News & Analysis

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Advanced Analogic Technologies Incorporated, an analog semiconductor company focused on enabling energy-efficient devices for consumer electronics, computing and communications markets. This acquisition expands Skyworks' portfolio with highly complementary analog semiconductor products including battery chargers, DC/DC converters, voltage regulators and LED drivers. The analog...

Engineered Conductive Materials, LLC, a leading global supplier of conductive interconnect materials for photovoltaic applications, will showcase its DB-1541-LC and DB-1548-LC Series Low-Cost Conductive Stringer Attach Adhesives in the West Hall L3, Stand 9015 at the upcoming Intersolar North America, scheduled to take place July 12-14, 2011 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced its comprehensive software development and run-time solutions for QorIQ COM Express Modules, bundled by Freescale Semiconductor and immediately available in the Freescale COM Express Development System kit. Green Hills support includes the INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS), award-winning MULTI® development environment and the Green Hill...

PMC-Sierra announced the industry's most advanced multi-port EPON OLT System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions that address the need to increase network functionality, improve reliability and reduce power consumption. The PAS5400 devices integrate four 1Gb/s EPON MACs and are scalable to enable high-density OLT equipment (see Figures 1-2). The new family of four-port devices integrates the most advanced PON capabilities on the market, including: integrated...

STMicroelectronics is the first to launch a 2-Mbit serial EEPROM chip for write-intensive applications. The new IC allows designers to replace multiple EEPROMs with a single device and improve parameter management on printed-circuit-boards. This breakthrough will help save build costs and board size for consumer and industrial applications, such as TVs and monitors, flat panels, set-top boxes, printers, smart meters, and also equipment used in me...

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, a fabless provider of high-performance radio-frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs), today announced availability of the RoHS-compliant PE64904 and PE64905 DuNE Digitally Tunable Capacitors (DTCs). The new 5-bit, 32-state digitally controlled variable capacitors provide a monolithically integrated impedance tuning solution for demanding RF applications. These UltraCMOS-based devices enable wide-band tunable ...

RF Micro Devices, Inc. have announced that RFMD® has surpassed over two million in cumulative shipments of its Multi-Chip Modules (MCMs) supporting 3G base station transceiver (BST) applications for the wireless infrastructure end market.

Tensilica announced that it reached a milestone in May 2011 with the production of over one billion Tensilica DPUs (dataplane processor units). Tensilica's licensees are currently shipping at a run rate exceeding 500 million Tensilica DPUs per year, and Tensilica projects its customers will hit the two billion cumulative shipment mark by the end of 2012 - a doubling in volume in just 18 months.

Synopsys announced today that Shrenik Mehta has been awarded Synopsys' eleventh annual Tenzing Norgay Interoperability Achievement Award. As chairperson of Accellera, a leading standards organization in electronic design automation (EDA), from 2005 until 2010, Shrenik guided the organization to several collaborative initiatives that created widely-used standards such as SystemVerilog, Unified Power Format (UPF), and Universal Verification Methodo...

Aegis Europe announces that Kitron, Scandinavia’s leading Electronics Manufacturing Services provider, has purchased an enterprise license of Aegis’ Manufacturing Operations Software (MOS) to be deployed globally across facilities in Norway, Sweden, Lithuania, Germany, China and USA.