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Custom Industrial Controller or Programmable Logic Controller?

Posted by Ken Cheung in Articles, Design Services, Industrial on Sunday, June 21, 2009

By Paul Nickelsberg
Designers use Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) extensively for industrial control applications. A PLC features a general processor architecture, a general input / output architecture, a general mechanical architecture, and a general software development architecture. Industrial designer engineers, factory automation engineers, and industrial controls developers can meet their needs with generalized solutions. However, there [...]

The Secret to Choosing USB Devices for Industrial Applications

Posted by Ken Cheung in Articles, Industrial on Sunday, June 7, 2009

By Casper Yang
Thanks to its ease of use and versatility, Universal Serial Bus (USB) is the most popular interface in the IT industry today. In recent years, USB has also gained popularity in industrial applications as more and more devices support the interface. However, industrial operations are more demanding than the typical office application and [...]

Single Board Computers

Posted by Ken Cheung in Articles, Boards, Busses on Sunday, April 26, 2009

Single Board Computers (SBCs) have developed rapidly due to miniaturization technology, which implements more functionality in smaller spaces. The technological progression of “integrated circuit” (IC) technology, which has created the SBC by reducing sizes for the central processing unit (CPU), program memory and disk controller units, so they can be stored on smaller “large scale [...]

Seven Ways to Become a Highly Effective Project Manager

Posted by Ken Cheung in Articles on Sunday, February 15, 2009

By Steve Miller
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (by Stephen R. Covey) has helped millions of people establish great habits for achieving true interdependent effectiveness in their life and their jobs. This article, Seven Ways to Become a Highly Effective Project Manager, will discuss the seven habits and frame them for highly effective project [...]

QuiXilica V5 Architecture for Demanding I/O Processing

Posted by Ken Cheung in Articles on Sunday, February 1, 2009

By Andrew Reddig
There is an insatiable demand for increased signal performance by military sensor data processing applications for communications, radar, and electronic warfare. More channels, increased processing capabilities, higher memory performance, and greater communications bandwidth are required continually by sensors. Advanced applications in radar, EW, ELINT, SIGINT, and telecom require the performance offered by the [...]

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