PhaseLink Corporation, a leader in frequency source generation and the inventor of Analog Frequency Multiplier (industry’s best performing XO and VCXO clock multiplier ICs), and PicoPLL (world’s smallest and lowest power programmable clocks) announced the availability of the newest member of PhaseLink’s extensive product portfolio, PL602-2X for PCI Express applications.
PhaseLink’s PCI Express product family is the industry’s first PCIE clock IC that operates up to 250MHz, offers the smallest footprint, and runs at 2.5V or 3.3V supply.
 
Datasheet PL602-2X

PLX announced the world's first working PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 3 silicon. PLX will use this device to demonstrate PCIe Gen 3 capabilities to key partners this quarter. General availability of a complete portfolio of new PLX® PCIe Gen 3 switch products will be offered later this year, all of which are developed on 40nm technology.

PCIe Gen 3 initially will occupy only a relatively narrow high performance slice of the computer and communications I/O markets. Existing 2.5 GHz and 5 GHz Generation 1 and 2 PCIe interconnects will be widely used in mainstream systems for some time.

The most common application [for PCIe Gen 3 chips] will be high-end graphics and very high-speed network and storage devices for links such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet and iSCSI. Future volume technologies such as 12 Gbit/s SAS/SATA interconnects will also benefit from 8 GT/s PCIe as might solid state storage solutions.

ExpressLane PCI Express Switches and Bridges

A family of wireless transceivers was mated to a line of ultra-low-power microcontrollers to create a family of a dozen wireless microcontrollers. The new family offers the best of both worlds—a radio-frequency (RF) transceiver with a built-in power amplifier married to an extremely low-power high-performance microcontroller.

Silicon Labs claims its ultra-low-power family of 8051-compatible microcontrollers already had the industry's lowest active current consumption, and its lowest sleep current. Plus its line of wireless transceivers already offered +20 dBm output power without an external PA and -121 dBm receiver sensitivity. Together with an on-chip dc-to-dc converter for operating at .9 volts, the new Si10xx family of wireless microcontrollers is claimed to increase the lifetime of the battery powered RF devices using it by five times.

Silicon Labs is targeting its new wireless microcontroller family at RF battery-operating applications such as home automation, smart meters, on-site utility monitors and security systems.

• Wireless MCUs
• Product Matrix
• Development Kit

FTDI announced the launch of their Vinculum VNC2 user programmable dual USB 2.0 Host/Slave intelligent SOC controller. VNC2 enhances the initial member of the Vinculum family, the VNC1L, by reducing the device cost as well as introducing the capability to develop your own application firmware and programme the host controller yourselve. VNC2 comes with a royalty free software development environment – the Integrated Design Environment (IDE) which includes a compiler, linker and debugger to fully utilise the increased memory and multitude of communication protocols handled by VNC2. Datasheet: VNC2

CP2400/1/2/3 devices are fixed function LCD drivers that can also be used for expanding GPIO, timekeeping, and increasing available system RAM by up to 256 bytes. The device is controlled using direct and indirect internal registers accessible through the 4-wire SPI or 2-wire SMBus interface. All digital pins on the device are 5 V tolerant. 

• Product Matrix
• Product Brief CP2400/1/2/3
• CP2400 Development Kit
• MCU Selector Guide

The award-winning IL600 and IL600A Series Isolators provide unique passive inputs for flexibility similar to LED-input optocouplers.

Key features are:
  • Unlimited Life
  • MSOP Packages Available
  • Failsafe Output
  • 3.3 V or 5 V Power Supply
  • -40°C to 85°C Temperature Range
  • Low EMC Footprint
  • 2.5 kVrms Isolation (1 min.)
  • UL1577 and IEC061010 Approved

• IsoLoop Digital Isolator Products                 
• IL600 and IL600A Passive Input Isolators
• IsoLoop Isolator Application Brochure
• Short-Form Catalog

Microcontroller solutions. Atmel presented a wide range of 8- and 32-bit AVR® and ARM®-based solutions. Atmel’s AVR demos showed low-power audio, ZigBee® and consumer capabilities of these applications.

On the wireless MCU solution front, Atmel demonstrated an intuitive lighting control reference design platform based on its AVR ATmega128RFA1 microcontroller.

Touch solutions.This platform allows designers to experiment with Atmel’s touch technologies using its QTouch® Suite.

As a leading provider of automotive solutions, Atmel showcased various car sub-systems, including an automotive motor control demo with QTouch and 32-bit AVR, a system solution for 3-phase brushless DC motor control, and an advanced RKE car access system demo.

The new Atmel LIN families serve automotive body electronics applications such as door modules, seat control or intelligent sensors, and powertrain applications such as engine control systems. In addition, Atmel’s ATA6663/64 transceivers are suited for other body electronic applications where low-speed data communication and low cost are important.
Atmel’s ATA6663 and ATA6664 are stand-alone LIN bus transceiver ICs, while the ATA6628/29/30/31 LIN transceivers are system basis chips (SBCs). When compared to a stand-alone LIN transceiver, SBCs are more integrated to include a voltage regulator, a Watchdog Timer (WDT), and high precise voltage divider for supply voltage measurements. The devices' low-power management also enables mixed-supplied LIN bus systems and short circuit-to-ground at the LIN bus with a lower power consumption.

• ATA6663/64
• ATA6628/30
• ATA6629/31
• Automotive Solutions

Bridgelux unveiled three new LED array product families that deliver high-quality, energy-efficient light sources cost-optimized for the burgeoning solid-state lighting market. These new products are designed to replace incandescent, halogen, high intensity discharge (HID) and compact fluorescent lighting. The low power consumption, long lifetime, and high quality light of the Bridgelux LED Arrays deliver ideal options for indoor and outdoor applications ranging from retrofit light bulbs to street and wide area lighting. The Bridgelux LED Array product portfolio now features light output performance that ranges from 240 to 4500 operational or “hot” lumens (lumens under normal operating conditions), providing a full breadth of LED solutions to replace a broad range of high-volume conventional light sources.

The new products and their features are:

• ES Array Series 
• RS Array Series
• LS Array Series

Features :

• High Q for RF applications
• Stable NPO characteristics over temperature and voltage
• High Voltage (up to 250 VDC)
• EIA 0201, 0402 and 0603 case sizes
• Ideal for Wireless Commpunications applications
• WLANs, HIPERLAN, 802.11A, 802.11B, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Telematics, PCs, LMDs and cellular
• 100% Sn finish over Ni barrier
  
• NIC NMC-Q to Murata Comparison test data
• Datasheet NMC-Q Series

The enclosure is the business card of your equipment. Electronics can be e-motionally packed with the new attractive looking EMC desktop or 19” case. Tailored to your business.

• The Elma Stylebox 15 case system consists of 4 longitudinal sections and 2 side panels as loadbearing frame and casing
• The top and bottom covers are provided with spring catches, which engage in special slots on the longitudinal sections. They are also screwed at the side to increase the torsional rigidity of the case
• The front of the case can be fitted as required with cover panels, front handles or 19 inch fixing brackets. this permits subsequent conversion from a desktop case to a 19” module unit and vice-versa
• The mounting dimensions at front and rear comply with IEC 60297
• The side panels are passivated. The supporting surfaces of the longitudinal sections and top/bottom plates are clear passivated. This provides a large contact area for long-term EMI/RFI protection
• The top design and the variety of sizes and models, together with the full range of Elma accessories, are ideal solutions for a wide range of applications, including measuring units, controllers, computer systems, etc.

Stylebox 15 e-motion website

BPS    Signature Line, now up to 4 watts, -30 to +70°,  85-265 VAC, 50/60 Hz AC input
BPW   Wide Input Range Line, up to 4 watts, -30 to +70°, 90-308 VAC, 50/60 Hz AC input
BPSX   Signature Extended Temperature, up to 4 watts, -40 to +85°, 85-265 VAC, 50/60 Hz AC input
BPWX  Wide Input Extended Temperature, up to 4 watts, -40 to +85°, 90-308 VAC, 50/60 Hz AC input

•  Compact footprint and height
•  Drop-in modular solution
•  No de-rating over full temperature range
•  30mW no load consumption
•  Optional zero-crossing detection, when a signal aligned to the input AC is needed
•  Universal input voltage – “one SKU for your world” – 85-265 or 90-308
•  Fully encapsulated construction protects the supply and simpli? es assembly
•  Constant Voltage/Constant Power application ? exibility
•  “Last gasp” power down enabling with a supercap
•  Easy to con? gure for N+1 Redundancy
•  Reduces design burden and time-to-market
•  UL recognized / FCC compliant (Part 15 class B) EN 55022, CE

Designed to provide isolated dc power for applications requiring CF Body Contact and Defibrillation Proof

The CFQor series of Quarter-Brick DC-DC converters are high efficiency converters designed for those medical applications that require isolation and leakage current levels that comply with IEC60601-1 for CF patient contact and are also defibrillation proof.