‘Omap Application’

An Electronicstalk guide

Start with the news release Dates announced for National Electronics Week from National Electronics Week, which we summarised at the time by saying "NEW Events has announced that National Electronics Week 2011 is taking place from 12-13 April at the NEC Pavilion in Birmingham. ". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Monitoring system features Nordic transceivers from Nordic Semiconductor: "Nordic Semiconductor has announced that Spantec has developed a fully comprehensive ANT+ telemedical remote monitoring system using Nordic nRF24AP2 eight-channel 2.4GHz ANT transceivers.".

In December 2010, we covered the news from Axiomtek - take a look at Low-power network platform for harsh environments which says: "Axiomtek has announced the NA-320FL, a fanless 1U compact network appliance platform with 6GB LANs that supports the low-power Intel Atom processors D510 1.66GHz with Intel ICH8M PCH chipset.".

Take a look also at the news release from Cypress Semiconductor, QDR and DDR SRAMs for reducing power consumption, as well as Valve connector simplifies manufacturing process from Molex, and VGA for wireless infrastructure transceivers from Maxim Integrated Products.

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LED suitable for TV and LCD monitor backlighting (December 2010)

The Topled Compact 5630 LED from Osram Opto Semiconductors is designed for backlighting applications such as monitors and television screens.

FPGA-based frame grabbers for image acquisition (December 2010)

Stemmer Imaging can now offer what are said to be the world's fastest FPGA-based Cameralink frame grabbers from Silicon Software, which are suited as an OEM solution for image acquisition.

Lord introduces SC-305 silicone encapsulant (December 2010)

Lord has announced the availability of Lord SC-305, a thermally conductive silicone encapsulant designed for encapsulation applications where high heat dissipation is required.

TFT LCD targets display instrument applications (December 2010)

Saelig has introduced SGD 24-M, a customisable, high-contrast 2.4in TFT LCD colour display with built-in touch screen, dual analogue inputs and alarm outputs to suit a range of display instruments.

Atmel touch controller used in Sharp smartphones (December 2010)

Atmel has announced that Sharp has selected its Maxtouch mXT224 touch controller to power the SH8128U smartphone.

SMSIS-DSP library of signal-processing algorithms (December 2010)

ARM has released Version 2.0 of the ARM Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS), a vendor-independent hardware abstraction layer containing extensions for the Cortex-M4 processor.

PCI mezzanine card targets the space industry (December 2010)

Aitech Defense Systems is offering the S750, said to be the space industry's first COTS, radiation-tolerant, Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet switch PCI mezzanine card (PMC).