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Electronic Design UPDATE e-Newsletter | June 20, 2007
Bridge The BackUp Power Gap With Ultracapacitors
Read how BOOSTCAP® ultracapacitors are providing a new level of reliability over batteries and fuel cells in mission-critical installations where an uninterrupted power supply is crucial.
Electronic Design UPDATE edited by Richard Gawel, Managing Editor
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Some One-Word Advice For Wiring: Plastics By John Edwards, Contributing Editor
By adding a polymer acid to a common plastic, chemists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new kind of plastic material that features changeable conductivity. The "doped" plastic technology could be used to provide cheap, flexible wiring in future electronics products.
Nanoident Technologies AG employs its Semiconductor 2.0 Platform technology to create large-array photodetector arrays on flexible plastic-foil substrates.
Daintree Networks' offerings are mainly software, but its Ethernet/USB-based Sensor Network Adapter provides sniffing capabilities that often are unavailable with other vendors' hardware.
Designing a space suit for space exploration is one thing. Creating a space suit for planetary exploration is a completely different tailoring order. Aside from the atmospheric issues, NASA engineers are looking at a way to make the suits lighter.
Power-Entry Modules Offer Maximum Functionality, Minimal Dimensions
The DD11 and DD12 power-entry modules from Schurter include a flange for screw-mounting them to the panel. The units house up to four functions in a 49- by 30-mm package.
Single-Chip Companion Packed With Support For Processor Applications
Ramtron's FM33x family of FRAM-Enhanced Processor Companions integrates nonvolatile RAM with comprehensive support and peripheral functions on a single chip. The initial family members, the FM33256 and the FM3316, are 3-V devices with 256 kbits and 16 kbits of ferroelectric RAM, respectively.
High-Voltage, Highly Integrated LED Driver Suits Car Lighting Tasks
The MAX16831 high-power LED driver from Maxim is designed to ensure high reiability in automotive and general lighting applications. The device can operate over an input range of 5.4 to 76 V, and it provides a 1.4/2-A source/sink capability.
PMC Module Holds Four High-Speed Serial Comm Channels
The TPMC863 high-speed quad serial communication PMC module from TEWS Technologies supports a maximum data rate of 10 Mbits/s for synchronous protocols and 2 Mbits/s for asynchronous protocols.
With the explosive growth in the use of microcontrollers, engineers need to test and debug circuits that include both analog signals and multiple digital lines. Dr. Michael Lauterbach will show practical examples of real applications including LIN, I2C, CAN, RS-232, generic UART testing and other types of digital signals with toggle rates up to 500 MHz and analog bandwidth from 200 MHz to 2 GHz.
It makes development so fast, you can have a small network up and running in just 30 minutes. The highly intuitive GUI lets your team collaborate in an immediate, centralized environment. Shave weeks off your development time on everything from complicated mesh networks to simple point-to-point networks. And make a bee-line to market with your ZigBee designs.
Networking Wireless Sensors By Bhaskar Krishnamachari
ZigBee, 802.15.4, and other wireless technologies are changing the way engineers address problems, especially when it comes to sensors and controls. Krishnamachari's book explores the how and why of wireless networking.
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