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element14 invites visitors to electronica to convert their waste electronic devices and components into an artistic sculpture
element14, Premier Farnell’s innovative online technology resource and community for electronic design engineers, and a leading authority on environmental legislation in the electronics industry, announces it will build a sculpture from electronics waste in the “Atrium at the entrance East” at Electronica, 9 – 12 November 2010 in Germany. All attendees to electronica are encouraged to donate an old electronic device, component or small ...
Plessey Semiconductors announces development of 8-inch SiGe BiCMOS technology to expand RF capability
Plessey Semiconductors today announced it has commenced the development of a 0.35 micron silicon germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS process technology on its 8-inch line at its Plymouth, England semiconductor manufacturing facility. As part of its strategy of developing its three core product lines of sensors, RF components and power management devices it was decided that a bespoke SiGe BiCMOS process was required. The products manufactured on this process ...
Guifx Names Morgan Strauss as Company President
Guifx, an interface design studio specializing in touchscreen interfaces for home automation and embedded systems, today announced it has named Morgan Strauss as the company's new president. Formerly Guifx's director of operations, Strauss will lead the company as it continues to grow and expand its presence in the home automation and embedded systems markets.
ITTIA DB SQL 3.3 Embedded RDMBS
ITTIA DB SQL version 3.3 introduces new tools for software developers, in the form of a custom memory allocator and graphical database editing utility. This makes ITTIA DB SQL even more suitable for embedded relational data storage in device applications.
Professor Brian Cox OBE and Andrew Miller MP Join NIDays 2010 Industry Experts Panel
National Instruments UK & Ireland today announced the speakers on its Industry Experts Panel Discussion, taking place at NIDays 2010, held at the London home of the Institution of Engineering & Technology, Savoy Place, on Tuesday 9th November. Professor Brian Cox OBE – scientist and media figure, Andrew Miller MP – Chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Science & Technology, Chris Kirby - MD of Magnomatics and start-up entrepreneur, ...
Freescale introduces low-cost, full-featured evaluation board for StarCore-based SC3850 DSPs
Freescale has introduced a low-cost evaluation module for the MSC815x and MSC825x family of programmable digital signal processors (DSPs) intended for medical, aerospace, defence and test/measurement applications.
Alpha Micro supports Cranfield University’s search for life on the edge of space
Can life exist on the edge of space? This is just one of the questions that a group of students from Cranfield University hope to answer with assistance from sponsors Alpha Micro Components (www.alphamicro.net), the independent franchised distributor of electronic components. Team CASS-E (Cranfield University Astrobiological Stratospheric Sampling Experiment) have designed a biological data collecting instrument which will be sent into the strat...
LynuxWorks and Themis Team up to Demonstrate Rugged and Secure Server Solutions at MILCOM 2010
LynuxWorks and Themis Computer today announced that they have teamed up to demonstrate a new rugged, high performance multilevel secure platform solution at MILCOM 2010. The companies will showcase LynuxWorks’ LynxSecure secure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor running on Themis' CoolShell blade server. LynxSecure is a highly secure virtualization solution that utilizes the CoolShell’s hardware-virtualization technology and multiple p...
Pentek Takes Leadership Role In Delivering Advanced COTS Solutions Targeting Military Applications
Again taking a leadership role, Pentek, Inc. today unveiled the first in a family of ruggedized boards for high-performance military and avionics applications utilizing the industry’s most advanced FPGA technology. Pentek’s 53xxx Cobalt™ board family incorporates Xilinx’s Virtex-6 FPGAs for on-board signal processing, delivering digital sampling rates to 1 GHz in a compact 3U VPX form factor.
RF Micro Devices Awarded $1.5 Million Navy Contract for GaN RF Power Technology
RF Micro Devices announced today that it has been awarded a $1.5 million R&D contract by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) related to gallium nitride (GaN) microelectronics, including the development of materials, device fabrication and high power circuits.