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New Interactive EMI Shielding Catalog Library

To help improve the way engineers search for EMI shielding products, Leader Tech recently converted its entire library of product catalogs to a new, interactive digital format. Each of the company’s board, enclosure, ferrishield ferrite and fabric shielding gasket brochures are now available online for instant browsing. The innovative e-reader style page turn presentation makes it feel like you are reading a printed publication with the advantage of several technology enhancements.

In addition to flipping through the catalog pages, the web-based interface gives you the ability to easily browse thumbnails of each page for faster, at-a-glance product selection. A simple toolbar at the bottom of the screen also offers a search feature, as well as one-click options for PDF downloading and printing.

To view Leader Tech’s new interactive EMI shielding catalogs, visit www.leadertechinc.com/catalogdownloads.

Options Add To Spectrum Analyzer Versatility

The DSA815 all-digital RF spectrum analyzer from Ohio-based Rigol Technologies Inc. covers a frequency range of 9kHz to 1.5GHz.

The $1,295 compact unit offers a typical displayed average noise level of -135dBm, offset phase noise of -80dBc/Hz at10kHz and a total amplitude uncertainty of <1.5dB – suitable for benchtop or field apps in RF and wireless testing and production. Its digital IF design technology lets users measure smaller signals by enabling smaller bandwidth settings, thereby reducing the displayed average noise level.

Standard functions include AM/FM demodulation and a preamplifier plus such optional enhancements as an EMI filter and quasi-peak detector kit, and a 1.5GHz tracking generator. The $200 Tracking Generator option allows techs to use the device as a VSWR tester with a bridge or to connect to test passive and active RF components. The generator also functions as a static signal source generator from 10MHz to 1.5GHz by setting the spectrum analyzer to zero span mode.

For more information, visit www.rigolna.com.

Galtronics Gains Momentum For DAS Antennas

Galtronics Corp. Ltd. of Tiberias, Israel, reports growing momentum for its PEAR™ in-building DAS antenna line with the availability of an additional dual-polarized MIMO and two vertically-polarized antennas. The new antennas support the broad coverage, throughput and high data rates driven by a growing wireless industry shift to 4G/LTE networks.

The product update includes the availability of Galtronics’ broadband antenna PEAR S4935, a single-port vertically-polarized antenna covering a broad range of frequencies from 698MHz up to 6000MHz, and PEAR S4934, a very small form factor antenna covering 1.7GHz up to 6GHz. The engineered radiation patterns of these antennas are optimized for in-building ceiling mount applications. This allows the antenna to be installed above the ceiling or through the ceiling without degradation in performance.

For more information, visit www.galtronics.com.

RF Sleeve for Frequencies in UHF to Microwave

The Venti™ RF suppression sleeve is a patent-pending EMI/RFI solution that replaces the need for higher costing 1/4 wave chokes, stubs and ferrite cores. The Venti sleeve is effective at 2.4 and 5GHz and all other frequencies above 1GHz, opening up a whole new world for product designers and engineers that was not previously available. A small form, low labor replacement for current EMI/RFI alternatives available today, the Venti sleeve is perfect for mass-produced coax and cables.

Venti R&D engineers, while developing horizontal WiFi antenna designs, discovered that the radiating coaxial feedlines distorted their antenna patterns. Suppressing radiating feedlines in 2.4 and 5GHz, engineers had to look beyond the prior art for a more cost-effective solution.

The Venti engineers developed an EMI/RFI suppression sleeve for RF coax/cables for antennas, consumer electronics, computer and power cables. The Venti sleeve suppresses coax and cable radiation (EMI/RFI) that distorts antenna patterns and affects components and devices inter-connected by cable assemblies.

For more information, visit www.ventisleeve.com.

Tektronix Thunderbolt™ Technology Test Solution

Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, has a comprehensive test solution for Thunderbolt technology. Thunderbolt is a new, high-speed, multi-protocol I/O technology designed to provide headroom for next generation display and I/O requirements. The new solution for support includes a 20GHz DSA70000 series Oscilloscope, 12.5Gb/s BSA series BERTScope, and a DSA8300 series sampling Oscilloscope.

The Tektronix solution serves the comprehensive needs of Thunderbolt physical layer testing and spec conformance validation. Thunderbolt’s four channel 10.3Gbps I/O architecture is the most significant advancement in PC I/O design ever introduced into the consumer level electronics industry and Tektronix is dedicated to delivery of a broad portfolio of tools to facilitate the successful deployment of this new technology working in concert with Intel.

For more information, visit www.tektronix.com.

3M Embedded Capacitance Material Offerings

3M Electronic Solutions Division is offering a new Embedded Capacitance Material (ECM). The new line of ECM solutions has high capacitance density and they are halogen-free.

The new halogen-free solutions will enable design engineers to significantly enhance power integrity and minimize EMI. In addition, they aid them to deliver higher speed digital signals, high signal-to-noise ratio in radio frequencies and hi-fidelity signals in a wide range of applications including consumer electronics, IC packaging, microphones, high-performance RF boards and small form factor PC hardware. Engineers can now significantly reduce high-frequency noise with the use of 3M’s new line of highest capacitance density ECM solutions.

The ECM material can be implanted IC chip packages and printed circuit boards (PCBs). Also, the high-capacitance and halogen-free ECM material can be used in microphone manufacturing, as it helps in miniaturization of devices as well as contributes to major RFI reduction. The new line of ECM material is RoHS compliant.

For more information, visit http://solutions.3m.com.

RFI Filters from Fuseco

Fuseco’s RFI filters minimize electromagnetic conduction or electromagnetic radiation interruptions and improves electrical circuit performance. Fuseco’s filters are available as feed-through components, PCB and IEC inlet filters, power entry modules, single phase, 3-phase, 3-phase with neutral line filters, output filters, EMC/EMI chokes and pulse transformers.

Weaken EMI in 240VAC single phase electrical systems with Fuseco’s Schaffner Single Phase AC and DC Filters are available in three stages, catering for everything from general office and telecommunication applications to very noisy environments and high quality military uses. Schaffner general purpose RFI filters are ideal for medical, IT equipment, power supplies, DC/DC converters and industrial applications. The two stage circuit is perfect where higher attenuation is required. Fuseco’s three stage circuit is optimal for applications where the highest possible attenuation is needed.

For more information, visit www.fusecoinc.com.