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ELECTRONICSTALK
The Independent Weekly Product Information Guide
for Electronics Engineers
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London, UK
Published every Tuesday at 12:30 (UK)
Issue 8: 27 March 2001
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In this issue:
* Editor's Message
* Our Top Ten new Products Selection
1. QuadPort RAM has bandwidth for comms
2. Functional checker intercepts SoC bugs early
3. Program makes better use of IP in FPGAs
4. Axial DC hot spot coolers for focused airflow
5. DRAM proves to be logical in SoC designs
6. Flexible flat cable with a range of terminations
7. Monitoring system reduces solvent waste
8. Rugged commercial enclosures cut costs
9. Tape sticks sinks without fasteners
10. Tektronix gets the picture - and analyses it
* New Technical Articles and Case Studies
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Laurence Marchini, Editor, writes:
This week sees the introduction of the Climate Change Levy, heralded in the UK by the Chancellor as essential towards the goal of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent. Considering that the levy will add 15% to the cost of almost all commercial and industrial energy, there has been very little fuss in the media; which is a pity.
Not that I'm advocating civil unrest to protest against such a reasonable measure. Rather, that we should have been singing its praises from the rooftops.
Even without the Enhanced Capital Allowance scheme, the nett effect of the Levy will be positive in encouraging investment in newer more-energy-efficient equipment. And in those areas where the scheme does apply, manufacturers should have a field day.
Here, surely was a case where the spin doctors should have been paving the way much longer in advance. More than one manufacturer of energy-saving equipment has admitted to me he didn't get his act together as fast as he would have liked, basically due to lack of publicity.
But despite this, the Levy is to be applauded: a Green measure that encourages industry? More of the same please.
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WOLFSON JOINS THE FAST 50
Wolfson Microelectronics has been awarded its first ranking in the Deloitte and Touche Technology Fast 50.
Wolfson Microelectronics, 21 March 2001
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IT'S SMART TO JOIN UP WITH BRIGHTCOM
SMART Modular Technologies has joined with BrightCom Technologies to form a synergistic development and manufacturing alliance.
BrightCom Technologies, 21 March 2001
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I2P ACQUISITION IS INTELLECTUAL BOOST TO LATTICE
Lattice Semiconductor has acquired privately held Integrated Intellectual Property (I2P) of Santa Clara, California.
Lattice Semiconductor UK, 22 March 2001
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FAIRCHILD COMPLETES INTERSIL POWER ACQUISITION
Fairchild Semiconductor has completed its acquisition of Intersil's discrete power business for approximately $338 million in cash.
Fairchild Semiconductor, 22 March 2001
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VERPLEX SYSTEMS SET UP IN EUROPE
Verplex Systems has established European headquarters in Grenoble, France, and plans to open satellite offices in the UK, Germany, Sweden and Israel before the end of the year.
Verplex Systems, 22 March 2001
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FLEXTRONIC IS NO MORE - LONG LIVE TEKNOFLEX
Flextronic, the UK's largest manufacturer of high technology flexible circuits and subassemblies, has announced that it has changed its name to Teknoflex.
Teknoflex, 23 March 2001
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OUR TOP TEN NEW PRODUCTS SELECTION
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1. QuadPort RAM has bandwidth for comms
Cypress Semiconductor has announced the availability of production volumes of its 1Mbit QuadPort RAM, the next-generation, bandwidth-optimised family of synchronous memories designed for WAN and SAN markets. The family was developed in conjunction with EMC, the world's leading provider of information storage infrastructure systems, for a new storage application. The QuadPort RAM's four completely independent ports can simultaneously access its 1Mbit (64K x 18bit) memory array and operate in different frequency domains.
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2. Functional checker intercepts SoC bugs early
BlackTie functional checker from Verplex Systems is the industry's first full-chip multi-million-gate-capacity tool to accelerate the verification of SoC designs. BlackTie provides exhaustive verification early in the design cycle to find as many RTL problems as possible - as bugs are easier to fix upstream. Users can formally check event or assertion monitors in their designs to find deeply embedded bugs, where integration-level test vectors may have little control or may not be sufficiently long enough to propagate errors to an observable output. Despite its thoroughness, BlackTie still manages to achieve high speed and capacity. In a recent customer engagement it verified over 300,000 functional properties of a 2.7 million gate design in slightly over 20min using a standard Unix workstation.
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3. Program makes better use of IP in FPGAs
Mentor Graphics and Xilinx have released FPGA OpenMORE, a reference assessment program and spreadsheet for evaluating the reusability of IP in large, multi-million-gate FPGA designs. After six months of beta testing, the FPGA OpenMORE program is now available to the semiconductor design community with endorsements from trial users such as CAST and Telecom Italia Lab. The FPGA OpenMORE program is available for download at http://www.openmore.com.
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4. Axial DC hot spot coolers for focused airflow
The 60mm range of ADDA axial DC hot spot coolers from Fan Technology is now available in 10, 15, 20 and 25mm frame sizes, supply voltages of 5, 12 and 24V and four different speed variants. The range provides high levels of design flexibility for cooling hot spots within enclosures and other applications where high cooling performance is required in confined spaces. Thanks to the use of the latest motor technology, the motor of the ADDA 60mm series occupies a small area of the fan cross-section so allowing a larger impeller and increased airflow.
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5. DRAM proves to be logical in SoC designs
Atmos has announced immediate availability of its system-on-a-chip (SoC) pure logic IP core, SoC-RAM PL. The SoC-RAM PL core permits system-on-a-chip designers to embed large instances of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) in semiconductors using standard CMOS logic processes instead of expensive specialised merged logic processes. Target applications for the Atmos SoC-RAM core include ADSL and cable modems, digital camcorders, printers, PC graphics cards, routers and Gigabit Ethernet switching systems.
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6. Flexible flat cable with a range of terminations
Hitaltech has a novel range of flexible flat cable (FFC) combined with round pin terminations achieved by flattening the round, solid copper conductors with a smooth transition from flat to round. This gives a very flexible cable which is highly resistant to vibration, bending and acts as a vibration damper. The fully automated production line is able to manufacture a flat flexible solution for PCB/PCB connection, a PCB to component or an entire cable harness.
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7. Monitoring system reduces solvent waste
Kerry Ultrasonics has developed an automatic monitoring system which allows users of its cleaning machines to check the rate at which costly solvents are used during processing. The first of its kind to be offered by any manufacturer, this new facility was recently used to confirm a total consumption of just 2.4 litres during a seven-day test of a high-capacity cleaning machine. As well as demonstrating the solvent retention abilities of Kerry equipment, the monitoring system helps to minimise running costs because occasional increases in usage rate can be quickly spotted and rectified.
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8. Rugged commercial enclosures cut costs
Mektron Systems has launched a range of compact, powered COTS rugged system enclosures designed for VME applications and offering outstanding quality and versatility. In particular, these enclosures provide substantial cost savings over traditional full MIL-spec enclosures without having to compromise quality or performance. They are ideally suited for the deployment of commercial or industrial grade hardware in hostile environments.
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9. Tape sticks sinks without fasteners
The latest thermally conductive adhesive tape from Chomerics can significantly simplify PCB assembly by eliminating thermal grease and mechanical fasteners when bonding heatsinks to microprocessors and other heat-generating semiconductors. Suitable for bonding heatsinks to any plastic component package including those with non-flat surfaces, Thermattach T411 double-sided silicone adhesive tape combines a high bond strength, pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) with an expanded aluminium mesh carrier layer.
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10. Tektronix gets the picture - and analyses it
Tektronix has announced the next-generation picture quality analysis system for broadcasters and other video content providers who need to ensure picture quality by analysing out-of-service video content. Customers will use the new tool to maintain the quality of service of compressed digital video information. Based on the Emmy award-winning PQA200, the new Tektronix PQA300 picture quality analyser is a single channel analysis system that provides complete, in-depth picture quality analysis.
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READ ALL ABOUT IT: PC ENCLOSURES
WH Smith News, the UK's largest Newspaper and Magazine Wholesaler, is using Armagard PC enclosures to protect its new returns system.
Armagard, 23 March 2001
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INCA DIGITAL CHOOSES NIKON FOR PRINTING ACCURACY
Nikon's measuring microscope offers Inca Digital the high level of performance and future expandability required for an exacting industrial application.
Nikon UK, 21 March 2001
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INTRANET-BASED SOLUTION FOR NETA
Kenda Electronic Systems and eMation have teamed up to provide Innogy with an intranet-based metering data collection system for 15 remote power generation sites.
Kenda Electronic Systems, 21 March 2001
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ORIGIN AIMS FOR OEM MEMORIES
Memory Plus has launched the Origin memory brand, which encompasses all memory solutions that are not sold for a specific target application and are supplied in OEM volumes.
Memory Plus, 21 March 2001
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CLOCK GENERATORS FOR EMBEDDED COMMUNICATIONS
AMI Semiconductor (AMIS) has expanded its clock generator product line with a broad family of low-cost 1- and 2-phase-lock loop (PLL) clock ICs.
AMI Semiconductor, 23 March 2001
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INTERSIL PROPOSES STEALTH AS ANSWER TO PFC
Intersil has developed a simple and efficient solution to meet the recently approved European standards for Boost Power Factor Correction (PFC) of power supply standards at low cost.
Intersil, 23 March 2001
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ULTRA-LOW-POWER TELEPHONE SIGNALLING TRANSCEIVER
The latest addition to Flint's range of telecomms ICs is an ultra-low-power telephone signalling transceiver IC targeted at line-powered least-cost routing equipment and similar applications.
Flint, 27 March 2001
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CAPACITOR ARRAYS HAVE REDUCED TRACE DISTANCES
Now available from NIC Components, a range of 0805 size ceramic chip capacitor arrays that feature reduced trace distance, improving performance for high-speed applications.
NIC Eurotech, 22 March 2001
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SCHAFFNER FILTERS POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS
Schaffner is launching a new design and manufacture capability for specialised decoupling filters for use in domestic and industrial powerline communication (PLC) systems.
Schaffner EMC, 22 March 2001
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INTEGRAL HEATSINK PUTS SSRS STRAIGHT ONBOARD
The new SKL and SKH solid-state relays from Celduc Relais are smaller and lower priced than conventional SSRs and are designed for direct mounting on to printed circuit boards.
Quiller Electronics, 27 March 2001
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XA TOOL SUITE USES SAFER C FOR ROBUST CODE
Tasking says its XA Tool Suite V4.0 has enhanced easy/expert configuration modes that simplify the learning curve for novices, while offering low-level control for the more experienced.
Tasking Software, 22 March 2001
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CABLE GLANDS SHIELD AND SEAL TOGETHER
KEC has introduced a range of cable glands that provide EM shielding and environmental sealing at entry points of instrument racks, enclosures, cabinets, panels and bulkheads.
KEC, 23 March 2001
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ULTRASONIC SENSOR GOES THE DISTANCE
The MassaSonic M-5000/95 is an ultrasonic sensor with a maximum range up to 6m.
Vydas International Marketing, 23 March 2001
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SOFTWARE TESTS DATA ON CELLULAR TEST SET
IFR Systems has announced a new software test suite that tests Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) capabilities on wireless cellular handsets and wireless modems.
IFR Systems, 23 March 2001
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