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MEDINA, Ohio, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The 70E Store, LLC, an industrial safety clothing distributor and federal defense contractor based in Medina, Ohio, is now Slate Rock Safety, LLC. Slate Rock Safety, LLC retails and wholesales arc flash clothing and electrical safety apparel via multiple divisions. Slate Rock Safety's arc flash apparel and flame resistant safety clothing spans many industries. Facility maintenance departments, utilities, private manufacturing enterprises, government...
At the scale of the very small, physics can get peculiar. A University of Michigan biomedical engineering professor has discovered a new instance of such a nanoscale phenomenon"”one that could lead to faster, less expensive portable diagnostic devices and push back frontiers in building micro-mechanical and "lab on a chip" devices.In our macroscale world, materials called conductors effectively transmit electricity and materials called insulators or dielectrics don't, unless they...
MILPITAS, Calif., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) today announced the CM1242-33CP, first in a family of extremely small outline ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection devices. Establishing new industry benchmarks for ESD performance and small solution form factor, the CM1242 is an ideal solution for space constrained applications in multimedia smart phones, netbooks and MIDs (mobile internet devices), e-book readers and personal media players....
MILPITAS, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) today announced the PicoGuard CM1227, an ultra low capacitance electrostatic discharge (ESD) device for the latest digital consumer and computer applications. The CM1227 provides four channels of +/-15kV of contact ESD protection, exceeding IEC61000-4-2 level 4 standards. Today's latest digital consumer and computing applications such as digital TVs, set top boxes, PCs and PC peripherals are...
MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Tyco Electronics announced today the addition of three new devices to its line of electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection devices. The 0201-sized Silicon ESD (SESD) devices are approximately 70 percent smaller than prior generation 0402-sized devices and help provide protection and improve reliability of portable electronics such as mobile phones, MP3 players, PDAs and digital cameras. (Logo:...
MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) today introduced the latest ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection device in the XtremeESD family utilizing the PicoGuard ((R)) XS architecture, the CM1238. It provides 8 channels of ESD protection that meet + -15kV contact discharge, and + -20kV air discharge per the IEC61000-4-2 standard as well as the 100 Ohm differential impedance matching requirements of the HDMI((R)) 1.3a and DisplayPort(TM)...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) announced that Sharp Electronics Corporation has selected its CM1234 low capacitance electrostatic discharge (ESD) solution to protect multiple HDMI(TM) video ports in eleven new Sharp Aquos series liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs. The CM1234 design wins include six models of the Aquos E series full HD LCD TVs and five models of the Aquos BD series LCD TVs. Designed for the US market, all the...
Compact ESD protection device requires up to 80 percent less board space DALLAS, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Portable consumer electronics designers can save board space with integrated circuits (ICs) in the PicoStar(TM) package that Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) introduced today. The ultra-thin package, about as thin as a human hair, is the first to give system designers the option to embed silicon components inside the printed circuit board (PCB) to maximize board space....
CM1282 Provides Robust ESD Protection for FM Radio, GPS, Bluetooth and WLAN Applications MILPITAS, Calif., March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) today announced the PicoGuard CM1282, a single channel ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection device for the FM radio, GPS, Bluetooth and WLAN antennas used in today's most advanced mobile handsets. The CM1282 is based on CMD's PicoGuard line of low capacitance ESD protection products, providing industry...
MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) has been awarded Electronic Products magazine's 2008 "Product of the Year" award for the CM1233-08DE, the first product to incorporate the innovative PicoGuard XS(TM) architecture. The CM1233-08DE is the industry's first product to provide both outstanding signal integrity and robust electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection for high speed differential signals such as HDMI(TM) and DisplayPort. By...
