Featuring -142 dBc/Hz phase noise at 10 KHz offset, the device uses FR5 PCB and SAW (surface acoustic wave) crystal technology. It uses a +3.3V supply and generates a true-sinewave with +5 dBm min. output power. The CCSO has no sub-harmonics; second harmonic is -25 dBc typical, and operates from -40°C to +85°C. Applications include: system clock

Intended to appeal to designers of embedded systems that require fanless operation, the Qseven single-board computer (SBC) specification created by a consortium including congatec AG and SECO and endorsed by the Small Form-Factor SIG has a maximum power consumption of around 12 W and a novel thermal cooling interface to aid in heat transfer. The sp

From an optical backbone technology, 10 Gbit Ethernet is rapidly diversifying into many other media and uses. This evolution shows up clearly in new 10 Gbit silicon, of which the most recent example is a 26-port switch from Fujitsu. The impetus for the change is most frequently blamed on the increasing use of mobile media by those ultimate consume

The nine-stage pipeline architecture of the MIPS32 1004K coherent processing system will support a worst-case 800-MHz base core operating frequency, in a TSMC 65-nm GP process, implementing a two-core, dual-threaded configuration with 32-kbyte caches for each core, as well as the Coherence Manager and Global Interrupt Controller. MIPS Technologies

As chips get faster, off-chip interconnect increasingly looks like a bottleneck to high-frequency signals. This scenario occurs when the signals must traverse not only relatively long distances across a board, but also short hops from the package leads to the board traces. A pair of studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Chemica

A pilot program has begun to test the recycling of some of the 100,000 tons of electronics waste a year in Israel. Snunit Recycling has set up the project in Pardes Hana, east of Haifa, in an effort to make a profit on the electronic waste, which American studies have shown account for most household toxic waste. The waste from devices such as MP3

Since March 2008 Spectrum is equipping all cards of the M2i series with a standard memory of 256 MByte (128 MSample at 12/14/16 bit analogue resolution). With this standard memory one can per example acquire one 8 bit channel with 200 MS/s for more than 1 second. A standard memory of 256 MByte is available for the PCI, PCI-X and PCI

Future Technology Devices International Limited (FTDI) has announced the availability of its latest Microsoft certified CDM device driver for all Windows platforms, including Vista SP1 and the newly released Server 2008. The driver, having recently been certified by the Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL), works with all FTDI’s USB to Serial inte

ManchesterUniversity researchers have fabricated the world's smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide, carved from a single graphene crystal. Dr Kostya Novoselov and Professor Andre Geim from TheSchool of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester used graphene to make the device, showing that it is possible to carve ou

This month, Analog Devices gives away the FireCracker embedded processing reference design and development board, which has been developed by Silica. The platform, worth 499 euros, is based on the powerful Blackfin processor and is designed with industry-standard interfaces and peripherals. These components streamline the customer development p