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Texas Instruments comprehensive hardware and software platform leverages TIs proven OMAP™ 3 applications processor and connectivity solutions to meet the eBook markets needs.

TI introduces the ISO1050, the industry's first device combining CAN an isolation technologies reducing required components from as many as three to one, and simplifying board design in industrial applications.

ADS Desktop DRC is part of the new ADS Layout and is available on your Desktop. It can be run easily in ADS and at any time during the MMIC design phase. With ADS Desktop DRC, you can run DRC early in your design cycle, at any time, and as often as you want - so there will be no surprises at the end.

DragonWave Inc. a leading global supplier of packet microwave radio systems for mobile and access networks, today announced that the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) has agreed to a commercial field test using DragonWave’s Horizon Quantum radio product.

Altera Corporation announced its Stratix IV FPGAs passed the Interlaken Alliance's device interoperability testing. Altera certified its high-performance FPGAs interface with third-party components using the Interlaken protocol. Stratix IV GT FPGAs passed interoperability testing at 6.25-Gbps line rates and are the industry's only Interlaken solution capable of supporting line rates of 10 Gbps. Device interoperability testing validates Stratix IV...

At Embedded World 2010, Xilinx, Inc. introduced the Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Imaging Targeted Design Platform to accelerate development of high-performance video processing applications for low-cost, low-power industrial imaging systems. Industrial equipment OEMs can now rapidly build and evaluate reprogrammable imaging solutions with high-definition image resolutions, specialized image sensor interfaces, and intelligent video and advanc...

National Instruments today announced that it has awarded $1 million USD in software, support and training to medical device manufacturers through its medical device grant program. Since the program began in 2008, 59 grant recipients from around the world have used technology such as the NI LabVIEW graphical system design platform to reduce the cost and complexity of medical device development and quickly create functional prototypes that help pro...

Bruker Corp. and Agilent Technologies Inc. announced today that Bruker and Agilent have entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement. Pursuant to this agreement, Bruker will acquire certain product lines of Varian Inc., which Agilent has committed to divest in connection with obtaining regulatory approval for Agilent's previously announced acquisition of Varian.

STMicroelectronics has announced innovative plastic air-cavity packages that enable high-power transistors for Radio-Frequency (RF) applications such as transceivers, broadcast equipment and MRI scanners to deliver performance and cost advantages over alternative devices in ceramic packages.

Baolab Microsystems has announced a new technology to construct nanoscale MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) within the structure of the actual CMOS wafer itself using standard, high volume CMOS lines, which is much easier and quicker with fewer process steps than existing MEMS fabrication techniques that build the MEMS on the surface of the wafer. This significantly reduces the costs of a MEMS by up to two thirds and even more if several di...