High speed optocouplers
04 December, 2002 | Supplied by: http://www.agilent.com/
Agilent has introduced high speed optocouplers, claimed to be capable of transmitting data at a 50 megabaud (MBd) rate, allowing high speed collection and control in industrial automation applications where isolation is required.
Pressure from nanoelectronics
26 November, 2002
The future of nanoelectronics looks promising. Built with nanotubes and various self-assembling molecular structures, this technology may revolutionise the elctronic world by replacing the silicon transistor in approximately ten years.
Referees to use microchip technology
18 November, 2002
German company, Cairos Technologies is developing an automated soccer refereeing technology that could result in fewer disagreements over decisions particularly the offside rule.
Surface mount inductors
12 November, 2002 | Supplied by: http://www.clarke.com.au
Gowanda Electronics has introduced two new surface mount toroid inductor series - SMT4015 and SMT1803.
Solenoid Valve Timers
08 October, 2002 | Supplied by: Process Systems Pty Ltd
Process Systems has released a range of sandwich electronic timers for direct mounting onto solenoid valves.
Pluggable optic transceiver standard
27 September, 2002
Zarlink Semiconductor and Agilent have announced a multi-source agreement intended to create a common standard for pluggable 4-channel parallel optic transceiver modules that offer an aggregate bandwidth of up to 10 Gb/s.
Waveguide technology for networking
16 September, 2002 | Supplied by: http://www.agilent.com/
Agilent has announced that it is developing a new family of arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG's) for dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) long-haul and metropolitan network applications.
High-Speed Converters
09 September, 2002 | Supplied by: Insight Tech Solutions
National Semiconductor has announced the 8 bit 60 MSPS ADC and the 5 V dual 12 bit 40 MSPS ADC.
LED Illumination
09 September, 2002 | Supplied by: Future Electronics
Lumex Sunbrite Group's LED solutions are replacing conventional incandescent or fluorescent lamps. These devices are suitable for signage, traffic control, automotive and off-road vehicle lighting and general lighting.
Panel 1080-845 industrial computer
09 September, 2002 | Supplied by: Backplane Systems Technology Pty Ltd
Backplane Systems Technology has released Axiom's 8.4" TFT industrial panel PC, the Panel 1080-845. It has been designed for HMIs (human machine interfaces), industrial control, transportation and other space critical applications.
Helium recovery helps fibre optic production
05 September, 2002
BOC's fibre optics solutions group has patented a helium recovery system capable of capturing and recycling more than 85% of the helium used in optical fibre production
DSP Board
12 August, 2002 | Supplied by: Unitronix Pty Ltd
The TS-P36N from Transtech, is a PCI format card that features four DSPs and 128 MB SDRAM coupled to a Xilinx Virtex-11 FPGA for algorithm acceleration, and a 64 bit/66 MHz PMC interface for high-speed data input/output.
Resistors and Terminations
12 August, 2002 | Supplied by: Electronic Development Sales Pty Ltd
Miteq's line of gold standard resistors and terminations offer design features such as: good broadband VSWR; reliable construction; nickel, silver and gold plating; welded leads; and copper and copper/tungsten mounting flanges.
Erbium-Doped Fibres
09 August, 2002
Semrock has made available a line of erbium-doped fibres. The fibre portfolio consists of both C-Band and L-Band fibres, in 125 and 80 micron cladding diameters.
Superconducting nanowires help in study of phase transistors
05 August, 2002
By creating superconducting nanowires using carbon nanotube molecules, researchers at the University of Illinois are investigating just how small a wire can become and remain a superconductor
