Switch Joystick
09 July, 2002 | Supplied by: Tenrod Australia Pty Ltd
The Oliver Control 1000 series switch joysticks comes with options such as screw or bush mounting, single or double pole configuration and a choice of operation mode, which is determined by limiter plates featuring, single axis, double axis, cross, diagonal and eight point star.
GMS V191 Atlantis-V Single Board Computer
09 July, 2002 | Supplied by: Embedded Logic Solutions Pty Ltd
The GMS V191 Atlantis-V from General Microsystems is a PowerPC single board computer. The V191 uses a PowerPC 7410 processor that operates from 500 MHz up to the 1 GHz operation of the future.
Nanospintronics
03 July, 2002
Physicists at the Institute for Microstructural Sciences (Ottawa) have created a prototype of a single-spin transistor, that consists of a quantum dot connected to spin-polarised leads.
GHz technology and RF businesses
13 June, 2002
Advance Power Technology RF (APT-RF) is a newly formed organisation and brand. It is the result of the integration of the RF businesses of APT and of two RF acquisitions, GHz Technology (January 2002) and Microsemi RF (May 2002).
Optical Pea Shooter
11 June, 2002
Researchers from the University of Bath in England have propelled polystyrene beads through a hollow fibre with a laser beam.
Richardson fibre optic unit
23 May, 2002
Richardson Electronics has announced the formation of a Fibre Optic Communications business unit.
Advanced Organic Light Emitting Device Research
20 May, 2002
Universal Display Corporation, Princeton University and the University of Southern California have announced the expansion and extension of their collaborative research agreement on advanced organic thin film devices, including organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) for flat panel displays, organic lasers, organic lighting and other areas of organic electronics through 2007.
DC-DC Controller
14 May, 2002 | Supplied by: Power Technology & Element Energy
Maxim has introduced the MAX1966/MAX1967 voltage-mode, 100 kHz PWM step-down DC-DC controllers to provide low cost 1 to 15 A power supplies.
Network Converter
14 May, 2002 | Supplied by: Boston Technology Pty Ltd
The model 9365 converter from Telebyte is designed to enable networks using the latest DB9 interface connections to communicate between RS-485 or RS-422 devices, and RS-232 equipment at data rates up to 115.2 Kbps.
Precise 16 bit DAC
14 May, 2002 | Supplied by: Soanar Limited
Linear Technology has introduced the LTC1592, claimed to be the only 16-bit current output DAC that has a software programmable output range.
Nose-on-a-chip
13 May, 2002
Engineers and scientists from three United Kingdom universities are combining to produce, what they claim to be, the world's smallest electronic nose, an industrial device that is able to replicate the odour sensor capability of the human nose.
AMD and Microsoft collaborate to further 64-bit computing
06 May, 2002
AMD has announced it is collaborating with Microsoft to incorporate 64-bit support for the future 8th-generation AMD Athlon and Opteron processors into the Windows operating system.
China becomes major "chip" centre
11 April, 2002
Rob Westerhof, Chief Executive of Philips Electronics China Group, says Hong Kong is going to benefit as China becomes the world's semiconductor centre.
Sapphire based chip trades copper wires for light
09 April, 2002
A team at Johns Hopkins University in the US has developed a prototype chip that uses light instead of wires as an interface.
Wafer-5825 Single Board Computer
09 April, 2002 | Supplied by: ICP Electronics Australia Pty Ltd
ICP Electronics Australia has added to its range of low power consumption embedded boards. The Wafer-5825 is designed to meet the requirements of such applications as transportation (car PC), internet appliances and information terminals.
