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- Evaluate Silicon Carbide RF Power Devices for VHF and UHF Radar Applications with Demo Kit
Microsemi Corporation silicon carbide RF power transistors use Static Induction Transistor (SIT) technology for high power amplifier designs in radar.
- 2008-11-20
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- Get a Jump on Secure Wireless with Digi’s Starter Kit
Digi International’s ConnectCore™ Wi-9P 9215 provides a 802.11a/b/g embedded core module for secure wireless networking and integrated application processing. The ConnectCore Wi-9P 9215 JumpStart Kit allows users to evaluate the security and other features of the module.
- 2008-11-19
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- Manage Internet Connectivity through a Wireless LAN Connection with Eval Board
Connect One’s Instant Internet Evaluation Board II-EVB-361MW is an evaluation platform for the Secure Socket iWiFi™ Internet Controller. The evaluation board provides an environment for testing the Secure Socket iWiFi prior to designing it into an end product.
- 2008-11-18
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- Explore Capacitive Touch Sensing with Silicon Labs Starter Kit
Silicon Labs' capacitive touch sense solution can be implemented with any MCU that has a standard comparator. However, the company’s C8051F9xx family includes enhanced comparators for implementing touch sense capability without any external components. A daughter card and starter kit simplify the evaluation of touch sensing.
- 2008-11-17
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- Integrate Real-time Control and Wi-Fi Connectivity with Rabbit Dev Kit
Designed to support its Rabbit 5000 microprocessor, the RCM5400W development kit allows users to explore the hardware DMA, higher clock speeds, increased I/O lines, six serial ports, and more instructions of the 5000 to reduce code size and improve processing speed.
- 2008-11-14
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- Control and Dim Fluorescent Lamps with IR Reference Designs
International Rectifier’s IRS2530D DIM8™ in an 8-pin package and IRS2158D in a 16-pin package are dimming ballast control ICs with integrated half-bridge drivers. The ICs provide the basis for four fluorescent ballast reference designs - 2008-11-13
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- Access More Than 50 Million ASIC Gates with FPGA-Based Prototyping Board
In The Dini Group’s DN7020K10 prototyping kit, 20 Altera Stratix III EP3SL340 FPGAs in 1,760-pin packages provide 1,104 user I/Os per device and a capacity of more than 50 million equivalent ASIC gates.
- 2008-11-12
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- Use RMI Evaluation Board for Quick Development of Communication Apps
Designed to provide developers with a basis for the rapid system development with design collateral including BOM, schematics, layout and more, RMI’s XLS™ processor LiTE evaluation board support its XLS Processor family.
- 2008-11-11
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- Assess RF-level Connectivity with Ember’s Evaluation Kit
Although much smaller than its Insight Development Kit, Ember’s EM250/260 RF evaluation kit includes everything needed to assess RF-level connectivity in any environment. The kit is based on the company’s EM250 ZigBee System-on-Chip and EM260 ZigBee network processor chip.
- 2008-11-10
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- Explore Lower Cost and Power for Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) with MCU-based Evaluation Kit
Freescale Semiconductor’s three 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) families are designed to reduce system cost and power in LCD-based embedded applications. The associated development kits allow users to quickly and easily explore the capabilities of the ICs driving actual LCDs - 2008-11-07
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More on Parallel-to-Serial Inputs
A new chip lets you cascade parallel inputs through an SPI port. - 11.20.2008
- Posted in Jon Titus Blog

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Reviewed: A New Module That Simplifies Zigbee Development
Electronic Design's William Wong reviews a ZigBee module from AeroComm intended to make Zigbee development a tad easier.
- 05.19.2008
- Posted in Dev Kits Blog
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- Dual Non-Synchronous SWIFTTM Buck Converter EVM
The TPS55383EVM-363 is a dual non-synchronous buck converter - View all resources by Texas Instruments
- National Semiconductor’s LED WEBENCH Tool Helps Engineers
National Semiconductor Corporation light-emitting diode (LED) WEBENCH® online design environment helps engineers select from and design with more than 200 high-brightness LEDs in minutes. - Posted by
- Digi-Key Offers STM32 Cortex-M3 32-bit Microcontroller Training Module
This 20-minute online training module from Digi-Key takes design engineers through the features of the STM32 Cortex™-M3 32-bit Microcontroller, designed with embedded applications in mind.
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