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Cable Low Pass Filter
August 30, 2001 9:28 am | Product Releases | CommentsRLC Electronics' Cable Low Pass Filters are available and built to your cutoff, rejection and mechanical specifications. Computer designed and advanced coaxial techniques ensure optimal performance in a minimum amount of space....
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
August 27, 2001 5:13 am | Product Releases | CommentsEcutel announces the launch of Viatores 3.0, a mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN) that allows people to roam between private networks, public networks and private visiting networks seamlessly while also supporting a variety of communication networks such as LANs, wireless LANs, cellular networks and more....
Cellular Car Antennas
August 27, 2001 5:13 am | Product Releases | CommentsTERK Technologies, renowned for its line of highly engineered antennas and home accessories, has expanded its popular line of cellular car antennas. These new antennas are set to strengthen TERK's reputation for quality cellular solutions, a tradition that began with the popular CFR-900. TERK's new cellular antennas, which are designed to maximize performance of fixed-installation hands-free kits, all feature dual band frequencies for compa...
Cleaning System
August 27, 2001 5:13 am | Product Releases | CommentsThe Mega™ II's revolutionary closed-loop, solvent (or water), electronic assembly and parts cleaning system with quantitative ION detection and statistical process control capability is ideal for Flip Chip, Optoelectronics, and advanced or high reliability technology packages and assemblies. The Mega(tm) II wash and rinse cycles incorporate a highly effective spray under immersion process, with strategically located venturi nozzles fo...
Card Connectors
August 27, 2001 5:13 am | Product Releases | CommentsProxim announced a new wireless connectivity solution for Pocket PCs that delivers the reliability and low power consumption that enterprises need for robust mobile applications. Proxim's Harmony* CompactFlash* Card connects Compaq iPAQ and Casio* Cassiopeia* E125 Pocket PCs wirelessly to the enterprise LAN....
Schottky Diode Series
August 27, 2001 5:13 am | Product Releases | CommentsA new series of Schottky diodes providing superior capacitance, a low forward voltage drop, and a very high single surge current rating was announced by Vishay Intertechnology. Devices in the Vishay Telefunken series will be used for MOS protection; for steering, biasing, and coupling functions in logic-level applications where fast switching is required; in dc-to-dc converters; and in low-current power supplies....
Dual Output DC/DC Converters
August 27, 2001 5:13 am | Product Releases | CommentsNow available from MicroPower Direct, the B1000R series is a low cost family of miniature, 10 W, dual output DC/DC converters. These units provide a cost effective solution to on-board analog power applications in systems utilizing a 5 VDC bus. Two models operate from a 5 VDC input and provide outputs of ± 12 or ± 15 VDC....
Ferrite Toroids and Core Technology
August 27, 2001 5:13 am | Product Releases | CommentsNew developments in ferrite toroid and formed core technology by Ceramic Magnetics, are providing design engineers with expanded performance potential in energy storage and reductions in unwanted emissions. The company's advanced line of Polygap™ cores, including next generation microgap toroid, nanogap cores, and pseudo distributed gapped formed cores has been combined with the new ISKRA 75G material to provide greater performance at...
DSPs
August 27, 2001 5:13 am | Product Releases | CommentsTranstech DSP announces the TS-P36, the first multi-DSP board to use Analog Devices' new TigerSHARC™ DSP. The TS-P36 features four DSP's and 128Mbytes SDRAM, coupled to a Xilinx Virtex™ FPGA for algorithm acceleration and a fast 64-bit/66MHz PCI/PMC interface for high-speed data input/output....
Resistance Testers
August 27, 2001 5:13 am | Product Releases | CommentsTrace Laboratories East recently purchased and installed the latest generation of automatic surface insulation resistance testers. Believed to be the first and only tester of its type in the US, the Concoat-SIR™ is used to test the electrical characteristics of solders, solder pastes, solder fluxes, and the quality of printed circuit (PC) boards utilizing these materials....
Plug-In Switch Cards
August 27, 2001 5:13 am | Product Releases | CommentsRacal Instruments announces the introduction of the new 1260-152HV (50Ω) and 1260-172HV (75Ω) High-Voltage Coaxial Plug-In Switch Cars., Racal's latest additions to its Adapt-a-Switch Racal Instruments' Models 1260-152HV and 1260-172HV are ideal for measuring transient voltages or for applications that require both high-frequency and high-voltage switching....
High Power TV Circulators
August 27, 2001 5:13 am | Product Releases | CommentsA series of high power low loss circulators are available for the VHF and UHF channels. CT-1584-D is rated at 3 KW Av., 10 KW peak power over the full channel 7-13 band. The CT-1325-N series is rated at 500 W. Av and 1.5 KW peak over the UHF channels. For stripline applications, CT-1615 series operate at 250 average power in the UHF bands....
Wireless Personal Area Networks
August 27, 2001 5:11 am | Product Releases | CommentsThe second era of digital communications Darrin Vallis, Senior Field Applications Engineer, Cypress Semiconductor The Information Age Begins At the end of the 20th century, a few key technologies changed our world. Personal Computers evolved and proliferated at an incredible rate. These millions of PCs, coupled with HTML and the web browser, drove an Internet explosion....
DSP-Based Data Acquisition
August 20, 2001 5:24 am | Product Releases | CommentsIxthos has announced a new line of multiprocessor DSP boards and modules integrated into complete data acquisition sub-systems designed specifically for industrial process and control applications. The new integrated sub-systems deliver from 6,400 MIPS of fixed point DSP performance up to 16 GFLOPS of floating point performance in a single 6U VMEbus or CompactPCI slot....
Modulator-Optical Products
August 20, 2001 5:11 am | Product Releases | CommentsRacal Instruments announces an innovative production design known as Racal's Accelerated Manufacturing Process (RAMP). RAMP revolutionizes production within the Optical Test industry. Recognizing the need for a smooth transition between material receipt and final production test, Racal's team of engineers worked rigorously on a production advancement....
