New resource for lighting designers
A guide and microsite supporting lighting designers is
now available from Tyco Electronics. The guide covers a
range of components and applications. The site builds
on this, illustrating components in application, explaining
key features and characteristics, and providing the
required documentation.
Supported applications include street and stadium
lighting, digital signage, indoor lighting, architectural
lighting, channel/sign lighting and emergency lighting.
The available product range includes connectors,
protection devices, relays, switches, identification,
application tooling and much more.
Single-chip F-RAM processor saves cost
Companion ICs with a new single-chip solution that
reduces bill-of-materials cost in processor-based systems.
The FM3127x/L27x devices now include a more
efficient trickle charger that can typically charge a
1F supercapacitor in less than 3 hours and a real-time
clock that requires only a standard 12.5pF external
crystal for operation.
The new FM3127x/L27x devices offer 4kb, 16kb,
64kb, or 256kb of nonvolatile F-RAM memory, a
high-speed two-wire interface, and highly-integrated
support and peripheral functions for advanced
processor-based systems, in a variety of metering,
communications and industrial applications.
Dual EDGE-WiMAX design enhances mobility
A soon-to-be-released dual-mode EDGE and WiMAX
reference design highlights the potential for extended
mobility between wireless standards. The reference
design combines NXP’s Nexperia Cellular System
Solution 5210 for EDGE networks, with the forthcoming
WiMAX Connection 2400 solution for mobile and CE
devices.
The reference design will offer enhanced mobility on a
wide range of consumer devices, such as laptops, smart
phones, PDAs, cameras, via PCMCIA cards, PCI Express
cards, USB dongles and other small form-factor devices.
For mobile operators with existing GSM/EDGE networks,
the solution could provide a practical way to build-out a
WiMAX data overlay network. Subscribers would then
be able to utilise the high-speed WiMAX network where
available, and revert to the GSM/EDGE network for
extended coverage and circuit-switched voice.
RapidIO platform for base-station vendors
An end-to-end RapidIO®-enabled MicroTCA™
platform for wireless baseband, has been developed
by Tundra Semiconductor Corporation to offer
wireless telecommunication system vendors
“baseband-in-a-box”. Production-ready components
will speed wireless infrastructure design cycles, free
up resources to focus on application firmware and
software development, and expedite time to market.
The platform offers end-to-end 10 Gigabit RapidIO
Interconnect for chip-to-chip and board-to-board links
across the backplane, in an off-the-shelf solution
leveraging the MicroTCA and RapidIO standards.
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