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ADI ADP107

Analog Devices’ Integrated, Isolated Power Controller Series Reduces Design Complexity and Improves System Reliability

Analog Devices, Inc. announced a series of three isolated pulse width modulation (PWM) controllers with integrated 5 kV isolation enabled by ADI’s award-winning iCoupler® technology. The ADP1071-1 and ADP1071-2 are isolated synchronous flyback controllers and the ADP1074 is an isolated synchronous active clamp forward controller.


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Passive Plus

Passive Plus, Inc., Offers Extended Value Ranges for Traditional HI-Q/Low ESR Capacitors

Passive Plus, Inc. (PPI) now offers extended-values for the Traditional NP0, Hi-Q 0505 (.055” x .055”) -- now available up to 1,000pF; and 1111 (.110” x .110”) -- now available up to 10,000pF (.01uF). The 0505 and 1111 have an increased Operational Temperature up to 200°C. These parts exhibit Low ESR/ESL, Low Noise, High Self-Resonance as well as ultra-stable performance over temperature. Usually used for wireless broadcasting equipment, mobile base stations, GPS, MRI, and radar applications and offered in magnetic and non-magnetic terminations.


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MACOM

MACOM Announces PAM-4 Technology Chipset for Single Lambda 100G, 200G and 400G Data Center Optical Connectivity

MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. announced a complete PAM-4 technology chipset for 100G data rates over a single wavelength enabling single fiber and four-lane parallel fiber connectivity for 100G, 200G and 400G Ethernet applications. This chipset features a new transimpedance amplifier (TIA), transmit and receive clock and data recovery (CDR) devices and linear Electro-Absorption Modulated Laser (EML) driver module.


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Anritsu to Demonstrate SWDM 100G Technology Over OM5 with CommScope and Finisar at OFC 2017

Anritsu Company announces it will host a 100G Shortwave Wavelength Division Multiplexing (SWDM) technology demonstration with CommScope and Finisar in its booth (#2819) during OFC 2017, held March 21-23 in Los Angeles. The demonstration, which will showcase 100G SWDM transmission over wideband multimode fiber (OM5), will feature the Anritsu Network Master™ Flex MT1100A field optical transport tester, along with the CommScope LazrSPEED® OM5 WideBand multimode fiber connectivity solution, and Finisar 100 Gbps SWDM4 QSFP28 optical modules.


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Tektronix Provides Raspberry Pi with Measurement Solutions to Test and Develop Current and Next Generation High Speed Interfaces

Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of measurement solutions, announced it will fully outfit the Research and Development (R&D) lab for Raspberry Pi, a low-cost, high performance computer designer with the latest Tektronix high-speed test solutions. Raspberry Pi’s new laboratory will focus on high speed serial design and validation testing. The new test equipment from Tektronix delivers on their needs today while also ensuring enough bandwidth to support any future high speed interfaces that would require the highest performance instrumentation.  


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Teledyne LeCroy, Coherent Solutions, Anritsu and Oclaro showcase latest 400G test platform at OFC 2016

Teledyne LeCroy, Anritsu Company, Coherent Solutions Ltd. and Oclaro, Inc.  announced a new joint effort to demonstrate the highest performance single-carrier 16QAM signal generation and analysis capabilities available at 56Gbaud. The demonstration of the partners’ latest optical communications test equipment platform takes place at OFC 2016 in Anaheim, CA, USA in the Teledyne LeCroy booth #1115.


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R&S RTO Oscilloscope Offers New Test Options for Fast Serial Interfaces up to 5 Gbit/s

Fast serial communications interfaces such as USB and PCIe have found their way into the designs of many electronic circuits. When testing and debugging circuits, developers need easy-to-use tools that provide comprehensive support for these interfaces. The most compact complete solution available today is offered by Rohde & Schwarz and consists of the following components: the R&S RTO2064 oscilloscope, the test options for the various interface standards, and modular R&S RT-ZM60 broadband probes for contacting the DUT. Rohde & Schwarz is expanding its offering with the following new test options: triggering and decoding software options for SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.1 Gen1), PCIe 1.1/2.0 and USB-PD, plus a compliance test option for PCIe 1.1/2.0.


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