1241 results found for Forefront, displaying items 1 - 20
December 23, 2002 Module And IC Bite Into Bluetooth Designs
Shrinking the "Blue Module," a host-controller-interface-level Bluetooth radio module, to 9.8 by 9.6 by 1.8 mm didn't spare integration and performance. In fact, both rose to even higher levels. Developed by Murata Electronics, the Blue...
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David G. Morrison
December 23, 2002 Power-Savvy One-Chip Serial ATA Interface Cuts Costs
With Serial ATA on the way, Agere Systems is capping costs and power consumption with a single-chip solution on the drive side. Serial ATA is expected on motherboards around the middle of 2003, so hard-disk-drive and optical-drive vendors are looking...
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William Wong
December 23, 2002 UL Rolls Out EMC Test Facility For Automotive
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has cut the ribbon on a facility in Novi, Mich., dedicated to electromagnetic-compliance (EMC) testing for the automotive industry. Featuring a staff of more than 15 NARTE-certified (National Association of Radio and...
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David G. Morrison
December 23, 2002 Switch Chip Holds Promise For Automotive Power Apps
A new self-protected automotive-grade silicon switch offers solid-state reliability and power savings in power-management and load-control applications. Motorola's MC33982 ultimately could replace electromechanical relays, fuses, and discrete circuits...
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David G. Morrison
December 23, 2002 Parallel-Port Filter Extends EMI Protection
Rising clock frequencies and new sources of RF emissions such as WLAN 802.11 are pushing the demand for electromagnetic-interference (EMI) filtering on IEEE 1284 parallel ports. The PACZIG1284, an integrated filter from California Micro Devices,...
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David G. Morrison
December 23, 2002 Service Pack Adds Key Protocols To Windows XP
USB 2.0 and IPv6 support comes to Microsoft's Windows XP Embedded operating system courtesy of Service Pack 1. The package also features .Net Framework support. The new Remote Boot permits Windows XP Embedded-based devices without persistent storage...
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William Wong
December 9, 2002 OpenAccess Coalition Delivers
Establishing true interoperability for EDA tools for nanometer IC design recently took another sizable step forward. The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) has begun to beta test source code for Version 2 of the OpenAccess application...
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David Maliniak
December 9, 2002 MEMS Contribute To DNA-Analysis Prototype
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which uses temperature-cycling techniques employed in DNA analysis, can be handled by STMicroelectronics' prototype DNA analysis device. The chip's excellent thermal properties...
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William Wong
December 9, 2002 Real-Time OS Sings With A High Performance Chorus
Jaluna-1 is a real-time component suite designed for carrier-grade projects requiring high performance and high availability. It is based on Sun Microsystems' Chorus microkernel operating system (OS). Integrated within Jaluna-1 is the C5...
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William Wong
December 9, 2002 Quad SERDES Provides Low-Jitter 2.5-Gbit/s Data Streams
Though the DS25C400 quad serializer/deserializer (SERDES) chip leverages backplanes intended for top data rates of 622 Mbits/s, it can deliver data at rates of 2.125 to 2.5 Gbits/s. All the while, transmit jitter levels are kept to just 0.25 UI...
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Dave Bursky
December 9, 2002 Second-Generation NPU Doubles Performance
The second-generation NP-1c network processor (NPU) has 50% more task-optimized processors (TOPs) than the previous NP-1. It's pin-compatible with the NP-1, though. Also, applications don't have to be recompiled because the TOPs are transparently...
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William Wong
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