| Name | Type | Details |
| ECN Design Network Webcasts | Webcast |
Description: A collection of webcasts and whitepapers supplied by ECN Magazine.
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Author(s): Various License: Commercial Format: Other Price: Free URL: http://www.ecndesignnetwork.com/ ReviewText: On-demand webcasts available the day we visited the site include:
Keywords: webcast , ethernet , RoHS , MRAM , digital power , LED technology , Windows XP , NEMA enclosures , battery selection Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1170476472 (single entry page) |
| Web Seminars fromGalil Motion Control | Webcast |
Description: Galil offers a series of on demand webcasts that offer introductions to motion control and motor control.
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Author(s): Various License: Commercial Format: Other Price: Free URL: http://www.galilmc.com/ training/ webconf.html Limitations: You'll need to use Internet Explorer to view the webcasts. Firefox didn't work properly when we tried it. Keywords: webcast , ethernet , motion control , motor control , servos , dual loop compensation , load sharing systems , ActiveX , Visual Basic , servo amplifier , shunt regulators , ultrasonic actuators , piezo ceramic actuators , stepper motors , microstepping , brushless motor control Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1170562455 (single entry page) |
| ECN Design Network Webcasts | Webcast |
Description: ECN is offering a variety of on-demand technical webcasts.
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Author(s): Various License: Commercial Format: Other Price: Free URL: http://www.ecndesignnetwork.com/ ReviewText: Topics include:
Keywords: sensors , wireless , webcast , ethernet , power supplies , RoHS , MRAM , digital power , LEDs , Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory , NEMA Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1173502915 (single entry page) |
| IEEE 1588 Homepage | Web-Site |
Description: You can find information on the IEEE 1588-2002 Standard for
A Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for
Networked Measurement and Control Systems at the IEEE 1588 Homepage located on the nist.gov domain.
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Author(s): IEEE License: Unknown Format: Video Price: Free URL: http://ieee1588.nist.gov/ Limitations: The actual 1588 spec must be ordered from the IEEE. ReviewText: The tutorials page on this site includes:
Keywords: ethernet , networking , network time protocol , IEEE-1588 , precision time protocol Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1195592202 (single entry page) |
| LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation (LXI) | Specification |
Description: The LXI Consortium defines it this way: LXI, the LAN-based successor to GPIB, combines the advantages of Ethernet with the simplicity and familiarity of GPIB."
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Author(s): Various License: Unknown Format: PDF Price: free online URL: http://www.lxistandard.org/ home ReviewText: If you work in a lab environment, you'll want to know about LXI. This is the home site for the LXI Consortium, and you can get the specs here. Keywords: instrumentation , ethernet , LAN , LXI , GPIB Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1156479441 (single entry page) |
| Using IEEE 1588 for synchronization of network-connected devices | Tutorial |
Description: This article provides a quick tutorial discussing why the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol standard is needed, along with some of its features.
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Author(s): Dopplinger, Alexandra & Innis, Jim License: Commercial Format: Video Price: Free URL: http://www.embedded.com/ columns/ technicalinsights/ 198500595? _requestid=266733 ReviewText: You will need to visit the IEEE 1588 website or download the standard itself for a detailed understanding of the spec. Keywords: ethernet , networking , network time protocol , IEEE-1588 , precision time protocol Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1195592592 (single entry page) |
| A Beginner's Guide to Ethernet 802.3 | Book |
Description: Published by Analog Devices as document EE-269, this tutorial starts with the OSI model and takes it from there.
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Author(s): Neuhaus, Ralf License: Commercial Price: free online URL: http://www.analog.com/ UploadedFiles/ Application_Notes/ 458197465EE269v01.pdf ReviewText: A very nice tutorial. Sections include:
Keywords: ethernet , 802.3 , OSI , TCP/IP , HTTP , FTP , SMTP , NFS , RPC , UDP , token ring , transport layer , PHY , MAC , media access controller , internet , Manchester phase encoding , NRZI , CSMA/CD , networking Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1146192788 (single entry page) |
| Computer Systems: An Integrated Approach to Architecture and Operating Systems | Book |
Description: Developed by professors at Georgia Tech as a basis for a required course in Computer Science, this book can be downloaded from the web on a chapter by chapter basis.
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Author(s): Ramachandran, Umakishore & Leahy, William D. Jr. License: Unknown Format: PDF Price: Free URL: http://www.cc.gt.atl.ga.us/ classes/ AY2006/ cs2200_summer/ textbook/ ReviewText: Chapters are organized as individual PDFs. Topics include:
Keywords: ethernet , networking , LAN , multiprocessors , exceptions , DMA , file systems , computer architecture , processor architecture , Endianness , datapaths , interrupts , traps , privileged mode , pipelining , hazards , scheduling , memory management , paging , caches , TLB , mass storage , file allocation table , FAT , multithreading , WAN , OSI Model Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1181793610 (single entry page) |
| Understanding Optical Communications | Book |
Description: This 638 behemoth of a textbook should tell you everything you want to know about optical communications. Published in September 1998 by IBM.
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Author(s): Dutton, Harry J. R. License: Commercial Format: PDF Price: Free URL: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ redbooks/ pdfs/ sg245230.pdf Limitations: We've also found this text at http://www.icesociety.org. Registration is required prior to download (but is free). Registration is not required at the IBM site. ReviewText: Topics covered include:
Keywords: ethernet , CSMA/CD , networking , filters , amplifiers , CDMA , lasers , LEDs , modulators , fiber optics , optical networking , FITL , Fiber in the Loop , WDM , ATM , Sonet , light Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1187455650 (single entry page) |
| Internetworking Technology Handbook | Book |
Description: Who better to teach you the fundamentals of internet technology than Cisco? This online text covers just about every aspect of networking technology that you can imagine.
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Author(s): Cisco Systems License: Commercial Format: Video Price: Free URL: http://www.cisco.com/ univercd/ cc/ td/ doc/ cisintwk/ ito_doc/ index.htm Limitations: Apparently only available online in HTML format; no PDF. ReviewText: Contents include:
Keywords: wireless , ethernet , OSI , token ring , internet , networking , MPLS , WAN , ATM , LANs , FDDI , Fiber Distributed Data Interface , IEEE 802.5 , Frame Relay , HSSI , ISDN High-Speed Serial Interface , Integrated Services Digital Network , PPP Point to Point Protocol , SMDS , Switched Multimegabit Data Service , SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control , VPNs Virtual Private Networks , Voice/Data Integration Technologies , Digital Subscriber Line , Cable Technologies , Transparent Bridging , Mixed Media Bridging , SRB , Source-Route Bridging , Asynchronous Transfer Mode , Open Systems Interconnection Protocols , IP Internet Protocols , IPv6 , SNA Systems Network Architecture , DECnet , EIGRP , Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol , Routing Information Protocol , RIP , Resource-Reservation Protocol , RSVP , Quality of Service , QoS , Simple Multicast Routing Protocol , SMRP Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1188614963 (single entry page) |
| Name | Type | Details |
| OMNet++ | Discrete Event Simulation System |
Description: "OMNeT++ is a public-source, component-based, modular and open-architecture simulation environment with strong GUI support and an embeddable simulation kernel. Its primary application area is the simulation of communication networks and because of its generic and flexible architecture, it has been successfully used in other areas like the simulation of IT systems, queueing networks, hardware architectures and business processes as well. "
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License: Restricted - see web site for details Price: free for noncommercial use URL: http://www.omnetpp.org/ OSs: Windows, Source Available ReviewText: Recently announced: "OMNeT++ extension that makes it possible to write OMNeT++ simple modules in Java. With JSimpleModule, simulation programmers can work with almost the same API as in C++ (thanks to wrapper objects generated using SWIG). Java and C++-based simple modules can be freely mixed in simulations." Keywords: ethernet , TCP/IP , simulation , 802.11 , discrete event simulation , network simulation , queuing networks , NED , INET , MPLS , LDP Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1170475693 (single entry page) |
| Name | Type | Details |
| OVDA | Consortium |
Description: The OVDA website defines their charter: "ODVA is an international association comprised of members from the world's leading automation companies. Collectively, ODVA and its members support network technologies based on the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP). These currently include DeviceNet, EtherNet/IP, CIP Safety and CIP Sync."
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Dues: $1K to $5K depending upon company size URL: http://www.odva.org/ index.htm ReviewText: Site includes:
Keywords: ethernet , OVDA , DeviceNet , CIP , common industrial protocol Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: Use services, but not a member xml_ID: 1146448666 (single entry page) |
| Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) | Consortium |
Description: The DNLA website says: "Members of the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) share a vision of a wired and wireless interoperable network of Personal Computers (PC), Consumer Electronics (CE) and mobile devices in the home enabling a seamless environment for sharing and growing new digital media and content services."
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Dues: $8K annual corporate membership URL: http://www.dlna.org/ en/ industry/ about ReviewText: Read the DNLA Overview and Vision Whitepaper 2006 for a quick introduction to DNLA. Keywords: wireless , ethernet , HTTP , networking , bluetooth , DNLA , JPEG , LPCM , MPEG2 , UPnP , IPv4 , 802.3i , 802.3u , 802.11a/b/g , RTP , HND , DMS , DMP , DMC , DMPr , MHD , M-DMS , M-DMP , M-DMU , M-DMD , M-DMC Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1177258444 (single entry page) |
| Ethernet Alliance.org | Consortium |
Description: The mission of the Ethernet Alliance "is to promote industry awareness, acceptance, and advancement of technology and products based on both existing and emerging IEEE 802 Ethernet standards and their management."
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Dues: Corporate: $5K to $10K per year URL: http://www.ethernetalliance.org ReviewText: This looks like a fairly new site, with a collection of whitepapers and technology overviews. At time of entry (May '07), we would look elsewhere first for ethernet tutorial and reference information. Keywords: wireless , ethernet , TCP/IP , MAC , networking , IEEE 802.X , media access control Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1179675312 (single entry page) |
| Fieldbus Foundation | Consortium |
Description: The Fieldbus Foundation describes itself as "a not-for-profit corporation consisting of over 350 leading process and manufacturing automation companies worldwide whose major purpose is to provide an open and neutral environment for the development of a single, international, interoperable fieldbus. In this environment, end users, manufacturers, universities and research organizations are working together to develop the technology, provide development tools, support and training, coordinate field trials and demonstrations, and enable product interoperability."
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Dues: sliding scale from $1K to $60K per year. URL: http://www.fieldbus.org/ index.html ReviewText: We had never heard of Fieldbus, and had to look it up. Here is what Wikipedia has to say: "A Fieldbus is an industrial network system for real-time distributed control. A complex automated industrial system - say a manufacturing assembly line - usually needs an organized hierarchy of controller systems to function. In this hierarchy there is usually a Human Machine Interface (HMI) at the top, where an operator can monitor or operate the system. This is typically linked to a middle layer of programmable logic controllers (PLC) via a non time critical communications system (e.g. Ethernet). At the bottom of the control chain is the fieldbus which links the PLCs to the components which actually do the work such as sensors, actuators, electric motors, console lights, switches and contactors." Once registered on the Fieldbus site, you can download a number of white papers and technical guides, including a set of System Engineering Guidelines. |
