Digital Displays has entered into agreement with One Stop Displays (OSD) to offer the OSD line of OLED display modules to the UK market.

OSD OLED display modules provide industry compatible modules in the following configurations: monochrome blue/yellow with grayscale up to 3.12in with 256 x 64 pixel resolution; blue single colour displays from 0.66 to 1.11in diagonal; three/four area colour with resolutions from 96 x 39 to 132 x 64 pixel and full (64/256K) colour up to 1.5in with a resolution of 128 x 128 pixel.

All the modules feature low power consumption, wide viewing angle, high contrast and with their bright emissive displays are suitable for use in applications including, handheld instruments, medical equipment, measuring devices and consumer products.

With customers increasingly demanding the flexibility to display more information for an improved user experience, Hitachi Display Products Group has announced four new widescreen TFT LCD display modules in a 16:9 display format. Featuring display sizes of 7, 9, 12 and 15.4in, the new modules deliver industrial levels of specification, WVGA and WXGA resolutions and join the 7in, WVGA high brightness TX18D16VM1CAB display launched earlier this year. ‘We see 16:9 wide format modules as the future direction for industrial displays, and the launch of these LCD modules places Hitachi at the forefront of this growth market’.

‘With four display sizes and wide VGA and XGA resolutions our strategy is to continue to offer customers the best quality, choice and value in the market’, comments Mark Stephenson, Product Manager for Hitachi Display Products Group.

‘We see these modules being used in a wide variety of application areas particularly in medical and industrial monitoring where the wide screen enables larger amounts of data to be displayed’.

‘The wide viewing angle of the 9in IPS module also lends itself to gaming and personal media applications’.

Offering an automotive class operating temperature range of -30 to +80C, the TX18D57VM1BAA is a 7in WVGA TFT that delivers top quality optical characteristics with a contrast ratio of 450:1 and a brightness of 600cd/m2 and 130 degrees view angle from any direction.

Featuring Hitachi’s advanced In-Plane Switching (IPS) technology, the TX23D12VM1CAA is a 9in WVGA module that offers viewing angles of up to 176 degrees in any direction ensuring a bright and clear image in all usage conditions.

Typical performance figures for the 800 x 480 pixel resolution display include a brightness of 300cd/m2 and a contrast ratio of 400:1.

With a broad operating temperature from -20 to +70C, the TX31D55VM2BAA is a 12in WVGA display delivers a typical contrast ratio of 350:1 and NTSC colour saturation of 60% together with 450cd/m2 brightness levels with a viewing angle of 130 degrees from any direction.

Also operating over the -20 to +70 Celsius temperature range, the TX39D55VM1BAA is a 15.4in1280 x 800 pixel WXGA industrial class display featuring four-lamp CCFL backlighting and offering high quality optical performance including a contrast ratio of 500:1, brightness of 450cd/m2 and a typical colour saturation for NTSC of 72%.

All four TFT modules operate in transmissive mode, normally white except for the 9in IPS display which is normally black.

Each display features CCFL backlighting and a pallet of 256K colours.

The displays are supplied through Hitachi Display Product Group’s distribution partners and are available to order across Europe immediately.

Hitachi Display Products Group is also able to design and develop customised display modules for specific customer requirements.

Zytronic, the leading designer and manufacturer of Projected Capacitive Technology (PCT)-based sensing solutions that optimise the performance of electronic display applications, has strengthened its presence in Eastern Europe by signing a distribution agreement with the Electronic Components Division of Elatec. The agreement will provide Zytronic and its customers with local support in the Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, the Ukraine, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Poland and brings the current number of Zytronic distributors and representatives to 28, covering 30 countries across Europe, Asia Pacific, the USA and Canada. The Electronic Components Division of Elatec specialises in displays and focuses specifically on the kiosk, gaming and industrial markets - all areas in which the demand for touchscreen-based applications is growing very rapidly.

‘The core markets on which we are focused - kiosk, gaming, and industrial - all require touchscreens which are able to withstand everyday wear and tear, and that can continue to operate in the harshest of environments’, says Libor Pavel, Department Director, Electronic Components/Marketing at Elatec.

‘Zytronic’s internationally award-winning projected capacitive technology-based touch sensors offer a combined resistance to grease, dirt, and harsh chemicals and can be operated with gloved and ungloved hands, making it an ideal solution to be able to offer to our customers, locally’.

Zytronic’s PCT comprises an array of embedded micro gauge capacitors within a glass or plastic layered laminated screen.

The sensitivity of the PCT system can be adjusted to sense touch through a distance of up to 20mm.

The sensing array is positioned behind an inert front-facing medium, making it more advanced than other traditional touch technologies and preventing any susceptibility to the system from accidental or deliberate damage.

This makes PCT ideal for applications that are in the public domain such as information kiosks, gaming machines, or industrial applications which are generally found to be in hazardous environments.

‘As the demand for touchscreen-based applications continues to grow, the appointment of a proven distributor of Elatec’s calibre is an important strategic move that will help ensure our continued growth and expansion of our customer base at an international level’, says Mark Cambridge, Managing Director, Zytronic.

‘Elatec offers a focused sales team with a wealth of experience and a dedicated team of knowledgeable application engineers’.

‘We are confident that Elatec will excel in providing local support for our range of PCT-based products’.

Elatec will also offer Zytronic’s full range of noninteractive products including ballistic visors, and RFI and EMI shielded optical filter and window technologies, which combine the highest levels of shielding with excellent optical performance.

These filter solutions can be tailored for a wide range of environments and applications, such as information displays, secure areas, information displays, navigational and medical equipment and military displays.

Pelikon, the Cardiff-based manufacturer of printed segmented electroluminescent (pSEL) displays, is continuing to evolve its revolutionary pSEL segmented flexible display technology with the introduction of new 50% slimmer and more flexible pSEL Backlites and Animated Backlites. With a significantly reduced thickness of 100-130um, the new displays are ideal for applications where space is critical. The slim and flexible pSEL Animated Backlites also bring a new dimension to existing keypad designs for mobile phones or remote controls, through multi-segment and even multi-colour animations driven by Pelikon proprietary driver electronics products.

Available from Q1 2007, the new slim and flexible pSEL Backlite and Animated Backlite will be available alongside the existing pSEL Intuitive Touch Display product.

The animated feature offers 16 levels of greyscale and multiple colours and segments, which when combined, can deliver complex animation using the Pelikon Mobile Display Controller to drive and optimise the display.

This innovative feature will allow manufacturers to produce eye-catching products not seen on the market before and even use different EL colours to highlight distinct areas of a product to simplify operation for the user.

At the same time, the new slim and flexible pSEL Backlites will continue to offer a power efficient, durable and reliable solution, courtesy of Pelikon’s high quality manufacture and proprietary driver electronics.

With full engineering support offered to all customers the new pSEL Backlites and Animated Backlites are easy to handle in application construction, providing an-easy-to-implement solution that enhances consumer appeal.

‘Our pSEL displays and drivers are already a great option to bring an exciting and intuitive twist to a number of products including consumer electronic devices’, said Andrew Green, Product Manager, Pelikon.

‘The new thin and flexible pSEL Backlites are perfect for products where space is at a premium, whilst our pSEL Animated Backlites will overhaul future generations of mobile phones and remote controls’.

Mitel Semiconductor has introduced the world’s highest density AAL2 segmentation and re-assembly (SAR) device which simultaneously processes 1023 CIDs and 1023 VC connections - more than any device available on the market. Called the MT90502, it offers manufacturers a high-bandwidth solution for combined voice and data services in multiservice switching platforms, 3G mobile system equipment, carrier-class gateways, Next Generation Digital Loop Carriers (NGDLC), and ATM edge switches. The MT90502 AAL2 SAR receives constant bit rate (CBR) and variable bit rate (VBR) traffic from a TDM stream, and maps it to cells for transmission over ATM networks.

For Voice over Digital Subscriber Line (VoDSL) applications, the MT90502 directly accepts Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) and Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM) traffic for packetisation.

The device also implements silence suppression and comfort noise generation for G.711 and G.726 data formats.

Supporting 1023 active CIDs and 1023 active VC connections, the device easily accommodates scalability and bandwidth requirements.

When two MT90502 devices are cascaded, over 2000 phone call terminations can be processed.

This is equivalent to three T3 links, or a full Sonet link at 155Mbit/s.

The ability to achieve SONET density with only two SAR devices yields a substantial reduction in cost, power consumption and board space compared to other currently available solutions.

The MT90502 AAL2 SAR supports both compressed and uncompressed voice.

The device connects to commercially available DSPs through synchronous ports.

Most other solutions consist of interfacing a SAR to a DSP through an asynchronous port.

This requires interrupt service routines or polling mechanisms to establish transfers of information from the DSP to the AAL2 SAR, which loads the CPU.

The MT90502 eliminates the load on the CPU by using a serial interface to the DSP that supports CBR and VBR traffic using HDLC encapsulation.

The device can route ATM cells to any one of the three Utopia interfaces, the microprocessor or the SAR engine.

The ability to route traffic is optimal for SONET equipment, since it allows instantaneous redundancy support.

The multiple UTOPIA interfaces also allow for cascading of multiple SAR devices, to increase AAL2 density, or to support AAL1 and AAL5 traffic.

The MT90502 is currently sampling, supplied in a 456-pin BGA package.

Intersil is addressing the need for more reliable, toll grade voice-band telephony in broadband residential and enterprise systems with a new gateway controller IC for use in Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications. The ISL5586 extends the versatility of the company’s existing gateway product family by adding devices that can also be incorporated into Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) compliant cable modem gateway products. Cable modems based on this standard will support voice-band telephony and high-speed data over the cable network infrastructure, offering the potential of low cost telephony in addition to Internet service, in-home networking and cable television for cable subscribers.

Cable modem use is growing fast.

The addition of Ethernet, HomePNA 2.0 and VoIP capability has driven the development of highly integrated circuit solutions designed expressly for cable modems and other devices that converge voice and data streams.

Combining a complex cable modem IC and tuner IC with four of Intersil’s new gateway ICs provides virtually all the silicon content for a voice-enabled cable modem gateway, and greatly reduces the cost and time to market that is normally required for these complicated products.

The ISL5586 meets the telephony requirements for Voice over DSL (VoDSL) integrated access devices (IAD) or voice enabled DSL modems and BWA subscriber terminals, and is compatible with a variety of analogue subscriber equipment such as V.90 modems and fax machines.

Toll quality voice signals are transmitted to an integrated cable modem chip or a voice-band codec over a low level, low noise differential signal interface.

Intersil’s ISL5586 delivers controlled power to the telephone handset while consuming only 57mW in additional overhead power.

The integrated ringing function eliminates the need for costly ring generators and electromechanical relays.

Surf Communication Solutions and Motorola are to provide bundled silicon and software solutions aimed at the high-growth telecommunications access market. The agreement is intended to provide OEMs with the most advanced universal port solution available for converged packet voice, packet fax, V.9x modems and high-speed data services. The access solution is based on Motorola’s leading MSC810x family of StarCore-based DSPs, including the MSC8101 and the recently announced quad-core MSC8102, which will be designed to run the Surf Multi-access Pool (SMP) DSP software solution for packet voice (VoIP), packet Fax (FoIP), V.9x modem, including the recently ratified V.92 standard, and high-speed data services.

In addition to the MSC810x/SMP kit, Motorola and Surf plan to provide a comprehensive suite of tools, including multi-DSP reference designs, Smart Networks-compliant host level interfaces and evaluation platforms.

This access solution is designed to allow leading telecommunication OEMs to integrate turnkey solutions, thus speeding time-to-market and enabling valuable internal engineering resources to concentrate on system level and value-added applications.

The MSC810x family, with the industry’s highest performance DSP announced to date, coupled with its small package size and low power dissipation, is an optimal solution for high-density, signal processing-intensive applications.

Surf’s SMP is a modular software solution that is designed to process multiple channels concurrently supporting a broad suite of access technologies-including voice compression, fax and modem modulation and high-speed data services.

Together, the MSC810x and SMP provide a comprehensive solution for a wide variety of telecommunication access equipment such as Remote Access Servers and Concentrators, Media Gateways, Voice Gateways, Access Routers, and 3G Wireless Interworking Gateways.

“Our strategic alliance with Surf is intended to integrate Motorola’s industry-leading communication processors and networking DSPs with Surf’s proven SMP solution, further providing Smart Networking solutions that are designed to deliver performance, interoperability and scalability”, said Keith Cheney, general manager of Motorola’s Networking and Communication Systems Division.

“This alliance is expected to deliver a solution that frees our customers to focus their development resources on value-added applications, further enabling faster time-to-market for their access products.

We believe that Surf, with its industry accepted and deployed SMP solution is a perfect partner to provide our carrier class customers with a comprehensive universal port access solution”, Cheney continued.

“Surf is delighted with our strategic alliance with Motorola.

Motorola’s Smart Networks Platform, including its StarCore-based MSC810x DSPs, provide excellent technology for the type of software access solutions that Surf provides.

Surf is confident that the MSC810x/SMP kit will be an unbeatable solution for the Internet telephony and data access markets”, said Ron Bleakney, president of Surf Communication Solutions.

The MSC8102/SMP kit is expected to provide over 60 fully convergent (voice/fax/modem) channels; over 80 compressed voice channels with over 64 millisecond carrier class echo cancellation; and up to 600 non-compressed (G.711) voice channels - a capability unmatched by any other product today.

Stockholm-based Net Insight AB has developed a high-performance, single-chip, multi-service switch capable of switching speeds of up to 8Gbit/s by using advanced ASIC technology and implementation expertise from Toshiba Electronics Europe. One of a growing number of partnerships that Toshiba is forming with innovative start-up companies, the relationship with Net Insight covered all aspects of chip development from supply of silicon and IP to design support. Offering a fully integrated multi-service switch core on a single chip, TwintinT is a dynamic, scalable SoC device designed for high-speed, broadband communications applications where Quality of Service (QoS) is a fundamental issue.

The device is based on Toshiba’s 0.25-micron TC240 ASIC technology and combines almost 700,000 gates with 2Mbit SRAM in a 648-pin BGA package measuring just 35 x 35 x 2mm.

A key challenge facing the design engineers was the integration of the onboard SRAM.

Toshiba and Net Insight worked together to resolve the on-chip structure of this memory to ensure full access of on-chip buses to the external I/O while keeping cross-chip connectivity to a minimum.

The result is a device that operates with clock speeds up to 125MHz and features four input and four output ports, each of which can handle a bandwidth of up to 2Gbit/s.

Discussing the project, Net Insight’s CTO Christer Bohm comments: “The high performance and on-chip functionality that the Toshiba ASIC technology provides makes Twintin the ideal engine in switch applications ranging from edge aggregation to backbone transport”.

Gordon Fairley, Toshiba’s ASIC product manager adds: “Toshiba has developed a number of relationships with leading European start-ups.

The relationship with Net Insight demonstrates how these companies can benefit from the technology and expertise available from established semiconductor manufacturers such as Toshiba to rapidly develop their innovative products and capitalise on the current technology boom”.

Intersil has added a new highly integrated quad up-convertor to its CommLinkT family of digital radio ICs for fixed basestation applications. The new device allows easy upgrading of existing basestations to handle the latest higher speed protocols with higher throughput rates. The new quad up-convertor can be programmed to handle up to four different cellular channels and multiple protocols simultaneously.

For example, it can be programmed to handle both legacy and newer third generation (3G) cellular standards simultaneously or as they come online, including GSM, IS-136 TDMA, EDGE, IS-95, CDMA (CDMA2000 and UMTS) and AMPS.

The converter’s ability to handle the latest high-speed protocols at high output rates of up to 80MSPS allows designers to upgrade existing base-stations to overcome their inherent frequency capacity and throughput limitations.

The CommLink ISL5217 up-convertor is designed for use in the transmit section in wireless cellular basestations.

A companion part, the ISL5216 performs complementary functions in the receive section of the base-station.

The ISL5217 features a maximum output rate of 80MSPS and supports input sample rates as high as 5MSPS.

Multiple devices can be cascaded digitally for multichannel applications.

“The new up-convertor enhances Intersil’s position as a supplier of complete digital radio solutions for the cellular market”, said Juan Garcia, marketing manager of CommLink products at Intersil.

“CommLink devices are specifically designed to support the expanding use of digital radio and wireless Internet applications across multiple cellular including 2nd and 3rd generation standards with faster speeds and greater throughput”.

Strengthening its position as the leading enabler for driving Gigabit to the desktop, National Semiconductor has announced the DP83862, a low-cost, highly integrated dual-port 10/100/1000 physical layer transceiver. This new solution, now shipping to key customers, provides the lowest cost per port, Gigabit over copper physical layer solution. With its very low power consumption and high performance, the Dual Gig PHYTER is ideal for such applications as high-density Gigabit switches, dual port Gigabit node cards, and high-speed uplinks.

Together with National’s industry-leading 10/100/1000 Gigabit over copper network interface card (NIC) reference design, this new Gigabit over copper transceiver has put National at the forefront to deliver a complete end-to-end network solution.

The DP83862 dual Gig PHYTER is National’s third-generation, full-feature physical layer transceiver with integrated PMD sub layers to support 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T Ethernet protocols.

Based on a field proven architecture, the DP83862 Gig PHYTER is manufactured on the company’s state-of-the-art 0.18-micron CMOS technology, providing the highest level of integration at very low power consumption.

This also provides National’s customers with an ease of mind regarding availability and meeting their expected cycle time requirements including the unexpected upsides.

“With the introduction of the DP83862 Dual Gig PHYTER, National now becomes the only vendor who is able to provide an end-to-end network solution with the optimal combination of price, performance and power consumption”, said Rick Walker, European Marketing Manager of the Network Products Group at National Semiconductor.

“With a roadmap that continually offers improvements on all of the network applications our customers care about, it is clear that National is committed to driving Gigabit to the desktop”.

The DP83862 Gig PHYTER is the industry’s first to provide PHY level cyclical redundancy checking (CRC), on received packets and PHY level CRC generation for test mode transmit packets.

It supports JPAG, and Auto media dependent interface crossover (Auto-X) that automatically detects and corrects wiring mishandling such as swapped wires in addition it also provides for and automatically corrects reversed polarity.

The DP83862 is designed for easy implementation of 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet LAN Switches.

Each of the two ports interfaces directly to Twisted Pair media via an external transformer.

This device interfaces directly to the media access controller (MAC) layer through the IEEE 802.3u Standard Media Independent Interface (MII) of the IEEE 802.3u Gigabit Media Independent Interface (GMII).

It also supports the reduced pin count serial GMII (SGMII) interface with eight pins per port.

Major features of the DP83862 Dual Gig PHYTER includes: single Quad TX-Transformer interface for all speeds; adaptive equalisation and Baseline Wander compensation; IEEE 802.3u Auto-Negotiation and parallel detection; 3.3 v/1.8 v MAC interfaces; LED support; management register set; acceptance of 125 or 25MHz clock input, among others.