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Providing utility companies with a reliable, accurate and energy-efficient smart grid solution for electricity line monitoring, Optisense Network, Inc. has selected Texas Instruments embedded processing and analog technology as the preferred solution for its primary measuring units (PMU). TI’s TMS320C2000 microcontroller and high-performance analog technology enables a complete monitoring solution that gives utilities real-time visibility of pr...

Lattice Semiconductor today announced that its mid-range, low power LatticeECP3 FPGA family has been named a finalist in the highly regarded e-Legacy Awards competition sponsored by Electronic Product Design magazine. Lattice is one of six finalists for the coveted Environmental Design award, and is the only programmable logic company to be named a finalist in any of the competition's award categories.

Agilent Technologies has announced that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center (DNALC) has adopted the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer system to teach high school students and teachers how to analyze DNA. The Bioanalyzer uses miniaturized lab-on-a-chip technology to replace traditional slab gel electrophoresis techniques, greatly speeding up the process, improving consistency of results and reducing use of hazardous chemicals associat...

Agilent Technologies has announced that its Scanning Microwave Microscopy Mode (SMM Mode) for use with its 5420 and 5600 atomic force microscopes (AFM) has been named an R&D 100 Award winner. Recipients of these prestigious awards are selected by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine in recognition of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace during the past year. Agilent SMM Mode is ...

Agilent Technologies Inc. today reported revenues of $1.06 billion for the third fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2009, 27 percent below one year ago. Third quarter GAAP net loss was $19 million, or ($0.06) per diluted share. Last year's third quarter GAAP net income was $169 million, or $0.45 per share.

Spirent Communications plc has successfully supported the industry’s largest public IPTV test by validating the resiliency and video quality of Cisco’s medianet solution. Medianet Megatest, the independent benchmarking of Cisco’s IP video service delivery network equipment conducted by the European Advanced Networking Test Center AG (EANTC), demonstrated that Spirent is the foremost provider of test and measurement solutions suited to valid...

Spirent Communications plc, in its continuing role as a leader in network, services and device testing, played a critical part in the industry’s first live interconnection carrier Ethernet demonstration conducted at the Ethernet Expo: Europe 2009 Conference and Expo.

ARM announced today that Core Logic Inc, a leading Korea-based fabless semiconductor manufacturer in the development and delivery of mobile multimedia solutions, has licensed the ARM Mali-400 MP multicore graphics processing unit (GPU) to enable significantly enhanced, high-definition (HD) entertainment and browsing experiences on smartphones, fully-featured multimedia phones, portable media players (PMP) and personal navigation devices (PND) wit...

Continuing its focus on ARM-based processors, Quadros Systems, Inc., a leading provider of real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced support for the AT91SAM9G20 and SM9XE microcontrollers (MCUs) from Atmel. Developers can now combine the efficiency and scalability of the RTXC software family with the flexibility and performance of SAM9 family.

Fairchild Semiconductor has received the Strategic Supplier Award, 2009 from Hisense. Hisense specializes in designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, its main products are televisions, air conditioners, refrigerators, computers and CDMA mobile phones. Sales of flat-panel televisions in China reached 28 million units up to 2008, this year sales are expected to reach 15 million units.