News & Analysis

To support continued growth CIL (Custom Interconnect Limited), the Andover-based electronics manufacturing service provider and LED design and engineering company, has appointed a new board of executive directors.

ACW Technology Ltd has been awarded silver accreditation in the ‘Supply Chains for the Twenty First Century’ (SC21) national aerospace and defence supply chain improvement programme. Attaining silver level accreditation is a great achievement for ACW and follows an intensive yearlong audit process. ACW becomes only the 4th company to reach silver level status, and only the 2nd to go straight to silver, in the three and a half years the progra...

At today’s International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre report an analog-signal processor ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) – in short ASP - that reduces the overall power consumption of an ambulatory heart activity signal monitoring systems by more than 5 times. This is a major step towards autonomous wireless sensor systems, which constantly monitor the patient’s health for diagnosis of chronic illness.

Altera Corporation announced its Cyclone III LS FPGAs have received prominent recognition from editors in the electronics industry. Editors from EDN and Embedded Computing Design and OpenSystems Media honored Altera's innovation for its Cyclone III LS FPGAs offering low power consumption, high density with small form factor packages, and security features.

Altera Corporation announced new innovations that will be incorporated into upcoming 28-nm FPGAs. Embedded HardCopy Blocks, a new method for partial reconfiguration and embedded 28-Gbps transceivers will dramatically improve the density and I/O performance of nexra-generation Altera® FPGAs and further strengthen their competitive position versus ASICs and ASSPs.

The annual IEC DesignVision Awards program recognizes new technologies, applications, products and services that are judged to be the most unique and beneficial to the industry and was selected by a panel of judges comprised from members of the DesignCon 2010 Technical Program Committee. The committee consists of industry experts in the semiconductor and electronic design engineering community. The domain-specific approach of the ISE Design Suite...

VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced its latest technology platform for fleet management device designs. The VIA EPIA-P710-D is a Pico-ITXe expansion module that allows system integrators to easily create cutting-edge fleet management devices that incorporate a range of the latest communication and intelligent management technologies.

Oxford Instruments is delighted to announce that sales of its systems for the production of HB LEDs continue to grow considerably, with the company receiving multiple orders from a number of important manufacturers based in Asia. Despite the current economic downturn, the company has more than doubled its HBLED tool sales over the last 12 months supplying nearly all of the major Asian HBLED manufacturers and significantly increasing market share.

Anritsu A/S, a global provider of Operations Support Systems (OSS) for advanced and converged networks, announced today that their installation in a leading mobile operator in Eastern EU has been successfully upgraded to support the next generation IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network technology.

Anritsu announced today that they not only satisfy the GRQ (Global Roaming Quality) requirements as defined by GSMA – they surpass them with their Voice Quality measurement capability. The GRQ framework, initiated by GSMA has a set of KPI’s for voice, data and SMS, which enable Service Providers to formulate mutual SLAs (Service Level Agreement’s) between each other.