For three decades, industrial PCs have used two types of internal architecture, motherboards and passive backplanes: ATX motherboards with slots for ISA, PCI and PCIe I/O extensions connected ...

RedMere, the leading supplier of smart active cable solutions, has introduced the first self-powered HDMI long-length embedded active cable booster module to its product set. This fully packaged ...

Cable solutions specialists Spectra7 have been providing advancements in embedded cable processors for a long time now. Their products help remove clutter by placing signal processors inside the ...

Costly HDMI cables that promise to drastically improve picture quality have been around for years, but there's often no discernible difference between the images they provide and those from cheaper ...

Cable modem gets DOCSIS 2.0 okay. Cable Television Laboratories (www.CableLabs.com) has certified Texas Instruments' DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem. Called waves, the tests ensure modems meet Data Over Cable ...

TI's DSP-based TNETC47xx (Puma-4) chip set is aimed at the voice-over-cable (VoCable) market. The chip set can process cellular codecs, setting the stage for fixed mobile convergence with phones that ...

The one word that usually comes to mind when the topic of fiber-optic cable comes up is “speed”—the kind of blinding speed needed in high-performance computing for within-box processing as well as ...