OLYMPUS 2010 Micro Four Thirds System Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera for Novice Photographers
Olympus Imaging Corporation unveiled its 2010 PEN E-PL1 Micro Four Third Systems interchangeable lens digital camera equipped with a new Live Guide interface designed for individual with little experience with photography. Through the new Live Guide user interface, the individual can easily make adjustment on brightness, hue, background defocusing and other image related parameters. Read more
Development of AC Servo Amplifier with high-Speed Field-Bus EtherCAT by SANYO DENKI
Sanyo Denki made an announcement on newly developed high performance AC servo amplifier with high-speed field-bus EtherCAT interface. The newly developed amplifier’s EtherCAT is a field-bus system that allows 100Mbps high-speed communication, This interface will provided a much improved performance with a greatly reduced takt time.The newly developed amplifier is ideal for chip mounter, semiconductor manufacturing machine or machine tools applications. Read more
ROHM unveils Industry’s First Compact High-Speed Optical Communication Module
Improved display resolution and camera picture quality as well as capability of video playback on today’s mobile phones making inter-substrate transmission rate among the mobile phone manufacturer an increasingly important characteristic. But the current thin coaxial lines or flexible cables made of copper wiring can handle only about 500Mbps due to various effects such as attenuation and fluctuation from bending. In addition to this shortcoming the copper wiring requires between 40 to 50 wires making it the resulting cable difficult to bend which is an important issue during the assembly. Finally, the connector and cable footprints are large resulting in noise generation or its susceptibility to noise. In order to overcome this, Rohm has developed the industry’s first ultra compact high speed inter-substrate optical communication module capable of transmission rate of 2.5Gbps within portable devices such as mobile phones. Read more
Development of High-Speed USB Hub Controller for Automotive application by Epson
USB undoubtedly is the de facto interface for array of applications such as potable devices and communication modules as well as storage devices such as USB memory and hard disk drives. USB also find its way inside vehicle by allowing devices such as mobile phones and portable audio players to be connected to car navigation systems as well other in-vehicle equipment. Read more
Development of High Speed Potable Polisher for Optical connectors by NTT-AT
NTT AT (Advance Technology) has developed a high speed potable polisher targeted for filed assembly as well as re-polishing of optical connector in optical network installation and/or its maintenance. The battery operated POP-311 is capable of re-polishing SC/FC connector in 80 seconds and polishing MU-Type connector in 90 seconds. The POP-311 high polishing quality is equivalent to that of factory use polisher. It comes in a form factor if 90 w × 75 d × 212 h mm and weighing 830 grams.
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Development of High-Speed Driving Large Power inverter by AIST
Power conversion technology used for high voltage electronic devices as well as in the industrial area plays an important role in supporting social infrastructure such as railway transport sector. The technology is particularly important in achieving low carbon energy sources through use of mega solar( photovoltaic) panels, wind power, where the demands is expected to grow significantly in the future. Power converters are responsible in delivering energy to an electronic device from the electric outlet as well as regulating the incoming current in meeting the designated device’s specific requirements. There are incorporated in many sophisticated electronic devices such as Note-PCs, audio visual equipment, mobile phone and etc making power converters with a high efficiency feature all essential for small, light weight electronic sector. Read more
High-speed infrared technology leads to the success of the wireless-USB 2.0
KDDI R&D laboratories made an announcement in successful wireless transmission of USB through utilization of high-speed infrared technology. USB as the de facto interface for PC and other mobile devices requires the user to use a cable to connect the USB device to the USB host controller, but through use of this new technology the user is no longer need a cable for connecting devices and only need to make the devices to face each other for the data transmission. Among all the USB technology, USB 2.0 with a transmission speed of 480Mbit per second is used for various tasks such as for copy of digital contents and data backups. Read more
Development of scalable High-Speed MRAM technology for system LSI Embedding by NEC
Due to the progress in reducing cell size and the large capacity of system LSI, power consumption has increased. The current demands require reduced power consumption, which is partially accomplished by switching off during stand-by mode, a function that requires easy-use nonvolatile memory. In response to these market demands, NEC developed the world’s fastest SRAM-compatible MRAM with operation speed of 250 MHz in November 2007, and 32 Mbit MRAM for embedding in SoCs in February 2009. Read more
World’s first Robotic Platform Vehicle
In recent years demand for new functionalities for new vehicles has entered a new stage among them are improved safety and predication of dangers. While steady robotization of vehicles is in progress, the key technology in meeting future Robotic vehicles is to be Electromotive and to be intelligent. In order to achieve this development of software as well as a platform for research and development is at most paramount. Having said this developing such platform using a real case study is costly and it would require a large space. Furthermore, companies and universities outside of paradigm of automobile industries are not allowed to freely participate in this area due to certain risks and dangers. Based on this gap and needs ZMP Inc. in Japan developed a world’s first robotic vehicle platform “RoboCarTM”. The “RoboCarTM” is equipped with the most advance image recognition module using stereo camera capable of unprecedented super-high-speed processing plus it incorporates various sensors enabling “RoboCarTM” to contribute in research and development of robotic vehicles and eventual autonomous driving experience with advance safety and environmental measures in mind. Read more
