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RF Micro Devices, Inc. announced that Lenovo Mobile Internet and Digital Home Business Group (MIDH) has honored RFMD® with its 2011 Best Supplier Award. Lenovo MIDH is the subsidiary of Lenovo responsible for creating mobile Internet-focused devices, including tablets and smartphones, as well as devices for new categories like cloud computing, smart TV and the digital home.

Making sense of images captured by cameras in today’s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems requires sophisticated microprocessors with specific feature sets. But what makes a good image processor? Sally Ward-Foxton investigates.

Targeting electronic engineers, Texas Instruments and Digi-Key have announced their joint presentation of a series of webinars entitled ‘Building the Future of Technology’, hosted by Electronic Specifier.

Capacitive touch has become the technology of choice for high end consumer applications, but the technology is particularly susceptible to EMI. How do the major manufacturers deal with this problem? Asks Sally Ward-Foxton

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has announced release 6.1 of its PAC-Designer® mixed signal design software, with updated support for Lattice's Platform Manager™, Power Manager II and ispClock™ devices. Users designing with Platform Manager devices will now have access to the Lattice Diamond® 1.3 software design environment. This integration of the PAC-Designer 6.1 and Diamond 1.3 design software tools will make more advanced digital desi...

AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation has introduced its latest automated system for conducting radiated susceptibility testing. The AS18027 AR System has been specifically designed to perform automated testing for MIL-STD 461 requirements. The system will produce fields up to 50V/m at 1 meter distance from 1-18 GHz.

From the thousands of product and technology searches conducted on the site each month, we bring you the most popular and searched for items from the last 30 days, with real-time stock levels and pricing info.

This week at the 2011 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC*) and its parent company, Toshiba Corp., announced the TGI1314-25L, a gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT), the latest addition to its power amplifier product family.

View the Top Electronics Product Searches in the Last 30 Days on the site, from the thousands of product searches which are performed each month. To make a quick search, use the Free Component Search Tool.

Agilent Technologies Inc. has released a new version of its IO Libraries Suite software for test instrument connectivity and control. Release 16.1 adds additional support for PXI and AXIe instruments and delivers an improved user experience, making it faster and easier to connect to instruments from a wide range of vendors.

Lowest Cost, Lowest Power Programmable Gen2 SRIO Solution Available

RivieraWaves announced today that it has successfully passed the Bluetooth Qualification with its Bluetooth 3.0 baseband Intellectual Property (IP).

The F100 HCMOS oscillator family is available in 1.8V (F110 series), 2.5V (F140 series) and 3.3V (F130 series) options and a frequency range of 1.0 MHz to 80.0 MHz, all in a compact 2.0 mm x 1.6 mm footprint with a low 0.8 mm profile.

Microchip Technology Inc today announced the PIC18F “K80” 8-bit CAN microcontrollers featuring 1.8 – 5.5V operation and eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology, for the industry’s lowest sleep current consumption of less than 20 nA. The new MCUs also feature an on-chip 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a peripheral that enables mTouch capacitive touch-sensing user interfaces. They are ideal for applications in the automotive sector ...

As the electronica 2010 trade show continues into its third day, we bring you a new set of images direct from the floor of the electronics industry's most comprehensive and most exciting event.

See the latest images from electronica 2010 from our crack editorial team who have been pounding the trade show floor since the doors opened...

LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, and Netrino, the leader in embedded software architecture and process consulting, are partnering to implement the Embedded C Coding Standard. Support for the Embedded C Coding standard complements the LDRA tool suite’s extensive support for C language programming standards such as MISRA-C:1998 and MISRA-C:2004, CERT C, SEC C and GJB (Chinese Mil...

Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME), today announced that its MB86298 ‘Ruby’ graphics display controller (GDC) has won a 2010 Golden Mousetrap Award from ‘Design News Magazine,’ arguably the industry’s leading technical resource for design engineers in the USA.

C&K Components has developed a new series of low-profile rotary DIP switches. Available in surface mount and through-hole models, the RTE Series DIP switches feature SPDT, SP3T and SP4T rotary functions as well as rotary binary-decimal and hexa-decimal coding.