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Note targets high-speed network design. An application note for design and test engineers who develop high-speed networks covers SDH, SONET, FDDI and TDMA signals. The note features samples of real-world signals from high-speed networks. It also discusses measurement problems, including pass/fail testing of pulse shape vs test masks, jitter and rise-time measurements, triggering on a frame, inspecting header information, and inspecting unique words. LeCroy, Chestnut Ridge, NY.

Brochure targets industrial applications. A 14-pg brochure covers technologies, processes, functions, and components for the industrial market. The brochure contains six signal chains as examples of signal processing in the industrial market: 12- and 16-bit measurement and process control, motor control, data acquisition, smart industrial transmitters, and weigh-scale applications. It also highlights ADCs, DACs, sensors, amplifiers, multiplexers, and DSPs. Analog Devices, Canton, MA.

Power semiconductor catalog. A power-semiconductor catalog lists rectifiers, including Schottky barrier, super-fast, high-efficiency, fast-recovery, silicon, and silicon-bridge types. Farnell Products, Div of Farnell Electronics Inc, Irvine, CA.

Guide tackles Windows 95. The No BS Guide to Windows 95 (ISBN 1-886411-05-0) covers what Windows 95 users need to know to fine-tune their systems to suit their needs. The $19 guide is a series of questions and answers that make it easy to choose the information you need. No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA.

Photo-sensor product guide. A four-pg product guide features infrared LEDs, photo transistors, photo diodes, and ultrabright red LEDs for optical fibers, photo interrupts, and reflective switches. It also contains electrical specifications, optical characteristics, and mechanicals. Marktech International Corp, Latham, NY.

Book profiles power-supply projects. A $19.95, paperback book, Power Supply Projects, (ISBN 0-7506-2602-X), describes such projects as servicing portable audio and video equipment, charging batteries, and splitting charge units for cars. The 208-pg book contains circuit diagrams, pc-board layouts, parts lists, and construction and installation details. Butterworth Heinemann, Newton, MA.

Precision cleaning equipment. This brochure highlights precision cleaning equipment, including aqueous, semi-aqueous, solvent, cosolvent, high-pressure spray, ultrasonic technologies, material handling, and automation methods. The booklet features custom and standard equipment for cleaning applications covering a range of industries. It also contains equipment photos and descriptions, industry-specific application reports, details of resource support, and testing services available from the company’s cleaning-applications laboratory. Forward Technology, Minneapolis, MN.

Keypad guide. This keypad-selection guide lists keypads for telephone equipment, data-entry systems, commercial installations, and machine control. The guide presents illustrations and information on vandal-resistance, sealing, and illumination. EAO Switch Corp, Milford, CT.

Reference guide explores OrCAD. Inside OrCAD (ISBN 0-7506-9700-8) details modern schematic drafting and includes exercises to help you learn OrCAD. The book contains a command reference with a listing and explanation of OrCAD commands and functions. Appendices provide tips, techniques, and information about linking OrCAD to other CAD/CAE tools for electronic design. The 408-pg book and accompanying parts-library and utility disk costs $39.95. Butterworth Heinemann, Newton, MA.

Global fiber-optic-cable catalog. This 20-pg catalog details fiber-optic cable for worldwide premises/networking, OEMs, and telecommunications and community-antenna TV industries. The catalog details interconnect, distribution, breakout, outdoor, and indoor/outdoor cable. It also provides construction details for all standard fiber cables. Amp Inc, Harrisburg, PA.

Interconnect catalog available on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM version of the 650-pg Electronic Interconnection Systems Ordering Guide describes >5000 board and wire-mount sockets, board-stacking systems, mix-stacking connectors, headers, plugs, pc-board and DIP connectors, cables, assembly equipment, heat-shrink tubing, and more. The CD-ROM requires Windows 3.1 or 3.11; a 386-, 488- or 586-processor-based computer; and 4 Mbytes of RAM. The electronic catalog includes product specifications, technical drawings, color photos, and ordering information. 3M, Austin, TX.

Brochure presents solid-state audio message systems. This free brochure describes the vendor’s solid-state audio message systems. The publication discusses how MPEG technology enables storage of high-quality audio in a limited amount of space and describes the SSR-S solid-state audio-playback module, the SSR-3 solid-state audio-playback-and-record module, the ISP 3002 solid-state multichannel-playback system, and a digital workstation. The brochure also highlights major installations of these systems, including passenger-information systems in Chicago and Australia, and a playback system in the Dutch Open Air Museum in Arnheim, The Netherlands. Mackenzie Laboratories Inc, Glendora, CA.

Newsletter profiles products and services. A free customer newsletter, Current Events, provides information on issues related to stationary batteries and operating systems. The current issue, Volume 2, No. 1, introduces products such as the Horizon series of dc power systems, the addition of the DDH and DDV lines to the Modular VRLA Power series, and NPH5 and NP26-12 batteries. The newsletter also contains information on the vendor’s acquisition of Advanced Power Systems; a copy of “Know the Code,” a white paper that organizes and summarizes regulatory codes relevant to large wet-cell battery systems; and a report on the vendor’s home page on the World Wide Web. Yuasa-Exide Inc, Reading, PA.

Evaluation software and brochure provide advanced-virtual-instrumentation capabilities. LabView, a free evaluation software product, runs on Windows 3.1, 95 or NT; Macintoshes or Power Macs; Sun SPARCstations; and Hewlett-Packard 9000 series 700 workstations. LabView V4.0 lets you run control and data-acquisition, analysis, and presentation applications for test-and-measurement and industrial-automation applications. An on-line tutorial guides users step-by-step through building a custom virtual-instrumentation system. A 16-pg, full-color LabView brochure contains screen captures and describes virtual-instrumentation applications. A CD-ROM version is also available. National Instruments, Austin, TX.

Application note covers noise in switched-capacitor, lowpass filters. An application note, “Noise and ‘Noise’ in a Switched-Capacitor Lowpass Filter,” addresses the effects of internal sampling operation, which often appears as unwanted noise in some systems. It details topics such as filter-clock input aliasing, filter-clock output interaction with A/D sampling, inherent filter disturbances, and externally introduced noise. The eight-pg note also contains a glossary and illustrations. Alligator Technologies, Costa Mesa, CA.

Buyers’ guide highlights data acquisition. The PC Data Acquisition Buyers’ Guide offers information on the vendor’s notebook- and desktop-PC-based data-acquisition products, including easy-to-use data-acquisition-software packages and 12- or 16-bit portable, plug-in board, and PCMCIA-card data-acquisition systems. The 16-pg, four-color guide spotlights >30 signal-conditioning-hardware options for acquiring strain, temperature, RTD, voltage, and other transducer-based measurements. The guide describes rack-mounted, PC-based, temperature- and voltage-measurement instruments. Free data-acquisition software demo disks are also available. IOtech Inc, Cleveland, OH.

Catalog highlights a current and voltage transducers. A four-color, 20-pg catalog describes a line of open- and closed-loop current and voltage transducers. The catalog explains the operating principles of each type of transducer, describes typical current-voltage-measurement applications. It also contains technical data and dimensional drawings for the vendor’s transducer line and a glossary of terms and symbols. LEM USA Inc, Milwaukee, WI.

Coil and filter catalog and IC data book. A comprehensive catalog features >200 pg of performance charts, selection tables, and dimension drawings for standard inductors, transformers, and filters. The catalog contains easy-to-use information on chip, fixed, variable, and molded inductors; balun and inverter transformers; and multilayer, dielectric, ceramic, SAW, helical, LC, and video filters. A separate data book, the 1996 Power Conversion IC Databook, includes >200 pg of performance charts, selection tables, and dimension drawings for the vendor’s selection of low-dropout linear regulators, dc/dc converters, and power-supply ICs. The data book also contains information on the company, ordering procedures, warranties, and quality assurance. Toko America Inc, Mount Prospect, IL.