Electronic Design

PCI Express Mini Card Tackles Compact Embedded Expansion

1. PCI Express Mini Cards are available from a variety of vendors, including products such as Diamond Systems’DS-MPE-DAQ0804 Analog I/O Module (a), Versalogic’s VL-MPEe-U2e Serial+GPIO (b), and ...
Electronic Design

PCI Express Mini Cards Provide Module Expansion

Stackable boards like PC/104 and its PCI Express variants offer developers a plethora of I/O expansion options. While compact, these boards are large compared to many module-based systems. These ...
Ars Technica

Half-height vs. full-height mini-PCI express WLAN woes

For Christmas, I received the Intel ultimate 6300 wireless card (http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Ultimate-63 ... B0038A9HSK) for my laptop. My laptop is a Dell D830 ...
Embedded

WiQuest adds Vista drivers to its WUSB reference designs

WiQuest Communications' has updated its Wireless USB reference designs with Windows Vista drivers. Included are the wireless USB Adapter, 4-port Hub, PCIe Mini Card and PCIe Half Mini Card. The ...
PC Magazine

Mini PCI

Mini PCI is a subset of the PCI interface that uses a significantly smaller card form factor. Supporting only 3.3 volts and 32 bits of the PCI specification, Mini PCI was designed for peripherals such ...
EDN

Atheros 802.11n chips give PC OEMs performance options, power savings

Atheros Communications' dual-band AR9280 and single-band AR9281 PCI Express (PCIe) chips have been designed to address the high-performance and consumer markets of IEEE 802.11n for PC OEMs. The new ...
EDN

UWB chip vendor WiQuest rolls Vista drivers

SAN FRANCISCO — Ultrawideband (UWB) chip vendor WiQuest Communications Inc. Wednesday (Sept. 20) announced the availability of Windows Vista drivers for its range of wireless USB reference designs, ...