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ABB has been working with Mardix, the largest independent switchboard builder in the UK, to provide electrical control for a major UK media client. The project sees ABB providing all control and distribution equipment for Mardix switchgear being installed on site. The switchgear being installed includes a variety of Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) backup and generator supply switchboards, sub-mechanical switchboards, final distribution boards ...

Lantronix today announced it has appointed Paul Pishal as Vice President of Marketing. Pishal brings more than two decades of experience managing business development, product marketing and corporate strategy for technology companies in the electronics and business consulting industries. Prior to Lantronix, Pishal was the Senior Manager of Business Development for Capgemini, where he defined and implemented new service offerings within the cable...

Lattice Semiconductor today announced financial results for the second quarter ended July 4, 2009. For the second quarter, revenue was $46.9 million, an increase of 8% from the $43.3 million reported in the prior quarter, and a decrease of 19% from the $58.1 million reported in the same quarter a year ago.

NXP Semiconductors today announced second quarter sales of USD 857 million, a comparable increase of 26.2% from the first quarter of 2009. The increase in sales is mainly attributable to supply chain replenishment following a soft first quarter of 2009 and the continued impact of various, mainly Chinese, stimulus packages.

Toshiba Electronics Europe’s ASIC & Foundry Business Unit has announced an intellectual property (IP) block that provides an advanced, flexible and future-proofed solution for the rapid integration of USB functionality into system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Delivering physical layer functionality for USB 2.0, the Toshiba USB 2.0 PHY IP provides a silicon-proven interface between the USB Host or Device Controller and the USB system.

Keithley Instruments, Inc will be presenting a two-hour workshop entitled “LTE testing – understanding how your LTE radio is performing” on the first day of European Microwave Week (EuMW), which takes place in Rome, Italy, from September 29 to October 1, 2009. Attendance at the workshop is free of charge, but registration is required. For further details and to register, visit http://www.keithley.eu.com/art_resource.php?sid=kquj.2dfmrki.

A range of high quality, high reliability rotary joints, essential components in any directional antenna system, is now available in the UK through specialist RF & Microwave distributor, Aspen Electronics. Manufactured in the US by Diamond Antenna & Microwave, the range includes hundreds of designs, from single channel coax and waveguide rotary joints to multi-channel products.

congatec AG has announced that Technofonds Bayern (The Bavarian Technology Fund) of Bayern Kapital GmbH (Bavaria Capital) intends to increase its holding in the company by injecting a further one million Euros, together with a group of lead investors. Their total share holding will thereby increase to 11.1 %.

NXP and Trusted Logic today announced a partnership in which Trusted Logic will distribute and market the NFC middleware, which embeds the NXP Reference Implementation. This agreement will accelerate NFC deployment, with a faster time to market and skilled resources to support NFC middleware integration into NFC-enabled wireless devices.

Lattice has announced the availability of a new 0.8-mm pitch 256-pin Chip-Array BGA (caBGA256) package for its popular MachXO PLD family that provides designers with a broader range of package options for implementing cost-sensitive, board space constrained designs. The Mach XO640, XO1200 and XO2280 devices are now available in the 14 x 14 mm, caBGA256 package with up to 211 user I/O. The new packages provide designers with 10% lower cost and 30%...