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What steps are necessary to keep counterfeit components out of the supply chain?
May 21, 2013 3:36 pm | Articles | Comments
What steps are necessary to keep counterfeit components out of the supply chain? Are more industry standards needed? Stop having unrealistic pricing expectations. Understand and qualify quality vendors of all kinds. Allocations and obsolescence are part of our industry, we have to identify a realistic market price to ensure the vendors we trust and work with can meet our needs without sacrificing quality.
Building a better team -- on Mars
May 21, 2013 12:55 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | Comments
Sometime in the next quarter-century, NASA plans to send the first humans to Mars, a mission...
Opening the door to smart battery design
May 21, 2013 12:02 pm | by Robert Rozario, Application Engineering Manager, Infineon Technologies | Articles | Comments
The worldwide transition to ever smarter mobile devices, including phones or connected tablets,...
Charge your phone in 20 seconds
May 20, 2013 4:19 pm | by Kasey Panetta, Managing Editor | Blogs | Comments
What’s the key to charging your phone (and other small electronics) in the blink of an eye?...
Engineering Newswire 38: Lockheed laser shoots down drones
May 23, 2013 8:39 am | Videos | CommentsLockheed Martin has developed the ADAM system, which stands for Area Defense Anti-Munitions. This system is designed to destroy close-in improvised rocket and unmanned aerial threats with a laser. The markets between consumer and professional 3D printing are quickly beginning to blur. Even the unique electronics distributor, Saelig, has taken to selling 3D printers, like the new Afinia.
Lenovo says quarterly profit up 90 percent
May 23, 2013 2:14 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsComputer maker Lenovo Group says its latest quarterly profit rose 90 percent as sales of smartphones and mobile computing technology expanded. Lenovo Group said Thursday it earned $127 million, or 1.22 cents per share, in the three months ending March 31. Revenue rose 4 percent over a year...
HP's 2Q offers hope even as revenue slump deepens
May 22, 2013 7:07 pm | by MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer - Associated Press | News | CommentsHewlett-Packard is still scrambling to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices as a slump in its personal computer sales deepens, but the company's cost-cutting measures and focus on more profitable areas of technology appear to be easing the pain. The...
SPI digital potentiometers operate at 10, 12, 18, 24, 36 volts
May 22, 2013 4:26 pm | Microchip Technology Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsMicrochip Technology Inc. announced two new volatile, SPI digital potentiometers (digipots)—the MCP41HV31 and MCP41HV51 (MCP41HVXX)—its first to operate at 10, 12, 18, 24 and particularly 36 volts, for systems requiring wide signal swing or high power-supply voltages.
Power MOSFET series offers on-resistance down to 30 mΩ
May 22, 2013 3:53 pm | Vishay Intertechnology | Product Releases | CommentsVishay Intertechnology added additional 650 V power MOSFETs to its E Series family of devices. These 22 new devices in eight different packages offer an extended on-resistance range from 30 mΩ to 600 mΩ at 10 V and broaden the series' maximum current ratings from 6 A to 105 A.
Epoxy mount socket operates at bandwidths up to 8 GHz
May 22, 2013 3:12 pm | Ironwood Electronics, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsIronwood Electronics has recently introduced a new high-performance BGA socket for 0.8mm pitch BGA 78 pin DDR3 packages. The SG-BGA-6374 socket is designed for an 9x13 mm package size and operates at bandwidths up to 8 GHz with less than 1dB of insertion loss.
Audit: NC Medicaid claims system untested, flawed
May 22, 2013 1:59 pm | by MICHAEL BIESECKER - Associated Press - Associated Press | News | CommentsAn audit of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released Wednesday says it has failed to fully test a new $484 million computer system scheduled to begin processing Medicaid claims on July 1. The report issued by the office of State Auditor Beth Wood raises serious...
The future of food: NASA's printed pizza
May 22, 2013 1:50 pm | by Kasey Panetta, Managing Editor | Blogs | CommentsIn the great world of 3D printing, nothing is more fascinating to me than the idea of printed food. There has been some rumblings about printed meat, but it’s been mostly outliers in the industry. However, NASA just made it a little more legitimate with by offering a $125,000 grant to Systems and Materials Research Corp to develop a 3D printed version of an American (and worldwide) favorite: Pizza.
Rice unveils method for tailoring optical processors
May 22, 2013 12:10 pm | by EurekAlert! | News | CommentsRice University scientists have unveiled a robust new method for arranging metal nanoparticles in geometric patterns that can act as optical processors that transform incoming light signals into output of a different color. Rice's team used the method to create an optical device in which incoming light could be directly controlled...
Radiation-hardened DC-DC power converters for space systems
May 22, 2013 11:44 am | Product Releases | CommentsVPT Inc., a HEICO company, announced the availability of a new series of radiation hardened DC-DC power converters, point of load converters, and EMI filters to power space systems.
Powerful LED light built to maximize illumination with compact, rugged design
May 22, 2013 11:36 am | Larson Electronics Llc | Product Releases | CommentsLarson Electronics has announced the release of a powerful new LED light built to provide maximum illumination from a compact yet rugged design. Featuring over 29,000 lumens of light output and, inline transformer, and rugged waterproof construction, the LEDP5W-60-1227-20C High Intensity LED Light is an ideal alternative to hot running and fragile HID lighting systems
Power transistors present desirable on-state resistance for low-energy, space-efficient designs
May 22, 2013 11:35 am | Stmicroelectronics | Product Releases | CommentsSTMicroelectronics has introduced a generation of energy-efficient power devices that are positioned as reducing the environmental impact of equipment such as telecom or computing systems, solar inverters, industrial automation and automotive applications. STripFET VII DeepGATE MOSFETs are asserted to
LED power supplies feature dimming range from 10 to 100 percent
May 22, 2013 11:32 am | Product Releases | CommentsGreen Watt Power, a division of Calex Mfg. Co., Inc. in Concord, California, announces the introduction of the GLCD 50 Watt constant current dimmable LED power supplies. The dimming options for the GLCD 50 include 0-10V, PWM and external potentiometer.
MOSFETs support a maximum current of 6A
May 22, 2013 11:27 am | Advanced Power Electronics Corp. | Product Releases | CommentsAdvanced Power Electronics Corp. (USA), a leading Taiwanese manufacturer of MOS power semiconductors for DC-DC power conversion applications, has announced a miniature, ultra-low on-resistance 6A dual load switch. Comprising two N-channel MOSFETs with associated control circuitry, the APE8990-3 has an RDS(ON) of 20mΩ and controlled turn on functionality.
Mouser Electronics’ President and CEO Glenn Smith celebrates 40 years of service
May 22, 2013 11:16 am | News | CommentsMouser Electronics announced the 40th company anniversary milestone of Glenn Smith, Mouser’s President and Chief Executive Officer. In 1973, Pong was cutting edge in the world of video games, music came on eight-track tapes, TV viewing was limited to three networks and Glenn Smith was a college kid....
