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Accent opens UK sales office
Accent has opened a UK sales office in Cambridge in the UK in order to bring the company closer to its customers from both a sales and design perspective in what is one of its most important and fastest growing markets.
Intersil names new VP of European Sales
Intersil has promoted Roberto Magnifico to the position of vice president of Sales, Europe, located at Intersil’s sales office in Lausanne, Switzerland. Magnifico joined Intersil in 1997 as a marketing manager and progressed to sales director for Europe in 2002. As sales director he helped drive sales growth and improve Intersil’s overall brand in the region. As vice president, Magnifico will play a vital leadership role in Intersil’s e...
Encoder Modules from Avago Simplify Assembly of Motors Used in Industrial Automation Applications
Avago Technologies has announced its first series of small six-channel optical incremental C-shaped encoder modules for Brushless DC motors used in industrial automation applications. Avago's AEDB-9340 series modules, which include a codewheel with an optical radius of 15 mm (0.590in), are designed to reduce overall motor size and fit easily into round encoder housings.
Embedded PC can handle demanding Industrial Applications
Providing 533MHz of processing power from the Via Mark CoreFusion CPU, the new Vega86-6247 from ICOP Technology is designed to handle the most demanding of industrial applications and interfaces with a wide choice of displays.
Cherry picks Aerco for UK distributorship
Aerco has been appointed as a stocking distributor for Cherry Electrical Products, the UK subsidiary of Cherry Corporation. Established in the 1950s, Cherry manufactures an extensive range of high quality microswitches, rocker switches, magnetic speed and proximity sensors and computer input devices.
Optimized VC-1 Video Decoder for Mobile Devices
TIVR Communications, a provider of efficient multimedia solutions, has announced the availability of highly optimized SMPTE VC-1 Simple & Main Profile (Microsoft’s WMV9) video decoder software for Mobile and Embedded platforms. TIVR’s VC-1 decoder benchmarking results show that Real-time (15 fps) decoding of QVGA (320x240) resolution VC-1 Simple Profile streams coded at 192 kbps is achievable with 37 MHz of ARM9 CPU load (on average).
Device protects against brown out conditions in communications infrastructure equipment
Analog Devices has expanded its family of power supply sequencer and supervisory products with a flexible, accurate device that protects against brown out conditions in communications infrastructure equipment. The ADM1185 quad voltage monitor and sequencer is designed for systems with multiple power supplies, like wireless base stations, that require sequencer products to ensure voltage rails are powered up in a controlled manner in order to prev...
Online Registration for electronica Saves Time and Money - and you could win a classic car for a weekend
Effective immediately, those who will be attending electronica – the world’s leading electronics trade show, which will be held from 14 to 17 November 2006 at the New Munich Trade Show Center – can order their entrance tickets online and perhaps win an E-Type Jaguar for a weekend. There are also other benefits to registering, such as a reduced admission price and free transport to electronica using Munich’s excellent public transportati...
National Instruments and Agilent Technologies to Increase LabVIEW Support for Agilent Instruments
National Instruments and Agilent Technologies have announced a cooperative effort to create National Instruments LabVIEW Plug-and-Play instrument drivers for Agilent LXI, USB and GPIB instruments. The two test and measurement companies are working together to provide instrument drivers to engineers and scientists shortly after the release of new Agilent measurement products, making it even easier to combine the popular graphical development plat...
GPS Chipset Maker NemeriX Finds its Way to Anglia
Anglia Components has become sole UK distributor franchise for NemeriX, the Swiss manufacturer of low power chip sets for GPS applications. Power consumption of each chip set is typically 25 mW at 1 fix per second, making the devices ideal for battery-powered portable applications. NemeriX's products include analogue RF receivers, digital baseband processors and integrated devices that combine SiGe (Silicon Germanium) RF and standard CMOS baseba...