Archive for May, 2008

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Industry’s first 40-nm FPGAs and HardCopy ASICs

Enabling designers to achieve new levels of integration and innovation, Altera Corporation announced the industry’s first 40-nm FPGAs and HardCopy® ASICs. The Stratix® IV FPGAs and HardCopy IV ASICs, both with transceivers options, provide unprecedented densities, performance and low-power leadership. For the first time, Altera offers a transceiver-based ASIC option with the new HardCopy IV [...]

23May2008 | Silica Valley | 0 comments | Continued
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Bending insensitive fiber cable

Shanghai Grandway Telecom Tech. Co., Ltd. introduced its new products range–bending insensitive fiber cable series. This series of fiber is Grandway totally new products range, which is added in 2008. Grandway has bought a new factory in rural area of Shanghai-SongJiang District, which is used to produced more products for the FTTH projects. Now, they [...]

22May2008 | Silica Valley | 0 comments | Continued
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Coherent OTDR for detecting faults in optical submarine cables

Anritsu Company introduces the MW90010A coherent optical time domain reflectometer (C-OTDR) which utilizes the innovative coherent detection scheme to produce significantly improved dynamic range and sensitivity. MW90010A Coherent OTDR (C-OTDR) is a measuring instrument for detecting faults in ultra-long optical submarine cables of up to 12,000km including multiple repeaters (EDFA). It is the ideal solution [...]

22May2008 | Silica Valley | 1 comment | Continued
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High-speed passive switches enable PCIe 2.0 switching

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX4888A/MAX4889A high-speed PCI Express® (PCIe®) passive switches capable of switching data at a signaling data rate of 5.0Gbps. These passive switches support PCIe 2.0 data-switching requirements, offer low power consumption, and feature a flow-through pin configuration for optimized PCB layout. The MAX4888A is a dual, high-speed, passive PCIe switch and [...]

22May2008 | Silica Valley | 0 comments | Continued
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Low-power DDR2 FBDIMMs

SMART Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc., a leading independent manufacturer of memory modules, solid state drives, embedded computing subsystems, and TFT-LCD display products, has introduced its new lineup of low-power fully-buffered DIMMs (FBDIMMs) available in densities up to 4GB for mainstream server and high performance computing (HPC) applications. SMART Modular Technologies’ focus on reducing system power [...]

21May2008 | Silica Valley | 0 comments | Continued
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Industry’s smallest multi-standard digital video demodulator

Silicon Laboratories Inc. announced the Si2161 and Si2165 digital video demodulators, the smallest, lowest power and highest performance demodulator solutions to support DVB-T, DVB-C and fixed reception DVB-H in a single chip. This represents the first in a new family of mixed-signal demodulators, tuners and receivers Silicon Laboratories is developing for digital and hybrid analog/digital [...]

21May2008 | Silica Valley | 0 comments | Continued
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Digital wireless microphone system

MIPRO Electronics, a Taiwan based company that designs, manufactures and markets wireless microphones, wireless portable sound systems, wireless in-ear monitors and portable ENG receivers via an authorized, international network of distributors and dealers. A wireless microphone system is a science-based product which requires constant refinements in pursuit of its own truth - the accurate reproduction [...]

21May2008 | Silica Valley | 0 comments | Continued
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8-channel RJ45 A/B switch with redundant remote control & power supply

Electro Standards Laboratories (ESL), Cranston, RI, has just announced its new Model 7237 8-Channel RJ45 A/B Switch with Redundant Remote Control and Power. This network switch allows the capability of accessing, on each channel, one of two separate devices via a device connected into the channel’s Common port.
The Model 7237 8-Channel RJ45 A/B Switch [...]

20May2008 | Silica Valley | 0 comments | Continued
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Micropower ultra-sensitive hall-effect switch

Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. introduces a new ultra sensitive, the A1172 Hall-effect switch with latched digital outputs and omnipolar magnetic actuation. The A1172 is an ultra-sensitive, pole-independent Hall-effect switch with a latched digital output. It features operation at low supply currents and voltages, making it ideal for battery-operated electronics. The 1.65 to 3.5 V operating supply [...]

20May2008 | Silica Valley | 0 comments | Continued
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The first 802.3ap (KR) compliant 10GbE switch IC

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) extended its global leadership in advanced, single-chip Ethernet switch technology by introducing the 26-port MB86C69RBC, the industry’s highest density, lowest power and smallest footprint 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) switch IC. The new L2/L3 capable device features the direct support of 10Gbps serial interface for Ethernet backplane standardized as 802.3ap (KR) on [...]

20May2008 | Silica Valley | 0 comments | Continued
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