EDN -- 03.28.96 Literature

Literature: March 28, 1996

Catalog and guide. This data-acquisition catalog and reference guide features PC-based data-acquisition hardware and software products. It includes a selection index and a reference guide, including a glossary and technical data. Keithley Metrabyte, Taunton, MA.

Wireless-telemetry catalog. A 30-pg catalog features wireless-telemetry products. The guide covers synthesized or crystal-controlled products in VHF, UHF, and 900-MHz frequency ranges. The catalog also lists spread-spectrum transceiver modems. RF Neulink, San Diego, CA.

Electronic-instruments catalog. The 376-pg "Research Instrumentation Catalog" details a line of electronic instruments. The guide includes technical data sheets and specifications, application notes, and an introductory tutorial for research instrumentation. LeCroy, Chestnut Ridge, NY.

Product-selection guide. This 24-pg catalog covers data-acquisition, DSP, and signal-analysis products. The publication features analog and digital I/O devices, a selection guide, specifications, and schematics. Pentek Inc, Norwood, NJ.

Data book and reference guide. This data book offers information on >40 standard capacitor lines. Capacitors featured include those using polypropylene, polycarbonate, polyester, polystyrene dielectrics, and polyester RC-snubber networks. The guide also covers custom capacitors, physical and electrical descriptions, and product drawings. ASC Capacitors, Ogallala, NE.

Designer guide. A 22-pg guide gives designers specifications and selection information for control knobs in electronic, instrument, and audio applications. The guide describes and depicts collet knobs and accessories; push-on, two- or three-color, double- and triple-injected knobs; and Velvet Touch knobs, sliders, and pushbuttons. It also features the Trio series of three-color, three-shot molded knobs. Selco, Buena Park, CA.

Adapter catalog. A 226-pg catalog covers a range of interconnect adapters and includes a reference guide for IC packages and chip types. It covers off-the-shelf, field-configurable, and custom adapters and features photos, a QFP-clip reference guide, and footprint drawings for IC packages. Emulation Technology Inc, Santa Clara, CA.

Piezoelectric-force-sensor guide. This 50-pg guide details a line of quartz piezoelectric-force sensors for compression, tension, and impact applications. Highlights include a ring series for crimp-monitoring and press applications and the 208 series for laboratory or field compression, tension, and impact testing. A technical section provides information on sensor structure, sensing systems, and time considerations for high- and low-frequency response. PCB Piezoelectronics Inc, Depew, NY.

Catalog details signal conditioning. This catalog contains >110 pg of descriptions, specifications, and application notes for analog and digital I/O modules and accessories. The guide features three product families: SCM5B analog I/O products; SCM9B isolated, intelligent I/O products; and SCMD digital I/O products. It also features a line of two-wire transmitters. Dataforth, Tucson, AZ.

Cable guides. Three guides detail connector-to-cable cross-references. The literature covers Belden, Alpha, and Times microwave cables and details connector availability for each type of cable. RF Industries, San Diego, CA.

Test-fixture catalog. This catalog features a line of fixtures and accessories for loaded-board automatic test equipment. The publication contains specifications for standard kits and customized fixtures, as well as dual-well, dual-access, dual-stage, and multipurpose-pneumatic fixtures. The catalog also details a line of accessories, interface products, receivers and adapters. Everett Charles Technologies, Pomona, CA.

LED Catalog. This 32-pg selection guide contains >210 LED "digi-lites," based on chips-on-board technology. It includes descriptions of numeric displays from 0.30 to 7.25 in. high, dot-matrix displays from 0.70 to 4.5 in. high, dual alphanumeric displays measuring 0.54 and 0.8 in. high, and overflow displays. The guide also features electronic and mechanical specifications, dimensional drawings, color wavelengths, and intensity figures. Lumex Opto/Components Inc, Palatine, IL.

Sealing- and strain-relief literature. An eight-pg application bulletin features products that seal and strain-relieve wire- and cable-terminations to connectors, switches, sensors, actuators, and panel feed-throughs. The guide describes back-end protection and sealing, interfacial sealing, and sealing of interconnect assemblies. Raychem Corp, Menlo Park, CA.

Discount catalog. This free catalog lists discounts as high as 70% on new and reconditioned test instruments. Discounted products include amplifiers, analyzers, generators, component kits, oscilloscopes, oscillators, power supplies, meters, tools, and connectors. In addition, the guide contains the Microwave Training System, an interactive system that provides needed components for 15 experiments. Lectronic Research Labs, Bensalem, PA.

Catalog and discontinued products guide. An 84-pg book lists the vendor's offerings of semiconductor devices that the original manufacturers have discontinued. The guide features >12,000 commercial and military products and approximately 500 million devices from companies such as Advanced Micro Devices, Allegro, Altera, Harris Semiconductor, Intel, Linear Technology, Microchip, National Semiconductor, Standard Microsystems, and Texas Instruments. Rochester Electronics Inc, Newburyport, MA.

Data sheets for dielectric analyzers. These two-pg data sheets for the Guardian III and IV dielectric analyzers highlight the instruments' ability to perform insulation-resistance measurements. QuadTech Inc, Marlborough, MA.

Interactive CD-ROM for designers. This interactive disk features >100 multimedia scenes to help designers evaluate FPGAs and the Designer Series 3.0 development system. An emulation of the vendor's design tools allows users to interactively manipulate a typical design to gain hands-on FPGA-design experience. The disk contains case histories and runs on any PC (386 or higher) with Windows and a 256-color graphics card. Actel Corp, Sunnyvale, CA.

Specification sheet details transducers. This four-pg specification sheet describes a line of digitally compensated, all-media pressure transducers. The 9400 and 9401 transducers operate in turbo-machinery test stands, hydraulic/pneumatic systems, process-control systems, and environmental monitoring devices. The sheet covers all operating parameters and physical specifications of the transducers, including interface schematics. Pressure Systems Inc, Hampton, VA.

Book introduces wireless communications. Theodore Rappaport's Wireless Communications: Principles and Practices is a comprehensive introductory book on wireless communications. It features standards, implementation realities and examples, and problems and exercises to help readers understand key aspects of cellular and personal communications. The book costs $64.95 (or $52 for IEEE members, who can obtain the book through the society). Simon & Schuster Education Group, Upper Saddle River, NJ.

IC sockets and adapters. This 128-pg catalog covers a line of IC sockets and adapters, including tape-pin-carrier sockets, stamped and formed DIP and zigzag-in-line-package sockets, zero-insertion-force sockets for the Intel Pentium, and P6 sockets for the Intel Pentium Pro. The publication also includes an application-specific-module section that details custom adapters and surface-mount assembly. Berg Electronics, McKenzie Socket Division, Fremont, CA.

Switching-power supplies and dc/dc converters. This catalog covers ac/dc switching power supplies from 15 to 200W and dc/dc converters from 1 to 250W. The ac/dc switching power supplies include universal-input, chassis-mount, open-frame, and desktop units. The dc/dc converters include high-density, chassis-mount, pc-board-mount, and surface-mount units. The catalog includes specifications and performance graphs. International Power Sources Inc, Ashland, MA.

Specialty electronics catalog. This free 60-pg catalog presents a line of pin headers, receptacles, shunts, and battery holders. The guide features color illustrations. Specialty Electronics Inc, Landrum, SC.

Metals and materials literature. A 560-pg catalog details metals and materials for research and industry. The catalog features pure metals, alloys, polymers, ceramics, composites, and honeycombs, and supplies technical specifications and comparative data. KI Lipton Inc, Doylestown, PA.

Supplement highlights new products. A 20-pg catalog supplement details 17 new products. Highlights include the DSP^EC, digital gamma-ray spectroscopy system; the PINS neutron-activation chemical assay system for field evaluation of munitions or hazardous chemical containers; the Picosecond Time Analyzer, a multiple-stop time spectrometer with 1-psec precision for time-of-flight mass spectrometry or fluorescence-lifetime measurement; and the IGLET-X germanium detector with 135-eV resolution for X-rays of energy <0.5 keV. EG&G Ortec, Oak Ridge, TN.

High-resolution linear-actuator brochure. This technical brochure features a line of microstepping, high-resolution actuators. The motors incorporate ball bearings and come in captive or noncaptive lead-screw configurations and unipolar or bipolar configurations. Applications include medical instrumentation, office equipment, machinery automation, robotics, pumping systems, and other automated devices requiring remote-controlled linear movements in high- or low-temperature environments. Haydon Switch & Instrument Inc, Waterbury, CT.

Waveguide components and subassemblies guide. A 155-pg guide contains diagrams, descriptions, and technical data for a line of waveguide components and subassemblies for the military- and commercial-microwave industries. The guide lists components such as side-wall adapters, directional couplers, transducers, rotary joints, phase shifters, and attenuators. The catalog also features product specifications and dimensions. Microwave Development Laboratories Inc, Natick, MA.

Source book in second edition. A 96-pg catalog, the 1996 Computer Systems Edition 2 SourceBook, offers data-acquisition and -control products for IBM PC/XT/ATs and compatibles. Product sections include CPUs; rack-mount, benchtop, and floor-mount chassis; chassis with monitors; embedded controllers; disk drives and memory-backup systems; networking; video; graphics and communications cards; and digital and I/O. Industrial Computer Source, San Diego, CA.