Strong demand for energy-efficient products and solutions led to significant growth in revenues and earnings for the Dresden-based semiconductor company Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden (ZMDI) in fiscal-year 2010. As the Company reported today, revenues rose year-over-year by 28 percent while earnings (EBIT) improved by approximately EUR 5 million. Based on the excellent business performance in 2010, each of the approximately 280 employees receive...

ZMD AG (ZMDI), a global supplier of energy-efficient analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, and medical applications, today announced the fourth member of its cost-effective IO-Link line driver and level shifter IC family. The new ZIOL2411 offers two independent I/O channels that meet the physical layer requirements of master, sensor and actuator systems used in factory automation applications. The ZIOL2411 is pin- and func...

ZMD AG today announced two high-performance devices to complement its family of LED driver integrated circuits. The ZLED7020 and the ZLED7030 LED driver ICs operate at up to 98% efficiency, thus helping to achieve the highest possible lumen-per-watt output in high brightness LED applications.

ZMD AG announces the ZWIR4512, a uniquely secure and easy-to-integrate low-power wireless data communication module for sensors, and other small devices used in industry and building automation, health monitoring, smart metering and keyless entry systems. The ZWIR4512 is more than a radio - it implements full data networking based on the IPv6 Internet protocol.

ZMD AG announces the ZWIR4512, a uniquely secure and easy-to-integrate low-power wireless data communication module for sensors, and other small devices used in industry and building automation, health monitoring, smart metering and keyless entry systems. The ZWIR4512 is more than a radio - it implements full data networking based on the IPv6 Internet protocol.

ZMD AG has announced the ZWIR4512, a uniquely secure and easy-to-integrate low-power wireless data communication module for sensors and other small devices found in industry and building automation, health monitoring, smart metering and keyless entry systems. The ZWIR4512 is more than a radio - it implements full data networking based on the IPv6 Internet protocol.

ZMD AG has announced the ZWIR4512, a uniquely secure and easy-to-integrate low-power wireless data communication module for sensors and other small devices found in industry and building automation, health monitoring, smart metering and keyless entry systems. The ZWIR4512 is more than a radio - it implements full data networking based on the IPv6 Internet protocol.

ZMD AG has expanded its family of capacitive sensor signal conditioners (SSCs) with the addition of the wide-dynamic-range ZSSC3122 cLite device. Thanks to new design technology, the chip delivers 14-bit resolution and 0.25% full-scale-output accuracy. A built-in sleep mode lowers current consumption to

ZMDI today announced a new member of its cost-effective line driver and level shifter IC family with a high-voltage I/O channel that meets the physical layer requirements of sensor and actuator systems used in factory automation applications. An integrated DC/DC converter allows power supply of external sensor and actuators with up to 15V, saves board space and design costs. The ZIOL2201 is function- and pin-compatible with the ZIOL2401 and ZIOL...

Following on the successful fiscal year 2010 the Dresden-based semiconductor company, Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden (ZMDI), expects to see a continuation of its growth path despite the expectations that the dynamic increase, which the industry sector had witnessed the previous year, is set to cool down. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year the company reckons 2011 will provide a generally positive climate and forecasts revenue growth betw...

ZMD AG, a global supplier of energy-efficient analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, and medical applications, today announced a cost-effective line driver and level shifter IC with a high-voltage I/O channel that meets the physical layer requirements of sensor and actuator systems used in factory automation applications.

ZMD AG, a global supplier of energy- efficient analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, consumer, and medical applications, launches the second wave of its ZLED family of LED control solutions with two new low-voltage ICs designed for battery-powered handheld devices. The ZLED7012 and ZLED7022 incorporate low-noise, constant-frequency charge pump DC/DC converters that can efficiently drive up to four (ZLED7012) or six (ZLED70...

ZMD AG, a global supplier of energy-efficient analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, consumer, and medical applications, today announced its strategic cooperation with Fairchild Semiconductor to develop energy-efficient power-management solutions for a range of point-of-load (POL) applications.

ZMDI, The Dresden-based semiconductor company, registered healthy growth for the first six months of 2010 and upgraded its revenue forecast for the current fiscal year. According to figures published by the company today, revenues for the first half of the current fiscal year totaled approximately EUR 29.1 million, equaling an increase of around 65 percent compared with the same period of the previous year. Besides the general economic recovery, ...

ZMD AG, a global supplier of analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, and medical applications, announced today the availability of two new evaluation tools which will allow customers to quickly and easily develop IO-Link master applications as well as device applications. The evaluations and development tools are built around the company’s ZIOL2401 IO-Link high-voltage driver which supports IO-Link master ports, IO-Link de...

ZMD AG, a global supplier of analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, and medical applications, announced today the availability of two new evaluation tools which will allow customers to quickly and easily develop IO-Link master applications as well as device applications. The evaluations and development tools are built around the company’s ZIOL2401 IO-Link high-voltage driver which supports IO-Link master ports, IO-Link de...

ZMDI AG, a global supplier of analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, and medical applications, today announced its entry into the LED market with the first three energy-efficient LED driver ICs of a new family. The drivers achieve up to 95% efficiency and demonstrate ZMDI’s commitment to green technology.

ZMD AG introduced a class-leading 16-bit sensor signal conditioning IC (SSC). Developed for resistive bridge sensors, the ZSSC3017 combines high accuracy amplification, 16-bit precision analog-to-digital conversion, and an 18-bit DSP for linearization and calibration functions. The highly integrated CMOS device offers performance accurate enough for altimeter/barometer systems, data merging with GPS receivers, strain gauges, medical gas and infus...

ZMDI, a globally active supplier of analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial and medical applications, presents 12 new members of its converter family SARah. The new A/D-converters ZADC510x and ZADC512x have a Dual Core and operate with sampling rates of up to 1MSample/s. The Dual-Core enables developers to make use of applications which require the parallel sampling of 2 signals. The ZMDI converter family, which operates on t...

ZMDI introduced the ZSSC3053, a pure differential sensor signal conditioner (SSC) for high-accuracy amplification and sensor-specific correction of millivolt-level DC sensor signals. Based on proven functionalities of ZMDI's well known sensor signal conditioner portfolio, the feature-optimized ZSSC3053 offers the highest sensor accuracy at low cost. The chip is adjustable to nearly all resistive bridge sensor types and is ideally suited for micro...