February 2009

Parallax Inc, and AP Electronics: Helping Bring your Ideas to Reality

Parallax Inc. (www.parallax.com) designs and manufactures microcontrolller development tools, sensors, and robots for engineers, educational institutions, and hobbyists. Their product line includes the BASIC Stamp microcontroller and the unique multi-processing Propeller chip.

Parallax strives to foster innovation by making technology accessible to the common person with a large collection of free educational material and easy to use electronics kits and accessories. Parallax products and programming kits are available through AP Electronics.

(http://www.apelectronics.co.za).

For more information see page 16.

Contact details:

Warren Botten

(0110 642-2944

email: warren@apelectronics.co.za

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Communications

LTE reference vector

Information supplied by Agilent Technologies

RMS detector with iPAR: Latest advance in RF power detection

Tim Das, Hittite Microwave Corporation

Review

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Editor's Comment

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Electronic manufacturing & production

Trends and challenges for machine automation: A Performance-driven approach

Information supplied by National Instruments

Next generation wireless asset management - reducing operating expenses and improving business productivity

Scott D Constien, Enfora

Vending gets smart

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Review

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News

What's happening

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Product News

In the marketplace

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Security & Protection

Massive 'brain' power drives - CCTV surveillance system

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RFID and data security

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Review