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Fujitsu Wins 2010 ‘Golden Mousetrap Award’
Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME), today announced that its MB86298 ‘Ruby’ graphics display controller (GDC) has won a 2010 Golden Mousetrap Award from ‘Design News Magazine,’ arguably the industry’s leading technical resource for design engineers in the USA.
Aonix PERC Ultra Virtual Machine flies high on recent business jet certification tests
Atego, the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative development tools for engineering complex, mission- and safety-critical architectures, systems, software and hardware, announces the latest successful deployment of its Aonix PERC Ultra® Virtual Machine in Rockwell Collins’ Venue high definition (HD) Cabin Management System (CMS). The most recent certification was completed on the Cessna Citation CJ4 business jet. The...
VPX Software Radio Boards Delivers Extreme Performance
Pentek, Inc. has introduced 14 products in their new family of 3U VPX boards for data acquisition, software radio and digital signal processing. These new boards offer flexible backplane fabric connections supporting maximum data rates of up to 4 GB/sec with PCI Express (PCIe) Generation 2 (Gen 2) and 2.5 GB/sec with other protocols. The 3U VPX form factor is compact and extremely well suited for avionics, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs...
Adeneo Embedded announces training and professional services dedicated to Silverlight for Windows Embedded and Windows Phone
Adeneo Embedded, a Microsoft Windows Embedded Gold System Integrator and Microsoft Silverlight Partner, announced today training and development professional services on Silverlight for Windows Embedded and Windows Phone platforms for products based on Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 and Windows Phone.
Fairchild Semiconductor to Highlight Energy-Efficient Lighting Solutions at PCIM Europe
Fairchild Semiconductor will highlight its LED lighting solutions at PCIM Europe. Fairchild will also feature its leading power technologies and application demonstrations that innovate AC-DC, DC-DC and automotive designs.
ARM CELEBRATES 10 YEARS IN SHEFFIELD
ARM is celebrating 10 years of operation in Sheffield this week, highlighting the city’s growing importance as a technology hub. ARM, a FTSE 100 company, licences IP to a network of Partners including 200 leading semiconductor and systems companies, with more than 18 billion ARM processor-based chips shipped to date. The company’s processor designs power over 95 percent of mobile phones and over 25 percent of all electronic devices from handh...
Plextek launches fast-deployment surveillance camera
Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy, today announced the launch of Sentinel, a high resolution wireless camera system that can be deployed in under five minutes. Combining a high-performance digital sensor and zoom optics, intelligent real-time image processing and 3G connectivity, the battery-powered integrated system provides excellent video resolution for important scene areas, matched to the variable...
ProVision appoints Matthew Trowbridge as chairman
ProVision Communications, a world leader in multi-room streaming of wireless HD video technology, has appointed Matthew Trowbridge as chairman and member of the board, replacing founding director, Professor David Bull.
EMS Company Limtronik opts for GOEPEL electronic’s AXI System
The German contract manufacturer Limtronik has decided on GOEPEL electronic’s Automated X-Ray Inspection system OptiCon X-Line 3D for enhanced quality assurance of its products. In addition to the system’s test speed, the critical factors in favour of this decision were the in-line ability and 3D functionality of the AXI machine. Moreover, as far as future innovations and service are concerned, Limtronik decided for an AXI direct from an O...
Magma Appoints Noriaki Kikuchi President of Japanese Subsidiary
Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, announced today it has named Noriaki Kikuchi president of Magma KK, Magma’s Japanese subsidiary. Kikuchi, with more than 30 years experience in electronic design automation and other technology industries, reports to Magma President and Chief Operating Officer Roy E. Jewell.