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Sunday 6 January
to Saturday 12 January 2002

DIN rail adapter puts top hat on a G style

Camden Electronics has introduced a neat adapter that converts symmetric "top-hat" style DIN rail mounting products to asymmetric G-style mountings.

News from Camden Electronics (11 January 2002)

A new year... a new catalogue

The new Easby Electronics 2002 catalogue is available now.

News from Easby Electronics (11 January 2002)

Christensen in US development for Elixent

Elixent has appointed Kevin Christensen as director of North America business development.

News from Elixent (11 January 2002)

Frugal PowerPC mezzanine card

Force Computers has added a low-power-dissipation member to its family of PowerPC-based PCI mezzanine card (PMC) modules.

News from Force Computers (11 January 2002)

SM connectors aim for high-datarate integrity

Honda Connectors has a new range of surface-mount connectors specifically designed for high-speed signal interfaces such as Ultra SCSI-320, PCI-X and future Ultra SCSI-640.

News from Honda Connectors (11 January 2002)

Compact PLC features built-in access window

Plant operating personnel and design engineers and have a powerful new tool at their disposal with the launch of Visual PLC from Keyence.

News from Keyence (UK) (11 January 2002)

Intelligent micrometer has high sampling speed

With a resolution of 0.01mm and a 2400 per second sample speed, Keyence's new range of high-speed, high-accuracy intelligent micrometers is a breakthrough in optical technology.

News from Keyence (UK) (11 January 2002)

Derrick takes Mentor to market

Mentor Graphics has named Brian Derrick as the Vice President of Corporate Marketing.

News from Mentor Graphics UK (11 January 2002)

OnLine knowledge centre for web-based EDA training

The Mentor Graphics OnLine Knowledge Centre provides a variety of technical training and product information including self-paced courses that focus on a particular tool or design methodology.

News from Mentor Graphics UK (11 January 2002)

Mentor expects improved earnings in Q4

Mentor Graphics expects fourth quarter 2001 earnings before goodwill and charges to exceed First Call consensus estimates of $0.42.

News from Mentor Graphics UK (11 January 2002)

Low-loss Schottky diodes for DC/DC conversion

New low-forward-voltage compact SMD Schottky diodes from Shindengen provide secondary rectification in DC/DC convertor applications.

News from Shindengen UK (11 January 2002)

Precision metal-film resistors for low-cost uses

The new RE 0207 and RE 0204 from VTM (UK) are two ranges of precision metal-film resistors in the popular 0207 and 0204 (0.25 and 0.125W) body sizes.

News from VTM (UK) (11 January 2002)

Flash FPGAs gun for ASICs with million-gate device

ProASIC Plus is Actel's second-generation family of Flash-based field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

News from Actel Europe (10 January 2002)

ART and e-SIM to join up speech and handwriting

e-SIM has entered into a strategic partnership with ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies.

News from ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies (10 January 2002)

Atrenta accumulates funding for tool development

Predictive analysis tool developer Atrenta has announced the second closing of Series A $11.2 million equity investment.

News from Atrenta (10 January 2002)

Audio analyser makes sound commercial sense

The new ATS-2 audio analyser from Audio Precision has just been introduced in the UK by TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments).

News from TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments) (10 January 2002)

Frugal DSL line driver boosts office port density

Elantec Semiconductor has developed a very low power DSL line driver ideal for high-density central office (CO) applications.

News from Elantec Semiconductor (10 January 2002)

PowerPC squeezes onto PMC board for embedded power

Force Computers has introduced the fastest member of its family of PowerPC-based PCI mezzanine card (PMC) modules - the PowerPMC-260.

News from Force Computers (10 January 2002)

MCUs take control of telephone handsets

Holtek Semiconductor has a new series of telephone controllers, providing designers with a new range of telephone control solutions.

News from Holtek Semiconductor (10 January 2002)

UPS uses redundancy to stay up longer

Invensys Powerware has launched the Powerware 9340 Hot Sync capacity UPS, complete with the option to install a Powerware System Parallel Module (SPM9340) to give a novel tie panel solution.

News from Powerware (10 January 2002)

Real-time support for 32 and 64bit cores

The Microsoft Windows CE.NET real-time operating system supports the industry-standard 32 and 64bit MIPS microprocessor architectures and cores.

News from MIPS Technologies (10 January 2002)

National puts its Geode into Microsoft Mira design

National Semiconductor is developing a reference design for "Mira" - the codename for a set of Microsoft Windows technologies that will enable a new generation of display devices.

News from National Semiconductor (10 January 2002)

Fast build for pressure transducers

According to RDP Electronics, if restricted time schedules are a concern, the novel manufacturing technique used for its Sensotec FP2000 range of pressure transducers will provide a solution.  Brochure Available 

News from RDP Electronics (10 January 2002)

SAW technology creates better torque sensors

Sensor Technology has introduced the Torqsense RWT range of SAW-based rotary torque transducers.  Brochure Available 

News from Sensor Technology (10 January 2002)

Benchmark choses Teradyne for novel Irish facility

Benchmark Electronics has selected the Teradyne GR Pilot LX fixtureless flying prober test system, and Teradyne GR Force/A3 test and inspection data preparation solution.

News from Teradyne (10 January 2002)

Casey takes over assembly test at Teradyne

John M Casey has been named President of the Teradyne Assembly Test Division, replacing Robert Dutkowsky who left the company.

News from Teradyne (10 January 2002)

Kim sets Flarion in motion in Korea

Flarion Technologies has officially opened its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Seoul, Korea, with the appointment of Hong Jin Kim as Vice President and General Manager of Flarion Asia-Pacific.

News from Qualcomm (10 January 2002)

Mapper IC puts LANs and WANs on SONET networks

Agilent Technologies is claiming a breakthrough in networking for its HDMP-3001 Ethernet over SONET (EoS) mapper chip.  Brochure Available 

News from Avago Technologies ( 9 January 2002)

NEC veteran Giddy takes charge at Amino

Amino Communications has recruited Bob Giddy as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

News from Amino Communications ( 9 January 2002)

Chip integrates IF to digital for critical radio

Analog Devices has a new IF digitising IC designed for radios that must meet the highest standards of reliability and performance.

News from Analog Devices ( 9 January 2002)

1W convertors live long and prosper without sinks

C and D Technologies (NCL) has expanded its family of miniature, single-output surface-mount DC/DC convertors with a new range of low-voltage 1W devices.  Brochure Available 

News from Murata Power Solutions ( 9 January 2002)

Chip resistors offer high pulse withstand

Available now from Stewart Electronics, part of the Compstock Group, is the Welwyn PWC series of pulse withstanding chip resistors.

News from Compstock Group ( 9 January 2002)

Microcontrollers take remote control onboard

The HT48CA3 is one of Holtek's new generation of remote-control 8bit microcontrollers.

News from Holtek Semiconductor ( 9 January 2002)

Analogue switches improve on speed and size

Intersil has added a new line of high-performance solid-state analogue switches.

News from Intersil ( 9 January 2002)

Transceiver puts VDSL on existing telco spectrum

Zarlink Semiconductor has produced silicon samples of the industry's first DMT-based data transceiver to fully meet international standards for four-band 12MHz VDSL.

News from Zarlink Semiconductor ( 9 January 2002)

Alliance to optimise SoC designs

MIPS Technologies and IN2FAB Technology have signed an agreement for core hardening and process retargeting services to reduce the challenge of complex SoC design and speed customers' time to market.

News from MIPS Technologies ( 9 January 2002)

Monterey is a good fit for Flextronics

Monterey Design Systems has signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement to provide Flextronics Semiconductor with access to its hierarchical System-Driven Physical Design methodology.

News from Monterey Design Systems ( 9 January 2002)

Best year yet for Phasa

A 10% growth in customers and a 15% increase in annual turnover has resulted in the best year ever for plastic hot air assembly specialist Phasa Developments.

News from Phasa Developments ( 9 January 2002)

Transistor and diode together (again)

Rohm's new UML series of devices combines a general-purpose transistor and a Schottky barrier diode into a miniature UMT package.

News from Rohm Electronics ( 9 January 2002)

MOSFET and diode together save space and cost

International Rectifier has two new P-channel FETKY devices that combine a MOSFET and Schottky diode in a single SO-8 to reduce packaging cost and offer substantial space savings.

News from International Rectifier ( 9 January 2002)

PC slims to panel mounting

Wordsworth Technology's PPC-5050 is a slim 15in TFT LCD panel PC that measures only 93.4mm deep.

News from Wordsworth Technology ( 9 January 2002)

Suppression on the rails

Advance-Galatrek's new StrikeSafe DIN-rail compatible TVSSs are designed to clip directly onto the universal DIN-rail mount format tracking used in many control and distribution cabinets.

News from Advance Electronics ( 8 January 2002)

Reliable batteries for critical applications

Low-maintenance economical sealed lead-acid (SLA) batteries aimed at power-critical systems have been added to the Dubilier battery range and are available ex-stock.

News from Dubilier ( 8 January 2002)

Sample kits put toroids to the test

Epcos can now offer special sample kits for toroids (ring cores) for EMI and LAN applications, helping users find the products that best fit their applications.

News from Epcos ( 8 January 2002)

Elektro-Automatik sets up UK subsidiary

Leading German power supply manufacturer, Elektro-Automatik, has set up a UK subsidiary.

News from Elektro-Automatik ( 8 January 2002)

Budget microcontroller makes a display of itself

With 2Kbit of internal OTP memory, the HT49R30A-1 is one of Holtek's latest generation of 8bit general-purpose LCD microcontrollers.

News from Holtek Semiconductor ( 8 January 2002)

Relays keep it clean

The RU series of general-purpose relays from Idec Electronics has been designed to comply with the requirements of the WEEE Directive.

News from Idec Electronics ( 8 January 2002)

Tester keeps in-vehicle systems on the road

New from IFR Systems the Vehicle Radio Test System (VRTS) is designed to significantly reduce warranty costs associated with in-vehicle information and entertainment systems.

News from IFR Systems ( 8 January 2002)

Multiple launches at Embedded Systems Nuremberg

At Embedded Systems 2002, Nuremberg, Germany, I-Logix will launch Rhapsody in ADA and Statemate Magnum ATG.

News from I-Logix Europe ( 8 January 2002)

Lockheed finds Rhapsody vital in JSF programme

 User Application Article  According to I-Logix, its Rhapsody visual application development environment played a vital role in the development of the award winning prototype of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).

News from I-Logix Europe ( 8 January 2002)

SoundSever honoured at Consumer Electronics Show

The Imerge SoundServer S1000 hard disk audio server has been featured as an Innovations 2002 Honouree at the 2002 International CES show in Las Vegas.

News from Imerge ( 8 January 2002)

Solvent cleaning system eliminates rejects

 User Application Article  Gai-Tronics has had a potentially damaging quality problem solved by the installation of a cosolvent cleaning system from Kerry Ultrasonics.  Brochure Available 

News from Guyson International ( 8 January 2002)

Switcher family boosted to 1500W

Lambda has extended its Alpha family of configurable switch-mode power supplies with the introduction of a new 1500W output version, the Alpha 1500.  Brochure Available 

News from Lambda ( 8 January 2002)

Environmentally friendly melt pressure transducers

The Series 2000 range of melt pressure transducers is now available from Magna Projects and Instruments' online shop.

News from Magna Projects and Instruments ( 8 January 2002)

IEC inlet combines filter, fuse and mains switch

Schaffner has expanded its space-saving FN280 Series IEC inlet filters to include a full range rated at 10A.  Brochure Available 

News from Schaffner ( 8 January 2002)

No fab no barrier to Wolfson growth

Wolfson Microelectronics is celebrating its 50 millionth device shipped since becoming fabless in 1996.

News from Wolfson Microelectronics ( 8 January 2002)

Allegro leads in Hall-effect sensors segment

Allegro MicroSystems has been awarded the distinguished 2001 Frost and Sullivan Market Engineering Leadership Award in the Hall-effect sensors segment.

News from Allegro MicroSystems Europe ( 7 January 2002)

Anite results stand the test of cellular turmoil

Anite Telecoms has reported a period of strong growth, with figures just released showing turnover up 74% to GBP 18 million for first half, with record order intake at GBP 17.6 million.

News from Anite Telecoms ( 7 January 2002)

Entry module provides cleaner power for cPCI

New from Kaparel Corp, the PS3380 power entry module (PEM) is a 6U, 8HP card module that provides -48V power to a CompactPCI backplane for telecomms applications.

News from Kaparel Corp ( 7 January 2002)

Planar transformers save space and weight

Pulse has a series of 30W planar transformers it claims offer a size and weight reduction of up to 60% in DC power supplies or in discrete power supply systems.

News from Pulse ( 7 January 2002)

STI expands in Utah

Scientific Technologies recently broke ground on a new 2500m2 manufacturing facility in Logan, Utah for its growing Automation Products Group.

News from Automation Products Group ( 7 January 2002)

Interface adds scope for data analysis

Users of Tektronix' mid- and high-performance lines of oscilloscopes can now directly access The MathWorks flagship software, Matlab.  Brochure Available 

News from Tektronix ( 7 January 2002)

IEEE 1394b to be showcased in Las Vegas

New technology advancing the capabilities of home networking with the latest IEEE 1394b compliant products will be demonstrated by Texas Instruments next week at the Consumer Electronics Show.

News from Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) ( 7 January 2002)

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