News & Analysis
RF Engines wins Queen’s Award for Innovation
RF Engines Limited (RFEL) has announced that it has won the 2009 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category, for its unique range of digital signal processing technologies. RFEL’s award winning* designs enable fast moving events occurring in the radio spectrum (even rapidly moving signals or fleeting, hopping signals) to be identified, acquired and then extracted for analysis.
Chapel Hill Joins Cree LED City® Program
Chapel Hill, N.C., home to the 2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball Champion UNC Tar Heels, has joined the Cree LED City® initiative, an international program to promote and deploy energy-efficient LED lighting. Chapel Hill has installed LED streetlights along the high-profile 100 block of Franklin Street, one of the town’s most recognizable landmarks.
Nat Semi Introduces Industry’s Lowest Jitter 3-Gbps SDI Equalizer
A new PowerWise 3-Gbps serial digital interface cable equalizer from National Semiconductor simplifies the design of broadcast video routers, production switchers, distribution amplifiers, editing and conversion equipment. The energy-saving LMH0384 offers the industry’s lowest output alignment jitter across cable lengths allowing hardware designers more headroom for designing within system jitter budgets. Tighter jitter budgets translate to ...
New addition to Carlo Gavazzi’s sales force
Carlo Gavazzi UK is today announcing the appointment of Will Darby to the role of Northern regional sales manager. Reporting to Alan Hickman, managing director, Darby will be responsible for promoting Carlo Gavazzi’s extensive range of products throughout the region into applications such as energy management, building services, panel building, OEM and engineering markets.
NXP to Integrate Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home into its STB Platforms
NXP Semiconductors has announced support for the Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home. The optimized implementation of Flash technology for Internet connected televisions, set-top boxes (STB), Blu-ray players and other devices in the digital living room is expected to be supported on NXP’s IP STB platforms, the STB225 and STB222. Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home allows consumers to enjoy rich Flash technology based web content, ap...
Omnetics Connector Corp appoints Scott Unzen
Omnetics has announced that Scott Unzen has joined the company’s Sales and Marketing department in a Market Development role. Reporting to Omnetics’ Asia Pacific Sales Manager, Joe Held, Scott will perform a variety of functions including market research, sales, CRM implementation, product recommendation and lead generation.
Marshall Electronics Turns to Tektronix for 3Gb/s Monitor Design Validation and Test
Tektronix Inc announced that Marshall Electronics, a leading manufacturer of LCD camera-top and rack mountable monitors, has turned to a Tektronix WFM7120 Waveform Monitor and a TG700 Video Signal Generator with an HD3G7 module for design validation and characterization in the development of the industry’s first 3Gb/s serial digital interface (SDI) LCD monitors.
Peregrine Semiconductor Announces New C.F.O.
Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation today announced that it has appointed Jay Biskupski to the role of chief financial offer, responsible for the Company’s financial and site services organizations. Mr. Biskupski replaces Philip Chapman, who moves to a new executive role which will oversee the deployment of the Company’s Intellectual Property licensing strategy.
VI Technology’s Multimedia Test System wins prestigious Best in Test Award from Test and Measurement World
Readers of Test and Measurement World have selected VI Technology’s Multimedia Test System (MMTS™) as the winner of the prestigious Best in Test Award for the “Audio/Video and Multimedia” category.
Agilent and Symwave Collaboration Enables First-in-Class, High-Quality USB 3.0 Devices
Agilent and Symwave have announced Symwave's use of the Agilent DSA91304A real-time oscilloscope and J-BERT N4903A high-performance serial BERT as part of its comprehensive USB 3.0 device testing and validation. Symwave is a leading silicon supplier of system solutions for SuperSpeed USB storage devices.