Monthly Archives: September 2011

Robust LED panel indicators are night-vision compatible

Marl has extended its industrial and defence LED panel indicator range with two robust series featuring stringent EMC screening. One of the new LED indicators offers NVIS (Night VISion) radiance, making it suitable for use by operators wearing military night … Continue reading

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New CDNE coupling/decoupling network for emission testing

EMC and test house Teseq has developed a new coupling/decoupling (CDNE) network for emissions testing.

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Partnership ‘will develop the world’s first 3D Gesture Multi-touch Display’

Ident Technology and AU Optronics have announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop a new generation of Multi-touch and 3D Displays with integrated long range free-space 3D gesture control capabilities. The companies say the fast growing tablet PC market will … Continue reading

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Parallelisation tool for multicore NVIDIA Tegra demo at ESC Boston

Vector Fabrics will showcase its vfEmbedded software development tool parallelising code for NVIDIA’s multicore mobile Tegra chip at ESC Boston. The vfEmbedded parallelisation tool will be showcased at booth #424 at the Embedded Systems Conference.

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Pre-certified Class B self-test library available for EFM32-controlled white goods

Energy Micro and Hitex Development Tools have announced a self-test library for Energy Micro’s ARM Cortex-M3 based EFM32 Gecko microcontroller family. The free of charge library was developed, tested and pre-certified according to the IEC 60335 and IEC 60730 standards.

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Highly integrated LNB downconverters promise low power and improved system performance

NXP’s new family of DVB-S compliant downconverters consumes just 52mA, which NXP says is around half as much as other integrated solutions, significantly increasing the lifetime of the Low Noise Block (LNB) system and improving its reliability. Introduced today, the … Continue reading

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Consumer and automotive rotary position sensors reduced in cost

Murata is now mass-producing its SV03 series of low profile surface mount rotary position sensors. Building on the success of the earlier SV01 family of sensors, Murata says the new series is available at a lower cost due mainly to … Continue reading

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“Green” external power supplies aimed at high volume applications

XP Power has launched the VEH series of low cost “green” single output external AC-DC power supplies. Aimed at high volume cost sensitive applications, the series consists of 5 power levels providing 20, 40, 60, 90 or 120 Watt output, … Continue reading

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Wolfson power management technology selected by Armadeus

Armadeus Systems has selected Wolfson’s WM8311 integrated power management subsystem to support its latest processor board, the APF51.

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Signal generator moves into the microwave range

Rohde & Schwarz has added new frequency options to its analogue mid-range signal generator. The R&S SMB-B120/B120L and R&S SMB-B140/B140L options (L versions without step attenuator) enable the generator variations to cover the frequency range from 100kHz to 20GHz and … Continue reading

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