Adam Herman

International electronic fabrication facilities and microelectronic industrial fair in 2006 (Nepcon South China) 2M08 stand at,with market printer the members Horizon APi newests of series when introducing DEK Company. Brand-new orizon APi has the highest speedHHHorizon APi combines strong function and high yield characteristic of series Horizon of enjoying great popularity, and lead the ease of use of series Infinity at the same level, Instinctiv that in addition, DEK innovates? User interface, succeed in offering high-speed disposition, outstanding precision and incomparable repeatability.

Horizon APi possesses the high lateral functionality, and offer key cycle, 1.6 Cpk less than 10 seconds; 25µ Repeatability of m, time of arrangement less than 10 minutes, and the change-over time of products less than 2 minutes; The inner manufacturers of can let ing industry assemble the semiconductor device with newest capsulation and appearance, and SMD passive component with extremely small physical dimension.

Horizon APi adopts the convenient wing section cover in order to realize optimal performance, and have Horizon model general optimization printer frameworks, can it extended and controlled the network of local area (ISCAN and intelligent? ) In order to promote control of machine and diagnostic feature, combine with technicolor TFT display unit, keyboard and mouse.

In addition, VectorGuard of Horizon APi and DEK? The shadow mask system is compatible, make it become a choice of convenience that OEM and ODM manufacturer also possesses space efficiency safely in Asia. VectorGuard is a foil board of mounting type of chassis, have advantage easy to transport, manage, store and change, more canonial fixed mounting type shadow mask is easier to store and manage. Through adopting such adaptable high-efficient chassis system, Horizon APi can admit greatest 29 " x 29" Full-scale for shadow mask,and it is maximum of 508mm x 508mm in size for circuit board.

Horizon APi printer disposes DEK Instinctiv user interface innovated, can assist operators to be fast and set up complicated craft accurately, even few hardware operation or the intersection of craft and experience, can get reliable a printing qualification rate only, and meet the tightest and severest circuit board requirement. Instinctiv can also save valuable NPI (new product is introduced into) Time.

Horizon APi offers many kinds of productivity to strengthen the option, can be presumed in order to meet their special production and craft demand individually by manufacturers, including:

Cyclone - very quick-replaceable underside of shadow mask at a high speed washes Gridlok - flexible tool system Hawkeye 400/1200 of support - print and verify the department of function Two-dimentional inspection of the interconnected system the whole 2Di, it include it block, glue it is dirty, solder cream have, for location, bridge and support tools automatic volume computing standard tool tables false made-to-order not to be lasted items of ProFlow? DirEKt pushes and prints and suitable for the high speed being surface mounted (SMT) , PumpPrinting? Variable addition craft interface and DEK network software program of area network use holding and stationary bar code reader in order to realize traceability; Support 1D and 2D code

In order to improve usability and utilization factor of the machine, Horizon APi users can support to benefit in the framework from the whole world of DEK, this includes regional technique center and highly flexible implementation, application and craft which enjoys DEK research and develop and serve; Carry on the characteristic staging of the machine easily; The high-quality consumptive material for 24 hours of every day is supported online; 24-hour the intersection of DEK and consultant service and based on Internet to help online that the whole world network.

Does Cadence design system company announce Toshiba has already adopted Cadence? QRC Extraction, are used in most advanced 65 nanometers of its and design procedure. Cadence QRCExtraction offers the rigorous parasitic parameter extraction of silicon for craft node of future generation, including because of sensibility and chemico-mechanical polishing (CMP) Abstraction of the model.

Cadence QRC Extraction can offer for the fact that the figure based on unit is designed, surmount, draw technical to have silicon precision to make consciousness while being other. Distribute over multiple network handler and calculate the colonial near linearity characteristic is flexible through it, it can reduce processing time notably. Is it still Cadence Encounter? Design the offering strong multilateral border terms supporting and rigorous increment type of the platform because of designing submitting (signoff) in figure IC Parameter extraction.

U.S.A. telecommunication operator Verizon Communications Inc. releases the wealth newspaper of second quarter today, though the camp accepts with user's increase in pairs, but receive the resignation of 416 million dollars consolation money and influence of the pension expenditure, the net profit of this company has dropped by 21%.

Verizon is facing keen competition more and more, includes the movement that comes from emerging newly employs the competition pressure of the shop and wireless operator of low price. Meanwhile, the intellectual mobile phone sales volume is increasing constantly, setting the record of history quickly of its amplification.

Verizon net profit of 2 quarters of this year is 1,480 million dollars, profit per share is 52 cents, and the net profit was 1,880 million dollars at the same period last year, the profit per share costs 66 cents. Remove amalgamating and several sums of lump-sum labor cost, the earning per share falls from 67 cents to 63 cents. Verzion camp charge increase by 11% quarter, to 26,860 million dollars, if the Carrier Alltel was Verizon enterprises under command at the same period last year, then amplification is only 1.9%. The analyst estimates Verizon in this quarter before this camp per share charges for 63 cents, it is 26,850 million dollars that camp charges.

It is the joint ventures of Verizon and Waduven that Verizon is wireless, quotes 28% of the camp to accept and increase this quarter, its profit rate of operation is increased from 28.6% to 28.8% a little. But the overall subscriber's flow rate falls to 1.37%. Verizion has not provided the correlated data in previous fiscal year. And its rival AT&T claims this Thursday, its subscriber's flow rate hits the new low point, it is only 1.09%, and its average camp of every user's monthly service accepts (a key index of weighing the wireless operator) Glide 0.8%.

Verizon is wireless to show last week that increased 1,100,000 users newly in the second quarter, less than 1,400,000 new users that AT&T was increased newly in the same term. Verizon is wireless there are 87,700,000 users in all at present. Because of increasing a lot of advanced users newly, Verizon still protects in front of the present and economic and depressing market vigorously, but it can be with the apple iPhone (surfing Internet with cell phone) that Verizon lacks one Mobile phone comparing favourably. IPhone is run exclusively by AT&T at present. Personages in the know told " The Wall Street Journal " to claim, Verizon introduced and calculated a intellectual mobile phone based on Google Android cell-phone operating system last month, and will allocate touch-sensitive screen and slipping out keyboard.

PMC-Sierra Company announce, the intersection of century and put through scientific & technical corporation in their VoIP customer terminal equipment (CPE) already Adopt MSP4120 and MSP4200 many service processors of PMC-Sierra in the scheme? ( MSP) .

VoIP scheme of ACT has various required functions of operator, can offer the high added value and have IP telephone service of cost-effective even more. The VoIP series products of ACT include the analog telephone adapter (ATA) , VoIP router and Wi-Fi VoIP Ethernet gateway, MSP4120 and MSP4200 of PMC-Sierra are the cores of these schemes, offer various pronunciations and route functions for it.

MSP4120 and MSP4200 VoIP chip level router products have highly Integrated frameworks, possess DSP of a processaable and four speech channels, there is a MIPS32 4Kec kernel at the same time, can offer high-performance route and control function. MSP4200 possesses interface of one PCI, makes it can include 802.11 Wi-Fi subsystem, in order to construct Wi-Fi access point.

"We are very glad to enter into cooperation on VoIP series products of their flagship with ACT. ' PMC-Sierra communication products products marketing and employing department executive vice president Dino Bekis are said. ' PMC-Sierra the family gateway and constant investment of the digital family's technical field, make us offer to customer and meet the scheme of market demand at present, still support other services in order to expand the business opportunity of its market at the same time. "

According to Brazilian Ministry of science and technology website, the national space of Brazil is in holy & middot of St. Paul state on July 21 of research institute; Carlos city holds " The China and Pakistan earth resources satellite " Delivery ceremony of the multispectral camera MUX. This camera is undertaken the construction of by the holy Ross' electron optics Company of Brazil, will be regarded as the payload of the China and Pakistan earth resources satellite No. 3 and 4, launched in 2011 and 2014 separately.

Minister of Brazilian Ministry of science and technology Scelsi & middot; Ray has participated in and handed over the ceremony in Germany full of trees. Lei SenDe says, this is the first like product of Brazil's complete independent development. Brazilian scientific research personnel have overcome a lot of technological obstacles, has made the technical progress greatly, have not only develop the new technology but also trained talents.

Academy president Silvey many & middot of national space of Brazil; Camara says, when beginning to develop this technology in Brazil, U.S.A. blockades Brazil, not allowing Brazil to obtain the key part of high-resolution, the result forces Brazil to adjust the plan instead, develop one's own technology.

The intersection of multispectral camera and analysis rate of MUX for 20 of ground, can offer used for monitoring and natural resource management of enviromental protection materials. The China and Pakistan earth resources satellite is the fruitful projects of China and Brazilian scientific and technological cooperation, the two countries have already jointly launched the 1st, B three satellites No. 2 and 2 at present, used mainly in the earth resource monitoring, enviromental protection, city management,etc..

The Austrian microelectronics is announced, introduce and have shutting off and middle graduation to reset 8 digital-analogue converters (DAC) of 8 passways of low power consumption of the function Series AS1504/05. It is non-linear (INL) that AS1504/05 device can offer the remarkable total mark And the overhanging digit is non-linear (DNL) Ability. The non-linear representative value of its integer is ± 0.15LSB, maximum value is ± 0.75LSB; The digital non-linear representative value is ± 0.1LSB, maximum value is ± 0.5LSB.

Utilize middle graduation to reset, AS1504 becomes the ideal substituting solution of the potentiometer, the all right nominal value of use carries on electron regulation. AS1504 DAC of low power consumption is very suitable for applied bandwidth and alter-cycle control such as the audio frequency or video too, and the gain control of audio frequency or video amplifier. AS1504 is still suitable for other various such as automatic regulation and geometric correction of the CRT display device to need low power consumption and application of high-accuracy DAC.

AS1505 can offer independent control for outputting inner maximum and minimum value of voltage range, in order to set up the voltage of zero graduation separately. So device this make the intersection of voltage and the intersection of control limit and application restrained for those from to receive bring good news because of requiring highest redolution.

AS1504 and AS1505 more than to imitate potentiometers advantages, include offering more high definition, because AS1504/05 DAC has 256 programmable step number and very small volume. This series of products adopt 9.9* 6mm SOIC to capsulate, can substitute 8 simulation potentiometers. In addition, the functions of these devices will not be influenced by mechanical jamming of shaking, assaulting etc.; Will not be influenced by mechanical wear either too, and have low-noise, low temperature drift and high-speed characteristic regulated, contribute to realizing and adjusting fast.

A few days ago, U.S.A. national instrument introduced the brand-new NI PXI-5152 common digitizer / ondoscope. Products of it is one section at a high speed, high precision and high density, can apply to fields such as characterization of semiconductor chip, ultrasonic non-destructive testing, biomedicine and communication,etc..

The characteristic of NI PXI-5152 common digitizer / ondoscope: · The speed has risen to 2 GS/s · Have the bandwidth of 300 MHz · Can possess 50 that the software chooses - and 1M&-#; 8486; Input impedance · It can be from 100mV to 10V to input the quantum · Board year of 512 MB memory · Can cooperate with the software use of all NI, including NI LabVIEW, and other general development environments, such as C, Microsoft C ++ and Visual Basic,etc. High-speed digitizer, are known as the computer-based ondoscope too. Use the digitizer of NI, can finish with using the same or more measurement tasks of the traditional ondoscope in a large amount. Utilize PXI-5152 module all right and other NI hardwares to construct a self-defining composite signal Application Platforms, in order to help engineers to realize the close connection between analog waveform and digital waveform, and can also expand the sum signal type of number of channels of the system.

The manufacturers Santur Corp of the adjustable laser claim to succeed in financing 13 million dollars today, to expand its adjustable laser business actively, and march into 100 - Gbit/s market. Santur Company shows this sum of fund will develop the important turning point in history as this company, " By 2011, probably 100 - Gbit/s business exceeds the adjustable laser business. " This company CEO Paul Meissner shows.

This sum of fund is mainly used for developing 100 - Gbit/s products, the source of funds is still mainly offered by Santur original investors, including Menlo Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and VantagePoint Venture. During 8 years in the past, Santur acquired venture capital altogether was 108 million dollars.

National instrument Co., Ltd. (National Instruments, is abbreviated as NI) of U.S.A. Put out LabVIEW 8.20 edition formally --This is 20th anniversary edition which is used particularly in controlling, testing and LabVIEW graphical system design platform of embedded system development. LabVIEW 8.20 has brought a series of strong new characteristic, including and The MathWorks, Inc. MATLAB? Compatibility, using for constructing the self-defining hardware design guide based on FPGA of the industry control device of the software, and the intersection of LabVIEW and the intersection of MODEM modulate-demodulate and staging of kit, make engineer may the development model come the artificial communication system, estimate parameter and design judgement.

Recently, the solar energy has become one of the most thermal topics in environment protecting mode. From mobile phone to building roof, from car to household electrical appliance, it seems that all equipment begin to be seeking to offer the possibility of energy with solar energy panel. Now, one bulky the intersection of freight transportation and ship become, join technological competition of electric energy of the sun & mdash newly; — Japan develops the global first large-scale freighter taking solar energy as motive force recently " Auriga leader's number " ( Auriga Leader) .

The beginning of this year, " Auriga leader's number " The solar energy freighter carries on the trial cruise and succeeds from the dock launching of Kobe, western city of Japan.

At present, this huge steamer stops at in the long beach harbour of California of U.S.A., at not transporting the intersection of company and technological event organized to join forces by sea, showing by long the intersection of beach and harbour, Toyota, the intersection of Japan and the intersection of NYK and the intersection of dak boat and line of Tokyo, the solar cell array that this ship disposed newly has shown it to people " Truth " .

Expose the main electric wire netting of power composed of 328 solar energy panels that this ship assembles publicly, leave a lasting impression on people again. Because these the first obtain the commercial ship & mdash that energy drove from the sunlight; — Though the solar energy is not all dynamic sources of it yet.

Blue microelectronic Limited Company of the person in Hangzhou and ARM Company announce together person blue microelectronics plans to obtain the arthorization of ARM926EJ-STM processor for the factory through ARM. High performance, the intersection of ARM926EJ-S and processor of low power consumption make person a advanced consumption electronic product in blue capable microelectronics ' Such as walkie amusement apparatus) Develop advanced slice and have the system (SOC) . The first product based on ARM technology of person blue microelectronics expects to go on the market in the first quarter of 2007.

Increasing with the demand for more advanced consumer-elcetronics devices of Chinese market constantly, the local IC design company, in order to make the leading position on the market, is expanding their SoC designed capacity and putting out more advanced IC products constantly. ARM926EJ-S processor has characteristics such as flexible function, high performance, low power consumption and low cost,etc., can help IC designer to explore more new chances on the new developing market.

Tyke Company claims to introduce TDS1000B and TDS2000B series digital storage oscillograph. Rely on the bandwidth up to 200MHz, the single-channel maximum sampling rate of 2GS per second, USB flashing memory and device interface, and the lifetime guarantee that firsted elect in the industry, 2 passways and 4 - the purposes of design of TDS1000B and TDS2000B series ondoscope of the passway are in order to and test engineer's simplified arrangement for the designer, test and keep and test consequential operation, and offer unprecedented remarkable value. Do the ones that put out with the ondoscope together also include Tyke OpenChoice? PC communication software and NI SignalExpress? Tyke edition is interactive to measure the software, the latter really makes the ondoscope realize the function of using simultaneously and connecting with PC at once through USB. And it is the serious commitment that Tyke company thinks about the customer to offer for this series of products and guarantee even more all the life.

The requirements for considering the definite users of those budgets of pricing of TDS1000B and TDS2000B series products, and can fully meet various application of theirs' needs, for example it is professional to maintain the electron, the test in automated production, monitoring the designs of environmental sensors and microprocessors and except that fault,etc.. The extremely light and handy walkie design has saved the space of technician's work bench, make it become technicians In Service and the ideal apparatus most in the maintenance work.

TDS1000B and TDS2000B series offer 3 ways to make technicians catch the measuring result more conveniently and swiftly through the USB interface, have further strengthened production efficiency. Lie the intersection of host computer and port, USB of front panel, can let the intersection of project and technician test working site catch undulate data with USB flashing memory apparatus conveniently extremely, undulate figure and finishing the apparatus to debug. While testing on the work bench, users can realize the seamless link with PC of the ondoscope through one of USB apparatus port and 2 pieces of leading in trade PC communication software, simplify and catch, analyze and share the metric consequential work. USB apparatus port can connect the printer of any compatible PictBridge too, realizes a key is printed.

The seamless link with computer of the ondoscope has brought more high production efficiency

TDS1000B and TDS2000B series contain 2 sets of PC communication software package, Tyke OpenChoice PC communication software and NI SignalExpress Tyke edition are interactive to measure the software.

OpenChoice PC communication software conveys screen picture and undulate data to an independent desk-top utility program or spreads directly through a simple user interface Send it in Word or Excel file. In addition, Tyke coorperates and provides NI SignalExpress software of Tyke edition with NI again, this software can use simultaneously through leading in trade USB the function realizes the ondoscope is to the connecting of PC. When the computer connects TDS1000B and TDS2000B through USB, after automatic detection, USB uses simultaneously the communication frame will present on the screen at once. Need, click mouse, can connect with ondoscope the intersection of Tyke and editions of the intersection of NI SignalExpress and software only, ondoscope begin, catch data in real time at once, and in order to measure the data display on the computer, thus accelerate the work progress, offer more information.

TDS1000B and TDS2000B series be listed soon, TDS1000B and TDS2000B series ondoscope enclose and present basic edition of NI SignalExpress Tyke free at random. Each ondoscope offers a 30 - day speciality to try out the software of the edition. Users can buy the basic edition of staging NI SignalExpress Tyke extraly to the speciality edition. The specialized edition offers extra SIGPROC signal processing, advanced analysis, compound signal, remove, limit testing and self-defining step characteristic.

July 23, global polycrystalline silicon make the intersection of leading figure and MEMC, announce will it be 2nd quarter 2009 the intersection of wealth and newspaper their, the intersection of company and camp charge until than loud to make a reduction of 46.8% to 282,900,000 dollars season.

China throws" Chinese polycrystalline silicon industry's investment analysis and prospect predicted the report in 2009-2012 " that the advisor released newly revealing, MEMC net sales amount will be 214 million dollars in the first quarter of 2009, with dropping by 57.3% than 501,400,000 dollars of the first quarter of 2008; 425,700,000 U.S. dollars in the fourth quater of 2008 of chain rate drop by 49.7% too. MEMC polycrystalline silicon productivity will be 8000 tons in 2008, MEMC income from sales tops 2 billion dollars for the first time, among them the market of solar energy exceeds 1 billion dollars.

China throws Jiang Qian, chief researcher of advisor energy trade, and points out, synthesizing the above two group data can be found out, it will be only 496,900,000 dollars that the camp of MEMC will charge in the first half of 2009, fewer than 500 million dollars, even is not so good as 501,400,000 dollars of the first quarter of 2008.

Jiang Qian thinks, the camp accepts and drops by a wide margin in MEMC first half, except that global photovoltaic industry is whole depressed in the first half of the year, it is an important factor too that price of polycrystalline silicon glides by a wide margin. The international polycrystalline silicon forward contract weighting average price will drop by 30% to 107 dollars / kilogram compared with 2008 in 2009, the spot price has already fallen to 60 dollars / under kilogram in May of 2009.

However, got warm again after a cold spell wholly with the photovoltaic industry global recently, the spot market of polycrystalline silicon offered and began to rebound, have the amplituhe modulation factor in 2%-10%. Perhaps this is a big signal that the achievement recovered of the second half year of polycrystalline silicon giant.

Microchip Technology announces recently, PICkit 2 well received can debug the particular PIC one-chip computer products online to develop the programmer now. This will contribute to the engineer, student and any interested person with very low original investment, develop and assess to PIC one-chip computer products.

All new PICkit 2 Debug Express tools are coated with the pin demonstrating board of a piece 44 and an PIC16F917 one-chip computer, can connect any PC through USB. Including suspending, single step and breakpoint setting in the line debugging function of this kit.

Develop and the main obstacle of the embedded programming field in one-chip computer code, often cost and complexity from developing instrument. PICkit 2 Debug Express scheme has not only got rid of these obstacles, but also the price of a whole set of tool is only 49.99 dollars. This scheme includes 12 simple but profound coaching courses, help new users according to its own progress (offer the source code) ,Cooperate with free MPLAB of Microchip? IDE integrated development environment and a series of software, grasp the embedded use that controlled easily.

Use PICkit 2 user of programmer only need from Microchip websites already ' www.microchip.com/pickit) Download Debug Express firmware, can use this new function. Existing PICkit 2 programmer users can buy 44 newest pin demonstrating boards (DM164120-2) too ,Or in the existing demonstrating board (such as PICDEM? Mechatronics( DM163029) )Have and use possessing the programmer which debugs the function.

Stock situation

The brilliant solar energy of Australia of Chinese solar battery manufacturer is holding (JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd.) Release the news release on the 27th to point out, this company has already got two to grant the loan from Chinese Export-Import Bank in 3 years, the aggregate amount reaches 620 million yuan (about equivalent to 90,800,000 dollars) ,The interest rate of these two sums of loans is all lower than the Bench Mark level that the People's Bank of China presume.

The brilliant solar energy of Australia carries out Chairman Jin BaoFang to show, Chinese Export-Import Bank can be expected the balance sheet of further ruggedization to the strong support of this company on the financial affairs, will adopt strategy to have better financial situation too while growing up voluntarily in the future.

The brilliant solar energy of Australia controls interest in 2009 Q1 camp will charge and reduce 79.4% to 33,900,000 dollars (reduce 76.3% in season) every year ; Dilute 0.18 dollars of per unit ADS net loss Damien. According to the statistics of Thomson Reuters, the analyst predicts the camp charges losing and reaching 108,790,000 dollars and 0.05 dollars with the original profession per unit ADS respectively on average. Look forward to 2009, is offered by Q1 wealth and the market variable was still great, the it of these two factor views, the visibility of the global solar energy market condition is not high that the brilliant solar energy of Australia is thought for several quarters of future, it will be probably unable to reach that the annual wealth that the original document puts forward on March 10 examines the goal; Predicted the camp would charge on section of 830 million - 952 million dollars, and the output will be between 500-550 MW at that time. The solar energy does not plan to upgrade the wealth to examine before the improvement of future visibility of several quarters in brilliant Australia.

On July 25, workers install the solar energy panel on the top level of World Expo 2010 Shanghai China Pavilion. According to the introduction of on-the-spot engineers and technicians, each area of these solar energy panels is about 1.3 square meters, it is 1264 altogether, under the sunny ideal condition, about 300 kilowatt-hour that can supply power for China Pavilion per hour.