News releases on Electronicstalk categorised by date

Sunday 6 May
to Saturday 12 May 2001

Tality helps Advantest to Bluetooth solution

Tality Corp, a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, is collaborating in the development of Advantest's Bluetooth Protocol Tester.

News from Advantest (Europe) (11 May 2001)

LCD driver test system doubles throughput

Addressing a surge in demand for liquid crystal displays, the Advantest T6371 offers twice the throughput offered by previous test systems.

News from Advantest (Europe) (11 May 2001)

Extended-temperature interface for AS-i bus

AMI Semiconductor (AMIS) has expanded its family of reprogrammable interface ICs certified for Actuator Sensor-interface (AS-i) bus applications by launching an extended temperature device.

News from AMI Semiconductor (11 May 2001)

ARC core drives MPEG-2 audio/video codec

Stream Machine's new SM2288 MPEG-2 audio/video codec chip uses ARC's configurable microprocessor core.

News from ARC International (11 May 2001)

Acoustics and vibration training

Bruel and Kjaer is running an extensive programme of training courses during 2001.

News from Bruel and Kjaer UK (11 May 2001)

Sealed lead-acid batteries are UL approved

Camden Electronics has introduced its upgraded and enhanced Eleckson range of sealed lead acid batteries, the UL-approved Europa Plus family.

News from Camden Electronics (11 May 2001)

Top-bandwidth claim for 36bit-wide FIFOs

Cypress Semiconductor has begun production shipments of the 3.3V versions of its x36 FIFO high-performance memories targeted at communications applications.

News from Cypress Semiconductor (11 May 2001)

Mixed-signal MCU bristles with peripherals

The new Z183 mixed-signal 8bit microcontroller, now available from Gothic Components, includes system-on-chip features for a broad range of embedded applications.

News from Gothic Components (11 May 2001)

Tolerance is a blessing for MCM connector

Suited to high-density requirements, RJ connectors from Hypertac find numerous applications in the interconnection of dual-cavity MCMs, PCBs and daughterboards

News from Smiths Interconnect - Hypertac (11 May 2001)

No IFs about Prism with direct down conversion

Intersil has revealed advance details of its next generation Prism 3 WLAN chipset, the industry's first two-chip solution.

News from Intersil (11 May 2001)

Advantest joins LogicVision Ready Partner Program

LogicVision and Advantest are to develop and market products that will link LogicVision's Embedded Test Solutions with Advantest's automatic test equipment.

News from LogicVision Europe (11 May 2001)

MIPS comes to Boston for East Coast support

MIPS Technologies has established an East Coast USA headquarters for sales and applications support in Boston.

News from MIPS Technologies (11 May 2001)

MoSys verifies 1T-SRAM on 0.13-micron process

MoSys has completed silicon verification of its ultra-dense 1T-SRAM embedded memory technology on TSMC's 0.13-micron standard logic process.

News from MoSys (11 May 2001)

DSP56800 design software comes for free

Motorola is offering a complimentary licence of the award-winning Metrowerks CodeWarrior for DSP56800 integrated development environment (IDE) with the purchase of a DSP56800 evaluation module.

News from Freescale Semiconductor (11 May 2001)

Low-profile position sensor/potentiometer

Piher has introduced a resistive sensor that is ideal for a wide range of position sensing and control functions in automotive, industrial and consumer applications.

News from Piher International (11 May 2001)

Newsletter on position measurement and control

A four-page newsletter focused on position, displacement, and related measurement is now published bimonthly by SpaceAge Control.

News from SpaceAge Control (11 May 2001)

Generator clocks Rambus up to 1066MHz

The industry's first validated 533MHz Direct Rambus clock generator (DRCG) that supports 1066MHz Direct Rambus memory subsystems is now available from Texas Instruments.

News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) (11 May 2001)

High-frequency chopping cuts stepper motor noise

New from Toshiba Electronics, the TB62201AF dual stepper motor driver IC outputs a micro-step pseudo sinewave with a chopping frequency that can be set by the user at 100kHz or higher.

News from Toshiba Electronics Europe (11 May 2001)

New test lab covers GSM, Bluetooth and more

TTPCom has announced the opening of 7layersUK, an independent test facility for the wireless and mobile communications industries in the UK.

News from TTPCom (11 May 2001)

Self-calibrating gear-tooth sensor controls ABS

Allegro MicroSystems has introduced a new true zero-speed, self-calibrating, differential Hall-effect gear-tooth sensor module for two-wire applications such as automotive antilock braking.

News from Allegro MicroSystems Europe (10 May 2001)

Novel regulation makes dual DC/DCs more flexible

Datel's new BWR-5/3.3, 33W Series mixed-voltage, dual-output (3.3 and 5V) DC/DC convertors feature a novel output structure that does not limit output current in the traditional manner.

News from Datel (UK) (10 May 2001)

LVDS drivers and receivers can support 622Mbit/s

Fairchild Semiconductor has added Low-Voltage Differential Signalling (LVDS) technology to its backplane and interconnect portfolio of products.

News from Fairchild Semiconductor (10 May 2001)

Compact antennas put Bluetooth on the air

Flint Wireless has a new franchise agreement with Swedish antenna specialist gigaAnt, and has added a selection of size-optimised 2.4GHz antennas for Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11 and HiperLAN.

News from Flint (10 May 2001)

Voltage attenuator system acquires HV data safely

Available from Impulse Corporation, the Dataforth SCMVAS is an analogue signal conditioning system designed to safely monitor, and accurately measure voltage potentials up to 1200V peak-peak.

News from Impulse (10 May 2001)

MoSys 1T-SRAM verified for SoCs from TSMC

MoSys has completed silicon verification of its ultra-dense 1T-SRAM memory technology on TSMC's EmbFlash process.

News from MoSys (10 May 2001)

MCU kit works as demo, evaluation platform and ICE

Solid State Supplies reckons the Limited Edition 3 Diamonds Kit is destined to become a designer's best friend.

News from Solid State Supplies (10 May 2001)

Hot-swap power manager runs two rails in any order

A dual hot-swap power controller with support for voltage sequencing of add-in cards in high availability systems is now available from Texas Instruments.

News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) (10 May 2001)

Highest power density in class claim for switchers

New from UR (Ultimate Renaissance), EOS V-series switching power supplies pack up to 40W into a lightweight, open-frame unit occupying surface area similar to a regular business card.

News from Ultimate Renaissance (10 May 2001)

Host controller completes USB 2.0 IP suite

With the introduction of a Universal Serial Bus 2.0 Host Controller, inSilicon now claims to offer the industry's first complete USB 2.0 semiconductor IP product suite.

News from inSilicon Corp ( 9 May 2001)

Uninterruptible power supply systems

 Technical Background Article  Mike Rea, MD of AEC UK, explains about keeping the power on and shows how uninterruptible power supplies save data from corruption and ultimately save companies time and money.

News from AEC UK ( 8 May 2001)

SerDes on-chip in eight-port InfiniBand switch

Agilent Technologies and RedSwitch have unveiled the first InfiniBand switch product to result from their design collaboration.  Brochure Available 

News from Avago Technologies ( 8 May 2001)

IR transceiver slims down to fit latest PDAs

Agilent Technologies has announced a new serial infra-red (SIR) transceiver that is ideal for new-generation personal information devices, such as PDAs, which are becoming increasingly thinner.  Brochure Available 

News from Avago Technologies ( 8 May 2001)

Anglia buys battery management systems maker

Anglia has stepped in to rescue 85 jobs in the Ayrshire town of Girvan by buying the assets of AG Manufacturing Systems (AGMSL), which produces battery management systems.

News from Anglia ( 8 May 2001)

1480nm pump laser diode for DWDM systems

Anritsu has introduced a 1480nm pump laser diode offering a minimum in-fibre power of 300mW.

News from Anritsu (UK) ( 8 May 2001)

Ansoft takes over HFSS line from Agilent

Agilent Technologies has agreed to license its High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) software product line to Ansoft.

News from Ansoft Europe ( 8 May 2001)

Avant! produces early Spice for Fujitsu

Avant! Corporation has successfully completed a Silicon Early Access project for Fujitsu.

News from Avant! Corporation ( 8 May 2001)

DC/DC convertors on the right (rail) track

Offering a wide input range of 66 to 154V, the CWPN20R series of DC/DC convertors from C and D Technologies are ideally suited to applications within the rail industry.  Brochure Available 

News from Murata Power Solutions ( 8 May 2001)

SM inductors come with integral ferrite shield

Combining high current handling capabilities with low DC resistance, the latest power inductors from Newport Components are compact SMT devices that can be supplied with an integral ferrite shield.  Brochure Available 

News from Murata Power Solutions ( 8 May 2001)

Industry's smallest isolated 10W DC/DC convertors

Offering full UL1950 recognition to operational level, the world's smallest isolated 10W DC/DC convertors suit space-constrained distributed power architectures in telecommunications and industrial ap  Brochure Available 

News from Murata Power Solutions ( 8 May 2001)

Tools support budget background debug mode

Microprocessor development tools specialist Computer Solutions has been appointed European distributor of BDM (background debug mode) tools for P and E Microcomputer Systems.

News from Computer Solutions ( 8 May 2001)

DDC and Ampol in avionics comms test alliance

Data Device Corporation (DDC) has announced a strategic alliance between itself and Israeli avionics software developer Ampol Technologies.

News from DDC United Kingdom ( 8 May 2001)

Line drivers for all ADSL and G.SHDSL technologies

Elantec Semiconductor has introduced a new family of CPE line drivers.

News from Elantec Semiconductor ( 8 May 2001)

Nordic comes to Mentor for SoC verification

Nordic VLSI has selected the Mentor Graphics FormalPro equivalence checker to verify its IP and SoC designs.

News from Mentor Graphics UK ( 8 May 2001)

Single-chip transmitter tunes its own antenna

An integrated, single-chip ASK RF transmitter designed specifically to meet the needs of low-cost loop antenna transmitters is now available from Micrel Semiconductor.

News from Micrel ( 8 May 2001)

RFI Ltd wins SAR test contract from Matsushita

Matsushita Communications Industrial UK (MCUK), the European design and manufacture centre for Panasonic mobile phones has placed a contract for SAR testing with Radio Frequency Investigation. (RFI).

News from RFI Global Services ( 8 May 2001)

IVT helps RFI to Bluetooth test solutions

Radio Frequency Investigation (RFI) has announced the second in a series of partnerships with IVT Corporation, to develop and enhance its Bluetooth services.

News from RFI Global Services ( 8 May 2001)

EMC software controls both emissions and immunity

EMC Compliance 3 is a highly flexible, fully configurable Windows-based test management tool for creation, execution, data acquisition and reporting of all EMC emissions and immunity tests.  Brochure Available 

News from Schaffner ( 8 May 2001)

Machine vision makes PSU ATE run even faster

The fast measuring speed of the Intepro 9000 series ATE from Schaffner EMC Ltd can now be complemented with the addition of an advanced machine vision system.  Brochure Available 

News from Schaffner ( 8 May 2001)

Desktop case becomes a cased subrack

The SRS Products Netcase desktop range has been extended to accept components that convert the case to a cased subrack.

News from SRS Products ( 8 May 2001)

60W dual-output convertor needs no heatsink

DualQor dual-output industry-standard quarter-brick-sized isolated DC/DC convertors from SynQor are capable of delivering up to 60W at 5 and 3.3V, with no need for an attached heatsink.  Brochure Available 

News from SynQor Europe ( 8 May 2001)

Multimedia extends 2.5 and 3G wireless devices

Texas Instruments has announced the availability of a new TI OMAP-based multimedia extension that can be used with Symbian's software development kits.

News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) ( 8 May 2001)

Triad connectors come full circle to Tyco

The Triad circular connector brand is now available from Tyco Electronics following the recent acquisition of the Electronics Division of Thomas and Betts.  Brochure Available 

News from Tyco Electronics UK ( 8 May 2001)

AC'97-compliant audio convertor gains pen input

Wolfson Microelectronics reckons it could revolutionise the PDA industry by combining pen-input functionality with a high-performance portable audio codec.

News from Wolfson Microelectronics ( 8 May 2001)

CPU board supports dual 1GHz Pentium processors

Based on the Via VT82C694X/VT82C686B chipset, the Rocky 3742EVFG CPU board from Wordsworth Technology supports dual Intel Socket 370 Celeron processors through to a 1GHz Pentium III processor.

News from Wordsworth Technology ( 8 May 2001)

Extended-temperature mini electrolytics live long

Manufactured by Nippon chemi-Con and available from Young ECC, LXYVB miniature aluminium electrolytic capacitors provide life spans of 2000 to 8000h at 105C with rated ripple current.

News from Young Electronics Group ( 8 May 2001)

Amino aims to cut the costs of SoC migration

Amino Communications has unveiled the cost reduction roadmap for licensees of its IntAct technology.

News from Amino Communications ( 7 May 2001)

Rugged PCI chassis squeezes in four slots

Amplicon's RK-604A rugged industrial 4-slot mini node chassis with pure PCI backplane and its highly compact design is ideal for applications where space is at a premium.

News from Amplicon ( 7 May 2001)

Optimised solutions for key Bluetooth applications

According to BrightCom, Bluetooth devices need to contain embedded stand-alone intelligence, along with software and additional processing power.

News from Flextronics - Short Range Wireless ( 7 May 2001)

Glands screen and seal for EMC at sea

EMC interconnect specialist KEC has introduced a new bulkhead gland kit that has been specially developed for use at sea and in other harsh environments.

News from KEC ( 7 May 2001)

Tactile force-indicating sensor film

Pressurex from Sensor Products is a tactile force-indicating sensor film that comes in the form of a large thin sheet.

News from Sensor Products ( 7 May 2001)

Advanced TDMA technology to boost cable bandwidth

Texas Instruments has unveiled its new technology featuring end-to-end advanced TDMA that will enable a 50% increase in upstream plant capacity.

News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) ( 7 May 2001)

Total number of news releases published during the week: 61

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