Products & Services News

TDK has announced they published a new application guide spanning the EPCOS product range for mobile communications equipment and infrastructure components such as DSL equipment and base stations.  Detailed information can be found quickly via the application overview and key data, type designations and ordering codes of products is available at www.epcos.com.

Launching at Embedded World 2013, IQD is introducing a new IQOV-70 series OCXO that are ideal for use in next generation multimode base station platforms. The new model operates at 10 MHz and achieves a frequency stability of ±3ppb (parts per billion) over the operating temperature range of -10 to +70 degrees C.

Rohde & Schwarz has introduced two probes that tap into new field of applications. Model RT-ZS60 is the first compact, ground-referenced 6 GHz probe on the market and is suitable for test applications required ground-referenced measurements of signal integrity. The probe scores top marks with its extremely low loading of the test point (1 M Ohm, 0.3 pF) for both DC as well as high frequencies in addition to its minimal noise (2 mV RMS) and high linearity (70 dB THD).

When the makers of a power system for the marine industry wanted to include a 50 amp version of their popular 30 am SmartPlug system, they needed to find a new thermoplastic material solution that would provide the necessary flame retardancy and impact resistance required for this new design.