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|  | NVEs net income increased 
for the third consecutive quarter in results reported January 21. 
 NVE Earnings 
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|  | Application 
Tools |  |   
|  |  Magnetic 
Field Strength Calculator
 
 Quick.
 
  Whats the field strength one inch from the face of a 6 mm diameter, 
4 mm long Ceramic 8 magnet?
 
 You could dust off Maxwells equations and do some multivariate calculus.
 
 Or you can download our Flux 
Density Calculator Excel spreadsheet.
 
 The spreadsheet calculates magnetic field intensity in Oersteds from a disk or 
bar magnet at various distances. It's invaluable for the design of magnetic sensor 
systems, and it can also make you the life of any party.
 
 
 
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|  | Upcoming Exhibitions |  |   
|  |  Isolator distributor HY LINE 
Power Components is exhibiting at the Embedded World exhibition, February 24 
to 26 in Nuremberg, Germany in stand 1-170. IsoLoop 
Isolated Bus Transceivers are popular for embedded applications.
 
 
 
 
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|  | From 
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|  |  RS-485 
A/B Naming Conventions
 
 Q. The PROFIBUS and RS-485 standards define A as
 inverting (-) bus connection and B is non-inverting (+), but NVEs 
isolated transceiver datasheets are the reverse.
 
 What gives?
 
 A. Unfortunately there is no consistency in the industry on whether A or B are 
inverting or non-inverting. Most transceiver ICs use the reverse naming convention 
from the PROFIBUS and RS-485 standards.
 
 We follow the transceiver chip convention because many of our customers are replacing 
non-isolated transceiver ICs.
 
 The confusion is unfortunate, but changing datasheets would be more confusing.
 
 
 
 
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