Cincinnati, OH — The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech introduces the PCM-3761I, a form C type eight channel relay and eight channel isolated digital input PCI-104 card for machine and production automation. The PCM-3761I’s relay allows operators to retain output values even in the event of an unexpected system reboot. The input channels support 2,500…
Better Image Detail
The Telum™ 3001 Graphics Adapter AdvancedMC suits video and still image applications. It operates with dual digital and analog displays, offers high resolutions, supports multiple graphics cards on the same platform. The adapter supports Windows® XP/Vista, Linux®, Carrier Grade Linux®, Solaris® and VxWorks® software. One silicon package integrates the ATI™ M72-CSP128 GPU, 128 Mbytes of…
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces Order from Airbus
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms announces that it had received an order for a customized version of the company's CL11 single board computer (blade) from Airbus (Toulouse, France). The CL11 will be deployed as part of the Cabin Electronics system onboard Airbus aircraft. The initial order is valued in excess of $500,000 but…
Elma Bustronic’s VPX Load Board
Elma Bustronic Corporation has announced a 3U VPX Load Board. The load board helps confirm the chassis meets the VITA 46/48 power specifications for VPX and aids in locating hot spots within the enclosure. The load board functions to test a system’s cooling capabilities by first applying the load to the power supply for verification…
ATOMIC Intel Single Board Computer
Leesburg, VA — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced a new low power, high performance, small factor VPX3-1100 ATOMIC board designed for rugged deployed aerospace and defense (A&D) applications that require highly secure computing. Based on the Intel‚® Atom‚â„¢ processor, the card brings advanced multi-core processing, netcentric battlefield communications connectivity, graphics and next generation security…
Serial Interface MAC-PWM Card
Gasport, NY – Entertron Industries Inc. introduces the MAC-PWM card. The Multiple Application Control board has been designed with flexible I/O whereby different applications can be designed around the board. The first application is a two channel high current PWM output card that can be interface either through analog outputs from the PLC or via…
Advantech Launches PCM-3202I Master Control Card
Cincinnati, Ohio ‚– The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech introduces the PCM-3202I PCI-104 interface card, which supports two independent AMONet (Advantech Motion Network) RS-485 master rings with each ring controlling up to 2048 I/O points, 256 axes, or a combination of I/O points and axes for motion control. The PCM-3202I allows direct data transfer between…
NVIDIA Announces Quadro® FX 470 and Quadro® FX 370
SANTA CLARA, CA‚—With today‚’s traditional workstation model pricing, many organizations can only afford to deploy professional graphics solutions to select designers and engineers, leaving a significant portion of the workforce with sub-optimal products. This is about to change as NVIDIA Corp. announced today NVIDIA‚® Quadro‚® FX 470, the first integrated professional motherboard GPU, and NVIDIA…
Advantech PCI-104 Modules
Cincinnati, Ohio – The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech introduces the PCM-3614I (4-port) and PCM-3641I (8-port) RS-232/422/485 PCI-104 modules with automatic RS-485 data flow control. A convenient utility software program is supplied with each module that supports multiple operating systems, such as Windows 2000 and XP, WinCE 6.0, and Linux Kernel 2.6, eliminating the need…
Telum™ ASLP11 High Performance Processor AdvancedMC
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms announces the Telum™ ASLP11 high performance processor AMC module. With up to 4 GBytes of ECC memory and currently featuring an Intel® Core™2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz CPU, the ASLP11 is a single width, full- or mid-sized AMC processor board and is designed for distributed ATCA/MicroTCA processing applications such as wireless base…
Keithley Expands Switch/Multimeter Line
Cleveland, Ohio – Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE:KEI) announced an expansion of its Series 3700 System Switch/Multimeter and Plug-in Card Family with the addition of two new plug-in cards, the Model 3724 Dual 1X30 Solid State FET Relay Multiplexer Card and the Model 3750 Multifunction I/O Card. The new cards offer test engineers broader support for…
Analog Input Board from United Electronic Industries
Walpole, MA ‚— United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release of the DNA-AI-211 analog input board. The board features 4 fully isolated, IEPE/ICP‚® accelerometer / vibration sensor channels and offers 24-bit resolution with a 109 dB signal to noise (S/N) ratio. Configured with an A/D per channel, the board offers sample rates…
Starter Kit for dsPIC DSCs
If you‚’re looking to quickly and inexpensively evaluate semiconductor architectures and high-speed applications such as DSCs and digital audio, this may be the kit for you. Microchip Technology Inc., makes adding digital audio to embedded designs easy with its MPLAB Starter Kit for dsPIC DSCs. It comes with complete development software and hardware, including the…
Logic, a Product Development and Manufacturing Company
MINNEAPOLIS – Micro Dynamics of Eden Prairie and Logic Product Development of Minneapolis announced today that they will now be known as Logic, a product development and manufacturing company. The two companies merged in 2005. Logic offers original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) complete, integrated product solutions on a global basis that include design and engineering, embedded…
Universal PCI Card from Advantech
Cincinnati, Ohio — The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech introduces the PCI-1240U 4-axis stepping/pulse-type servo motor control card designed for general purpose extreme motion applications. The card has a NOVA® MCX314-motion ASIC that builds in a variety of motion control functions, such as a 2/3-axis linear interpolation, 2-axis circular interpolation, T/S-curve acceleration/deceleration rate, and much…
Find the Best Fastener for PCB Assemblies
By Jay McKenna Jay McKenna is the Special Products Manager, PennEngineering Integrating a printed circuit board (PCB) into an assembly is often a custom job. Every application can require a different board location. In addition, part geometry and surface finish, solder paste, and surface mounting conditions change frequently. Some boards must be stacked or spaced,…
48-bit Digital Input Board
Walpole, MA – United Electronic Industries is pleased to announce the release of the Guardian Series™ DNx-DIO-448 high density digital input boards. The DNA-DIO-448 and DNR-DIO-448 are compatible with UEI’s popular “Cube” and RACKtangle I/O chassis, respectively. The board reads all 48 bits at sustained rates in excess of 1 kS/second. Input switching levels and…
Molex Backplane Connector System
High speed backplane connectors designed to support future system upgrades and provide long-term reliability are in constant demand. Molex Incorporated recently developed the Impact™ backplane connector system designed to meet the next generation requirements of telecommunications and data networking equipment. Tyco Electronics is the second source supplier for the Impact product line, and the two…
VMEbus Single Board Computers from GE Fanuc
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms announces the V7768 and V7769 6U VMEbus single board computers. Both single board computers offer the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor operating at 2.16GHz and the Mobile Intel 945GME Express Chipset. The dual slot V7769, which provides dual SAS (Serial-Attached SCSI) connectors on the front panel, can optionally be configured with an…
Controller Board for 64 x 64 Port Optical Switch
A controller board for a 64 x 64 port optical switch is a core component in the OSMOSIS (Optical Shared Memory Supercomputer Interconnect System), which uses optical switch elements to transfer packet data throughout the system. The switch can transmit 2.5 Tbit of data in 1 sec and can achieve line rates of 40 Gb/sec.…
PCB Piezotronics Announces Formation of New Worldwide
(Depew, NY) – PCB Piezotronics (PCB(r)) has announced the formation of the PCB(r) Aerospace & Defense division, a dedicated, targeted market focused global technical sales & marketing, product and program management group based within PCB(r) worldwide headquarters. PCB(r) Aerospace and Defense is specializing in products and programs developed exclusively for the global aerospace, civil and…
Hybrid Heat Transfer Agent is “WayCool”
OCZ Technology will incorporate OnScreen’s WayCool Reference Design, including its hybrid liquid + carbon block heat transfer agent, in its HydroJet CPU Cooler. Traditional CPU cooling methods rely on copper interface plates, whereas the WayCool product uses carbon and fluid to rapidly transport heat away from the heat source. With WayCool, the HydroJet can off-load…
NI Releases New CompactRIO Systems for High-Volume Machines and Devices
(Austin, TX) — National Instruments announced the release of the new NI cRIO-9072 and cRIO-9074 CompactRIO systems that give engineers and machine builders an ideal solution for rapidly deploying industrial machines at high volume. These new National Instruments CompactRIO systems have an integrated hardware architecture that combines an embedded real-time processor and a reconfigurable FPGA…
Beckhoff Automation Helps Introduce Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2
(Minneapolis, MN) – Microsoft announced the newest version of the CE operating system, Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2, on November, 15 2007 in Yokohama, Japan. One of the new highlights of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 is “Web Services on Devices? (WSD). As a Windows Embedded Gold Partner, Beckhoff Automation is a development partner for…
RocketPort® EXPRESS Multiport Serial Cards
(Minneapolis, MN)-Comtrol Corporation introduces RocketPort® EXPRESS in-server serial port expansion cards. RocketPort EXPRESS cards utilize Comtrol’s exclusive optimized Unity ASIC chip for increased performance while providing reliable connectivity for serial devices such as printers, scanners, cameras and LCD screens. Also, these flexible serial cards are fully compatible with systems featuring x1, x2, x4, x8, x12…