News releases on Electronicstalk categorised by date
Sunday 9 September
to Saturday 15 September 2001
Alchemy to put Philips speech recognition on MPU
Alchemy Semiconductor is to port Philips' VoCon, an advanced continuous-speech recogniser for embedded systems, to its family of microprocessors.
News from Alchemy Semiconductor (14 September 2001)
Internet keeps instruments up to date
Large Digit instruments from Amalgamated Instrument Co can now be upgraded over the Internet.
News from Amalgamated Instrument Co (14 September 2001)
Fastest DSP for less than ten bucks
Analog Devices is sampling two new low-cost ADSP-219x models - the ADSP-2195 and ADSP-2196 - expanding the ADSP-21xx family of code compatible digital signal processors.
News from Analog Devices (14 September 2001)
Levy becomes VP at BrightCom
BrightCom Technologies has named marketing and engineering veteran, Uri Levy, vice president of marketing.
News from Flextronics - Short Range Wireless (14 September 2001)
Fuel-tank connectors jam into place
Deutsch has developed its range of Micro Hermetic PT connectors to feature a new jam-nut mounting option.
News from Deutsch (14 September 2001)
Motor for high-speed servosystems
Electro Mechanical Systems has announced immediate availability of a new 44mm diameter rare earth magnet brushless DC motor from System Faulhaber. Brochure Available
News from EMS (14 September 2001)
Moulded enclosures come with integral PCB mounts
New from Evatron Enclosures is a range of cost-effective enclosures the company claims are designed with the engineer in mind.
News from Evatron Enclosures (14 September 2001)
Fairchild to develop Saifun's novel EEPROMs
Fairchild Semiconductor has established a partnership with Saifun Semiconductors to develop, manufacture and market EEPROM memory products based on Saifun's patented NROM technology.
News from Fairchild Semiconductor (14 September 2001)
Kit makes a fast start with 16bit microcontrollers
Available now from Glyn, the Fujitsu DevKit16 is a multifunction modular starter kit which provides plug-and-play evaluation of Fujitsu F2MC-16L/LX microcontrollers and software tools.
News from Glyn (14 September 2001)
Faster access in on the cards
Hitachi has a new high-speed MultiMediaCard series which offers the industry's fastest write speeds, writing approximately three or six times faster than existing Hitachi MultiMediaCards.
News from Hitachi Europe (14 September 2001)
Real-time embedded applications put to the test
I-Logix claims its Rhapsody TestConductor is the industry's first UML-compliant scenario-based test generation suite for real-time embedded applications.
News from I-Logix Europe (14 September 2001)
Power plane analysis joins high-speed toolkit
Mentor Graphics has joined with Sigrity to deliver advanced power plane analysis capabilities for high-speed design solutions.
News from Mentor Graphics UK (14 September 2001)
Mentor joins Common Licence Consortium
Mentor Graphics has joined the Common Licence Consortium (CLC).
News from Mentor Graphics UK (14 September 2001)
PLC raises the temperature
A new compact temperature control expansion block has been released for Mitsubishi Electric's highly successful FX2N PLC range. Brochure Available
News from Mitsubishi Electric Automation Systems (14 September 2001)
Ferrite chip beads handle up to 6A
Passive components specialist NIC Eurotech can now offer high-current versions of its popular NCB range of ferrite chip beads.
News from NIC Components Europe (14 September 2001)
Evaluation for four-channel line interface chip
The PM2354 Comet-Quad evaluator kit is a comprehensive PC-based evaluation and development platform for PMC-Sierra's PM4354 Comet-Quad product.
News from PMC-Sierra (14 September 2001)
Korea is the latest Polar region
Polar Instruments has opened a sales and service office in Seoul, South Korea.
News from Polar Instruments Europe (14 September 2001)
Profibus International supports new OPC standard
Profibus International is supporting a new OPC standard that allows data exchange between controllers from different system suppliers via industrial Ethernet TCP/IP protocol.
News from Profibus Group (14 September 2001)
Programme offers more cores for soft IP
QuickLogic has launched QuickCore, a new programme that offers a growing library of QuickLogic-developed and third-party cores optimised for the QuickLogic architecture.
News from QuickLogic (14 September 2001)
Low-power logic saves space
A new range of miniature, wide-input voltage single gate logic ICs from Rohm offers low-power operation and can deliver PCB space savings and improved design flexibility.
News from Rohm Electronics (14 September 2001)
Military proliferation follows acquisitions
Solid State Supplies is now shipping products from two American specialist semiconductor manufacturers that were recently acquired by Microsemi.
News from Solid State Supplies (14 September 2001)
Vertical plug-in terminal blocks keep it tidy
Switchtec has extended its range of PCB-mount terminal blocks.
News from Switchtec (14 September 2001)
$18 million equity investment for Tao
Tao Group has received an equity investment of approximately $18 million from a team of investors led by Bowman Capital Partners.
News from Tao Group (14 September 2001)
Tektronix makes waves for pioneering design
User Application Article Tektronix's TDS3000 digital phosphor oscilloscope (DPO) series demonstrates how it can deal with complex signals to innovate in the most unusual of application areas. Brochure Available
News from Tektronix (14 September 2001)
Convertors cut PSU size, cost and complexity
Two switched-capacitor DC/DC convertor families from Texas Instruments give designers increased simplicity and small size for a wide variety of applications.
News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) (14 September 2001)
Latest backplane specification extends CompactPCI
Continuing a long-established tradition, APW Electronic Solutions is providing early backplanes meeting the exciting new CompactPCI 2.16 Packet Switching Backplane (PSB) specification, approved as Dra
News from Vero Electronics (12 September 2001)
Licence simplifies FPGA IP integration
ARC Cores has enhanced its position in the 32bit user-customisable soft processor market be signing up as a charter member of the Common Licence Consortium.
News from ARC International (12 September 2001)
Dual-port RAMs upgrade memory density
Cypress Semiconductor has just announced the availability of its 8Mbit NetRAM memories for storage area network (SAN) servers and network switches.
News from Cypress Semiconductor (12 September 2001)
Splicers claim faster and easier operation
Furukawa Electric Europe is claiming a world-leading breakthrough in the speed and ease of use of optical-fibre splicing technology, to be unveiled at next month's ECOC show in Amsterdam.
News from Furukawa Electric Europe (12 September 2001)
I/O chip handles all the usual suspects
LSI Logic has introduced the first standard product device from its ComCentrix product family.
News from LSI Europe (12 September 2001)
Mixed-signal ASIC libraries up for grabs
Zarlink Semiconductor is offering free access to unique design libraries for 0.6- and 0.35-micron digital and mixed-signal processes at the company's foundry in Plymouth, England.
News from Zarlink Semiconductor (12 September 2001)
National and Microsoft to put XP Embedded on Geode
National Semiconductor is working with Microsoft to enable information appliances that combine the benefits of the National Geode processor and the Microsoft Windows XP Embedded operating system.
News from National Semiconductor (12 September 2001)
Compact relays provide 8kV isolation
Omron's G5Q compact single-pole relay switches up to 10A and features a low power coil to save power supply size and cost.
News from Omron Electronics (12 September 2001)
Convertors improve bandwidth usage
RAD Data Communications introduced a pair of interface convertors that reduce the cost of connecting routers and switches to E3 and T3 services.
News from RAD Data Communications (12 September 2001)
Wolfson appoints distributors for Europe
Wolfson Microelectronics has appointed three additional distributors in the Central Europe region.
News from Wolfson Microelectronics (12 September 2001)
Fairchild less pessimistic on Q3 results
Fairchild Semiconductor is experiencing improving order rates and has raised its guidance for third quarter 2001 revenues.
News from Fairchild Semiconductor (11 September 2001)
Relays take the white goods heat
Finder has launched a relay suited for use in the unusually high localised temperatures of domestic appliances such as, washing machines, tumble dryers and cooker controls.
News from Finder (11 September 2001)
Faster memories speed comms applications
Fujitsu Microelectronics has introduced the latest family members of its fast-cycle RAM series, a group of 256Mbit high-speed memories that incorporate the double datarate SDRAM interface.
News from Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (11 September 2001)
Debug probe speeds embedded development
Green Hills Software says its Green Hills Probe is the industry's fastest and most intelligent hardware debug probe for 32bit, 64bit and multiprocessor SoC embedded systems. Brochure Available
News from Green Hills Software (11 September 2001)
IBM puts Intersil PRISM in latest ThinkPad
IBM is to embed Intersil's Prism wireless technology into its new ThinkPad T23 Series notebook computers.
News from Intersil (11 September 2001)
Scottish business award for IndigoVision
IndigoVision has picked up the Small Company Deal of the Year 2001 in the annual Scottish Deals and Dealmakers awards ceremony, which took place in Glasgow on 4th September 2001.
News from IndigoVision (11 September 2001)
Anglia has designs on JAE connectors
JAE Europe has appointed Anglia as a major 'design in' distributor in the UK.
News from JAE Europe (11 September 2001)
RFI appoints passionate sales manager
Radio Frequency Investigation has appointed Sharon Slattery as its new sales manager for North America.
News from RFI Global Services (11 September 2001)
Narrowband modules shoot through interference
User Application Article RF Solutions has found an unusual application where its latest transmitter and receiver modules have provided the perfect solution.
News from RF Solutions (11 September 2001)
The art of verification with VERA
Verification Central and Synopsys have jointly launched a new book: 'The art of verification with VERA', by Faisal Haque, Khizar Khan and Jonathan Michelson.
News from Synopsys (11 September 2001)
FIFOs bridge the DSP gap
Telecomms, optical networking, data network storage and video imaging applications will all benefit from the industry's fastest 3.3V DSP-sync FIFO product family, announced today by TI.
News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) (11 September 2001)
Telford and Parkin move up at Anritsu
Anritsu has made two senior appointments to strengthen even further the involvement of European managers in its global organisation.
News from Anritsu (UK) (10 September 2001)
Enclosure puts commercial PCs to industrial use
The new IPWorkStation from Armagard provides the benefits of industrial computing without the costs and performance issues of industrial computers.
News from Armagard (10 September 2001)
Soft gaskets seal delicate enclosures from EMI
New from Chomerics is the Soft-Shield 5500 family of continuous-length EMI gaskets, which provide a low-cost solution for enclosure shielding or low-impedance grounding applications.
News from Chomerics Europe (10 September 2001)
MCU crams Flash and peripherals into 3mm square
Cygnal Integrated Products has introduced a full-specification microcontroller which it reckons gives design engineers an unprecedented feature set for its size.
News from Cygnal Integrated Products (10 September 2001)
Kit solves LCD applications
A new analogue interface controller kit, complete with all necessary accessories packaged in a single box - with a single part number - has been introduced by Digital View.
News from Digital View (10 September 2001)
Fairchild has power to acquire Impala Linear
Fairchild Semiconductor has acquired Impala Linear, based in San Jose, California.
News from Fairchild Semiconductor (10 September 2001)
Top-of-the-range 16bit microcontroller
Hitachi has released its highest performance 16bit H8S microcontroller to date.
News from Hitachi Europe (10 September 2001)
Inventronics boosts N American sales team
Inventronics has appointed Jim Lysyk as its new National Sales Manager.
News from Inventronics (10 September 2001)
Mentor certifies three technology providers
Mentor Graphics has launched an extension to its Embedded Adoption Technology Programme (ETAP) to provide its licensees with access to complementary technologies and services.
News from Mentor Graphics UK (10 September 2001)
Coverification support for 32bit media processor
Mentor Graphics has announced the availability of a coverification processor support package (PSP) for the TriMedia 32bit (TM32) media processor core.
News from Mentor Graphics UK (10 September 2001)
High-density T1/E1 processing solution
PMC-Sierra has introduced the PM4328 TECT3, the newest member of the TEMUX product family that is optimised for channelised DS3 applications.
News from PMC-Sierra (10 September 2001)
MSDSL modem extends the local loop
RAD Data Communications has introduced the ASMi-51 MSDSL modem, which offers variable datarates and extended distances in the local loop.
News from RAD Data Communications (10 September 2001)
Stratus Technologies uses Tektronix logic analyser
User Application Article Stratus Technologies has selected Tektronix test equipment to streamline design processes at its Dublin product development centre. Brochure Available
News from Tektronix (10 September 2001)
Graychip acquisition adds to TI mixed-signal line
Texas Instruments has added a new category to its high-performance analogue and mixed-signal portfolio with the purchase of Graychip.
News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) (10 September 2001)
Tenfold power consumption cut for PWM control
Claiming significantly reduced power consumption and shorter propagation delay times, Texas Instruments has a new family of industry-standard current-mode pulsewidth-modulation controllers.
News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) (10 September 2001)
Wideband digital power analyser
Yokogawa has, for the first time, packaged two high-accuracy three-phase power meters into a benchtop enclosure.
News from Yokogawa Europe - Test and Measurement (10 September 2001)
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