News & Analysis
Fairchild to Present at Electronica & Productronica China 2009
Fairchild Semiconductor will present at Electronica & Productronica 2009 held in China from March 17-19. Driving Higher Levels of Efficiency in Motor Designs” will be presented by Eric Zhang, Fairchild’s technologist. This presentation will explore the energy savings that can be achieved through highly efficient motor design and the value of semiconductor solutions to drive these motors.
Knowles Acoustics Joins EDGE Innovation Network
Knowles Acoustics has joined the EDGE Innovation Network as a technology member. The EDGE is a collaborative, open-environment initiative enabling industry and academia, with government input, to work together to reduce the delivery time of new technologies and innovative capabilities to warfighters and first responders. The EDGE Innovation Network is sponsored by General Dynamics C4 Systems.
OMRON and Renesas to Jointly Develop Touch Sensor Solutions
OMRON and Renesas Technology have reached an agreement to jointly develop capacitive touch sensor solutions, a field that is attracting a great deal of interest as a next-generation man-machine interface. Based on this agreement, Renesas will integrate OMRON’s touch sensor technology into its R8C Family 16-bit microcontroller products and supply touch sensor solutions for a wide range of fields, including household appliances and mobile devices...
SiTel offers high-quality Text To Speech on DECT phones
SiTel Semiconductor has announced the availability of a natural-sound Text To Speech software engine for its latest DECT chipsets. The engine runs on SiTel’s SC14450 DECT baseband processor and SC1448x family of single-chip DECT / CAT-iq solutions, using only 1.2 Mbytes of external serial Flash memory and minimal processor overhead. As the external memory can also be used for storing answer-machine messages, manufacturers can incorporate Text T...
Fairchild Semiconductor Appoints Randy Carson to Board of Directors
Fairchild Semiconductor has announced the appointment of Randy W. Carson to the company’s board of directors. Carson has more than 35 years of experience in the power equipment and power distribution industries, most recently as chief executive officer of Eaton Corporation’s Electrical business unit, which grew under Carson’s leadership from a North American business of $2.2 billion to a major global enterprise with annual revenues of $7 bi...
Fairchild Semiconductor's Motion-SPM Products Optimize Power in Midea's New DC Air Conditioners
Fairchild Semiconductor has been selected by one of China’s largest manufacturers and exporters of household appliances, Midea Group, as its major supplier of inverter solutions for DC air conditioners. Fairchild’s Motion-SPM devices will be deployed in Midea’s innovative Galaxy product family, which consists of a comprehensive line of high-end, mid-end and low-end 180° sine wave control DC inverter air conditioners. Midea selected the dev...
Dual Lowpass Filter with Differential Amplifier and Guaranteed Matching
Linear Technology has introduced a family of four high performance dual fixed frequency lowpass active filters/amplifiers targeting a wide range of wireless communications and industrial signal processing equipment applications.
Atmel and Adeneo Embedded Announce Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 Training in Los Angeles Optimized for AT91SAM ARM9 Embedded MPUs
Atmel and Adeneo Embedded have announced a Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 training course in Los Angeles from May 4 to 7, 2009. This event is a unique opportunity for software system designers to develop an application based on Windows Embedded CE, and on the industry leading AT91SAM9. The AT91SAM9 is an Embedded MPU based on the ARM926EJ-SÔ core which has rapidly become the platform of choice for embedded designers.
National Semiconductor Innovation Recoups Over 50 Percent of Solar Power Lost Due to Shade
Test results released today reveal that a new technology from National Semiconductor can recoup up to 57 percent of the power lost due to temporary or partial shading of photovoltaic solar panels. Building on its more than 50 years of power management experience, National Semiconductor’s SolarMagicTM power optimizers improve the energy harvesting of solar panels in real world conditions, where shading and other issues can significantly reduce t...
Renesas Technology to host PLC technology open day
Renesas Technology Europe is holding a technology open day at its Bourne End offices on 26th March 2009. Aimed at a non-technical audience, the event will examine power line communications (PLC) architectures, the UK’s requirements for a WAN-based smart meter in addition to gaining an insight to other European smart metering initiatives.