Electronic displays on flexible materials have started appearing in limited applications. But the high speed processing power to run them still requires expensive and rigid silicon wafers. If all the components could be built onto the same flexible surface, it could save money, improve for radically new designs.
Researchers have built working circuits now on plastic that are fast enough to make this integration possible. At Sarnoff Corp. in prince on, NJ, and Columbia University, researchers have succeeded in operating circuits at 100 MHZ as much a hundred times faster than previous ones on plastic.
This advance could lead to displays measuring 3 meters or more diagonally can aslo be rolled up and easily transported. Fast transistors on plastic could also lead to portable phased array antennae.
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Zoom in on the moon using a pc and broadband internet connection. These detailed, 3D moon views have been made possible by NASA’s world wind computer program that allowscomputer users to tap into databases fo satellite information on the earth.
Ten terabytes of satellite information, aerial photography data and radar mapping information from a space shuttle mission allow you to see almost any place on the earth on your PC. From a vantage point in space, you can zoom in on the moon and soar over its surface, digging into craters and valleys. World Wind can be downloaded from ‘worldwind.arc.nasan.gov’ .
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Altera has launched field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with embedded serial transceivers. Designed to deliver superior signal integrity, Stratix II GX FPGAs offer a complete programmable solution for the growing number of applications and protocols requiring high-speed serial transceivers and highest-density FPGA fabric with up to 20 low-power transceivers that operate at 622Mbps to 6.375 Gbps to meet the requirements of high-speed designs of today and tomorrow.
The transceiver blocks provide complete support for a number of widely used protocols, including PCI Express, serial digital interface (SDI), XAUI, SONET, gigabit Ethernet, serialite II, Serial RapidIO and common Electrical Interface 6Gps Long Reach (CEI-6G-LR/SR), saving valuable logic resources and simplifying protocol support.
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