One of the ancient mysteries of the automotive world is when to change your oil. Your dad probably told you to do it every 3,000-5,000 miles.Newer cars flash a message on the dash when you reach the prescribed milestone. But, do you truly believe that the useful life of motor oil depends entirely on how many miles you have driven? Doesn't start-a...

Anew introduction from Murata Power Solutions (www.murata-ps.com) is the MVAB120 series of open-frame, single output, 120W power supplies. Useful for a range of telecom and industrial applications, the supplies are up to 91% efficient and offer fan-free operation using convection cooling. The devices come in three output models — 12, 24, and...

STMicroelectronics announced its FingerTip technology, which enables a single-chip solution for capacitive touchscreens up to 10 inches in diameter with multi-touch capability. ST's MEMS sensors and FingerTip technology share a similar architecture, in which a sensing element is connected to a high-performance capacitance-sensing circuit. ST has le...

Analog Devices has created two MEMS microphones that enable advanced audio functions for portable electronics. These functions include high-fidelity audio/video playback, hands free communication, and voice recognition with built-in wind noise suppression, and TIA-920-compliance for VoIP applications. The ADMP 404 and ADMP405 iMEMS microph...

The current version of the universal Spectrum driver comes with full Windows 7 support for the complete product range of the fast digitizers and generators with sampling rates between 100 kS/s and 1 GS/s. This driver of cause also supports earlier Windows versions like Vista, XP or 2000. After Windows Vista, being not the most successful s...

The TXL2 transmitter and RXL2 receiver modules, from London-based wireless solutions developer Radiometrix, are half duplex multi-channel OEM radio modems offered in a SIL standard footprint. Operating in the European license-free 433 MHz ISM (Industrial Scientific and Medical) frequency band, with a choice of 5 user programmed channels, these prod...

AMS Technologies announces a new range of laser diode controllers incorporating temperature controller from Belorussia based OEM Tech System Engineering. OEM Tech has launched a range of controllers for powering and controlling not only the laser diode but also the cooling elements for the diode. This complete solution incorporates a module for the...

ZMDI presents 12 new members of its converter family SARah. The A/D-converters ZADC510x and ZADC512x have a Dual Core and operate with sampling rates of up to 1MSample/s. The Dual-Core enables developers to make use of applications which require the parallel sampling of 2 signals. The family, which operates on the principle of successive approximat...

Texas Instruments introduced a 3.2-W, mono Class-D audio amp with an integrated digital-to-analog converter (DAC) noise filter that reduces codec noise by as much as 82 percent, compared to devices without this feature. 3.2-W into 4 Ohms at 5 V produces 22 percent louder audio than competing solutions with no audible pop, a common challenge in port...

Cynergy3 Components Ltd. has introduced the 2 series sub miniature reed relays, for high voltage isolation in RF applications in the 1-30Mhz range. The reed relays use rhodium contacts in a vacuum environment, offering the best isolation voltage of 1.5kV across contacts, low contact resistance of 200mOhms and optimized lifetime of 1 x 109 dry switc...