News & Analysis

Low Power Radio Solutions has had its market leading “Easy Radio” modules designed into an intelligent energy management by Envision Energy Ltd. Marketed as Intelligent Energy Controls the system provides a reliable way to save on energy costs by ensuring non-essential equipment is turned off when it is not needed. Most commercial premises contain electrical equipment that only needs to be switched on for a portion of each day, usually when s...

Avago Technologies today announced new advancements in its innovative CoolPAM power amplifier architecture which will extend handset battery life. The company is a leading supplier of innovative semiconductor solutions for advanced communications, industrial and commercial applications. Handsets and other mobile devices leveraging the CoolPAM technology will be able to extend battery life by as much as 20%. Products based on Avago's next generati...

Fairchild Semiconductor, the leading global supplier of power semiconductors, today announced that Dr. Izak Bencuya, executive vice president and general manager of the Functional Power Group, and members of his management team, will review the company’s power technology, products and business strategy from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT, on February 22, 2007, at the company’s offices in San Jose, California.

ACAL Semiconductors today announced that they have signed a franchise agreement to partner with SiliconSystems™ Inc, a world leader in advanced storage technology engineered exclusively for the Enterprise System OEM market, to provide Solid-State Disc (SSD) storage systems for customers in the UK.

Future Technology Devices International Limited (FTDI) announces that Parallax Inc. has expanded its distribution agreement with the addition of the Vinculum Universal Serial Bus (USB) host controller IC to their product portfolio. Vinculum provides USB host capability to microcontroller-based products that previously did not have the hardware resources available. A wide range of consumer, commercial and industrial products can now incorporate US...

Anglia has been nominated as “Outstanding Regional European Distributor” by circuit protection specialist, Raychem, a division of Tyco Electronics. The award, for Northern Europe, was won in the face of competition from four other distributors, including the world’s largest. Raychem judges the performance of its distributors on sales growth, number of design registrations, conversion of design registrations, sales of new products, and parti...

Aerco, a long time stocking distributor of a wide range of aircraft lighting products from Paramount Panels (formally TEC), is now offering lamps and accessories that are compatible with night vision goggles (NVG).

LEM has introduced Minisens, a miniature, IC transducer for AC and DC isolated current measurement up to 100 KHz. This new component offers full isolation (no optocouplers required) and high sensitivity (from 20 mV to 200 mV per Amp of primary current) with no insertion losses. It is mounted directly onto a PCB as an SMD device, reducing manufacturing cost.

Renesas Technology Europe announces both that NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Renesas Technology Corp., Fujitsu Limited, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Sharp Corporation are developing SH-Mobile G2 single chip 3G platform, and also that the SH-Mobile G2 single chip 3G platform supports Symbian OS v9.3. Aimed at high end 3G smartphones the upgraded processors address the need for a standard OS platform for advanced applications, and also the increased d...

National Instruments has announced the release of the NI LabWindows/CVI 8.1 Real-Time Module, an extension to the proven ANSI C development environment that makes it easy for engineers to create and deploy reliable and deterministic applications to dedicated real-time hardware such as PXI and desktop PCs. LabWindows/CVI Real-Time takes advantage of network variables to simplify the process of transferring data between real-time and Windows applic...