New-Tech Europe Magazine | Dec 2017

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Ultra-Compact 3 W Wall Plug Adapters Meet DoE Level VI and CoC Tier 2 Efficiency Standards CUI’s Power Group today introduced four new series of 3 W wall plug power adapters to its portfolio of DoE Level VI and CoC Tier 2 compliant external power supplies. The SWI3-N and SWI3-N-USB series, available with North American input blades, and the SWI3-E and SWI3-E-USB series, featuring European input blades, are all certified to meet the current average efficiency and no-load power requirements enforced by the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Level VI standards. The new series are also designed to meet the European Union’s proposed CoC Tier 2 directive, under review to become law in 2018, which looks to further tighten the efficiency requirements enforced by Level VI while adding a new power consumption limit at 10% load levels. Housed in an ultra-compact case measuring as small as 2.54 x 1.42 x 0.89 inches (64.6 x 36 x 22.5 mm), these external ac-dc power supplies offer 5 Vdc single regulated outputs, a wide universal input voltage range from 90 to 264 Vac, and no-load power consumption less than 0.075 W. Thanks to their ultra-compact design and class II construction, the new models are ideally suited for a wide range of consumer applications, including media players, e-readers, GPS, and other mobile devices. The SWI3-N and SWI3-E series feature a range of standard dc output connector options, including micro USB type B, while the SWI3-N-USB and SWI3-E-USB series incorporate an integrated USB connector. Models with fixed input blades for North American and Japanese applications carry UL/cUL and PSE safety approvals with European fixed blade models carrying CE and GS safety approvals. All of the wall plug adapters offer over current, over voltage, and short circuit protections and comply with FCC Part 15 Class B limits for EMI/EMC.

NI Announces Industry’s First PXI Chassis With 58 W of Power and Cooling per Slot The new chassis is also NI’s quietest PXI Express chassis in its 38 W cooling profile mode NI, the provider of platform-based systems that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, announced today the PXIe-1095 chassis, the industry’s first PXI Chassis with 58 W of dedicated power and cooling per slot. This represents a 50 percent increase in power and cooling per slot compared to previously released NI PXI Express chassis. In addition to higher power, the new chassis also features a significant reduction in fan noise in its 38 W cooling profile mode, delivering a 13 dB improvement compared to the previously released PXIe-1085 chassis and making it NI’s quietest PXI Express chassis. “With 58 W of power and cooling in every slot of our newest chassis, we can continue to expand the PXI platform to serve even the most challenging instrumentation needs of our customers,” said Steve Warntjes, vice president of R&D, modular instruments at NI. “This new chassis will not only provide more power and cooling for power-hungry FPGA processing applications, but also provide higher power budgets for future PXI modules.” In addition to providing higher power and lower fan noise, the 18-slot PXIe-1095 chassis offers two hot- swappable, redundant 1,200 W power supplies for high-availability applications. Using PCI Express Gen 3 technology, the new chassis features 24 GB/s of system bandwidth for high-throughput peer-to-peer or peer- to-disk data transfer applications. Furthermore, the chassis offers an optional timing and synchronization upgrade that includes a built-in OCXO for increased clock accuracy and external clock and trigger routing. Finally, like all NI PXI Chassis, the PXIe-1095 includes software resources for monitoring system health data

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