- Compact PCI forges new directions
CompactPCI vendors are just now beginning to extend their technology for future products after being stopped in their tracks by the recent economic downturn in the telecommunications industry. Board manufacturers are pushing the technology envelope with new standards for high-speed interconnects along with improved reliability, manageability, and serviceability. They hope ......
- New Products
Products with an abrasive personality 3M's three new abrasive products are ideal for metal fabrication and industrial maintenance 3M Abrasive Sys-tems Division introduced three new products for the metal fabrication and industrial maintenance markets: Scotch-Brite radial bristle discs and brushes; professional shop rolls and cloth sheets 304D; and XR metalworking ......
- Semtech Supports AMD 64-bit Processors
Analog and mixed signal semiconductor supplier Semtech Corp. today announced that its SC2643VX+SC1211 Vcore power chipset has been qualified to provide power management support for the upcoming AMD 64-bit processors. "Semtech is pleased to be an infrastructure supplier of power ICs for the upcoming AMD 64-bit processors and fully supports ......
- Put "free" silicon to work
During the past two decades, steadily increasing integration levels coupled with steadily decreasing costs for SOC and ASIC development have mesmerized the high-tech industry. But now, a 20-year dream-come-true is becoming a nightmare. Integration levels continue to double every 18 months or so, but the associated development costs are no ......
- Catching The Bus: How Electronic Control Technology
Interfaces With Hydraulics.
Back in the 1970s, I wrote an article titled, "Must Hydraulics Interface with Computers?" The answer to the question was, "yes, of course." So I coined the term 'fluitronics' to characterize the hybridization of the fluid power and electronic technologies. Fig. 1 shows the algorithm used to illustrate the structure ......
- DVDINSIDER: Wolfson Expands Line Of Second-Generation
Stereo DACs For Ultra Low-Power Portable Audio
Applications.
DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2003 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Wolfson Microelectronics expanded its line of second-generation high-quality portable audio devices with the introduction of the ultra low-power and highly integrated WM8751L and WM8955L audio DACs. The new products complement the WM8750L CODEC introduced earlier this ......
- To push or pull barstock
HEADNOTE Basing the decision on price alone could be a mistake. Although not as old as dirt, barpullers have been around for awhile. They are simple mechanical devices that grip and pull barstock into a lathe. The barpuller's automated counterpart is a barfeeder, which, instead, pushes barstock. Many shops base ......