
‘Packet Switched’
An Electronicstalk guide
Start with the news release High slew-rate option for power supplies from Magna-Power Electronics, which we summarised at the time by saying "Power supply expert Magna-Power Electronics has released a high slew-rate output option to meet the demands of fast-performance DC applications such as battery charging and photovoltaic emulation.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release PCI mezzanine card targets the space industry from Aitech Defense Systems: "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).".
In December 2010, we covered the news from Asix Electronics - take a look at Wi-Fi capability for consumer electronics and more which says: "Asix Electronics is now delivering the AX220xx, a single-chip microcontroller with TCP/IP and 802.11 WLAN MAC/baseband, designed to leverage Wi-Fi infrastructure in home and office environments.".
Take a look also at the news release from MSC Vertriebs, Motor control demonstration kit for drive systems , as well as Integrated driver targets LED panel displays from Toshiba Electronics, and IP core suitable for Broadcom-inclusive networks from Lattice Semiconductor.
Latest stories...
DC/DC converter runs from TEGs and thermopiles (November 2010)
The LTC3109 is a step-up DC/DC converter and power-management IC that is designed to start up and run from millivolt input voltage sources such as thermoelectric generators (TEGs) and thermopiles.
VXS backplanes enable out-of-band communication (November 2010)
Elma is offering VXS backplanes with a Gigabit Ethernet Control Layer Channel per VITA 41.6, providing for out-of-band communication.
Wireless base station SoC with multi-core DSP (November 2010)
Texas Instruments (TI) has unveiled the TMS320TCI6616, a wireless base station System-on-Chip (SoC) with 4G class performance and multi-core digital signal processor (DSP).
IGBT for use in energy-efficient DC-DC automotives (November 2010)
International Rectifier (IR) has introduced two high-power density devices, the AUIRS2191S 600V driver IC and AUIRGP50B60PD1 600V non-punch-through (NPT) insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT).
Xilinx FPGAs feature optimised jitter performance (November 2010)
Xilinx has announced the availability of Virtex-6 HXT FPGAs optimised for applications that require ultra-high-speed serial connectivity.
Switch mode power supply suited for CCTV (November 2010)
The D1565 switch mode power supply allows users to choose the voltage best suited to the application (12 to 15V DC) and is suited for all CCTV power supply requirements.
Switching technology for data centre devices (November 2010)
Niagara 2948 is the latest in high port density switching technology from Interface Masters, featuring 48 ports of 10G line-rate switching throughput in a 1U form factor.
Kontron develops packet processor for 4G networks (October 2010)
Kontron has unveiled its second generation of AdvancedMC packet processor modules for 4G network applications, which features the Cavium Networks Octeon II CN6335 MIPS64 six-core processor.
Further reading
- Packet switched platform offers OEMs 21 slots
Performance Technologies has expanded its Advanced Managed Platform offering with the introduction of the IPnexus CPC5086 packet-switched platform.

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