Miniature Quartz crystal is ultra small
Mar 29, 2007
Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd. has announced a new series of ultra small, thin, surface mount crystals, measuring only 2.0 mm x 1.6 mm x 0.45mm, just half the volume of any of NDK's other crystal products. ...
Single-chip ZigBee platform features ultra-low power
Mar 29, 2007
Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a single-chip platform solution based on the ZigBee specification that is designed to deliver the industry’s lowest power consumption and highest performance....
Logic family expands I/O ports
Mar 22, 2007
STMicroelectronics’ Xpander Logic family overcomes the limited number of I/O ports in microcontroller and microprocessor-based embedded systems. ...
Low-frequency oscillator has small footprint
Mar 22, 2007
The "all-in-one-package" miniature low frequency oscillator from Micro Crystal combines the company’s smallest 32,768 Hz timing crystal with a complete CMOS oscillator circuit. ...
Photometer/colorimeter suits optical measurements for displays
Mar 22, 2007
The PR-655 from BEA Electro simplifies spectrally based spot photometric/colorimetric measurements, particularly for applications such as LCD, LED or screen display luminance, color and contrast. ...
PXI RF switches optimize networks
Mar 15, 2007
With the release of 11 new RF switches, National Instruments has doubled its PXI RF switch offering for 50 and 75 Ohm applications....
High isolation SPDT comes with built-in CMOS drivers
Mar 15, 2007
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.'s SKY13286-359LF high performance, multi-channel switch is aimed at cellular base station applications where synthesizer isolation is critical to minimize the blending of one frequency into the circuitry of another....
Serial real-time clocks are factory-calibrated
Mar 8, 2007
STMicroelectronics' M41T83 and M41T93 are serial real-time clock chips with factory calibration, enabling manufacturers using the parts to simplify assembly and test operations by omitting the time-consuming calibration step. ...
Optical/electrical BER tester targets 4G fibre channel
Mar 1, 2007
Test and measurement supplier Optellent has introduced the OPB4250 4.25 Gbps bit-error-rate tester, latest addition to its OptoBERT family of optical/electrical BER testers. ...
MEMS-based oscillator goes to production
Mar 1, 2007
Since announcing their collaboration last November, Discera Inc. and Vectron International have jointly developed MEMS based oscillators, which the two are now sampling to customers. ...
Capacitor models offer accurate electrical responses
Mar 1, 2007
Ansoft Corporation has released a new model library for Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd.'s high-density, miniaturized surface-mount multilayer ceramic capacitors....
E-Band Tx/Rx modules enable multi-Gbps data rates
Feb 22, 2007
A transmit-receive module pair from Endwave operates over the E-band frequency spectrum from 71.0 GHz to 86.0 GHz, enabling broadband point-to-point radios to carry voice and data traffic at multi-Gbps rates...
PIN diodes feature MELF packaging
Feb 22, 2007
NH-MicroMetrics' non-magnetic metal-electrode-leadless-faced- packaged PIN Diodes that feature high power handling and low distortion. The diodes are designed for switching and attenuator applications from HF through UHF frequencies....
Miniature software-based radio ICs enable navigation in mobile handsets
Feb 15, 2007
SiGe Semiconductor has released what it claims is smallest global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver ICs for mobile handsets, cellular telephones, personal navigation
devices (PNDs) and personal digital assistants (PDAs). ...
