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Everlight Fights Back Against Nichia in LED Patent Battle
After Everlight won a victory over Nichia for the patent administrative litigation (Patent No. 089036) in the Taiwan Supreme Administrative Court in October 2011, the Taiwan Supreme Court this November ruled in favor of Everlight again in the civil infringement case on Nichia’s patent in issue, which finalizes all cases regarding this patent. Furthermore, facing the situation that Nichia has affected fair competitive market mechanisms by filing...
OSRAM Pointled selected as light source in Lumidigm M-Series fingerprint sensors
Lumidigm has selected the Pointled from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors as the illumination source in the company’s Mercury and Mariner Fingerprint Sensors (Lumidigm M-Series). Lumidigm has long been at the forefront of the fingerprint sensor market with its proprietary multispectral imaging technology. The recent adoption of the compact, bright and efficient OSRAM Pointled has enabled Lumidigm to reduce the size and cost of its sensors and expand ...
New PandaBoard ES arms open source mobile developers with TI’s OMAP4460 processor
Pandaboard.org has announced the general availability of PandaBoard ES, the next-generation open mobile software development platform based on OMAP 4 technology from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). Priced at a low USD $182, PandaBoard ES is the industry’s first board to rely on TI’s OMAP4460 processor. The OMAP4460 processor’s smart multicore architecture includes two ARM® Cortex™-A9 cores running at up to 1.2 GHz each, and excels a...
HARTING posts significant increase in revenues – 16.5 % up on the previous year Site investment: €8 million for Espelkamp
The HARTING Technology Group posted revenues of €481 million in the last financial year. This signifies an increase in revenues of 16.5 % compared to the previous year (€413 million). “We set ambitious targets for the financial year and have exceeded our own expectations,” as Dietmar Harting stated the press conference on the annual financial statements held on December 5, 2011 in Espelkamp.
NEPCON China to Host First Edition at Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center in 2012
Reed Exhibitions recently announced that NEPCON China 2012 will take place at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center from April 25-27. The event will boast four new segments featuring electronic static discharge, electronics manufacturing automation, advanced electronics packaging and touch panel.
Lantronix Launches EDS-MD: Next Generation Device Aggregator for the Medical Market
Lantronix has announced the global launch and general availability of its EDS-MD, a next generation medical device aggregator, based on the award-winning EDS product family. Developed specifically for the medical industry, EDS-MD facilitates the secure access and management of medical devices in hospitals, laboratories, and other healthcare environments. EDS-MD network-enables equipment such as patient monitoring systems, glucose analysers, EKG m...
Apache Design’S Totem Software Adopted By Fujitsu Semiconductor For Power Noise And Reliability Analysis
ANSYS announced that Totem software — from its subsidiary Apache Design, Inc. — has been deployed by Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited to analyze and optimize all their custom integrated circuit (IC) designs. This includes analog, memory, high-speed I/O, PMIC (power management IC) and RF ICs that are used in wide variety of consumer, mobile and communications electronic products.
Bentek Solar Has Shipped 250MW of Bentek Zone Current Monitoring
Bentek Solar has shipped shipped hundreds of megawatts of Bentek Zone Current Monitoring installed in Bentek re-combiners and disconnect safety systems (MDSS and CBSS) throughout North America. Bentek Zone Current Monitoring is an advanced, highly reliable monitoring system with a networked RS-485 or Ethernet interface running Modbus protocol that allows PV system operators to optimize PV system performance and identify potential PV system perfo...
SEGGER Microcontroller embedded software suite to support Energy Micro’s Cortex-M3 Gecko microcontrollers
SEGGER Microcontroller and Energy Micro have announced that SEGGER’s high-performance embedded middleware suite now supports Energy Micro’s range of ultra low energy ARM Cortex-M3 based EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers. The comprehensive feature-rich and high-performance software suite from SEGGER delivers an easy-to-use environment for embedded systems development, offering exceptionally low memory requirements, which minimizes Bill-of-Materials...
Aventyn Uses Plessey Semiconductors ECG Sensor for Mobile Health Applications
Aventyn Inc., announced the collaboration agreement at the 2011 mHealth Summit. The summit is organized by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health in partnership with mHIMSS, the mHealth Alliance and the National Institutes of Health. Aventyn will use the EPIC sensor integrated in a mobile platform to capture non-intrusive ECG measurements personalized to individual heart failure patients. The measured ECG data is displayed on the pa...