News & Analysis
Renesas Landshut Fab Transfers to Silicon Foundry Holding
Renesas has transferred all shares of the former Renesas Semiconductor Europe (Landshut) GmbH (RSEL), to Silicon Foundry Holding GmbH (SFH). As of today, the former RSEL facilities in Landshut are owned by SFH, a Germany-based company specializing in semiconductor pure-play foundry services.
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Phyworks names Priyan as Applications Engineering Manager
Phyworks has announced it has appointed Dave Priyan as Applications Engineering Manager to support the company’s rapidly expanding range of high performance transceivers, transimpedance amplifiers and equaliser / retimer ICs.
Pin Out And Demo Boards For Magnetic Sensors
Inertial Aerosystems has introduced a range of low cost pin out and demo boards for its small magnetic sensors. Manufactured by Honeywell Aerospace, these products are designed to facilitate easy evaluation or prototyping at the design stage.
Peregrine's SPDT Switch Operates to 8.5 GHz
Peregrine Semiconductor has announced the UltraCMOS PE95420 SPDT RF Switch. Delivering broadband performance up to 8.5 GHz and exceptional isolation, the new switch is ideal for the demanding rigors of high-rel applications such as telecom infrastructure, microwave radios, test instrumentation and space. As with all UltraCMOS silicon-on-sapphire ICs, the PE95420 offers a superior isolation and insertion loss, making it appropriate for application...
Tensilica HiFi 2 Audio DSP Supports aacPlus by Dolby
Tensilica has announced that it has added the aacPlus by Dolby for Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB+) decoder to its audio codec library for its Xtensa® HiFi 2 Audio DSP, one of the most popular commercial audio cores for system-on-chip (SOC) designs.
LED spotlights from CML-IT replace traditional halogen lights
An ideal replacement for MR16 halogen lights, new Coolspot LED spotlights from CML Innovative Technologies (CML-IT) have been designed for reading lights, retail lighting and general lighting applications. Available in four different versions (3W cool and warm white; 5W cool and warm white), the devices are highly vibration resistant and offer a long service life of approximately 50000h (compared to 2000h for MR16 halogen lights).
Ambitious NASA robot project relies on Harwin interconnect
The challenge is to build machines that can help humans work in, and explore space. Working side by side with humans, or operating where the risks are too great for people, machines like Robonaut - a humanoid robot designed by the Robot Systems Technology Branch at NASA's Johnson Space Center in a collaborative effort with DARPA - will expand our ability for construction and discovery. The Robonaut project has adopted the design concept of an ant...
picoChip details LTE picocell and femtocell reference designs at LTE World Summit
picoChip has disclosed further details of the industry’s first complete LTE basestation reference designs at the LTE World Summit in London. The PC8618 picocell and PC8608 femtocell platforms, respectively designed in conjunction with picoChip’s development and research partners, mimoOn and ASTRI, will enable high capacity wireless networks for enterprise, metropolitan, “hot-zone”, home and rural demands.
Axis Network Technology launches LTE Remote Radio Head platform
Axis Network Technology (AxisNT) has announced the launch of a family of Remote Radio Heads (RRH) for OEM deployment of LTE networks worldwide. The LTE platform, with 20W output power, is based on the same innovative design principles as AxisNT’s successful WiMAX RRH, which is already being manufactured and shipped in volume worldwide.