News & Analysis

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation today announced that it has appointed Jay Biskupski to the role of chief financial offer, responsible for the Company’s financial and site services organizations. Mr. Biskupski replaces Philip Chapman, who moves to a new executive role which will oversee the deployment of the Company’s Intellectual Property licensing strategy.

Readers of Test and Measurement World have selected VI Technology’s Multimedia Test System (MMTS™) as the winner of the prestigious Best in Test Award for the “Audio/Video and Multimedia” category.

Agilent and Symwave have announced Symwave's use of the Agilent DSA91304A real-time oscilloscope and J-BERT N4903A high-performance serial BERT as part of its comprehensive USB 3.0 device testing and validation. Symwave is a leading silicon supplier of system solutions for SuperSpeed USB storage devices.

Providing the underlying technology to accelerate the video transfer process, Altera Corporation today announced Panasonic has selected Altera's Arria GX FPGAs, PCI Express (PCIe) MegaCore IP and Nios® II processor solution for its new AJ-PCD35, five-slot P2 (tapeless format) memory-card drive.

ON Semiconductor has announced the further expansion of its application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) offering through an agreement with LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI). The agreement gives ON Semiconductor customers access to an established and cost-effective 110 nanometer (nm) process technology and associated silicon-proven intellectual property (IP) via ON Semiconductor’s wafer fabrication facility in Gresham, Oregon.

productronica will welcome international visitors to the New Munich Trade Fair Centre from November 10 to 13, 2009. Despite the difficult economic situation, productronica is holding its own and visitors can expect to see every major electronics production company from every aspect of the production sector.

Fairchild Semiconductor was awarded a 2008 Power Products Award for its FSFR-series in the category of Best Application Award in Power Control ICs. This highly integrated power switch increases power efficiency and system reliability, and simplifies design in resonant converter designs such as telecom power, high-end audio amplifiers, large-size laser printers and LCD and PDP-TV power supplies.

Maxim has introduced the DS8023, a low-power, low-cost, single smart-card interface. A complete interface for smart-card communication, this device performs level translation between a host microcontroller and a 5V, 3V, or 1.8V smart card. The DS8023 offers the industry's lowest power stop mode, which reduces current draw to a mere 10nA while the card is inactive. This low-power stop mode can significantly extend battery life in portable applicat...

Further to the strategic partnership announced in December 2008 between Mirics Semiconductor and Spreadtrum Communications, the two companies today announce the availability of an embedded PCTV solution that supports the China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) mobile digital TV standard. Mirics will demonstrate the solution receiving live CMMB broadcasts on a standard netbook PC at the Intel Developers Forum in Beijing on April 8, 2009.

Tekdata Interconnections Ltd has been presented with the first ever ‘Company of the Year for Innovation’ award by Northern Defence Industries (NDI), an association of more than 200 leading British SMEs working in the defence industry. The award is in recognition of Tekdata’s wide range of technologies and innovative solutions applied to many technically challenging problems. Ernie Edwards, Managing Director of Tekdata, accepted this newly-c...