ED_Electronic Design Update_: Prompt Standardization Of Advanced Features Opens Doors To New Markets For PCI Express
Electronic Design UPDATE e-Newsletter | April 9, 2008
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Prompt Standardization Of Advanced Features Opens Doors To New Markets For PCI Express
By Larry Chisvin Chief Operation Officer, PLX Technology
After effectively superseding the PCI bus, PCI Express interconnect technology is now entrenched in its early high-growth markets: PCs, workstations, servers, and storage systems. It has started to penetrate other markets as well, and it is on track to become more popular than any previous interconnect standard.
Our editors have been busy! Come read their commentaries and check out exclusive videos from CTIA, Mobile World Congress, APEC, and Embedded World exhibitions and see the technology of tomorrow from major players in the electronics industry.
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Living Through Cell Phones
By Louis Frenzel, Communications/Test Editor
In case you haven't noticed, we live in a cell-phone-centric world. Steve Largent, president and CEO of CTIA said at one of the keynotes during the recent conference, "We are living through our cell phones." At first I was skeptical of such a statement, but thinking about it, he's right.
Expanding the company's family of ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 radio modules, the latest Matrix module employs the Texas Instruments' CC2430 transceiver platform to provide an integrated, drop-in ZigBee radio system. Tailored for low-power networks, the module suits home and building automation, industrial control, security, and remote sensor applications.
ESC Silicon Valley: Learn Today, Design Tomorrow ESC Silicon Valley is where the global design engineering community gathers to learn, collaborate and celebrate innovation. ESC is celebrating 20 years of educating the creators of technology at the San Jose Convention Center from April 14 - 17 with over 350 exhibiting companies and over 200 new courses to this year's conference. Register today! Use Code: UX2-D
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The Disappearing Polymer
Polypropylene carbonate (PPC), is a polycarbonate plastic material, a copolymer of carbon dioxide and propylene oxide. In the ceramics industry, polypropylene carbonate and polyethylene carbonate are used as sacrificial binders, especially alumina and silicon carbide; the polymers evaporate during sintering as they decompose completely above 300°C.
IEEE Announces A New Wireless Engineering Certification
The topic of licensing and certification comes up every now and then in engineering. There are always two camps that emerge in these discussions—those who say "who needs it?" and a support group that thinks it is good and necessary.
Clock Generation And Synchronization Hold The Key To Advanced High-Speed Telecom Performance
Maxim Integrated Products' DS3102 clock timing IC monitors and generates clocks for Sonet/SDH, synchronous Ethernet (Sync-E), PDH, and wireless systems. It's designed for full carrier-class Stratum 3 clock synchronization for G.8262-compliant synchronous Ethernet equipment.
Oki Demonstrates All-Optical 160-Gbit/s, Long-Distance Data Transmission
Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. said it has achieved all optically regenerated transmission, which enables unlimited transmission of 160-Gbit/s optical signals with a single wavelength. To do so, OKI developed an all-optical 3R Regenerator, which uses a specialized optical-repeater technology with functions for reamplification, reshaping to remove optical signal wave distortion, and retiming to avoid timing-jitter accumulation.
A ZigBee-based energy-management system, called Link2Web, has been successfully deployed at an industrial facility in Sweden, reducing the facility's energy costs by 37% over the course of one year. The announcement was made by MeshNetics, a provider of ZigBee modules and embedded software, and BFM AB, an energy-management company, at the Light and Building exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Last month, Fujitsu announced a 2.5-in. hard-disk drive with speeds up to 7200 rpm and a 320-Gbyte capacity, using just 2.3 W. What does this indicate about the role of HDDs in the future?
The HDD is here to stay.
Competition with flash will balance both technologies.
Flash's dominance is inevitable.
Eventually, both technologies will be replaced by more exotic storage.
Click here to take the poll. Remember to scroll down, the poll is at the bottom of the page.
Webinar: Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey Of Design Options Presented by Winland Electronics April 30 @ 2pm ET
Developing a wireless sensor network can be an awesome challenge or a simple matter of picking the right module, depending on who you ask. Off-the-shelf solutions have certain advantages, but may not be the best overall solution to your problem. Home grown or custom solutions can be designed to overcome specific challenges, so they can be critical for certain projects. Learn more about the technical pros & cons of both options in this live course.
Read up on Communications/Test Editor Louis Frenzel's reviews and recommendations on two reference guides from the industiral networking industry. Industrial Ethernet, 2nd Ed., by P.S. Marshall and J.S. Rinaldi introduces how Ethernet carries the TCP/IP protocol suite, and there is also coverage on Ethernet hardware. The second book, Industrial Data Communications, 4th Ed., by L.M. Thompson, covers a rainbow of topics within the serial-data communications field.
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