levels as low as -56dBm to 1dBm to ±1dB error, providing 57dB dynamic range from 450MHz to 2.7GHz. The device … Read More → "40MHz to 10GHz RMS Detector with 57dB Dynamic Range Provides Accurate RF Power Measurement"

MILPITAS, CA – June 16, 2010 – Linear Technology introduces the LTC5582, a high dynamic range 10GHz RMS detector that sets a new standard in measurement accuracy of RF signals. It offers outstanding ±0.2dB linearity over a 43dB dynamic range at 2.14GHz, regardless of the high crest-factor modulations used in 3G and 4G broadband wireless networks, including LTE, WiMAX, TD-SCDMA, W-CDMA and CDMA2000. In addition, the LTC5582 can accurately measure signal levels as low as -56dBm to 1dBm to ±1dB error, providing 57dB dynamic range from 450MHz to 2.7GHz. The device … Read More → "40MHz to 10GHz RMS Detector with 57dB Dynamic Range Provides Accurate RF Power Measurement"

TOKYO, June 17 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) , the world’s leading supplier of programmable logic solutions, announced today that its FPGAs would be the first in the industry to support the MECHATROLINK-III specification, an open motion field network communications standard established by the Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, Japan-based MECHATROLINK Members Association. Xilinx Alliance Program member Tokyo Electron Device Limited has developed an IP core compatible with the MECHATROLINK-III standard for implementation with the low-cost Spartan®-6 FPGA family. Xilinx and Tokyo … Read More → "Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA First in Industry to Support MECHATROLINK-III Interface for Low-cost, High-speed Factory Automation Networks"

TOKYO, June 17 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) , the world’s leading supplier of programmable logic solutions, announced today that its FPGAs would be the first in the industry to support the MECHATROLINK-III specification, an open motion field network communications standard established by the Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, Japan-based MECHATROLINK Members Association. Xilinx Alliance Program member Tokyo Electron Device Limited has developed an IP core compatible with the MECHATROLINK-III standard for implementation with the low-cost Spartan®-6 FPGA family. Xilinx and Tokyo … Read More → "Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA First in Industry to Support MECHATROLINK-III Interface for Low-cost, High-speed Factory Automation Networks"

DAYTON, OH – June 14, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems (CWCEL), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls, and the originator of the Physical Layer Switch (PLS), has announced the availability of its new SLX4000 non-blocking, multi-protocol PLS. The SLX4000 is a “5th Generation” Layer 1 PLS packaged in a small, compact rack-mountable 1.5U single-slot package. The SLX4000 is able to connect any serial digital signal input, up to 10 Gb/s, to any single output. Its flexible, expandable crossbar switch performance enables users to control their network … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts 5th Generation Single-Slot Physical Layer Switch"

Irvine, California, June 15^th, 2010 — Freescale Semiconductor, a leading supplier of embedded semiconductors, in close collaboration with Advantech, a global manufacturer of telecom computing blades and multi-core network processor platforms, announced today the addition of the first member of Advantech’s Packetarium™ product line. Featuring advanced … Read More → "Advantech’s Eight Board Packetarium™ Platform, Based on Multiple Freescale QorIQ™ P4080 Processors, Delivers 128 Cores and Industry Leading Performance"

WIXOM, Mich., June 16 /PRNewswire/ — Acromag has released a new version of their I/O Server Industrial PC, this time with an AMD Geode® CPU to reduce costs as an alternative to PC/104 or CompactPCI embedded computers. Field I/O signals are interfaced through an internal carrier card with related plug-in I/O modules. Working together, the rugged, < … Read More → "New Industrial PC with Modular I/O Employs AMD Geode CPU to Serve Cost-Sensitive Applications"