News releases on Electronicstalk categorised by date
Sunday 14 October
to Saturday 20 October 2001
Single chip keeps lasers cool
Analog Devices has released the optical industry's first single-chip, high-precision thermoelectric cooler (TEC) controller for DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) networking equipment.
News from Analog Devices (19 October 2001)
RF design software offers consistent inductors
Celestry Design Technologies has a new family of products for designing and producing low-cost single-chip RF CMOS devices.
News from Celestry (19 October 2001)
Interconnect extends copper and optical functions
With its small form-factor pluggable (SFP) system, Molex can now offer a full line of copper and optical products that enable high-speed data transfer up to 2.5Gbit/s.
News from Molex UK (19 October 2001)
Development subrack allows easy access
Rittal's new CPCI Developer subrack provides a simple and inexpensive solution to test and debug CPCI front plug-in and rear-loaded I/O boards. Brochure Available
News from Rittal (19 October 2001)
Triple personality for enclosure
Schroff is offering an economical midrange case option with fully exchangeable design elements allowing use as a desktop enclosure, tower or portable case.
News from Schroff UK (19 October 2001)
Field ready SCR tester
A new portable SCR and diode tester from the delightfully named Amps Abundant tests current leakage up to 3000V.
News from Amps Abundant (18 October 2001)
Scores of cores in forthcoming network processor
The new NPE10 network processor from Internet Machines Corp contains scores of ARC microprocessor cores.
News from ARC International (18 October 2001)
Don't just take DEK's word for it
DEK's message to the electronics market throughout 2001 has been that its enthusiastic and creative attitude results in the achievement of real business objectives for customers.
News from DEK (18 October 2001)
Fibre-optic patchcords with ISO9001 certification
Now available from FibreFab is the Optronics range of high-performance fibre-optic patch cords, which are terminated and tested at FibreFab's ISO9001 approved facility.
News from FibreFab (18 October 2001)
Railtrack orders custom-made Fluke DMMs
Fluke has won an order from Railtrack for custom built high-specification multimeters. Brochure Available
News from Fluke (UK) (18 October 2001)
Mobile association keeps on growing
The GSA reports continued growth and progress for its successful New Ventures Programme following the second GSA NVP Workshop, staged in Paris in September.
News from GSA - Global Mobile Suppliers Association (18 October 2001)
Implementing dynamic process control
User Application Article Engineers at an Ericsson basestation plant have used existing information from AOI systems to achieve greater throughput, lower defect rates and complete closed loop process control.
News from Machine Vision Products (18 October 2001)
MIPS joins Japanese space race
The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) has taken a license for the MIPS64 5Kf processor core from MIPS Technologies for use in satellite control and data transmission.
News from MIPS Technologies (18 October 2001)
Upgraded cores for faster performance at low power
MIPS Technologies has upgraded its industry-standard MIPS32 and MIPS64 microprocessor RISC architectures.
News from MIPS Technologies (18 October 2001)
Motorola ships five billionth 68HC05
Motorola has shipped its first five billion 68HC05 8bit microcontrollers, making it the only manufacturer to date to have shipped such large quantities of a single product line.
News from Freescale Semiconductor (18 October 2001)
Flash microcontrollers hit the streets
Motorola has announced full availability of its MPC500 familly of Flash microcontrollers.
News from Freescale Semiconductor (18 October 2001)
Low-profile SOP MOSFET relay
The latest addition to Omron's G3VM series of MOSFET relays provides switching of minute and analogue signals in a low-profile package just 2.1mm in height.
News from Omron Electronics (18 October 2001)
Backup power for Devonport Royal Dockyard
User Application Article When DML was looking for reliable backup for its critical power supply, the company chose a variety of switch tripping and closing battery systems tested to military standards from PB Design.
News from PB Design and Developments (18 October 2001)
High-density DC/DC convertor modules
New from Powerline are the ETA Power Block EP Series of DC/DC convertors, which use planar magnetics and surface-mount construction to offer high power densities at low cost.
News from Powerline (18 October 2001)
Processor and programmable logic come together
QuickLogic's QuickMIPS ESP family combines a high-performance processor with fully characterised, application specific functionality and a field programmable fabric for flexibility.
News from QuickLogic (18 October 2001)
Licensing programme gives kick start to 3G
RadioScape has unveiled its global 3G wireless technology licensing programme for the design, development and integration of W-CDMA/UMTS systems.
News from RadioScape (18 October 2001)
RFI completes first SAR test with new phantom
RFI has completed its first SAR test project for a major telecommunications company following the delivery of its new phantom from Swiss supplier Schmid and Partner last month.
News from RFI Global Services (18 October 2001)
Cosimulation and verification for QuickMIPS
Saivision Consulting Group plans to offer SaiLAhead, a cosimulation/verification platform to support the QuickMIPS family of field programmable ASSPs from QuickLogic.
News from Saivision Consulting Group (18 October 2001)
MIPS processor runs up to 800MHz
SandCraft has announced its first product, a MIPS processor with speed grades up to 800MHz.
News from SandCraft (18 October 2001)
Improved circuit behaviour modelling
Silicon Metrics has released multi-operating-point Synopsys Liberty Scalable Polynomial Delay Models (SPDMs) through its characterisation and modelling tools.
News from Silicon Metrics (18 October 2001)
Approval for 184-pin FBGA-based DDR DIMMs
Prototype 184-pin PC2700 registered FBGA-based DDR DIMMs from SMART Modular Technologies have been successfully tested and conform to the new JEDEC DDR333 standard.
News from SMART Modular Technologies (18 October 2001)
Chairs for static-sensitive and cleanroom use
TBA Electro Conductive Products (ECP) has launched deluxe versions of its chairs designed specifically for use in static-sensitive and cleanroom environments.
News from TBA Electro Conductive Products (18 October 2001)
Fibre-optic cable assemblies made to order
In launching a unit dedicated to the design, repair and assembly of fibre-optic cable assemblies, you might think Townsend Coates is simply following the crowd.
News from Acal TC (18 October 2001)
Software makes MIPS a synthetic ARM
The latest version of Dynamite from Transitive Technologies allows software written for ARM-based platforms to run on the Alchemy's family MIPS microprocessors and evaluation platforms.
News from Transitive (18 October 2001)
Solid state lasers reach for higher powers
In the field of diode-pumped solid-state lasers Haas-Laser recently introduced two new developments: the diode-pumped rod systems and the diode-pumped disk laser.
News from Tru Corporation (18 October 2001)
SM capacitor gives top high-frequency performance
TTI is offering the ground breaking AO-CAP range of aluminium-polymer surface-mount capacitors from Kemet. Brochure Available
News from TTI Europe (18 October 2001)
Crimp height is key quality indicator
Technical Background Article Werner Lothmann of Tyco Electronics argues that crimp quality monitors have traditionally focused on the wrong metric for quality. Brochure Available
News from Tyco Electronics - Global Application Tooling (18 October 2001)
Advantest hits the New York market
Advantest Corp listed and began trading its American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) on the New York Stock Exchange last week.
News from Advantest (Europe) (17 October 2001)
Learn all about data acquisition
Adept Scientific is to hold a further series of data acquisition seminars. Brochure Available
News from Adept Scientific (17 October 2001)
Easy reference to surge suppression
Power quality management specialist Advance-Galatrek has published a new brochure detailing its full range of StrikeSafe transient voltage surge suppressors (TVSS).
News from Advance Electronics (17 October 2001)
Two out of two for Anglia from Murata
For the second year in succession Anglia has been selected to receive Murata's prestigious Corporate Award.
News from Anglia (17 October 2001)
Ansoft sets up for automotive support
Ansoft expanded its operations in September with the opening of two Automotive Product and Technology (APT) Solutions Centres near Detroit, USA, and in Nagoya, Japan.
News from Ansoft Europe (17 October 2001)
KeyBridge prefers OKW
KeyBridge Corp (UK) has chosen APW as its server housing supplier.
News from Vero Electronics (17 October 2001)
Saintly performance from DSP C compiler
Bops is claiming breakthrough DSP performance on the industry-standard EEMBC TeleMark benchmark suite for optimised C compilation using the Halo C compiler.
News from Bops (17 October 2001)
Serial server puts devices on Ethernet
A compact, single-port serial device server that instantly converts data from RS232/422/485 interfaces to a 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet network running TCP/IP has been introduced by Captec.
News from Captec (17 October 2001)
Celoxica raises $30 million funding
Celoxica Holdings has completed its fourth round of private investment, raising $30 million.
News from Celoxica (17 October 2001)
Embedded PC board runs extended temperatures
Using the NS Geode GX1 processor as its core, the new CPU-1232 embedded computer from DSL offers a wide range of integrated facilities.
News from Datasound Laboratories (17 October 2001)
Development help for embedded Java processor
At JavaOne in Japan next month, the Java microcontroller specialist DCT will launch the software development kit (SDK) for its Lightfoot core.
News from DCT Digital Communication Technologies (17 October 2001)
Displays in the dock
User Application Article Digital View has completed a novel touch screen project which has made full use of the advantages of LCDs in an industrial application.
News from Digital View (17 October 2001)
Dynex to produce modules for Ecostar
Dynex Semiconductor has entered into an agreement with Ecostar Electric Drive Systems to fabricate prototype power semiconductor modules for use in electric vehicles and power conversion systems.
News from Dynex Semiconductor (17 October 2001)
Jumper sets feature universal design
Stock control of jumper cord sets from Feller has been made simplicity itself with the introduction of a new universal design.
News from Feller (UK) (17 October 2001)
Gilmour leads the market at Flint
Flint has promoted Doug Gilmour to Marketing Manager, a new position reporting to Managing Director Carl Barton, and supported by a team of Product Marketing Managers.
News from Flint (17 October 2001)
Bigger Flash memory on 16bit MCUs
Hitachi has expanded its H8/306x series of 16bit Flash microcontrollers with a range of devices that feature up to 384Kbyte of on-chip Flash memory and comprehensive peripheral sets.
News from Hitachi Europe (17 October 2001)
Legend and Quanta take wireless lead from Intersil
Intersil reckons it has scored major successes in the Far East with wireless LAN deals with two of the worlds largest PC manufacturers.
News from Intersil (17 October 2001)
Multiplexer puts more into a PLC
Intech Instruments of Christchurch, New Zealand, has launched a multiplexer designed to make life easier for factory engineers struggling with a variety of inputs to a single PLC.
News from Intech Instruments (17 October 2001)
Tiny antenna claims large EMC functionality
Laplace Instruments has a new type of antenna for EMC and related testing applications.
News from Laplace Instruments (17 October 2001)
Second-generation DSP runs up to 1.8BIPS
LSI Logic announced the second generation of its ZSP digital signal processor architecture at the 2001 Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California.
News from LSI Europe (17 October 2001)
Windele takes charge of Europe for Mentor
Mentor Graphics has promoted Hanns Windele to Vice President for the company's European region.
News from Mentor Graphics UK (17 October 2001)
Smart route to lead-free hand soldering
Technical Background Article Switching to lead-free hand soldering need not demand new soldering equipment or processes thanks to an established iron technology from Metcal.
News from Metcal (17 October 2001)
64bit processors run latest version of Windows CE
NEC and MIPS Technologies have announced that the new Microsoft Windows CE Talisker Beta 2 operating system includes 64bit support.
News from MIPS Technologies (17 October 2001)
Vesta joins MIPS Alliance Programme
Vesta Corp, an engineering consulting firm specialising in the communications industry, announced that it has joined the MIPS Alliance Programme.
News from MIPS Technologies (17 October 2001)
Disappointing Q1 results for MIPS
MIPS Technologies has reported financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended 30th September 2001.
News from MIPS Technologies (17 October 2001)
IDT takes more cores from MIPS
MIPS Technologies has licensed its MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures to IDT.
News from MIPS Technologies (17 October 2001)
Motorola and CEA-Leti co-operate on new MEMS
Motorola and CEA-Leti are to jointly develop and industrialise the next generation of surface micromachined linear inertial sensors.
News from Freescale Semiconductor (17 October 2001)
Easy installation for retrofit surge protection
The CNW 703 from REO is a new surge protection filter which is designed for easy installation into existing equipment. Brochure Available
News from REO (UK) (17 October 2001)
Silicon carbide diodes raise the voltage stakes
Designed for those applications where a conventional Schottky diode runs out of voltage headroom, the new UPSC range from Solid State Supplies can operate at up to 600V.
News from Solid State Supplies (17 October 2001)
Miniature cameras gather data unobtrusively
The Pecan miniature range of cameras available from Stortech Electronics has been designed where unobtrusive monitoring is required.
News from Stortech Electronics (17 October 2001)
Tau Group tops 50
Tao Group today has concluded the Open Contents Platform Association's (OCPA) first General Assembly with the news that over 50 of the world leading IT companies have joined since its launch.
News from Tao Group (17 October 2001)
General Bandwidth uses TI DSPs for VoDSL
User Application Article Texas Instruments and General Bandwidth are working to enable the next generation of telephony.
News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) (17 October 2001)
Free software puts imaging functions on DSPs
Texas Instruments has released a software library of 21 imaging functions for its TMS320C5510 and TMS320C5509 DSPs.
News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) (17 October 2001)
Software translates x86 applications to MIPS
Transitive Technologies reckons Dynamite X/M is the first CPU translation and optimisation engine to enable software written for x86 platforms to run transparently on MIPS32 and MIPS64 processors.
News from Transitive (17 October 2001)
Controlling and identifying CNC punch tooling
With ITM, short for Intelligent Tool Management, Trumpf offers a system for the central management and identification of punching tools.
News from Tru Corporation (17 October 2001)
Linear technology doubles CNC laser speeds
The new flatbed laser cutting machine Trumatic L 3050 uses lineat drive technology to double the tracking and fast traverse rates when compared with conventional laser profilers.
News from Tru Corporation (17 October 2001)
Measuring profiled sheet components more quickly
The new measuring machine, Trumpf Qualifier enables punched, laser-cut or punch-machine-formed sheet metal parts to be measured quickly and very precisely.
News from Tru Corporation (17 October 2001)
TTPCom's Brenk takes the chair at MExE
Lars Brenk, senior software developer, of TTPCom has today been elected to the prestigious role of chairman of the 3GPP Mobile Execution Environment (MExE) sub-working group.
News from TTPCom (17 October 2001)
Rose appointment boosts UR comms focus
UR (Ultimate Renaissance) has appointed Simon Rose as business manager of its communications division.
News from Ultimate Renaissance (17 October 2001)
Multiple coaxial connection
Vitelec is now offering a multigang MCX connector.
News from Emerson Network Power - Vitelec Electronics (17 October 2001)
SMT end-launch threaded coaxial connectors
Vitelec has released a new range of 50ohm end-launch surface-mount SMA connectors.
News from Emerson Network Power - Vitelec Electronics (17 October 2001)
Connector keeps touchscreens in touch
WASP is offering a new connector on its range of membranes and resistive touchscreens which will connect reliably to all kinds of supports including polyester, FR4, polymide and PTFE.
News from Wasp (17 October 2001)
400W supplies with CompactPCI bells and whistles
APW has introduced a range of 400W AC- and DC-input high performance power supplies, providing standard CompactPCI voltages of 3.3V/68A, 5V/25A, +12V/5A and -12V/1.5A.
News from Vero Electronics (16 October 2001)
Cores for high-speed network infrastructure
Cypress Semiconductor and MorethanIP are to make MorethanIP's IP cores available for the Cypress PSI family of programmable physical layer devices and the Delta39 family of CPLDs.
News from Cypress Semiconductor (16 October 2001)
Addon board puts text on any video/ARGB background
Digital View has introduced a high-performance display solution, enabling text information to be overlaid on top of any video/ARGB background.
News from Digital View (16 October 2001)
High shielding performance from conductive O-rings
Holland Shielding Systems has developed a new series of O-rings for EMI shielding with a very high electrical conductivity, and hence shielding performance.
News from Holland Shielding Systems (16 October 2001)
Controllers handle hot-swap power demands
Intersil has extended its power management solutions for PCs, file servers and portable information devices with the its Endura ISL6115 and ISL6116 hot-plug/hot-swap power controllers.
News from Intersil (16 October 2001)
Carrier card provides eight channels of filtering
The Kemo CardMaster 8 is an eight-channel filter carrier card that is designed to fit in a PC card slot.
News from Kemo (16 October 2001)
Five filters in one board
Microstar Laboratories has announced an IIR filter module with onboard digital implementation of the five classic filter types: Bessel, Butterworth, Chebyshev, inverse Chebyshev and elliptic.
News from Microstar Laboratories (16 October 2001)
Low-power DSP certified for USB 2.0
The TMS320C5509 DSP from Texas Instruments has achieved Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 full-speed certification from the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) compliance programme.
News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) (16 October 2001)
Mezzanine card steps up to Gigabit Ethernet
Concurrent Technologies has released the latest addition to its range of networking PMC mezzanine cards - the CL PMC/GB1, a two-channel Gigabit Ethernet adapter with 1000BaseT capability.
News from Concurrent Technologies (15 October 2001)
Foundry manufacturing for MEMS devices
Fairchild Semiconductor has licensed and successfully transferred processing technology to manufacture microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).
News from Fairchild Semiconductor (15 October 2001)
Liquid level sensor is electrically robust
The Sensing and Control business of Honeywell has launched a new, enhanced liquid level sensor, for accurate detection of the presence or absence of liquid.
News from Honeywell Control Systems - Sensing and Control (15 October 2001)
More functionality from control relays
Omron has extended its 1/32 DIN range of intelligent controllers, to offer three models which provide higher degrees of functionality and flexibility, and superior visibility.
News from Omron Electronics (15 October 2001)
Recalibration service for power recorders
Using its specialist expertise and equipment, Rhopoint Systems now offers a fully traceable recalibration service for all its power recorders.
News from Rhopoint Components (15 October 2001)
E2PROMs store monitor identification
Rohm Electronics has a new series of E2PROMs for storing identification and operational information needed for true 'plug-and-play' connection of CRT displays to computer systems.
News from Rohm Electronics (15 October 2001)
IGBTs keep getting faster
Toshiba Electronics is developing a next generation of IGBT technology that will be aimed at higher-frequency applications ranging from UPSs to switch mode power supplies.
News from Toshiba Electronics Europe (15 October 2001)
Heat-shrink tube provides easy cable management
The new Raychem QFT, from Tyco Electronics, offers an innovative heat-shrinkable method of cable management for the forming, sealing and protecting of cable transitions and breakouts. Brochure Available
News from Tyco Electronics - Wire, Harness and Protection (15 October 2001)
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