The electronica 2006 Showcase from Electronic Design is designed to provide
electronic design engineers with electronica 2006 show news, product
information, vendor interviews and show announcements as soon as they
happen. At electronica 2006(November 14-17) in Munich, Germany, Paul
Whytock, Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Design Europe and Mark David
Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Design will be reporting daily news and views
direct from the show for the electronic design community.
So You've Made It To The Show...
So you’ve made it to the show. It’s vast. Over 3000 companies set up shop along huge halls. Now here’s something I have learned. Once you’ve paid your entry to the exhibition, you get a show catalogue with such thickness and weight that you may need to attach wheels to it and roll it around. Here’s where you sit down and plan your routes; your stand visits. Do this for as long as it takes. Don’t ...
Tomorrow There's More...
Back to the business of the show. No one ever gets to see all of the technology that’s displayed at electronica. And trying to accomplish such a feat is a sure route to madness.
So what we will be doing with our electronica 2006 dedicated Web site is bringing you product and technology announcements as they’re released to us prior to the show. Then, during the show, we will post daily ...
Being There Means Getting There
About 45% of the 75,000 people that will visit electronica 2006 will be from abroad. If you’re flying into Munich airport, you’ve got a few choices on how to get to the show. By far the best choice is to catch one of the regular buses that run from just outside the terminal. (Generally speaking, unless a group shares a cab, taxis work out to be pretty pricey.) If your first port of call is ...
Getting The Most Out Of electronica 2006
I’ve been going to electronica for almost two decades now, but the size of the show never ceases to amaze me. Over just four short days, almost 100,000 visitors will converge on Munich in the hopes of seeing as much of the 14 show halls and 3500 exhibitors as they can. But, as any seasoned show goer can tell you, it’s impossible to see everything.
Microsemi Corporation unveiled a range of mixed signal/analogue high performance ICs here at electronica. Amongst them were the company's PowerMOS generation of MOSFETs, new D class amplifiers and two new semiconductor packaging ideas. The company was also showing light sensors and backlight controllers for use with LCDs.
Motor control platform International Rectifier unveiled its sensorless sinusoidal motor control platform that the company claims delivers quieter ...
Combined in the device is mixed signal technology and a newly developed non volatile memory. This, says the company, allows designers to ceate smart sensor interfaces and intelligent actuators for use in harsh environments like automotive and industrial ...
Langon, France and Campbell, Calif.: TES Electronic Solutions, an independent full service electronic design and manufacturing company, and Wisair, provider of Ultra Wideband (UWB) chip set solutions based on Certified Wireless USB, today announced they are collaborating to offer UWB solutions in Europe. Under the partnership, TES Electronics will provide system and module design services and customer support for UWB solutions based on Wisair's UWB chip set.
Sharp is presenting new developments in the areas of LCDs, camera modules, optoelectronic components and DVB tuners.
One development is a display showing three different images on one screen at the same time using the new Triple Directional Viewing LCD from Sharp (Hall A3, Stand 424). Depending on the viewing angle, the user can watch different programmes from the right, left or front. These panels are suited for car navigation systems or eSignage applications. For clear vision even ...
electronica automotive presents an Automotive Conference organised to begin the day before electronica opens its doors, as well as a focused exhibition area and a Forum which will be the platform for information exchange.
Milpitas, CA: Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC1859, a 16-bit, 8-channel, 100-ksps analog-to-digital converter offering software programmable input ranges that are fault-protected to ±25V. The LTC1859 is easily programmed via a serial interface to accept 0 V to 5 V, 0 V to 10 V, ±5V and ±10V inputs, allowing a single-board design to accommodate ...
South Portland, Maine: Enhancing its portfolio of Smart Power Modules (SPM), Fairchild Semiconductor introduces the FSB50325S (250-V), FSB50250S (500-V) and FSB50450S (500-V), three new Motion-SPM devices available in 29-mm × 12-mm surface-mount-device (SMD) packages (see the Figure). The Motion-SPM in SMD ...
Dresden, Germany: ZMD AG introduced the ZMD31150 high-speed automotive signal conditioner IC with advanced on-chip diagnostics for use with all types of wheatstone bridge sensors.
The ZMD31150 is designed for all sensing applications in automotive environments, such as fuel injection, ABS, power steering, air induction, fuel tank, air conditioning and occupant ...
Munich, Germany Avago Technologies today introduced the industry's first Half-Watt (0.5-W) high-brightness red-orange and amber light-emitting diodes (LED) in an automotive-industry-standard PLCC-4 surface-mount (SMT) package. This new series of 0.5-W Power LEDs feature the industry's smallest package size and are optimized for long operating life under severe environmental ...
San Jose, Calif. Avago Technologies today introduced the industry's thinnest surface mount (SMT) light emitting diodes (LEDs) in the smallest industry-standard (0603) footprint available. With an ultra small form factor about the size of a pencil tip, these low-power LEDs use high-brightness chips to provide excellent illumination with minimum current consumption. These new ChipLED ...
