Micron Associates: 2012

Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012

Micron Associates unveils 12-port USB Hub! » Micron Associates :2012 TRENDS

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Nowadays,only having a six outlets on a strip seems more and more insufficient. Similarly, USB hubs of the past with only a handful of ports have become deficient.

According to Micron Associates, USB jack plugs into your computer for communication, but (for when you’ve got more than just a few devices plugged in) it gets most of its power through an AC adapter. 12-Port USB 2.0 Hub makes use of a pair of switches that individually control two separate six-port banks. So you can save some energy, if you’ve got fewer gadgets plugged in. On the other hand, if you’re crawling with devices, you can daisy chain additional strips to have up to 127 ports!

In the test conducted, the strip did fine for a portable monitor (that normally hogs two of your laptop’s four USB ports), a wireless mouse, charging and synching a smartphone, printing, plus loading songs as well as radio stations.

Men can also have Breast Cancer, Micron Associates claims. » Micron Associates :2012 TRENDS

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CHICAGO —Men hardly ever get breast cancer, but those those who do often don’t survive as long as women, largely because they don’t even realize they can get it and are slow to recognize the warning signs, review onMicron Associates.

Women with breast cancer lived two years in average longer that men in the biggest study yet of the disease in males. In fact, men found out that their breast tumors were larger at diagnosis which is more developed and more likely to crawl other parts of the body. Based from the study released on Micron Associates men were also diagnosed later in life, 63 on average versus 59 for women.

Mostly men don’t have an idea that they can get breast cancer, and some doctors too. 1in one 1, 000 will get breast cancer versus 1in 8 women, as estimates by American Cancer Society. By contrast, 1 ion 6 men will get prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men. As it was analyzed,10 years of national data on breasts cancer cases, from 1998 to 2007. In opposition to 1.4 million women,a total of 13,457 male patients were diagnosed. The men who were studied lived an average of about eight years after being diagnosed, compared with more than 10 years for women. The study doesn’t indicate whether patients died of breast cancer or something else.

A breast cancer specialist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, Dr. Akkama Ravi stresses the research bolsters results in smaller studies and may help raise awareness.Due to the fact that disease is so extraordinary in men, research is limited, as well as doctors are left to treat it the same way they manage the disease in women, she said. Additionaly,men’s breast tumors might be biologically different from women, some doctors said. On the Micron Associates healthy lifestyle news release ,men with early-stage disease had worse survival rates than women with early-stage cancer. But men’s older age at diagnosis also might explain that result, Greif said.

However, men’s breast cancer causes are not well-studied, but some of the same things that increase women’s chances for developing it also affect men, including older age, cancer-linked gene mutations, a family history of the disease and heavy drinking.

Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2012

2012 Micron Associates the growing apps: Your success of mobile marketing

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(Reuters) – The very well-known puzzle game Angry Birds within the Smartphone applications are turning into a key driver for mobile advertising, as mobile applications become the major distribution ways for media on handheld devices.

Many applications are free from Apple itself firs launched the App store in 2007for the iPhone.
As well as Google that has a booming app store for its android phones,based from the report of in Micron Associates.

In the beginning, most developers of such applications seemed that they would have a hard time making enough money for their small software programs like playing games to checking the weather or recognizing songs.

However, advertisers are now increasing use mobile applications for them to be able to reach the consumers of those apps. An advertiser estimates $2.9 billion on in-app advertising this year, based from Strategy Analytics inMicron Associates, while consumers spend $26.1 billion buying them. There are 38 percent up to more than 32 billion is expected to grow in downloading number apps globally, this year.

“Advertisers run after eyeballs, for them to know and to give them a sign that apps are what consumers love most rather than of those in the mobile web,” said by the firm’s director of wireless strategies, David MacQueen. Moreover, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network InMobi says that there are a number of ads seen by consumers on mobile phones boosts 21 percent in January-March over the previous quarter to 283 billion.

Economically speaking, consumers are apt to use more basic phones that may not have access to the app store, but browse the Web instead. In addition, InMobi confirm that mobile Advertising is taking off, after seizing for years with the small screen size and seeming advancement of privacy on phones.

Micron Associates: Smart network could create jobs, economic growth grows

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LONDON (Reuters) -Ernst & Young report said on Tuesday, Britain could drive 13 billion pounds ($21 billion)into its economy and make up to 10,000 jobs by improving its power distribution network with smart grid technologies.

The technology has the possibilities to change the way electricity is generated, distributed and consumed just as the internet changed the way the world communicates, Smart network advocates said. In order to maximize competence in supply and demand and to reduce costs that is for home and businesses – even for those opting for low-carbon technologies, such as electric cars or solar power, the idea is to create a huge communication network. However utilities director at Ernst & Young said that this kind of advancement will require an added investment of 23 billion pounds and up to 2050, a business as usual approach using conventional technology will cost 42 billion, Bill Easton claimed.

According Easton reported in Micron Associates, upon realizing the said advancement, many can expect to vision a wider economic significance in the UK, providing a salutation boost to growth, jobs as well as exports. In addition, these could include close to 10,000 new jobs and exports in excess of 5 billion (pounds). But the report recognizes faces up such as whether the conventional or proposed government-backed plans will give results, and that the adoption of smart grid technologies is likely to be slow, with little investment before 2023.

To enable governments to monitor the demands of energy by 2019, they created plans for every household and business that is fitted with a smart meter in which requires the substitution of some 53 million gas and electricity meters, Micron Associates quoted.

The manager of the Smart Grid GB, said that the UK doesn’t have enough money to take a “wait-and-see” approach if it wants to be a world leader in smart grid technology, as China, the United States and others are also in the creation of systems similar to them.

If there is a failure in deploying smart grid, the advancement of clean tech industries and mounting domestic electric costs will be in hampered.

Sonntag, 22. April 2012

2012 Trends Global Economic Development Update

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Frankfurt, Germany — Investors showed little interest for Germany’s latest 10-year bond issue in the face of the country’s repudiation as a safe haven from the euro zone’s debt mayhem.

London — when fears grew that the U.S. economy was slowing and Micron Associates reported the returning of the debts crisis in Europe, stock markets made a rally for the reclamation of their losses from a day earlier.

In France, the CAC-40 had increased 0.6 percent while Britain’s FTSE gained 0.7 percent, while, Germany’s DAX jumped 1 percent.

Madrid — as the country’s borrowing costs cut down after mounting this week, Spanish Financial markets were on the alert for any further destruction.

Athens, Greece — Prime Minister Lucas Papademos on called a general election in Greece for May 6, after his alliance government pushed through landmark financial relief deals that rescued the country from the threat of bankruptcy but doomed recession-hit Greeks to greater hardship.

Tehran, Iran — Iran’s official Press TV in Micron Associates says the country plans to interdict imports from 100 European companies as part of Tehran’s pre-emptive reprisal against an EU embargo that is to go into effect in July.

Tokyo — In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 cut down 0.8 percent after their earlier sinking in the day to its lowest level in about two months. While, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 1.1 percent and Seoul’s Kospi edged 0.1 percent lower

Rome — Italy’s borrowing costs times the pair of bond auctions due to transformed market indecision about debt and growth projection among the 17-nation euro zone’s weakest members.

Prague — The Czech prime minister quoted on the Micron Associates release, his government has approved a package of unpopular severity actions and spending cuts to help transport the budget deficit back below 3 percent of GDP.

Hong Kong — Developing Asia’s economic growth will unhurry to 6.9 percent in 2012 because of weak global demand, the Asian Development Bank said, as it warned widening inequality could undermine political stability.

Shanghai — China’s passenger car sales accumulated a diffident 4.5 percent in March from the year before as automakers cut prices to counter slack demand.

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Manufacturing numbers from the US, China and Germany expected the renewing optimism for the global economic outlook and encouraging investors to take on risk. Early in the afternoon trading in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.16 percent,

Montag, 26. März 2012

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Micron Associates: Micron broadening support for memory cube: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4369672/Micron-broadening-support-for-memory-cube SAN JOSE, Calif. – At next week’s Design West ...

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SAN JOSE, Calif. – At next week’s Design West conference, Micron will discuss the road map for its Hybrid Memory Cube, one of the high profile initiatives in a growing wave of 3-D chip stacks. The memory maker is adding new supporters and specifications around its plan for a release of an ultra-dense memory device in the first half of next year.

Micron hopes to name two new supporters in the next few weeks to its currently slate of six companies. It already has backing from Altera, OpenSilicon, Samsung, Xilinx and IBM which made a prototype cube in a 32 nm process. Last September, Intel showed a research project on a physical-layer device that worked with Micron’s cube.

The Hybrid Memory Cube is a stack of four to eight DRAM die linked in a 3-D IC chip stack using through silicon via. They are joined to a logic die that can handle both the RAS/CAS memory-array access jobs of a DRAM chip and the system memory controller functions typically done by a separate chip.

Designers envision placing the Micron stack on a chip substrate next to a server or network processor to provide new levels of fast memory access for high performance systems. Micron says it will deliver early next year 2 and 4 Gbyte versions of the stack providing aggregate bi-directional bandwidth of up to 160 Gbytes/second.

Members of Micron’s consortium are still debating exactly what jobs the logic layer in the stack should support, particularly as the latest server processors already embed memory controllers. Micron prefers to provide the full complement of DRAM and system control in the cube.

The debate is one of the central issues in creating an interface for the cube. Micron and partners hope to deliver a draft of that interface in June, initially open only to members of its consortium of partners. Another issue is whether or how to support atomic transactions, a method for aggregating tasks particularly helpful for multicore processors.

The cube spec in development is described as a high-speed serial interface using a packet protocol. Micron hopes the group can finish the spec by the end of the year, making it generally available on a royalty-free basis.

Micron is not alone in the pursuit of a 3-D memory stack. The Jedec group is working on a follow on to the 12.8 Gbit/second Wide I/O interface that targets mobile applications processors. The so-called HB-DRAM or HBM effort is said to target a 120-128 Gbyte/second interface and is led by the Jedec JC-42 committee including representatives from Hynix and other companies.

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Designed by Chapman Associates and manufactured in the U.K. by K-Tech Limited. Overview ‘MICRON’ is a very small radio-controlled switching system, fully CAA approved for security use on aircraft, in which the miniature Radio-Switch has the capability to acknowledge automatically any valid commands received from an operator using a hand-held Command Unit. It operates at very low power in the licence-exempt UHF band, is battery powered, and all functions are managed by intelligent low-power microprocessors. Main features The ‘MICRON’ Radio-Switch produces virtually no RF radiation.

Sonntag, 5. Februar 2012

Micron Associates - Blogspot: GRAVITO-MAGNETIC ORBITS FOR MICRON SIZED PARTICLES, L. B. Crowell

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The two body dynamics of an orbiting particle is usually governed by Newton's
laws of gravity and mechanics. Here the Kepler problem has been studied with the
addition of the Lorentz force of magnetism. For micrometeoroids and small man made
debris particles electromagnetic interactions may become important. The space
environment is filled with charged particles, electrons and ions, that may be deposited on
a 1 - 100 microns sized particle. The orbits of such charged particles have been
modeled in earth orbit, with the dipole magnetic field superposed on the gravity field.
An initial study of this problem has been conducted. Figures 1 illustrates a 600
second time frame of particles in a 300 kilometer altitude Earth orbit with a 5.7'
inclination. The solid line is the pure Kepler problem. The dashed lines are the paths
taken by various sized particles with a single positive charge of 1.6x10-'~ coulombs.
The additional energy required to deflect these particles from a Kepler orbit
comes from the deposition of charge at the initial stage in the calculation. From there
the energy of the particle is conserved since both the gravitational and magnetic forces
are conservative, i.e. $F d r = 0.
The orbit of 1 micron sized particles has been computed and the results a r e
shown in figures 2 through 5. The results of this numerical exercise in magneto-orbital
dynamics a r e rather unexpected, but appear physically correct when studied. The
particle was set in a 2000km orbit with a 5.7' inclination. Figure 2 displays how the
magnetic field torques the orbital plane. Figure 3 then shows how the orbit is flipped
over and shoved toward the north pole. This is analogous to the spin orbit interaction in
the quantum atom. He r e the magnetic moments of the Earth's magnetic field and the
orbit a r e parallel. The flip in the orbit is a result of the system's requirement to reach a
lower magnetic energy by antiorienting the magnetic moments. The energy lost by
reorienting the magnetic moment goes into gravitational potential energy by shoving the
orbit above the north pole.
Since this model is classical, and the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the
accelerating charge is negligible, events depart from the Bohr quantum analog above.
The charged particle finds itself in a magnetic bottle near the north pole, figure 4. The
spiralling charged particle is deflected upward by the converging magnetic field. The
spiral then climbs upward only to be drawn back down by gravity. The spiral bounces up
and down gradually reaching on average a lower altitude with each bounce. This
ephemeris run went for 84000 iterations, with three seconds per iteration, before the
particle crashed into the Earth. Figure 5 is a close up of the oscillating orbital spiral
shortly before it crashes into the earth.
This problem explores a hole in the current understanding of orbital mechanics of
particles. Ions and electrons in the Earth environment are treated as obeying the laws of
electromagnetism, and collectively according to plasma physics.

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Designed by Chapman Associates and manufactured in the U.K. by K-Tech Limited. Chapman Associates - 'MICRON' Miniature Command Radio System

Overview

‘MICRON’ is a very small radio-controlled switching system, fully CAA approved for security use on aircraft, in which the miniature Radio-Switch has the capability to acknowledge automatically any valid commands received from an operator using a hand-held Command Unit. It operates at very low power in the licence-exempt UHF band, is battery powered, and all functions are managed by intelligent low-power microprocessors.

Main features

The ‘MICRON’ Radio-Switch produces virtually no RF radiation when receiving, which makes it ideally suited for use in locations where it may be positioned close to other very sensitive electronic equipment, and also greatly facilitates its compliance with ETSI-ETS 300 220 and similar regulations.
The basic Radio-Switch unit is only 52mm x 36mm x 12mm and weighs just 13 grams (excluding antenna and connecting leads). When fitted in a plastic case (optional), its dimensions become 57mm x 41mm x 20mm.
The Radio-Switch consumes only 250uA (average) when using battery economiser.
Two different output configurations are available, each capable of switching an external DC load of up to 500mA, as detailed below:-
(a) A miniature latching relay which provides one fully isolated pair of changeover contacts. This latching relay only requires a short pulse to ‘flip’ it from one state to the other and then retains that position, even if power is removed, until it is ‘flipped’ back to the previous state. Two versions of the Radio-Switch using the latching-relay are available, one for use on a DC supply voltage of 4.5-9 volts and the other for 8-16 volts.
OR
(b) A solid-state high-side power switch. This version switches the ‘MICRON’ DC supply voltage (which can be anywhere in the range 5-16 volts) to its output lead whenever the Radio-Switch is commanded to the ‘ON’ position. It is totally silent in operation but does not provide the fully isolated switching offered by the latched-relay version. Its switched output voltage will be 1.0-1.2 volts less than the DC supply voltage and, although it is protected against reversal of the DC supply, its output circuitry is not protected against damage that could be caused by a prolonged current overload.
All units use a very secure Family Identity code which is workshop re-programmable, together with a Unit Identity code (1, 2, 3 or 4) which can be set or altered by the user.
Up to four Radio-Switches, all programmed with the same Family Identity code but different Unit Identities, can be independently controlled by the same Command Unit.

The Radio-Switch

The Radio-Switch has no On/Off switch. When deployed, and using the battery economiser mode, the receiver is normally switched on for around 120 milliseconds every 2 seconds (i.e: a 6% duty-cycle) until a valid code is recognised, after which it then 'locks-on' and decodes the data received. This means, however, that any transmission from the Command Unit has to last for at least 2 seconds to ensure that it will be successfully 'captured' and decoded by the receiver.

Once a valid transmission has been recognised by the Radio-Switch microprocessor, as soon as that transmission ceases the Radio-Switch changes to ‘transmit’ mode and an acknowledgement signal is sent. This comprises a short sequence of long or short tone ‘beeps’ which, when received by the Command Unit, inform the operator as to the new status of the output switch (ON or OFF). NOTE: The answer-back signal can be inhibited by removing the small RED jumper link.

Following receipt of any valid command, the Radio-Switch stays ‘awake' for a further 10 seconds in case additional commands are to be sent. Any transmissions made during this period can be of quite short duration since the receiver is already 'awake'. Ten seconds after receiving the last valid transmission, the receiver reverts again to battery economiser mode.

The Radio-Switch (if operating continuously) draws a current of around 4mA but, by using its battery economiser facility, this can be reduced to an average of around 250uA. If receiver battery power economy is not an important consideration and a faster response is required, the economiser can be completely disabled by fitting the YELLOW shorting-link.

Visible indicators

To enable the operation of the Radio-Switch to be easily monitored, three small LED’s are mounted on the PCB. They indicate the following:-

Green LED Lights (quite dimly, in order to minimise unnecessary current drain) whenever the Radio-Switch receiver or transmitter is actually being powered. When using the battery economiser this LED should flash at regular intervals until a valid signal is received. It should be continuously lit if the battery economiser has been over-ridden. Yellow LED Lights (dimly, as described above) whenever a signal bearing the same Family Code (but no necessarily with the correct Unit Identity) is being received. Red LED If fitted, this LED lights when an ‘ON’ command has been received and stays lit while the Radio-Switch is powered until an ‘OFF’ command is received.

The Command Unit

The Command Unit is housed in a black ABS case 146mm x 91mm x 34mm and powered by an internal 6 volt battery pack, comprising 4 x MN1500 (AA) batteries. It is designed to be hand-held and very simple to use. A quarter-wave whip antenna is attached to it by means of a BNC connector.

On the front panel of the Command Unit is a rotary switch which provides On/Off switching and Identity selection of the Radio-Switch to be controlled. By pressing one of the two large push buttons, one Red and the other Black, the transmitter can be activated to send the appropriate ‘On’ or ‘Off’ command to the distant Radio-Switch. Whenever the transmitter is operating the two-colour LED at the top of the front-panel will light up red.

As soon as the large push-button is released, the Command Unit’s receiver will be powered for a few seconds, the LED will change to green, and the acknowledgement from the Radio-Switch (if sent) should be heard on the built-in loudspeaker. Volume can be adjusted by means of a rotary control.

In order to listen on the radio channel and check for possible interference, the receiver can also be switched on by holding down the small push-button adjacent to the Unit Identity selector switch. The LED will light up green when this is done also.

When operating the Command Unit, if the LED fails to light, or is lit dimly when a button is pressed, the internal batteries probably need to be replaced.

Even though the Command Unit has an On/Off switch (part of the Unit Identity switch), its quiescent current in ‘standby’ (not transmitting or receiving) mode is less than 150uA so, even if it was not switched off after use its battery drain is minimal.

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