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Renesas Electronics Corporation Expands Lineup of Ethernet PHY Chips with Two Single-Channel Industrial Ethernet PHY Chips

November 23, 2011

Dusseldorf, November 23, 2011 – Renesas Electronics, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of two single-channel Ethernet physical layer (PHY, part number µPD60610GA-GAM-AX and µPD60611GA-GAM-AX) devices for industrial communication systems. The two new PHY chips expand Renesas’ family of PHY devices designed for industrial Ethernet requirements, which includes two dual-channel PHY devices (the µPD60620GA-GAM-AX and the µPD60621GA-GAX-AX).

Recently, there has been a growing demand among manufacturing companies for intelligent field devices that … Read More → "Renesas Electronics Corporation Expands Lineup of Ethernet PHY Chips with Two Single-Channel Industrial Ethernet PHY Chips"

XP Power launches 250/350 W range of AC-DC supplies in ultra compact 3 x 5 inch footprint

November 23, 2011

XP Power today announced the EMH250 and EMH350 series of highly efficient single output 250 Watt and 350 Watt AC-DC power supplies. Meeting the IT equipment safety specifications of UL/TUV/EN 60950-1 and the stringent medical safety standards of UL/TUV/EN 60601-1 the EMH series suit a broad range of information technology, industrial, medical equipment and surgical life support applications. All models are also BF rated.

Both the EMH250 250 W and the EMH350 350 W series have an extra wide input range of 80-275 VAC and are available in four output models covering the nominal voltages of + 12, + 18, + 24 or + 48 … Read More → "XP Power launches 250/350 W range of AC-DC supplies in ultra compact 3 x 5 inch footprint"

Atollic bundles SEGGER J-Link JTAG probe with TrueSTUDIO embedded development IDE

November 23, 2011

Jönköping, Sweden, 23rd November 2011: Atollic® today announced the launch of a complete embedded development package comprising its award-winning Atollic TrueSTUDIO® C/C++ development tool, and the J-Link JTAG debug probe from SEGGER Microcontroller.

With this package, embedded C/C++ developers get a state-of-the-art tool chain for professional ARM® development, and a high-quality JTAG probe for the most demanding of debugging tasks.

“With the bundling of J-Link, the most feature-rich development tool for ARM devices gets even more complete”, says Magnus Unemyr, Vice President of Sales and … Read More → "Atollic bundles SEGGER J-Link JTAG probe with TrueSTUDIO embedded development IDE"

Energy Micro software tool takes the guesswork out of battery life predictions

November 23, 2011

Oslo, Norway, November 23, 2011 – Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller and radio company, has introduced a software tool enabling designers to accurately predict battery cell life expectancy in applications based on its low power EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers. Called the energyAware(TM) Battery Estimator, this free tool provides a full simulation of total system energy usage, that takes into account actual battery source, MCU energy modes, peripherals employed and external circuit components.

In simulation mode, system battery voltage output is displayed against time (years) in graph format, with the battery capacity rating (mAh), average MCU current consumption (µ … Read More → "Energy Micro software tool takes the guesswork out of battery life predictions"

Atmel Launches Complete Digital Audio Platform for Consumer Applications

November 23, 2011

SAN JOSE, CA, November 23, 2011- Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch technology solutions, today announced a complete Digital Audio Platform for consumer, automotive and industrial applications. The Atmel Digital Audio Platform offers audio equipment and mobile accessory OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) a complete hardware and firmware solution that greatly simplifies the task of designing high-quality digital audio equipment. The new Digital Audio Platform is implemented with the Atmel AVR® UC3 microcontrollers specifically tailored for audio applications such as smartphone and media player docking stations.

The Digital Audio Platform integrates dedicated microcontrollers, … Read More → "Atmel Launches Complete Digital Audio Platform for Consumer Applications"

Xilinx Accelerates Design Cycles and Lowers Costs for Industrial Networking and Motor Control Systems

November 22, 2011

NUREMBERG, SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2011, Nov. 22, 2011– Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced new Ethernet protocol support and motor control building blocks for its Industrial Targeted Design Platforms, including new EtherCAT, Ethernet POWERLINK, PROFINET and SERCOS III interconnect reference designs, as well as new IP cores for building intelligent motor control systems and a new motor control development kit from Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT). Attendees of SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2011 can come to Booth 6 … Read More → "Xilinx Accelerates Design Cycles and Lowers Costs for Industrial Networking and Motor Control Systems"

Mouser Expands LED Lighting Product Line with LedLink Global Distribution Pact

November 22, 2011

November 21, 2011 – Mouser Electronics, Inc., regarded as a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today focused the spotlight on its new global distribution agreement with Read More → "Mouser Expands LED Lighting Product Line with LedLink Global Distribution Pact"

Meggitt Sensing Systems Adds Three-Channel Endevco® DC Differential Voltage Amplifier to Guaranteed InStock™ Program

November 22, 2011

November 21, 2011, San Juan Capistrano, California, USA – Meggitt Sensing Systems, a Meggitt group division, has announced the expansion of its worldwide Guaranteed InStock™ program to include the immediate availability of the Endevco® model 136 three-channel voltage amplifier, designed for use with bridge-type or differential output accelerometers and pressure transducers, in support of general purpose laboratory testing applications.

Featuring an industry standard bench mount configuration and four selectable excitation voltage levels, the Endevco® model 136 offers a standard RS-232 serial communications interface with either manual or computer programmable configuration. Using the supplied PC software setup, the … Read More → "Meggitt Sensing Systems Adds Three-Channel Endevco® DC Differential Voltage Amplifier to Guaranteed InStock™ Program"

COM Express Type 6 module from congatec with Intel® Quad-Core processor

November 22, 2011

Nuremberg, SPS/IPC/Drives, 22 November 2011 * * * congatec AG has unveiled the conga-TM67, a new high-performance module for future designs. The Type 6 Pin-out and digital display interfaces ensure improved display options and increase bandwidth with additional PCI Express Lanes availability.

The new module features the second generation of Intel® Core™ processors – such as the Intel® Core™ i7-2710QE processor (2.1 GHz, 45W, PGA) and the dual-core Intel® Core™ i5-2510E processor (2.5 GHz, 35W, PGA) with up to 8 GByte high-speed dual-channel DDR3 memory (1333 MHz). Type 6 Pin-out is the ideal solution … Read More → "COM Express Type 6 module from congatec with Intel® Quad-Core processor"

KEMET Offers HiQ-CBR Series Surface Mount Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors for Radio Frequency and Microwave Applications

November 22, 2011

KEMET has introduced its new HiQ-CBR Series Surface Mount Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCCs) in C0G dielectric. The HiQ-CBR Series features a robust and exceptionally stable copper base metal electrode dielectric system that provides excellent low loss performance (high Q).

These devices are suitable for many circuit applications including radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers, mixers, oscillators, low noise amplifiers, filter networks, antenna tuning, timing circuits, delay lines, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coils.

Typical applications include critical timing, tuning, bypass, coupling, feedback, filtering, impedance matching, … Read More → "KEMET Offers HiQ-CBR Series Surface Mount Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors for Radio Frequency and Microwave Applications"

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