News & Analysis

Professional Software Associates, Inc. released the initial version of the Stream Media Player for Android phones. The player is available for free download from the Android Market. The player provides functionality to stream video using the RTP/RTSP protocol. During the first days following the release the player was downloaded by thousands of users.

Analog Devices, Inc. today announced that Mitsubishi Electric has selected ADI’s SHARC processor as the digital signal processing engine within its DIATONE DA-PX1 Digital Process Center, the company’s aftermarket automotive audio amplifier. Leveraging ADI’s 32-bit, floating point SHARC digital signal processor at the heart of the DIATONE DA-PX1, Mitsubishi Electric has pioneered several ‘industry first’ audio process...

British contract electronics manufacturing company Holmes Circuit Designs Ltd (HCD) has added an AOI system for the inspection of mounted PCBs. The company decided in favour of the technologically-leading company GOEPEL electronics and its OptiCon BasicLine 1M AOI system with the latest Chameleon 360° angled view camera.

The Location Based Services (LBS) market is now being driven by application developers rather than the technologies. This was one of the conclusions from the Cambridge Wireless event, ‘How do we make location a desirable experience?’ that was hosted and sponsored by design consultancy Plextek Ltd.

Users of mobile computing and portable communications devices want to access more multimedia content, but are being held back by the lack of availability of low-cost, converged functionality devices, according to the results of a survey conducted by ABI Research on behalf of Mirics Semiconductor. The survey results also highlight that while users of portable consumer electronics (CE) devices have a clear vision of the increased functionality they...

RF Micro Devices, Inc. today announced it has received its first purchase order from a tier-one wireless base station original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for a product featuring RFMD's state-of-the-art gallium nitride (GaN) process technology. The purchase order is for RFMD's RFG1M09180 180-watt GaN broadband power transistor (BPT) and is in support of the global expansion of 4G wireless networks.

RF Micro Devices today released green gallium nitride (GaN) based CATV amplifier modules. The D10040200PL1 and D10040230PL1 are designed for use as power doubler amplifiers in current and next generation CATV infrastructure applications.

Avnet Embedded today announced its new structure in France following the integration of Abacus Embedded, part of the Abacus Group that Avnet acquired earlier this year. Axess Technology, a leading French distributor of embedded products and solutions that was part of Abacus Embedded, now operates under the Avnet Embedded umbrella. The new structure offers Axess customers a significantly larger product range as well as product labs and integration...

The China Manned Spacecraft Programme (CMSP) selected LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification tools, and the LDRA tool suite to analyse complex safety-critical applications related to the Tiangong 1 spacecraft. The Tiangong spacecraft, required to meet DO-178B Level-A certification, will carry out space rendezvous and docking experiments that support the overall mission of CMSP. The LDRA tool suite will enable CMSP developer...

Altium has appointed Elinktron Technology SRL as a reseller in Romania. Elinktron will sell Altium Designer, Altium’s next generation electronics design solution, its NanoBoard series of FPGA-based development boards, and its TASKING embedded software development tool.