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The SHB110 features an Intel 945GME+ICH7M-DH Express chipset that consists of the Intel 82945GME Graphics Memory Controller Hub and the Intel ICH7M I/O Controller Hub, delivering outstanding system performance through high bandwidth interfaces such as PCI Express x16 graphics or I/O ports, Serial ATA II, and high-speed USB 2.0. Additionally, the new Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 graphics core is also built into the Intel 945GME chipset which provides excellent graphics performance.
To meet a wide range of application needs, the SHB110 supports two Serial ATA high-speed data transferring at up to 3GB/s for improved data access. Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports offer PCI Express-based 10/100/1000 Ethernet connection for reliable and fast networking access. Other features include two serial ports (one RS-232 and one RS-232/422/485), 4 high-speed USB 2.0 (2 ports through I/O bracket & 2 ports by pin-header), two 5-pin wafer connectors for PS/2 mouse and keyboard, CompactFlash Type II, watchdog timer, audio, optional LVDS connector, Wake on LAN, and hardware monitoring function.
The IB530 is exceptional for applications such as digital signage, thin clients, mobile Internet and industrial automation and for designs demanding an extended temperature range of -20 degrees to +70 degrees C.
The AMD Geode LX processor on IB530 delivers premium performance with very low total system power. These processors operate at a maximum power of 5.1W (LX900@1.5W), 3.6W (LX800@0.9W) and 3.1W (LX 700@0.8W). It comes coupled with the AMD Geode CS5536 companion device, the combined chipset, offering a complete set of features for full computing functionality.
The IB530 has a DDR SODIMM socket for up to 1GB memory. The built-in 2D graphics controller supports both CRT and TFT LCD displays. Functional interfaces and connectivity are provided for four serial ports, four USB ports, IDE, FDD, and a printer port.
The Leica GMX902 GG is a high-performance GPS + GLONASS receiver, specially developed to monitor sensitive structures such as bridges, mines or high rise buildings and crucial topographies such as land slides or volcanoes. It provides precise dual frequency code and phase data up to 20 Hz.
The key characteristics of the GMX900 family are low power consumption, high quality measurement, simplicity, and durability. The Leica GMX902 GG is an ideal receiver for deformation monitoring with superior tracking of satellites from the both GPS and GLONASS constellations. The GMX902 GG is also a perfect receiver for atmospheric studies and ionospheric scintillation research with 20Hz measurement.
The Leica GMX902 GG integrates seamlessly with a suite of Leica Geosystems software for advanced data analysis and processing, data archiving, high speed and high accuracy displacement calculation, limit checks and messaging in combination with other sensor families.
This new product, the COMM+16.PCIe, has the highest serial port count available for PCI Express," states Earle Foster, VP Sales and Marketing for Sealevel. Each serial port provides a maximum data rate of 460.8K bps and the COMM+16.PCIe has an operating range from 0 - +70°C (extended temperature versions operating from -40 - +85°C are available).
The COMM+16.PCIe is ideal for connecting to PLC's, bar code readers, scales, and other data acquisition/control devices using the included DB-25M fan-out cable (DB-9M fan-out cable available as an option). The product includes SeaCOM software for Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista and Linux operating systems. As an added value, customers also receive WinSSD, a full-featured application for testing and diagnostics including BERT (Bit Error Rate Testing), throughput monitoring, loopback tests, and test pattern message transmissions.
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This high-end versatile field emission SEM series features new low kV performance for enhanced surface characterization, high current for compositional analysis capabilities and the world's only high resolution operation in low vacuum. The advanced performance of the Nova NanoSEM 30 series enables the characterization and analysis of a large range of samples, including demanding ones.
Visitors to the Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference this week can see the new NOVA NanoSEM 630 at FEI's exhibit (Booth 414) at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center.
The NOVA NanoSEM 30 series also provides researchers with novel prototyping capabilities based on electron beam lithography, electron beam induced deposition and in-situ experimentation. The 230 and 430 systems feature 50 x 50 mm and 100 x 100 mm 5-axis motorized stages, respectively. The 630 system is equipped with a 5-axis high precision and stability 150 x 150 mm piezo stage.
MathStar announced the availability of the company's high definition MPEG-2 Encoder IP Core for the Arrix field programmable object array (FPOA). The intellectual property (IP) core currently supports high definition 720p resolutions at 60 frames per second as well as all standard definition formats.
The MPEG-2 Encoder IP Core is part of MathStar's Pro Video Library, which also includes the MPEG-2 Multi-Stream Decoder, the JPEG-2000 Encoder IP Cores as well as a roadmap to MPEG-4/H.264 IP. The MPEG-2 Encoder IP is scalable across one or two FPOA devices, depending on the level of compression required. The IP core will also be enhanced to support 1080i formats before the end of the year. For pricing and availability of the MPEG-2 Encoder IP Core, please contact MathStar.
MathStar's MPEG-2 Encoder IP Core was co-developed with Adaptive Micro-Ware, a leader in video technology solutions and a member of MathStar's Certified Design Center (CDC) program.
Mellanox announced the general availability of the NFS-RDMA SDK (Network File System over Remote Direct Memory Access Software Development Kit) for its InfiniBand adapter products. The SDK supports the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) version 1.2 software stack and delivers 1.3GB/s (gigabytes per second) of read throughput and 600MB/s (megabytes per second) of write throughput over a single InfiniBand link.
Node-to-node connectivity and low price and power per megabyte of available bandwidth, InfiniBand enables cost effective scaling of both compute and storage capacity. The high storage throughput of InfiniBand and NFS-RDMA equates to an estimated 5X price/performance improvement of the I/O compared to existing enterprise-class storage platforms based on Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.
Using the Mellanox MTD2000 storage platform reference design (based on Intel CPUs, Mellanox InfiniHost III adapters, OFED 1.2, RHEL5 or SLES 10 SP1) as an NFS-RDMA server, and up to four NFS-RDMA clients, read performance of 1.3GB/s has been achieved for file sizes ranging from 64 to 1024 megabytes, and write performance of 550 to 590MB/s for file sizes ranging from 64 to 512 megabytes.
These applications include clustered databases, CAD (computer-aided design), CAE (computer-aided engineering), DCC (digital content creation), EDA (electronic design automation), financial services, order management, and web services.
The NFS-RDMA SDK is an open source and free package available now from Mellanox. The package accelerates OEM development of a complete NFS-RDMA storage solution and includes both the NFS-RDMA client and server software stack that is compatible with virtually any commodity, Linux-based x86 server.
The W25Q16 16-megabit SpiFlash Memory is the first in a family of high-performance memories ranging from 8 to 64 megabits, and features single, dual and quad I/Os in space- and cost-saving 8-pin packaging. The W25Q16's Quad-SPI architecture allows for greater than six times the performance of the current generation of Serial Flash memories and offers a true code-execution (XIP) alternative to Parallel-NOR Flash. The W25Q16 is ideal for a variety of consumer and industrial applications, including Blu-Ray Disc systems, DVD-HD and DVD-W drives, DVD players/recorders, WLAN and DSL equipment, PCs, digital-TV and set-top-boxes.
Serial Flash memories were used primarily for simple non-volatile storage of code that is downloaded to SDRAM at power-up (code-shadowing). With Quad-SPI performance, application-specific controllers can now execute code directly from Serial Flash, minimizing pin-count and SDRAM usage, and significantly reducing system costs. Quad--SPI can also dramatically improve boot time for traditional code-shadow applications.
W25Q16 includes other important features, such as uniform 4K-byte erasable sectors for efficient memory allocation and storage of data. The 4K-byte sectors are commonly required in many Intel-based PC applications.
The 25Q16 maintains function- and pin-out compatibility with the 25X, while adding Dual-I/O and Quad-I/O SPI capability for higher performance. The 25Q16 supports clock rates up to 80MHz, enabling an equivalent clock frequency of 320MHz (40 megabytes per second continuous transfer rate) when using Quad-SPI operation.
The W25Q16 offer erase-suspend/-resume capability, commonly found in parallel Flash memories and necessary for interrupt-driven systems that must temporally halt an erase operation to read from Flash memory. Security is also enhanced with lock-down and one-time-programmable (OTP) write protection.
The REF50xx features accuracy and system performance levels previously found only in costly buried zener technologies. Although designed for next-generation industrial process control, the REF50xx is also a good fit for a wide range of applications. High accuracy (0.05 percent max) and low output voltage noise (7.5uVpp for 2.5V output) enable peak performance of the ADC in high-resolution applications.
The devices feature standardized pinouts that include a TRIM pin for +/-15mV output voltage adjust and a TEMP pin for temperature monitoring. All models in this family are specified for the wide industrial temperature range of -40C to 125C.
National Instruments announced LabVIEW 8.5, the graphical system design platform for test, control and embedded system development. LabVIEW 8.5 simplifies multicore as well as FPGA-based application development with its intuitive parallel dataflow language. LabVIEW 8.5 running on these new processors can deliver faster test throughput, more efficient processor-intensive analysis and more reliable real-time systems on dedicated processor cores.
Engineers and scientists must consider how their software can deliver the potential performance gains of multicore and FPGA-based systems. With the parallel dataflow language of LabVIEW, users can easily map their applications to multicore and FPGA architectures for data streaming, control, analysis and signal processing. Building on the automatic multithreading capability of earlier versions, LabVIEW 8.5 scales user applications based on the total available number of cores and delivers enhanced thread-safe drivers and libraries.
With this version of LabVIEW, users can manually assign portions of code to specific processor cores to fine-tune real-time systems or isolate time-critical sections of code on a dedicated core. To meet the more challenging debugging and code optimization requirements of real-time multicore development, engineers and scientists can use the new NI Real-Time Execution Trace Toolkit 2.0 to visually display timing relationships between sections of their code and the individual threads and processing cores where the code is executing.
The PXIS-2690P is designed for military, aero-defense, field testing, and in-vehicle testing applications by providing a touch panel 15" LCD display, keyboard, touchpad, DVD combo drive, and 500W power supply in an aluminum alloy frame.
Designed for ruggedness and stability, the PXIS-2960P has been fully tested for a variety of shock and vibration situation such as those experienced in outdoor applications. Three onboard 120mm x 120mm x 25mm fans deliver an airflow rate of 223.5 CFM to help ensure proper operation even in high temperature environments.
The sessions will unveil the powerful new features of Altium Designer and how they combine with Altium's Desktop NanoBoard reprogrammable development platform, to give electronics design engineers new ways to design products. Altium Designer offers a unified approach to developing electronics products which allows for shorter development cycles.
Engineers already conversant with FPGAs will gain insights into new design techniques, and newcomers to FPGAs will gain an understanding of how to tap their potential. The seminars are open to embedded and software engineers, board-level engineers, electronics product designers, and systems engineers.
The products are based on the industry-proven technology developed by Adaptif Photonics, which Agilent acquired in June 2007. For manufacturers, the new product portfolio offers fast and cost-effective control and test solutions for alignment, adjustment and final test, helping to reduce the cost of test and increase yield and throughput.
Agilent will show these products for the first time at the European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC), Sept. 17-19, at the International Congress Centrum in Berlin, Germany, Agilent Booth 069 - 074, Hall 15.
austriamicrosystems introduced the AS8267, a new single phase energy meter IC providing security protected on-chip data and program memory with the most reliable data retention specification over an extreme temperature range. The embedded logic and microcontroller enable easy and versatile customization to the user's requirements. All anti-tamper measures are integrated in the AS8267 and any attempts of fraud are monitored.
The AS8267 supports up to 80-segment LCD display and incorporates an 8-bit MCU, 32kBytes of on-chip Flash memory and 9 programmable multi-purpose inputs/outputs. The AS8267's two universal asynchronous receiver transmitters (UARTs) allow for external communication. A programmable energy LED pulse output is generated on-chip, enabling fast automatic digital calibration.
The AS8267 is available in a LQFP-64 pin package and is pin compatible with the currently available AS8268, AS8218 and AS8228 ICs.
Z8F083A Series Flash microcontroller (MCU) delivers embedded design engineers the best cost/performance ratio for fan control and universal motor control applications by offering an optimized feature set, scalability, and the lowest cost. What makes these devices unique, however, are the enhanced functionalities on-chip, including a 2.5 times faster internal precision oscillator and 5 times faster ADC over competing products in its class.
Z8F083A MCU is the best cost/performance solution for customers of fan control and universal motor control applications. The new series also offers a single-pin On-Chip Debugger (OCD) port for in-system Flash programming and debugging. This underscores one of Zilog's key benefits since the company offers this feature across the entire Z8Encore!XP family.
Z8 Encore! XP F083A Flash MCUs are designed based on the powerful Zilog eZ8 CPU core — a core architecture that rivals the performance of a 16-bit CPU core. The family supports up to 8 Kbytes of Flash memory, 256 bytes of register RAM, and is pin-for-pin compatible with other members of the Z8 Encore! XP family, allowing an easy migration path from 1 Kbytes up to 12 Kbytes.
The Z8F083A Series also includes a targeted peripheral set featuring an up to eight channel, fast 2.8 ums 'best in class' successive approximation register (SAR) Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), an 'on-chip' 20 MHz Internal Precision Oscillator that eliminate the need of an external crystal or oscillator, and 100 bytes of Non-Volatile Data Storage (NVDS) for storing system parameters or user data. The new series also offers a single-pin On- Chip Debugger (OCD) port for in-system Flash programming and debugging. These devices also include two enhanced 16-bit timers/counters featuring capture, compare and PWM capabilities, and one analog comparator, providing increased design flexibility in end applications.
The Z8 Encore! XP F083A Series is supported by an comprehensive development environment that uses a USB Smart Cable and Opto-Isolated USB Smart Cable. The family is also supported by ZDS II-Zilog's Z8 Encore! XP integrated development environment (IDE) with ANSI C-Compiler.
SNOWBUSH's 6-bit ADC is compact, low-power, and by utilizing its high bandwidth sample-and-hold front-end, it maintains excellent dynamic performance throughout the full range of input frequencies. The ADC features INL of 0.59 LSB, DNL of 0.51 LSB, and ENOB of 5.2 or greater for sampling clock frequencies up to 2.5 GHz. The ADC occupies a silicon area of 0.43 square millimeters.
The state-of-the-art ADC utilizes automatic calibration of key analog blocks to ensure performance over variations in process, voltage, and temperature. The ADC features on-chip power-supply regulation for robust noise immunity within large digital SOC's. Several power-down modes are provided to minimize power consumption.
Version 8.0 of RTX supplements existing RTX functionality by supporting the Windows Vista operating system and Windows Vista for Embedded Systems. RTX 8.0 supports Vista on single-processor and multi-processor (MP) systems as MP dedicated, and also supports Windows 2003 SP2 for MP dedicated. RTX 8.0 provides support for zero-copy MAC Ethernet filters, as well as two new Ethernet controllers, one from Intel and one from National Semiconductor.
New RT-TCPIP utilities allow users to display the local computer network configuration as well as to display and modify the address-translation and network-routing tables. RTX 8.0 also assists users in performing network diagnostics and in testing the ability to reach specific destinations.
SMSC announced the introduction of its new family of fan controllers, the EMC210x family, with four new devices (EMC2103, EMC2104, EMC2105 and EMC2106) featuring technologies that employ RPM closed-loop control and manage multiple temperatures. In addition, SMSC is launching three new SMBus temperature sensors (EMC1046, EMC1047 and EMC1428) for systems requiring a high level of temperature monitoring.
The new EMC210x fan controllers all employ closed-loop RPM control schemes to significantly improve control of the fan speed versus open-loop fan drive methods. By measuring the fan speed with a closed-loop, fan control set points are met with five percent or better accuracy. The fan speed is also maintained over the life of the product. This is essential because an aging fan will change its response to a given drive signal over time. Lastly, resonant or vibration speeds can be avoided in enclosures.
The EMC210x family's temperature measurement technology is compatible with the latest generation of processor geometries, including 45nm. This includes Automatic Beta Compensation that will detect the requirements of a thermal diode and self configure the measurement attributes for an accurate reading.
SMSC's temperature sensors employ highly accurate measurement techniques allowing for 1ΒΊ Celsius accuracy. The latest in SMSC's line of sensors, the EMC1046, EMC1047 and EMC1428, are optimized to fit into smaller packages than normally associated with the number of measurements they take. This is done by use of Anti-parallel Diodes, a technique exclusive to SMSC, allowing two remote diodes to be measured with two pins.
These new temperature sensors and fan controllers all contain Automatic Beta Compensation that meet Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) or transistor model measurement standards necessary for cutting edge geometries. Additionally, the devices have Resistance Error Correction.