News & Analysis
South Korea’s Wonju City Selects GALED Featuring OSRAM Golden DRAGON Plus LEDs for Country’s Longest LED Street Lamp Installation
Wonju City in Gwang Won province, South Korea, installed LED street lamps in line with the Korea government’s call to implement more energy efficient solutions. The installation of PRAUS 150W streetlights with OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ Golden DRAGON Plus LEDs represent the longest LED street light installation to-date in Korea.
NXP Launches New Smart Card Reader for Growing pay-TV Market
NXP Semiconductors today launched its latest smart card interface – the TDA8034 – a NDS and EMV 4.2 compliant, cost-optimized solution for the pay-TV market. The TDA8034 is the industry’s first low-cost smart card reader with NDS certification and it offers set-top box manufacturers high levels of flexibility. The smart card interface has been designed to read the majority of the viewing cards issued by broadcasters and supports all three l...
Laird Technologies Launches Multi-language Versions of Website
Laird Technologies today announced the launch of its fully translated Simplified Chinese website, along with language portals for Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and German versions of www.lairdtech.com. These various language versions are accessed through the ‘Select Language’ drop-down menu on the site.
STMicroelectronics Publishes its 2009 Half Year Financial Report
STMicroelectronics announced today that it has published its 2009 Half-Year Financial Report for the six month period ended 27 June 2009 incorporating financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS.
POWERVR Insider membership races to over 12,000 members
Imagination Technologies, the leader in mobile and embedded graphics technologies, reports that its POWERVR Insider ecosystem has grown to over 12,000 members. POWERVR Insider, which has its online resources and interactive online developer forum at www.powervrinsider.com, has tripled in numbers over the past 18 months, with intake from a broad community that ranges from engineers creating device drivers to operating system designers, user interf...
Freescale and ElectroJet technology sets the pace in “green performance” during Bonneville Speed Week
Proving that “green” small engine control can complement high performance, Freescale Semiconductor and ElectroJet Inc. joined forces to set world speed records with 150cc Dayun motorcycles during Speed Week (Aug. 8-14) at the legendary Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The Chinese-made Dayun motorcycles featured an ElectroJet fuel injection system with a Freescale S12X microcontroller (MCU), designed to reduce harmful exhaust emissions by up to ...
Isabella Products selects Freescale’s i.MX technology for upcoming portfolio of connected mobile devices
Isabella Products, a next-generation mobile device company, has selected i.MX processor technology from Freescale Semiconductor as the foundation of an embedded application framework for Isabella Products’ upcoming lineup of connected mobile consumer products. The companies also will collaborate to develop a platform enabling a wide range of innovative consumer products from Isabella.
Texas Instruments applies digital power management to next-generation Xilinx FPGA designs
Texas Instruments today announced Xilinx is using TI power management technology to simplify power design in its new Virtex-6 ML605 field programmable gate array (FPGA) evaluation kit. TI’s Fusion Digital Power™ controllers give FPGA users advanced power management capability and design flexibility, including the ability to monitor a power system’s behavior in real time.
Teknek to Showcase Advanced Contact Cleaning Technology - Nanocleen - At Productronica 2009
Teknek will be demonstrating the world’s most advanced contact cleaning system at this year’s Productronica 2009 - November 10 to 13 in Munich.
NEC Electronics - High Definition MPEG-4 Hybrid Set-Top Box Reference Design to address Pay TV and Free-To-Air (FTA) Markets
NEC Electronics Europe today announced the availability of a complete cost and power consumption optimized manufacturer’s kit based on NEC Electronics EMMA™3SL/P MPEG-4 digital TV processor which drastically reduces the time to market of MPEG-4 high definition hybrid set-top boxes.