The light at the end of the tunnel
05 May, 2005
While enormous machines gouge out 7 m wide tunnels from the hard rock beneath Martin Ams' feet as part of the Epping to Chatswood Rail Line, the Macquarie University PhD student focuses on making tunnels just five microns wide
Verifying RF transceivers
05 May, 2005 by David C Lee, Mentor Graphics Corp
The global market for portable communication products such as pagers, two-way radios, cordless phones, mobile phones, personal GPS receivers, wireless internet browsers and portable video phones is growing at a rapid pace
90 nm SDRAM
12 April, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.braemac.com.au/
Samsung Electronics has announced what it claims is the industry's first mass production of 90 nm 512 Mb DDR SDRAM on 300 mm base wafers.
DAQs for PCIs
12 April, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.ni.com/oceania
National Instruments has introduced its highest resolution multi-function data acquisition (DAQ) devices for the PCI bus with four 18 bit M Series DAQ devices.
Computers from a single atom?
01 April, 2005
What is claimed to be the world's first single-atom-thick fabric has been created by researchers at Manchester University, in Britain, and Chernogolovka, in Russia.
Optical modulators
18 March, 2005
The Centre for Integrated Photonics in Ipswich, England has launched a range of electro-absorption modulators fabricated using indium-phosphide.
Next generation embedded computer module
03 March, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.kontron.com.au/
Kontron's newest and most innovative product sets the standard of the next generation of Embedded Technology. Known as ECM (Embedded Computer Module), it houses control boards within a secure module for use by OEMs and Integrators as a technology building block for a wide variety of application-specific systems.
Chip capacitors
03 February, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.connektron.com.au/
Epcos has unveiled a series of polymer chip capacitors as part of its development program for tantalum polymer capacitors that can operate at ambient temperatures up to 125°C and derating (66% of rated voltage).
Quartz SAW filters
03 February, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.connektron.com.au/
Epcos is releasing its quartz SAW components for radio remote control in the QCC8B package with a footprint of 3.8 x 3.8 mm.
Dual winding inductors
03 February, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.adilam.com.au/
The 4700 and 4800 series surface mount inductors from C&D Technologies offer design flexibility coupled with EMI protection.
Cations perform a quick change
27 January, 2005
Researchers with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkely Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have shown that for nanocrystals, the doping process in which one type of positively charged atom, or cation, is exchanged for another, takes place at a much faster rate than for crystals of extended size and is fully reversible, something that is virtually forbidden in micro-sized crystals under the same environmental conditions.
Dual SiGe mixer
17 January, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.arrowaustralia.com/
Maxim has introduced the MAX9995, claimed to be the industry's highest performance, fully integrated, dual SiGe mixer.
LCD screen enhancer
17 January, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.lge.com.au/
LG Electronics has unveiled what it claims is the first picture enhancing chip, the Flatron f Engine designed for LCD monitors.
Radiation-hardened, logic-level MOSFETs
17 January, 2005 | Supplied by: International Rectifier
International Rectifier has introduced radiation-hardened (RAD-Hard) logic-level gate drive MOSFETs designed to boost efficiency and performance in circuits that traditionally relied on bipolar transistors.
TL6100 series tactile switches
17 January, 2005 | Supplied by: Soanar Limited
E-Switch has introduced the TL6100 series of tactile switches that are process sealed to prevent contamination of the switch contacts during wave soldering or water-wash processes.
