Quick Disconnect vs Hard-Wiring: Selecting a Connectivity SystemA Whitepaper from TURCK, Inc. Today's fast-paced industrial applications require connectivity solutions to increase productivity and accommodate diverse performance ...
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An Osiloskop is a very important electronic testing instrument that helps technicians and engineers to measure and observe the different voltage signals. Also known as a scope, CRO and Oscope, this instrument displays signal voltages in a ...
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The Brazilian government has formally asked the U.S. government for clarification regarding the alleged large-scale interception of electronic communications of Brazilian citizens by the U.S. National Security Agency. The NSA intercepts ...
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Mobile Video Surveillance is the latest and the fastest growing concept in the segment of video security surveillance. These systems are used and installed for keeping a close guard on the valuable assets present at a workplace or site. ...
Chinese rescue teams have reached some of the most remote areas of Sichuan province hit by Saturday's powerful earthquake, state media report. The rescuers have been travelling on foot into Baoxing County because of the damage to roads in ...
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The open-source RF design initiative, dubbed Myriad, has the support of US-based distributor Richardson RFPD. Richardson RFPD will begin stocking and selling the Myriad-RF-1 board to customers around the world via its website immediately. ...
John Johnson considers the use of FPGAs to tackle the design challenges of smart metering systems Legacy power infrastructure is intrinsically inefficient, aging and the operation of it is often harmful to the environment. ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), says that its UltraCMOS phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer and prescaler ...
Lime Microsystems has launched an open-source RF initiative to support the wireless design community. Dubbed Myriad-RF, the non-profit initiative, aims to attract the interest of hobbyists and design engineers with low-cost RF boards and ...
Huawei last week opened its first Middle East IT Competence Centre in Bahrain, as part of its effort to support the development of the country’s IT and telecoms industry. The centre will help to develop the high-level IT skills of ...
Bell Labs—the research organization within Alcatel-Lucent—says it has laid the foundation for the future of ultra-high-capacity optical communication networks with the publication of the results of “ground-breaking ...
GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
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As one of the busiest airports in China, Nanchang Changbei International Airport manages over 3.3 million passengers and 34,000 flights per year. In 2010, Changbei Airport began an expansion project that included a new terminal and a second ...
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Intel is taking the first steps to implement thin fiber optics that will use lasers and light as a faster way to move data inside computers, replacing the older and slower electrical wiring technology found in most computers today. ...
A device which allows an optical detector to pick up on the rotation of a twisted light wave, called an optical vortex or vortex beam, has been developed by researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). ...
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