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• Digital Power, Fpga Evaluation Kit
• Touch Panels, Wall Flush Mount
• Ni 9144, Ni 9144 Chassis
• Isl99201, Audio Amplifiers

TI's Fusion Digital Power™ controllers give FPGA users advanced power management capability and design flexibility, including the ability to monitor a power system's behavior in real time. New developments in digital control technology from Texas Instruments give Virtex-6 FPGA customers a high degree of power system optimization, while accelerating design time with the Xilinx Base Platform. TI's UCD9240 integrated power system controller supports up to four independent digital control loops and up to eight phases. Two UCD9240 devices manage the power for the Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 evaluation kit...

TI's OMAP processor provides advanced processing performance and extended battery life for crisp, life-like video and graphics for these latest products. The ARM® and digital signal processor (DSP) processing architecture offered by the OMAP device enables AMX to deliver advanced graphical user interfaces (GUIs) so consumers can navigate on-screen functions with multiple windows, monitor remote security cameras and control audio and video equipment at the same time. The multi-core design of the OMAP processor simultaneously supports numerous functions, such as video encoding/decoding and playback, 2D/3D graphics and audio. This gives AMX the edge in designing multi-functional touch panels with exceptional system efficiency to instantly run applications without compromising performance...

Engineers and scientists can now run National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA code directly on the NI 9144 chassis to execute custom triggering, inline processing and control within an application, by downloading the NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT 1.1 driver from www.ni.com. By embedding hardware-level FPGA logic directly on the expansion I/O, engineers and scientists can offload processing power from the controller and reduce response time by making decisions directly at the node. With these new capabilities, the NI 9144 chassis is ideal for providing intelligent, synchronized extension I/O to NI CompactRIO, NI industrial controllers and NI PXI real-time systems. The NI 9144 provides the ability to create highly distributed real-time systems that need synchronized control across multiple machines, high-speed waveform measurements and processing at the node and hardware-in-the-loop simulations and feedback...

The ISL99201 and ISL99202 are two new audio amplifiers featuring the industry’s lowest power consumption, smallest size, and highest RF immunity. The ISL99201 and ISL99202 are the first audio products in a new family of ultra-small-footprint packages that will enable smaller, thinner and lighter consumer devices that run longer on a battery charge. The ISL99201 and ISL99202 are particularly well suited for use in SmartPhones, PDAs, game consoles, MP3 and personal media players, personal navigation devices and LCD TVs. The ISL99201, available in 9-bump 0.4mm pitch WCSP, is the world’s smallest Class D amplifier. The ISL99201 also includes a micropower shutdown mode with a typical shutdown current of 200nA...