austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs, has announced the AS3940, the first fully integrated 2.4 GHz multi-channel FSK (frequency shift keying) transceiver with integrated link manager for reliable control of star networks (up to 8 clients). It features low power, high sensitivity (-100 dBm @ 250kbps, -92 dBm @ 2 Mbps), data rates from 250 kbps up to 2 Mbps, and integrates a digit...

austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs, has announced the AS1119, the most advanced and smallest LED dot-matrix driver (channels vs. PCB space) available. The AS1119 drives 144 LEDs but requires only 9 mm² PCB space, reduces external component count, reduces connector pin count and requires fewer PCB layers. Benefits for end users include up to 80% longer battery lifetime, more c...

austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs, has announced the AS1119, the most advanced and smallest LED dot-matrix driver (channels vs. PCB space) available. The AS1119 drives 144 LEDs but requires only 9 mm² PCB space, reduces external component count, reduces connector pin count and requires fewer PCB layers. Benefits for end users include up to 80% longer battery lifetime, mo...

austriamicrosystems, has announced the AS3560 and AS3561 Stereo Headphone Amplifiers for mobile phones, portable navigation devices, music / media players and any media device that uses headphones. These new 30 mW headphone amplifiers continuously adjust the supply rails in response to the input signal, thus drastically minimizing power consumption as compared to traditional Class AB amplifiers.

austriamicrosystems has introduced the industry’s highest efficiency high current, dual step-down DC-DC converters in a compact 3x3 mm TDFN package. For space-limited applications with low power consumption requirements, the new AS134x series provides small size and high efficiency -- up to 95% -- for maximum time between battery charges. The AS134x series is targeted for portable devices such as laptops, PDAs, mobile internet devices and s...

austriamicrosystems business unit Full Service Foundry today announced the availability of its new analog/mixed signal high performance process design kit (HIT-Kit) for its 0.18µm High-Voltage CMOS technology H18.

Nangate, the leading supplier of digital cell library development and design optimization solutions, and austriamicrosystems announced that austriamicrosystems has successfully implemented the Nangate Library Creator Platform to improve the productivity and cost effectiveness of its digital cell library intellectual property (IP) development. austriamicrosystems is a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs and foc...

austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs announced that Audi / Volkswagen has selected the AS8221 FlexRay transceiver for use in their Electronic Control Units (ECUs). The AS8221 fully conforms to the FlexRay Electrical Physical Layer Specification V2.1 Rev B and is targeted for use in ECUs connected to the permanent battery supply where the transceiver manages the ECU power-up via ...

austriamicrosystems has announced the AS8002, the world’s first integrated solution for voltage and current monitoring in power inverters. This single chip design offers improved performance and reduced system cost of power inverters while allowing simplified design with a reduced number of components. The AS8002 is especially targeted for grid connected systems such as solar photovoltaic inverters.

austriamicrosystems announced that the District Court (Landgericht) in Duesseldorf (Germany) issued a decision in the patent infringement lawsuit regarding magnetic field encoder products against Melexis N.V. / SA (Belgium) and its German subsidiary Melexis GmbH fully in favor of austriamicrosystems. In its first-instance verdict the court established that the sale and distribution of products from Melexis’ product family of magnetic field enc...

austriamicrosystems has announced the AS5165, a contactless magnetic angle position sensor for accurate angular measurement over a full 360°. The new high-resolution magnetic rotary sensor offers best-in-class protection features for reliable operation in harsh automotive environments and includes a SENT J2716 interface for simple transmission of high-resolution sensor information.

austriamicrosystems announced the AS3410 and AS3430 Active Noise Cancelling (ANC) ICs for mobile accessories such as headphones. These fully analog devices enhance speech or music intelligibility by reducing low frequency noise on the receive path. The AS3410 and AS3430 provide industry’s lowest BOM cost and low power consumption through a high level of functional integration.

Housed in a small 4x4 mm QFN package, the low-power encoder is the smallest device in its class. Depending on the readout rate, the current consumption is reduced to µA-levels, e.g. 50µA average at 10 measurements per second – the lowest in the industry.

austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs today announces the appointment of Keiichi Iwamoto as new country manager Japan, based in Tokyo. Keiichi Iwamoto, with more than 20 years of broad experience in sales management functions, joins from semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies Japan where he was the responsible senior sales manager.

austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs, today announced the AS8510, a high precision data acquisition front-end IC for automotive battery current, voltage, temperature sense applications and in general for sensor interface applications where precise measurement of small signals close to ground is required.

austriamicrosystems, a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs today announced the AS3645 LED flash driver. This inductive, ultra small, high-efficiency single/dual LED flash driver offers 25% higher output current than existing equivalents. The higher flash power enhances picture and video quality especially in low light environment at same system size.

austriamicrosystems was impacted by the global economic crisis and the resulting semiconductor industry downturn in the fiscal year 2009. Full year revenues decreased by 26% to EUR 137.2 million and the operating result was a loss of EUR -18.6 million. In the fourth quarter 2009, austriamicrosystems recorded a significant improvement in orders and returned to profitability with revenues of EUR 43.9 million, up 11% quarter-on-quarter. Total backlo...

Cadence Design Systems Inc announced that austriamicrosystems, a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs for communications, industrial, medical and automotive applications and foundry services, has broadened its deployment of Cadence technology. Over the last two decades, austriamicrosystems has relied on the Cadence Virtuoso custom IC design platform for its analog and mixed-signal designs and process design kits...

austriamicrosystems today announced that LG Electronics, a leading provider of LCD TVs, has selected the AS3693A and AS3693B LED driver ICs for TV models being introduced at CES 2010 in Las Vegas.

austriamicrosystems complements its power and audio management unit portfolio with the introduction of the AS3607, a highly integrated power management IC. The AS3607 features a level of start-up sequence programmability not found in competing devices. This PMIC is suitable for portable navigation devices, portable media players, e-dictionaries, GPS devices, PDAs and a wide range of battery powered handheld devices using ARM-based processors.