News & Analysis
Successful tests of CISSOID components by NASA
CISSOID has released recent test results of their circuits by NASA for extreme high and extreme low temperature applications. Researchers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center have tested recently a CHT-555 SOI timer circuit. The circuit was provided unpackaged by CISSOID and then tested using special high temperature packaging technology developed at Glenn.
picoChip appoints Toon as CEO
picoChip has announced it has appointed Nigel Toon to be the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and member of its Board, replacing Guillaume d'Eyssautier. Nigel joins picoChip from Icera, which he co-founded and where he was VP Sales and Marketing before heading the company’s Phone Business Unit.
Eurotech announces new rugged Mobile Access Router
The DuraMAR 2150 is Eurotechs’ new compact, high-performance rugged mobile access router designed for secure communications, seamless mobility, and interoperability for defense, public safety, security and transportation networks.
Surface-Mount Ambient Light Sensing Photodiode from Vishay
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has broadened its optoelectronics portfolio with the introduction of a photodiode-based ambient light sensor in a compact 0805-sized surface-mount package, featuring a small 0.85-mm profile and simple 2-pin connection. The new TEMD6200FX01 reacts to light like the human eye to allow automatic control of LCD brightness and keypad backlighting and to enable a number of advanced automotive driver comfort and safety featu...
Non-contact OEM colour measurement from MAZeT
As part of its JENCOLOR range of function boards, MAZeT GmbH is introducing several new solutions and OEM systems for hand-held applications. The new MTCS-FB1 sensor hardware, based on MAZeT's True Colour sensors, provides non-contact colour measurement with system interfaces such as Bluetooth, USB, or RSxxx. The sensor system provides XYZ color values (DIN5033 / CIE1931 colour space). Once the measurements are calibrated to a repeat accuracy of
Renesas Technology changes in management team effective April 1, 2009
Renesas Technology Corp. has announced the following changes in its management team, to take effect on April 1, 2009. The new appointments are subject to approval of the general shareholders’ meeting to be held before the end of March, 2009.
Renesas Reinforces Business Structure to Achieve Further Growth
Renesas Technology Corp. has announced a variety of structural reforms that will be undertaken to reinforce its business structure as part of the company’s key strategy in achieving growth from FY2009 onward.
Sundance Upgrades Multiprocessor To Storage Interconnect With Single Chip SATA II Solution
Sundance and LogicDesign Solutions, a specialist provider of interconnect IP and services for embedded FPGA systems, today announced the delivery of LogicDesign’s Serial ATA Host and Dual Host Controller IP for the Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGAs featured in the Sundance 7-Series of multiprocessing modules. The LogicDesign core is compliant with the Serial ATA II specification and supports signalling rates of 1.5Gbps SATA-Gen1 and scales to 3Gbps SATA-G...
UpZide Becomes Tensilica Authorized Software Design Center
Tensilica has announced that UpZide Technologies AB is now an authorized Tensilica Software Design Center. Over the past three years, UpZide has worked extensively on designs with Tensilica’s Xtensa customizable processors, and have strong expertise in optimizing these processors for VDSL2 (very high bit rate digital subscriber line), the most advanced standard for DSL communications. UpZide is now available to help other companies with their w...
Renesas to release dual-core SoC with built-in image recognition processing function
Renesas Technology Europe has announced the SH7776 (SH-Navi3), a dual-core system-on-chip (SoC) device with on-chip enhanced graphics functions and a high-performance image recognition processing function for the next generation high-performance car information terminals. The device integrates two SH-4A high-performance 32-bit CPU cores on a single chip and achieves a superior processing performance of 1,920 million instructions per second (MIPS)...