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Multimedia/Entertainment Electronics Special

The Multimedia/Entertainment Electronics Special will feature a series of articles focused on components and products used in the design of consumer entertainment electronicsfrom gaming and home theater systems to the latest handheld players.

Connectors

Crucial for connecting different electronic devices and circuits to one another, connectors and sockets come in a variety of shapes and sizes for a myriad of applications. This feature will discuss new product developments and/or industry trends in this area.

Discrete Semiconductors

Unlike integrated circuits, discrete semiconductors are individually packaged componentssuch as bipolar and field-effect transistors, MOSFETs, diodes, and rectifiersthat are often used in power and control applications. This feature will discuss some of the latest developments and products in this area.

Roundup: Benchtop Test Equipment

Electronic Products presents a roundup of the latest benchtop test and measurement equipment they’ll need for checking out their next-generation designs.

Consumer Electronics

This product application focus will combine a staff-written industry overview with product and technology coverage in one or more of the following areas: Analog/Mixed-Signal & Digital ICs, Boards & Development Tools, Optoelectronics & Displays, Sensors & Transducers, Passives & Electromechanical Components.

And much more!

IBM and austriamicrosystems team up

By Christina Nickolas

As the demand in specialty processes for applications like power management is on the rise, IBM and austriamicrosystems signed a development agreement for an advanced HV CMOS process technology.

http://www.eebeat.com/?p=703

Do you want Internet-connected TV?

By Bryan DeLuca

Nearly two-thirds of consumers want their televisions to link to the Internet, a sentiment that will help propel rapid sales growth for network-enabled consumer electronics devices in the coming years. In line with consumers’ desires, home networking is migrating beyond its PC-centric beginnings to incorporate a variety of entertainment-oriented consumer-electronics devices….

http://www.eebeat.com/?p=702

Plastic shields like lead

GE Plastics (Pittsfield, MA) has just introduced a plastic called LNP Thermocomp whose high-specific gravity lets it act like lead in shielding people from gamma and x rays. The new compound can be injection molded, and thus opens up new design possibilities while reducing manufacturing costs.

http://www.eebeat.com/?p=705

Reference Design Directory

Electronic Products introduces its new Reference Design Directory, which enables users to search through over 1,200 reference designs and evaluation platforms by application, including Audio, Imaging, and Wireless. Users can also search over 100 manufacturers by company name.

http://electronicproducts-com-develop.go-vip.net/rdd

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Industrial networking with Profibus

By Thomas Kugelstadt, Texas Instruments

Over the past decade Profibus has become the world market leader in Fieldbus technology, providing communications horizontally at the field level, as well as vertically through several hierarchical levels simultaneously….

http://electronicproducts-com-develop.go-vip.net

Web cast upgrades at eeTechBrief.com

Several new features are now available at eeTechbrief.com. Our RSS feeds can be directly accessed from the home page or within one of eleven specific product areas. All of our events are viewable on-demand and archived for one year. Each event offers links at the bottom of the page to post comments and a star rating system to help easily identify the best events in that product area. Users are also able to add comments through Digg, Del.icio.us, and Reddit.

http://www.eeTechbrief.com