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ELECTRONICSTALK
The Independent Weekly Product Information Guide
for Electronics Design, Development and Manufacturing Engineers
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Published every Tuesday from the UK.
Issue 97: 21 January 2003
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8981 product announcements and technical articles
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In this issue:
* Editor's Message
* Our Top Ten new Products Selection
[1] Analogue switch adds a free throw
[2] All-in-one solution for low-res camera control
[3] USB-based pod takes on multiple functions
[4] Toolkit turns smart cameras to machine vision
[5] Free evaluation for design-capture software
[6] Study to address switch to lead-free solder
[7] Smart power process extends to 8in wafers
[8] Tester dedicated to monitoring MPEG over IP
[9] Pentium 4 motherboard to live long and prosper
[10] SoC development platform gains WLAN IP option
* New Technical Articles and Case Studies
* ...And take a look at these stories too...
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Laurence Marchini, Editor, writes:
Regular readers of this column will know that I am a strong advocate of recycling. Let's face it, if anything leaving my household has a better use than incineration or landfill, then it deserves to be put to that use.
And fortunately I am not alone. Even the formerly profligate UK public has begun to embrace recycling in all its forms, whether it be wine bottles, supermarket carrier bags or newspapers. And now the education process has begun to encourage proper recycling of waste electrical and electronics equipment.
So we could rather do without this week's story of the two Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate students who managed to garner significant quantities of potentially sensitive data from a bunch of hard disc drives they purchased on eBay. The most worrying instance concerned a drive from an old bank ATM, but the story has probably set alarm bells ringing for anyone who feels there might be something sensitive (or embarrassing) on their hard drive.
Revealing such information is not rocket science. Disaster recovery consultancies abound, and there are many freely available commercial, shareware and freeware packages designed to help negligent users recover accidentally deleted (or formatted) information.
But, by the same token, there are almost as many packages now available to enable users to cover their tracks and render deleted information unreadable to all but the most determined "gleaner".
So I'll be hoping that not too many people take the advice of one "expert" who has been widely quoted this week as saying that the safest way to safeguard discarded hard disc drives is to take a mallet to them.
I hope you find this issue of our weekly newsletter useful. In addition to the new products, news and ideas featured here, there are hundreds more on our website and dozens more being added daily, so do take a look if you can.
Alternatively, the full stories behind all the summaries and headlines in this newsletter can be retrieved by email alone: see details below.
In the meantime, if you have any suggestions as to how we might make the site or the newsletter better, email me directly.
Best wishes
Laurence Marchini, Editor
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THIS WEEK'S INDUSTRY NEWS
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SiGe COMPLETES SECOND ROUND
SiGe Semiconductor has raised GBP 26.7 million (US $42.8 million) in second round funding.
SiGe Semiconductor, 15 January 2003
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FAIRCHILD CONTINUES STEADY PROGRESS
Fairchild Semiconductor has reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended 29th December 2002.
Fairchild Semiconductor, 20 January 2003
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JOINT VENTURE EYES CHINESE 3G MARKET
Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co, Royal Philips Electronics and Samsung Electronics have formed a joint venture company, named T3G.
Philips Semiconductors, 21 January 2003
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SYNOPSYS ACQUIRES LITHOGRAPHY-ENABLING SOLUTIONS
Synopsys is to acquire all outstanding shares of Numerical Technologies common stock for a cash purchase price of $7.00 per share.
Synopsys, 15 January 2003
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CADENCE HITS THE ACQUISITION TRAIL
Cadence Design Systems has acquired Celestry Design Technologies.
Cadence Design Systems, 17 January 2003
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NASSDA KEEPS ON GROWING
Nassda Corporation has revealed its financial results for the quarter ended 31st December 2002, the first quarter of Nassda's fiscal 2003.
Nassda Corp, 20 January 2003
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OUR TOP TEN NEW PRODUCTS SELECTION
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1. Analogue switch adds a free throw
Fairchild has developed the industry's first single-pole/triple-throw (SP3T) CMOS analogue switch. The revolutionary new FSA3357 device provides significant benefits for designers of handheld devices, mobile phones, MP3 players, PDAs, notebooks and other portable electronics devices. Replacing two (in series) single-pole/double-throw (SPDT) components with a single 3:1 mux FSA3357 device lowers part count by 50%, provides superior utilisation of PCB real estate, preserves signal integrity and reduces equivalent component pick-and-place operations by half.
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2. All-in-one solution for low-res camera control
The IC3101 is a single-chip dual-mode digital still camera controller solution for the toy and digital camera market. The device offers the dual benefits of easy upgrades to reduce the digital cameras' storage requirements, while helping manufacturers' to instantly develop products with PC camera functionality at the lowest possible cost. Unlike megapixel cameras, the latest generation of low-price low-resolution digital cameras are aimed at the toy and gift market. The IC3101 integrated CMOS sensor interface, memory interface and status LCD interface on a single chip is a dual-mode digital still camera total solution which can either be tethered to the PC or detached for mobility.
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3. USB-based pod takes on multiple functions
The USBee LX digital test pod provides logic analyser, signal generator, data logger, frequency counter and remote controller functions, all in one compact and easy to use USB-based pod. Also included is the USBee LX Tool Builder software that allows the creation of custom test tools using Visual Basic or C++. The USBee LX is the newest addition to the USBee digital test pod product family.
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4. Toolkit turns smart cameras to machine vision
Common Vision Blox (CVB) is an advanced machine vision development toolkit for integrators and OEMs. Being both hardware and platform independent, it is one of the most flexible and easy to implement software products available on the market today for developing vision applications. CVB version 8.0 brings many important improvements and innovations to industrial imaging. i-Tuition is a newly developed graphical user interface which allows applications to be developed without the need for programming knowledge; ideal for rapid prototyping and deployment.
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5. Free evaluation for design-capture software
Altium has released a 30-day trial version of its nVisage DXP multidimensional design capture system. Engineers will now be able to fully demo the first tool to capture all the dimensions of today's electronics design challenges within a single, integrated application. nVisage offers: schematic-driven circuit design for PCB implementation; mixed schematic- and VHDL-driven FPGA design; Spice and VHDL simulation; prelayout signal integrity analysis; and full compatibility with Altium's Protel DXP board level design system.
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6. Study to address switch to lead-free solder
The Reliability and Failure Analysis Group of ERA Technology has received support from the ERA Foundation to carry out a survey to determine the state of readiness of UK industry for the transition from traditional tin/lead to alternative lead-free solders. The EU is banning the sale of products containing lead-based solders from 1st July 2006. This may seem a long way off, but there are no existing satisfactory lead-free solders that could be used as a straight replacement. That means manufacturing techniques will have to be adapted, and in some cases, different components used.
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7. Smart power process extends to 8in wafers
PolarFab has achieved qualification for production of 8in wafers of its PBC4 0.5-micron BiCMOS process. The PBC4 process was designed for smart-power and power management IC applications and provides the ability to integrate dense 0.5-micron CMOS with high-voltage drivers, enabling the fabrication of extremely complex smart-power chips. PBC4 accommodates power levels of up to 30V, with up to 40V planned for 2003, and is ideal for motor controllers, gate drivers, and microprocessor supervisory circuits.
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8. Tester dedicated to monitoring MPEG over IP
DVStation-IP is the world's first real-time test and monitoring tool for MPEG over IP, addressing the emerging market for video transport over IP networks. The Pixelmetrix DVStation-IP is a stand-alone MPEG-2 test and monitoring platform ideal for anyone involved in the transmission of MPEG-2 video and data over the Internet or other IP networks. While the DVStation itself has supported IP over MPEG for several years now, more improvements in the Internet and other equipment now mean using an IP transport for television transmission is finally a viable alternative to telecomms leased lines, ATM, and satellite circuits.
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9. Pentium 4 motherboard to live long and prosper
The Endura BG845G Pentium 4 microATX motherboard is the latest in the popular Radisys Endura family of long-life motherboards. The BG845G supports both Intel Pentium 4 and Celeron processors and incorporates enhanced embedded features that expand its versatility and render it ideal for use in embedded computing applications. The family of long-life Endura motherboards, first introduced in 1999, is now widely used by OEMs supplying products such as medical equipment, test and measurement, industrial automation, gaming, communications and ATM terminals.
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10. SoC development platform gains WLAN IP option
WLAN Now is a complete IEEE802.11a/b/g modem/baseband and MAC soft IP building block solution for SoC-based wireless LAN access point and client devices. WLAN Now is the latest application-specific soft IP extension for the ARC SoC development platform, a unified system development tool chain that includes the 32bit ARCtangent RISC/DSP microprocessor core, and is fully optimised for communications and consumer products.
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New Technical Articles and Case Studies
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SINGLE-CHIP BLUETOOTH BOOSTS 3G VIDEOPHONE
(Cambridge Silicon Radio, 16 January 2003)
NEC's e606 3G videophone handsets are to be Bluetooth-enabled by CSR's BlueCore single chip Bluetooth IC.
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DRIVER ENABLES BLU-RAY STORAGE DEVICE
(Intersil, 20 January 2003)
Plasmon has selected Intersil's new blue-laser diode drivers for use in its latest UDO optical data storage drives, which are the first to use the new Blu-ray consumer optical recording standard.
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LOW-PROFILE ANTENNA PUTS TV ON THE ROAD
(ERA Technology, 21 January 2003)
ERA has teamed with the Winegard Company to produce a high performance antenna system which makes it possible to watch live TV just about anywhere.
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EFFICIENCY BOOST FOR SYNCHRONOUS BUCK DRIVERS
(Texas Instruments, 15 January 2003)
Texas Instruments has two new synchronous buck drivers for high-efficiency nonisolated low-output-voltage DC/DC convertors.
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SRAMS SHRINK TO 0.13-MICRON SoC PROCESS
(MoSys, 16 January 2003)
MoSys' 1T-SRAM-R technology incorporating transparent error correction has been silicon proven on UMC's 0.13-micron logic process.
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OTP MICROCONTROLLER SAVES ON SPACE, POWER AND COST
(Toshiba Electronics Europe, 16 January 2003)
A new compact one-time-programmable microcontroller allows designers to deliver low-cost solutions while saving space and reducing power consumption.
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REAL-TIME CLOCK MODULE HAS INTEGRAL CRYSTAL
(Hero Electronics, 16 January 2003)
The RTC9701JE is one of the smallest real-time-clock modules designed by Epson and available now from Hero Electronics.
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CODEC COMBINES WITH TOUCHSCREEN INTERFACE
(Wolfson Microelectronics, 21 January 2003)
Wolfson has developed an ultra-low-power single-chip design that combines a streaming data touchscreen interface with the company's leading audio subsystem codec capability.
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MICROSTEPPING DRIVER IC HAS BUILT-IN TRANSLATOR
(Allegro MicroSystems Europe, 21 January 2003)
The A3967 from Allegro MicroSystems is a low-cost stepper-motor driver IC that uses Allegro's EasyStepper translator technology to provide microstepping (one-eighth step) operation.
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FORCE-GUIDED RELAY HAS SIX APPEAL
(Willow Technologies, 20 January 2003)
New from Willow Technologies is the Elesta SIP512 Series of force-guided PCB relays with a total of six contacts.
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THICK FILM RESISTORS DEFINE PRECISION
(TT Electronics Welwyn Components, 21 January 2003)
A new series of ultra precision metal film resistors offers a defined total excursion that provides high stability under temperature fluctuations of 5ppm/C and with a tolerance down to 0.01%.
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STARTUP PROVIDES SoC POWER ANALYSIS
(ACAD Corp, 15 January 2003)
FinePower is a dynamic power and IR drop analysis tool for SoC designs that is claimed to be capable of identifying peak IR drop values without any user-defined estimation factors.
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FLEXIBLE DSP DEVELOPMENT
(Kane Computing, 16 January 2003)
Used together, the FleXDS-DSP-6416 module and the FleXDS test adapter allow users to develop and debug DSP systems based on the Texas Instruments TMS320C6416 DSP.
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IMPROVED SECURITY FEATURES FOR EMBEDDED LINUX KIT
(Arcom Control Systems, 17 January 2003)
Arcom has updated its development kit for Embedded Linux with Java Technology for the 300MHz Geode based SBC-GX1 single board computer.
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LINUX-BASED SYSTEMS TO BOOST EDA PERFORMANCE
(Cadence Design Systems, 21 January 2003)
IBM and Cadence Design Systems are to jointly optimise and market electronic design solutions from Cadence using IBM's advanced Linux-based technology.
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DEV KIT MOVES 8051-BASED DESIGNS TO SoCS
(Abacus Group, 21 January 2003)
Designers can now move their 8051 applications onto a 21st century SoC class of devices using a low-cost development kit from Abacus Polar.
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MULTIDIRECTIONAL SWITCH BOOSTS CURSOR INTERACTION
(GGI International, 15 January 2003)
As the exclusive Canadian licensee of Duraswitch technologies, GGI is offering one of the most innovative multidirectional switch technologies the industry has to offer.
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FIVE IN ONE FROM MULTIFUNCTION TACT SWITCH
(Knitter Switch, 16 January 2003)
New from Knitter Switch is the TSSJ-2 multifunction tact switch.
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DIVERSITY ANTENNA PROMISES TO BOOST 3G DATARATES
(Antenova, 15 January 2003)
A ground-breaking antenna from Antenova is providing the missing link in the struggle to provide data transfer speeds that really deliver on the promise of 3G.
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COLOURED INSERTS AID CONNECTOR IDENTIFICATION
(Bulgin Components, 15 January 2003)
Bulgin's renowned range of Buccaneer waterproof connectors is now available with coloured contact inserts for easy identification.
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MODULAR CONNECTORS RAMP TOWARDS 10GBIT/S
(Tyco Electronics UK, 15 January 2003)
Tyco Electronics has added the MultiGig RT -2 series of signal modules to its MultiGig RT connector family.
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HOST SIGNAL PLUG SPEEDS STORAGE ACCESS
(Circuit Assembly, 17 January 2003)
Circuit Assembly has added a new Serial ATA host signal plug to its Serial ATA product family.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SEALING FOR BATTERY HOLDERS
(Bulgin Components, 20 January 2003)
The latest addition to Bulgin's range of battery holders are three front panel sealed versions.
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HEAT-SHRINK BOOTS PROTECT AND SCREEN
(Polamco, 21 January 2003)
The latest versions of the Polamco screened adapter and feedthrough heat-shrink kits have been designed with a new range of heat-shrinkable boots made from a high-performance polymer.
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COPPER AND FIBRE SHARE THE SAME BACKPLANE
(Honda Connectors, 21 January 2003)
Honda Connectors has extended its range of coaxial connectors for fibre-optic backplanes with new versions.
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HALOGEN-FREE ALTERNATIVE TO CONVENTIONAL COAX
(Huber+Suhner, 21 January 2003)
Designers can now switch easily from fluorine-containing cables to halogen-free alternatives, using the Enviroflex cable family from Huber+Suhner.
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TOOL LINE TAKES ON CUTTERS, STRIPPERS AND CRIMPERS
(RF Industries, 17 January 2003)
The range of tools from RF Industries has been expanded to include new cutters, strippers and crimpers.
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SUPPLY TAKES IPMI CARD ONBOARD FOR COMPACT PCI
(Gresham Power Electronics, 16 January 2003)
The latest high-efficiency 400W Compact PCI power supply from Gresham Power features an industry first - an optional Intelligent Platform Management Interface card.
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COMPACT CONVERTORS HANDLE THE HEAT ONBAORD
(SMART Modular Technologies, 17 January 2003)
SMART Modular Technologies has a new line of nonisolated high-performance DC/DC convertors, the DV/DH series.
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INTEL CHIPSET AIDS PICMG SBC COMPATIBILITY
(BVM, 16 January 2003)
Complementing its current range of PICMG SBCs BVM has released the WSB-7845, a socket 478 module supporting P4 processors to speeds over 2GHz.
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NO SOFTWARE REQUIRED FOR RS232 BLUETOOTH CONVERTOR
(Talisman Electronics, 17 January 2003)
The BL-521 RS232 Bluetooth convertor allows any device with an RS232 port to communicate with another Bluetooth device without the need for additional Bluetooth software.
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DUAL PROCESSOR CPCI BOARD TAKES ON FOUR FAST NETS
(Concurrent Technologies, 21 January 2003)
The PP 120/01x is a low power dual Pentium III single slot CompactPCI board supporting four individual Gigabit Ethernet channels.
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NARROWBAND MODULES PROVIDE MORE RANGE
(Radiometrix, 21 January 2003)
The TX2M and RX2M transmitter and receiver pair are now available from Radiometrix for both UK and European bands.
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SOFTWARE BOOSTS ANALYSERS FOR 10Gbit/s SYSTEMS
(Tektronix, 15 January 2003)
Tektronix is to provide comprehensive support for the development of next-generation network equipment operating at speeds of 10Gbit/s and beyond.
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OPTICAL INTERFACE AIDS EMC MEASUREMENTS
(Link Microtek, 21 January 2003)
Link Microtek has introduced an optical interface that enables high-speed transfer of electromagnetic field measurements from a probe back to a PC up to 100m away.
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