Read about our customer satisfaction survey, Microchip digital to analogue converters, Swissbit 128MB multimedia card, RFM WSN802 WIFI module, GE's ICS-8580, SmartFusion workshop and monthly viewpoint
ACAL Technology Newsletter 
 
Greetings!
 
Welcome to the May issue of ACAL Technology News. Read on for stories from Microchip, Swissbit, RFM, Actel and GE Intelligent Platforms. Take our customer satisfaction survey and register to attend our Actel SmartFusion workshop. Read on for more!
 
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ACAL Customer satisfaction survey
 
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Digital-to-Analog Converters from Microchip enable resolution, output and voltage-reference selection flexibility
 
Microchip Technology has announced the MCP4801/2, MCP4811/2 (MCP48XX) and MCP4901/2, MCP4911/2 (MCP49XX) Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs). The new products expand the Company's portfolio of DACs with single- and dual-channel 8- and 10-bit devices featuring an SPI communication interface, as well as internal and external voltage-reference options. The MCP48XX family has an internal voltage reference, while the MCP49XX family accepts an external voltage reference. 
 
Swissbit launch industrial 128MB MultiMedia card 
 
ACAL Technology, in partnership with Swissbit, is proud to announce the latest addition to its INDUSTRIAL family of Flash memory products. The M-100 series, a 128MB MultiMedia Card (MMC) with a ruggedized housing to provide enhanced ElectroStatic Discharge (ESD) protection up to 15kV. This small form factor Flash card offers a MTBF rating of >4,000,000 hours, >10,000 insertions / removals, and 10 year data retention to satisfy the most demanding
non-volatile, high-reliability applications for transportation, aerospace, military, telecommunications, medical, mobile computing, and networking  environments.
 
RFM WSN802 WIFI Module 

The WSN802G delivers an exceptionally low power profile and long battery life capabilities in a fully functional, certified radio module that is easily interfaced to existing Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) infrastructure for a wide variety of sensor monitoring and WLAN applications.
Operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band at 10mW RF power, the WSN802G also features outstanding receive sensitivity of -92dBm at 1 Mb/s and -90dBm at 2 Mb/s.  

ICS-8580 - mission critical video capture, streaming and archiving

New rugged XMC module from GE is ideally suited for video streaming from unmanned vehicles. GE Intelligent Platforms has announced the ICS-8580 rugged video streaming XMC, a powerful, compact, easy to use and flexible answer to the problem of capturing, compressing and delivering video.

Click here for more information! 

Actel SmartFusion Workshop - Cambridge 23rd June  
 
ACAL Technology is partnering with Actel to help engineers understand the key features and benefits of the SmartFusion intelligent mixed-signal FPGA. 
 
Join us at the Holiday Inn, Cambridge for our free workshop and meet with our engineers that have been trained by Actel. 
 
You will get hands on experience with the technology and be able to complete a series of practical exercises and go away with a SmartFusion Kit at a greatly reduced price.

This all day workshop wll give you:
- Hard 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 processor 
- Proven ProASIC(R)3 FPGA fabric 
- Full-featured programmable analog 
 
In This Issue
ACAL Customer satisfaction survey
Digital-to-Analog Converters from Microchip
Swissbit Launch Industrial 128MB MultiMedia Card
RFM WSN802 WIFI Module
ICS-8580 - mission critical video capture, streaming and archiving
Actel Smartfusion Workshop - Cambridge 23rd June
ACAL's Events
This months viewpoint
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ACAL's Events:    Actel Smartfusion Workshop - Cambridge 23rd June
 
A Viewpoint from......
 
Mike Farquharson, ACAL's 
HMI Specialist
 

 Touch technology takes off!
As an ACAL specialist in Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI), I can confirm Gartner's predictions of growth in touch-equipped products...........
 
 
 
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