ADL Embedded Solutions has announced its New 3rd generation Intel® Core™ Ivy Bridge 3.5” SBC – ADL3GQM67HDS. The ADL3GQM67HDS incorporates 3rd generation Intel Core Quad and Dual-Core socketed processors with Intel’s new HD4000 graphics engine. Platform features include mini-PCI and PCIe expansion ports, support for up to 16GB DDR3 DRAM and video ports including DisplayPort,…
Communication model handles rugged conditions
In military applications, the environment a device must endure may not be well defined. But any component unable to handle an extreme or rugged environment risks failure. The bCOM6-P1100 Rugged Type 6 COM Express Module is a board designed for deployment in challenging or harsh commercial environments. It includes a Freescale™ PowerPC™ processor. The on-board…
Board mount dc-dc converters
This family of board mount dc-dc converters is housed in a rugged aluminum package. The internally potted and encapsulated design increases system reliability through added protection from environmental factors such as dust, moisture, shock and vibration. Offered in industry standard quarter brick and half brick footprints respectively, the 50 W VQE series and the 100 W VHE series…
Sunstone Circuits® Announces Winners of A PCB Contest
Sunstone Circuits® has announced the “Share Your Story” contest winners. The contest, which launched on October 10, 2012, gave design engineers a chance to share their PCB-related design successes online with their peers. Once a story was submitted, the design engineer was then able to send the link to family and friends, who then voted for…
Molex Introduces LGA 2011-0 CPU Socket
Molex Incorporated has augmented its CPU solutions with the launch of an Intel-approved LGA 2011-0 CPU socket for the Intel Core* i7 series of 32nm-Sandy Bridge-E microprocessors. Designed to handle 130W Thermal Design Power (TDP), the LGA 2011-0 socket replaces the LGA 1366 CPU socket, which was used with the Intel Core i7-930, i7-950, i7-960,…
New High Performance COM Express Module From GE
GE Intelligent Platforms announced the bCOM6-P1100 Rugged Type 6 COM Express Module, a board designed for deployment in challenging or harsh commercial environments such as mining, forestry, construction, oil & gas, food & beverage, networking, industrial automation control and power & energy. The company has incorporated its extensive experience in developing high performance rugged solutions…
Advantech Launches PCI Express 8-Port Serial Communication Cards
The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech has launched a new range of eight port serial communication cards that use the PCI Express interface, giving it a faster data transfer rate than standard PCI cards, and comes with direct memory access (DMA) and surge and EFT protection. With DMA, the card reduces CPU loading by allowing…
Stencils Speed Soldering
By Joe Gorse New challenges face printed circuit board (PCB) prototyping due to lower cost and higher performance driving electronic part manufacturers away from bulky through-hole components to higher contact density surface-mount form factors. Without dedicated manufacturing capabilities the in-house prototyper has two options for PCB assembly: Continue as before by adapting the hand-soldering technique…
FMC32 Controller Board from Nippon Pulse
Nippon Pulse has announced the release of its newest motion control product, the FMC32 control board for control of 2-phase bipolar stepper motors. The FMC32 is a compact controller with an integrated driver and is equipped with the LSI PCD2112 chip for controlling a serial bus. Designed with a built-in CPU, the FMC32 is able…
Industrial Networks: the Choices for Real Time Motion Control
Among the versions of Ethernet for real-time motion update, two are leading the industry today: EtherCAT, Ethernet/IP, and Powerlink. Each handles real-time messaging differently, and the differences affect your design choices. The leading vendors behind these networks will discuss the ways each handles real-time updates. By watching this special, free 1-hour on-demand webinar you will gain…
Off-the-shelf computers ease design needs for military applications
The benefits of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products (they are low in cost, readily available, and take minimal effort to deploy) are why more companies are developing them. The latest is a family of rugged, off-the-shelf systems for a range of military vehicle platforms including UAVs, manned and unmanned ground vehicles and launch vehicles. The CRS-C2P-3CC1 and…
SiTime Programmable Clock Generation Expands
SiTime Corporation expanded its Programmable Clock Generator family with the SiT9105, a 3-PLL, 5 output device that is ideal for high-performance networking applications. The SiT9105 is the first MEMS-based clock generator to offer mixed LVCMOS and differential outputs in a single package, while also reducing board area by up to 66%. SiTime’s SiT9105 is suitable…
Sunstone Circuits® Ships Quickturn Prototypes in as Little as 24 Hours
Portland, OR – Sunstone Circuits has enhanced their services by offering prototype delivery within 24 hours on all 4-Layer boards ordered within their PCBexpress® quickturn product line. Sunstone’s PCBexpress® quickturn predefined capabilities offers design engineers the best value for up to 100 pieces per order. By using this PCB design service, customers can now shave…
Advantech Introduces a High-Speed Analog Input Card with PCI Express Interface
Cincinnati, OH – The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech introduces the PCIe-1744 4-channel, 12-bit, ultra high-speed analog data acquisition card with PCI express interface. The PCIe-1744 is capable of handling analog-to-digital sampling simultaneously and independently on all four channels. The PCIe-1744 features multiple trigger modes for convenient application scenarios and a 30MHz sampling rate is…
Rogers Corporation Earns DesignCon Paper Award
Chandler, AZ – Rogers Corporation and its Advanced Circuit Materials (ACM) Division earned a distinguished DesignCon Paper Award at last month’s DesignCon 2010 Conference and Exhibition in Santa Clara, CA. The paper, “Effect of Conductor Profile on the Insertion Loss, Phase Constant, and Dispersion in Thin High-Frequency Transmission Lines,” was co-authored by Allen F. Horn…
ECOsystem Consortium Tackles FCB Design Process
Traditional printed circuit board (PCB) design involves many individual operations including part research, schematic capture, design simulation, layout and routing, prototype fabrication, PCB assembly, and prototype validation. This “over the wall” approach can cause significant delays because each step in the process is typically performed in a vacuum. What’s more, in today’s changing engineering environment,…
Computer offers Better Network Performance
The A10200 AdvancedTCA® single board computer is offered with the option of the latest Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series. This enables the computer to have up to six cores and 12 Mbytes of L3 cache for each CPU, improving performance up to 50% compared with the dual Intel Xeon processor 5500-based version of the A10200.…
Rogers’ RO4360™ Thermoset Material Wins Best New Laminate Award
Chandler, AZ – Rogers Corporation’s Advanced Circuit Materials Division won the laminates category of the New Product Introduction (NPI) Award given out by UP Media Group’s Circuits Assembly and Printed Circuit Design & Fabrication magazine. The NPI Awards recognize leading new products introduced during the past 12 months. RO4360™ laminate material is a groundbreaking new…
Intel Validated rPGA Sockets from Tyco Electronics
HARRISBURG, PA — Tyco Electronics launches new surface mount rPGA sockets designed to support Intel® Core™ i7 989 and 988 mobile processors and validated to Intel design guides for high-performance and extreme mobile products. The sockets were designed with pin count patterns of 989 or 988 contact positions to ensure proper alignment of the processor…
Molex Sockets Earn Intel® Validation
Molex Incorporated (NASDAQ: MOLX and MOLXA) has announced that three of its socket products have met the stringent criteria for Intel® validation. Molex is one of only three vendors whose socket product families are validated across all three computer market segments of server, desktop and notebooks. As an Intel-enabled vendor, Molex sockets are compatible with…
SBC Supports COMIT
The EBC-Z8510-G single board computer (SBC), powered by an Intel 1.1GHz Atom™ processor, measures 203 mm x 147 mm (8.5 in. x 5.75 in.) and supports the SUMIT-ISM (Stackable Unified Modular Interconnect Technology – Industry Standard Module) I/O expansion standard plus COMIT (Computer On Module Interconnect Technology™) defined by the Small Form Factor Special Interest…
Elma Bustronic’s 6U and 7U VME64x Backplanes
FREMONT, CA — Elma Bustronic Corporation has 6U and 7U VME64x backplanes in over 30 slot sizes and hundreds of standard configurations. Bustronic offers all of the common slot sizes for its 6U and 7U backplanes, which range from 2-21 slots. With various power, connection pintail size, shroud, P0 connector, and other options there are…
To protect electronics, try an ESD absorber
You can ground, you can use special discharge flooring, as well as wear special shoes, yet direct and indirect electrostatic discharge (ESD) may still fry your electronic components. Recently, a developer introduced an electronic component that is being hailed as a major breakthrough for the longevity of products using laser diodes. Called LASORB, this component…
PPM-LX800-G from WinSystems
Arlington, TX – WinSystems announces their PPM-LX800-G, a highly integrated, PC/104-Plus compatible, 500 MHz Pentium®-class single board computer. This SBC is based on the low power, AMD LX [email protected] CPU which has product availability through at least 2015. The board includes the CPU, video, Ethernet, USB, COM ports, EIDE controller, digital I/O, mouse, PC 97…
Thermocouple and RTD Interface for RIO Pocket PLC
Rocklin, CA – Galil Motion Control, developer of the RIO Pocket PLC series for intelligent and cost-effective I/O handling, now offers the new SCB-48×06 signal conditioning board which allows the RIO to interface with thermocouples and RTDs (Resistive Temperature Device). The SCB-48206 interfaces to 6 RTDs and the SCB-48306 interfaces to 6 thermocouples or the…