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LDRA Opens Division Dedicated to Comprehensive Certification Services
LDRA has created LDRA Certification Services (LCS), a division devoted to helping customers develop certification-ready products. The LCS team includes Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Designated Engineering Representatives (DER) and safety engineering experts, who offer product certification solutions at a fixed price. They are able to offer this client-centered, risk-free approach, based on their vast experience.
Pickering Interfaces on Course for Expansion
Pickering Interfaces GmbH has reorganised its sales region for Eastern Europe. The sales office, located in Třinec/CZ, which supported the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Poland, will expand its sales region to support Romania, Hungary, the Republic of Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Serbia.
Mouser Now Stocking Panasonic Semiconductors Through Hole LEDs
Mouser Electronics, Inc announced it is stocking new product from Panasonic Semiconductors.
The function of functional safety: IEC 61508 for industrial and ISO 26262 for automotive
By Aaron McDonald – Recently, I participated in a functional safety training session on failure modes, effects and diagnostic analysis calculations. While this is important information, it is difficult to make it overly exciting. To kick off the discussion, the presenter pulled out a match and called it a “safety match,” the type that can only be lit against the special material on the side of the match box. Next, he pulled out ...
Lattice features new products and technologies for embedded design applications
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation today announced its plans for Embedded World 2012, which will take place Feb 28th – March 1st in Nuremberg, Germany. Lattice will be exhibiting in Hall 5, Stand 142, and will be featuring among other things its recently announced LatticeECP4TM family of devices.
Lattice features latest mobile FPGA platforms at Mobile World Congress
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation today announced it will exhibit at Mobile World Congress, Feb 27th – March 1st at Fira de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain. Lattice will be located in Hall 2.1, Stand 2.1A56, and will be featuring the company’s mobileFPGA™ platforms including the new iCE40™ and MachXO2™ FPGAs and ispMACH® 4000ZE CPLDs.
Free Keithley Web-Based Seminar Explores Source Measurement Instrumentation
Keithley Instruments, Inc. will broadcast a free, web-based seminar titled “What is an SMU Instrument, and How Do You Decide Which One is Right for Your Application?” on Thursday, February 23, for participants in North America and on Thursday, March 1, for those in Europe. This one-hour seminar will address how source measurement unit (SMU) instruments work, describe key features and capabilities to consider when selecting them, and compare t...
Nihon Superior’s Keith Sweatman to Present at TMS Annual Conference
Nihon Superior Co. Ltd. announces that its Senior Technical Advisor Keith Sweatman will present “The Effect of Composition on the Thickness Morphology and Growth of Interfacial Intermetallic in Pb-Free Solders” at the upcoming TMS Annual Conference, scheduled to take place March 11-15, 2012 at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Florida.
Microsemi Participates in European Funded Program to Further Electrify Next-generation Aircraft
Microsemi Corporation today announced its participation in a multi-disciplinary consortium funded by the European Union (Seventh Framework Programme, FP7) tasked with developing standardized Electro Mechanical Actuators (EMA) for aerospace applications to eliminate hydraulic circuits, pumps and reservoirs.
Ismosys delivers human vision, memory and connectivity in Europe
Etron Technology Inc. has appointed Ismosys as its pan-European representative/stockist. Etron is a fabless IC design and product company that offers cutting-edge Known-Good-Die-Memory (KGDM) and consumer electronics DRAM (CEDRAM), including DDRI DRAM, DDRII DRAM, SDR DRAM and low-power SDRAM. Etron’s system-on-chip products include USB 3.0 host controllers and webcam controllers.