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Detecting early-stage malarial infection – New prototype device recognizes electrical properties of infected cells as signatures of disease

August 22, 2013

(CAMBRIDGE, MA) — Researchers at MIT have found a way to detect early-stage malarial infection of blood cells by measuring changes in the infected cells’ electrical properties.

The scientists, from the laboratories of MIT’s Anantha Chandrakasan and Subra Suresh — who is now president of Carnegie Mellon University — have built an experimental microfluidic device that takes a drop of blood and streams it across an electrode that measures a signal differentiating infected cells from uninfected cells. The work, published Aug. 8 in the journal Read More → "Detecting early-stage malarial infection – New prototype device recognizes electrical properties of infected cells as signatures of disease"

New 4U MicroTCA Rack System from Foremost Offers High Availability from a Compact Package

August 22, 2013

Foremost Electronics, the Essex based specialist distributor of electromechanical components, is now stocking the Schroff 4U high 19” MicroTCA rack system which incorporates the thermal management and redundancy features required to ensure high system availability while keeping space requirements to a minimum.

Intended primarily for telecoms applications the new enclosure is designed to accommodate 12 single mid-size AdvancedMC modules, two single full-size MicroTCA carrier hubs and two single power modules up to 12HP in width for N+1 redundant operation.

The system conforms to the PICMG MTCA.0 R1.0 base specification and is equipped with a backplane which employs … Read More → "New 4U MicroTCA Rack System from Foremost Offers High Availability from a Compact Package"

60V Zero-Drift Operational Amplifier with 220nVP-P Noise Achieves Widest Dynamic Range

August 22, 2013

MILPITAS, CA – August 22, 2013 – Linear Technology introduces the LTC2057HV, a zero-drift amplifier featuring self-calibrating circuitry that provides high DC precision and stability over changes in temperature, time, input range and supply voltage. With 5µV input offset voltage, 0.025µV/°C offset drift and 220nV_P-P low frequency noise with no 1/f noise, the LTC2057HV offers more than 140dB … Read More → "60V Zero-Drift Operational Amplifier with 220nVP-P Noise Achieves Widest Dynamic Range"

Siemon Enhances Fiber Product Line with Low Loss Plug and Play Solutions

August 22, 2013

Watertown, CT — August 21, 2013 — Siemon, a leading global network infrastructure specialist, is pleased to round out its fiber connectivity offering with low loss versions of its standard loss fiber plug and play cable assemblies and modules to help data center managers contend with today’s shrinking optical loss budgets and support multiple mated pairs for flexible 10, 40 and 100 gigabit applications.

Available on Siemon MTP^® to MTP reels and extenders, LC to MTP and SC to MTP plug and play modules and LC to MTP trunks using Siemon XGLO^® OM3 and OM4 multimode optical fiber, Siemon … Read More → "Siemon Enhances Fiber Product Line with Low Loss Plug and Play Solutions"

Simplifying motor control design for the masses: TI now offers InstaSPIN™-FOC sensorless motor control technology for low-cost motor applications

August 22, 2013

Houston, TX (Aug. 22, 2013) – Highly efficient, three-phase motor control expertise, once only obtainable to a niche market of motor designers, is now available to a wider audience of developers. Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) brings its revolutionary InstaSPIN-FOC™ (field-oriented-control) sensorless motor control technology to its most affordable, real-time-control C2000™ Piccolo™ F2802x microcontrollers (MCUs) series, offering a smaller package size and much lower cost. Engineers can use TI InstaSPIN-FOC technology, embedded in the read-only-memory (ROM) on the … Read More → "Simplifying motor control design for the masses: TI now offers InstaSPIN™-FOC sensorless motor control technology for low-cost motor applications"

Agilent Technologies and University of Michigan Collaborate on Worldwide Solar-Car Competition

August 21, 2013

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 21, 2013 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and the University of Michigan today announced Agilent’s support of the university’s solar-car team. Agilent will provide a 200-MHz capacitive touch-screen oscilloscope as well as a handheld oscilloscope and a triple-output power supply to support the team’s solar-car engineering program, from design through competition.

Forty-seven teams from 26 countries will gather in Australia on Oct. 6 for the 2013 World Solar Challenge, the world’s largest competition for solar electric vehicles. The 3000-kilometer race from Darwin to Adelaide requires that each car get 100 percent … Read More → "Agilent Technologies and University of Michigan Collaborate on Worldwide Solar-Car Competition"

New High Shock Tolerant ARS PRO Angular Rate Sensor From Diversified Technical Systems, Inc. (DTS)

August 21, 2013

Seal Beach, CA (PRWEB) August 08, 2013 – Diversified Technical Systems, Inc. (DTS), a global industry leader in the design and manufacture of highly rugged data recorders and sensors, announced the market launch of the ARS PRO series of high performance angular rate sensor for dynamic testing applications.

The ARS PRO is a silicon-based microelectromechanical system (MEMS) that uses a resonating gyro to discern angular rates by measuring deflections in the sensing element that occur when rotational forces are applied. Key advantages include … Read More → "New High Shock Tolerant ARS PRO Angular Rate Sensor From Diversified Technical Systems, Inc. (DTS)"

Tiny temperature monitor ensures that medicines and vaccines are safe to use

August 21, 2013

World Medtech Forum, Lucerne, Switzerland — 17-19 Sept 2013

Heerbrugg, Switzerland – 21 August, 2013 – ESCATEC, the EMS innovator, is building nearly a third of a million temperature monitors a year for Berlinger & Co of Switzerland. The monitors, which cost a few dollars each depending on the model, monitor the temperature of goods in transit and storage to ensure that they have not been subjected to temperatures that are outside of pre-set boundaries. A key use is for medical supplies such … Read More → "Tiny temperature monitor ensures that medicines and vaccines are safe to use"

connectBlue® Adds WLAN Channels for Full Dual-band Coverage

August 21, 2013

connectBlue® today revealed that its embedded Wireless LAN (WLAN) modules have expanded its frequency channel range to fully cover both the 2.4GHz and the 5GHz ISM bands. The extended channel range makes it easier for customers to use the modules according to local market preferences in order to plan for a robust and interference-free wireless connection.

Most WLAN devices have traditionally used the unlicensed 2.4GHz industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) radio band. However, several more wireless technologies – such as Bluetooth, ZigBee, Wireless HART – also use the 2.4GHz band, so the unlicensed 5GHz band offers a less … Read More → "connectBlue® Adds WLAN Channels for Full Dual-band Coverage"

Microsemi’s New Higher Power and Voltage MOSFETs Targeted at RF and Broadband Communications Applications

August 21, 2013

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.—Aug. 20, 2013—Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced an expansion of its high-frequency vertical diffusion metal oxide semiconductor (VDMOS) MOSFET product family. The two higher power, higher voltage (V) VRF2944 and VRF3933 are designed to operate in the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency range of 2-60 megahertz (MHz). Targeted applications include commercial and defense RF power and broadband communications requiring high power and gain without compromising reliability, ruggedness or inter-modulation distortion.

The industry-leading VRF2944 offers 400 watts (W) or 33 … Read More → "Microsemi’s New Higher Power and Voltage MOSFETs Targeted at RF and Broadband Communications Applications"

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