The electronica 2006 Showcase from Electronic Design is designed to provide
electronic design engineers with electronica 2006 show news, product
information, vendor interviews and show announcements as soon as they
happen. At electronica 2006(November 14-17) in Munich, Germany, Paul
Whytock, Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Design Europe and Mark David
Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Design will be reporting daily news and views
direct from the show for the electronic design community.
So You've Made It To The Show...
So you’ve made it to the show. It’s vast. Over 3000 companies set up shop along huge halls. Now here’s something I have learned. Once you’ve paid your entry to the exhibition, you get a show catalogue with such thickness and weight that you may need to attach wheels to it and roll it around. Here’s where you sit down and plan your routes; your stand visits. Do this for as long as it takes. Don’t ...
Tomorrow There's More...
Back to the business of the show. No one ever gets to see all of the technology that’s displayed at electronica. And trying to accomplish such a feat is a sure route to madness.
So what we will be doing with our electronica 2006 dedicated Web site is bringing you product and technology announcements as they’re released to us prior to the show. Then, during the show, we will post daily ...
Being There Means Getting There
About 45% of the 75,000 people that will visit electronica 2006 will be from abroad. If you’re flying into Munich airport, you’ve got a few choices on how to get to the show. By far the best choice is to catch one of the regular buses that run from just outside the terminal. (Generally speaking, unless a group shares a cab, taxis work out to be pretty pricey.) If your first port of call is ...
Getting The Most Out Of electronica 2006
I’ve been going to electronica for almost two decades now, but the size of the show never ceases to amaze me. Over just four short days, almost 100,000 visitors will converge on Munich in the hopes of seeing as much of the 14 show halls and 3500 exhibitors as they can. But, as any seasoned show goer can tell you, it’s impossible to see everything.
Embarking as the first eighth-brick dc-dc converter modules supporting 4:1 ultra-wide inputs, 9 to 36 V dc or 18 to 75 V dc, the UWE series from Murata Electronics delivers fixed outputs up to 75 W, making them viable as drop-in replacements for 100-W quarter-bricks where the full 100 W is not needed.
Typical applications include mobile and battery powered devices, test equipment, telecom, and wireless, plus distributed power architectures. Fixed output voltages range between 3.3 and ...
Specifying typical efficiencies from 84%, the single-output MEV and dual-output MEA series 1-W dc-dc converters from Murata Electronics deliver a load-regulation performance of less than 5% with an overall load-regulation tolerance envelope of 9%. The MEV components provide 3 kV dc of galvanic isolation to reduce switching noise, while the MEA series includes 1 kV dc of isolation.
Available in SIP 7 packages measuring 19.5 by 6 by 10 mm, both series offer input voltages of either 5 ...
Touting the industry’s best combination of operating frequency, dynamic range, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the 16-bit AD9261 and AD9262 analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and the AD9267 continuous-time sigma-delta (CTSD) modulator from Analog Devices, Inc, couple low noise and high dynamic range with a bandwidth up to 10 MHz.
The ADC family employs what the company calls a breakthrough CTSD converter technology that suits wireless infrastructure, medical, and other ...
Unveiled as the industry’s first reconfigurable four-channel, 10-bit 1.25-Gsample/s analog-to-digital converter (ADC), the EV10AQ190 ADC from e2v is a monolithic chip featuring four separate digitally-programmable ADC channels. When interleaved via a serial peripheral interface (SPI) and its on-chip cross-point switch, the device operates either as a four-channel, 10-bit 1.25-Gsample/s ADC, a dual 10-bit, 2.5-Gsample/s ADC, or as a single-channel, 5-Gsample/s ADC.
ON Semiconductor has expanded its line of constant-current, low dropout driver (LDD) products to include two high-brightness RGB LED pixel drivers. The CAT4103 and CAT4109 are three-channel, linear-based constant-current drivers for RGB LED pixel control in emerging high-brightness, high-visual impact architectural lighting. The CAT4103 is designed for high-end, multi-color, “intelligent” LED architectural lighting applications. It features a high-speed serial interface that can support ...
Milpitas, CA: Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC1859, a 16-bit, 8-channel, 100-ksps analog-to-digital converter offering software programmable input ranges that are fault-protected to ±25V. The LTC1859 is easily programmed via a serial interface to accept 0 V to 5 V, 0 V to 10 V, ±5V and ±10V inputs, allowing a single-board design to accommodate ...
South Portland, Maine: Enhancing its portfolio of Smart Power Modules (SPM), Fairchild Semiconductor introduces the FSB50325S (250-V), FSB50250S (500-V) and FSB50450S (500-V), three new Motion-SPM devices available in 29-mm × 12-mm surface-mount-device (SMD) packages (see the Figure). The Motion-SPM in SMD ...
Dresden, Germany: ZMD AG introduced the ZMD31150 high-speed automotive signal conditioner IC with advanced on-chip diagnostics for use with all types of wheatstone bridge sensors.
The ZMD31150 is designed for all sensing applications in automotive environments, such as fuel injection, ABS, power steering, air induction, fuel tank, air conditioning and occupant ...
Munich, Germany Avago Technologies today introduced the industry's first Half-Watt (0.5-W) high-brightness red-orange and amber light-emitting diodes (LED) in an automotive-industry-standard PLCC-4 surface-mount (SMT) package. This new series of 0.5-W Power LEDs feature the industry's smallest package size and are optimized for long operating life under severe environmental ...
San Jose, Calif. Avago Technologies today introduced the industry's thinnest surface mount (SMT) light emitting diodes (LEDs) in the smallest industry-standard (0603) footprint available. With an ultra small form factor about the size of a pencil tip, these low-power LEDs use high-brightness chips to provide excellent illumination with minimum current consumption. These new ChipLED ...
