Jorg Heid has joined Ismosys as General Manager for Central Europe which includes the DACH region and all countries of the former Eastern European block up to the Russian border.

Ismosys has rolled out a global network of independent design centres to meet the demands of new and existing customers it calls Design Services PLUS+ (DSP+). The array of design talent available from Ismosys now spans Europe where Ismosys has created a network of over 20 design centre partners, North America, and now India.

Ismosys has signed a pan-European sales and marketing repping agreement with Aquantia. Ismosys Managing Director Nigel Watts is keen to get Aquantia’s new AQrate PHY technology, with its ability to carry an unprecedented 2.5 and 5Gbit/s Ethernet over up to 100m of legacy Cat 5e and Cat6 cables onto the market.

Ismosys is now sampling Crocus Technology’s CTSX Series of magnetic field sensor ICs. Currently comprising three device families, the sensors leverage the company’s proprietary Magnetic Logic Unit (MLU) technology to deliver higher performance and lower-cost to a wide variety of sensor applications.

Ismosys has followed up its recent appointment to represent the components division of Seiko Instruments (SII) in the UK and Ireland by releasing a new coin-cell lithium rechargeable battery that offers a much higher operating temperature than conventional rechargeable batteries.

Seiko Instruments (SII) is looking to increase its penetration of Tier 1 OEM customers in the UK and Ireland. To lead the drive it has named Ismosys as the sales and marketing representative for its Electronic Components division. New design-wins are the requirement and Ismosys will work closely with SII’s authorised distribution channels to secure new design-wins for the company’s embedded technology from customers engaged in next-ge...

Sharp’s new tuneable white, mid-power SMD-based LED for SSL lighting applications comprises two different correlated colour temperature (CCT) emitters that together produce light output that can be steplessly 'tuned' over the range of 2700–6500K. It will get its first public outing at the Light+Building trade-show in Frankfurt (March 30 – April 4 2014).

Ismosys has released details of Dialog Semiconductor’s new high performance, 15W single-stage, AC/DC offline power supply controller for dimmable LED luminaires that require high Power Factor (PF), low total harmonic distortion, outstanding TRIAC dimmer capability and low BOM cost.

Ismosys has introduced a development-kit-in-a-case that provides the ideal platform for LED Lighting designers, engineers and installers to learn about and develop DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface)-based lighting control systems.

The seemingly insatiable demand for ever-thinner profiles is compromising the audio quality output of even top-end flat panel TVs, thereby creating enormous market opportunities for digital sound projectors (SoundBars) capable of delivering an audio fidelity that matches today’s high-definition video reproduction.

Ismosys has appointed Gary Plumley to head up the Ismosys Design Partner programme, established by the Spectrum Group in 2009. Announcing the appointment, MD Nigel Watts commented that the Ismosys team has worked closely with Plumley for a number of years in his capacity as Field Applications Specialist for Semtech Corporation.

The exponential growth in mobile data traffic in the next decade, coupled with global spectrum scarcity, is forcing service providers and operators to push the limits on capacity and throughput for their limited spectrum. This is in turn driving a need for next-generation base stations able to support dramatically wider bandwidth, significantly more signal channels and more protocols (2G/3G/4G) in each band. 3GPP’s Long Term Evolution (LTE) sta...

Etron Technology Inc. has appointed Ismosys as its pan-European representative/stockist. Etron is a fabless IC design and product company that offers cutting-edge Known-Good-Die-Memory (KGDM) and consumer electronics DRAM (CEDRAM), including DDRI DRAM, DDRII DRAM, SDR DRAM and low-power SDRAM. Etron’s system-on-chip products include USB 3.0 host controllers and webcam controllers.

Gainspan GS1500M provides leading edge 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity; enables support for peer-to-peer networking

Ismosys, a Spectrum Electronics Group operation, has signed a pan-European deal with Fortemedia Inc, the world leader in small array microphone (SAM ) voice processing technology: The combination of Fortemedia’s 3rd generation SAM technology and the company’s DSP-based voice processor ICs is delivering industry-leading echo cancellation and noise suppression solutions that enable natural flowing, full-duplex hands-free communication to globa...

Ismosys has released details of the highest performance CMOS hybrid TV tuner for worldwide analog and digital terrestrial and cable TV reception. Developed by ESS Technology, a specialist provider of high performance audio/video solutions, the RadiX TV Tuner is the industry’s lowest power and highest performance CMOS-based multi-standard silicon TV tuner.

Ismosys has made details of RadiSys’ fourth generation Advanced TCA (ATCA) products available. Designed to address the requirements of next generation network elements, including 4G and Broadband, the RadiSys ATCA 4.0 platform enable smooth transition to high-bandwidth applications such as LTE, WiMAX, Femtocell Gateways and Video, and incorporate a 10GBASE-KR and 40GBASE-KR4 backplane and 40G switching capability.

Cavium’s super energy-efficient ARM-based SoC processors are now available from Ismosys, officially launched in March 09 as a new demand creation vehicle of the Spectrum Electronics Group. The single and dual core ARM SoC processors enable high performance, while slashing power and cost for next-generation gateways, storage and Consumer Electronics (CE) devices in the digital home.

Ismosys, officially launched in March ‘09 as the principal demand creation vehicle of the Spectrum Electronics Group, has signed a rep-stocking deal with Canadian power specialist Tectrol Inc, covering the key European territories of Benelux, Iberia, Central Europe (inc. Switzerland), Italy, France, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Turkey, the Nordic countries and Israel.

Ismosys, officially launched in March 09 as a new demand creation vehicle of the Spectrum Electronics Group has expanded its existing partnership with end-to-end connectivity solutions specialist Mellanox Technologies to include Israel. The agreement builds on Ismosys’ existing partnership with Mellanox in Benelux, France, Iberia, Italy, Turkey and the UK & Ireland. Previously Mellanox products were not actively marketed in Israel despite the f...