News & Analysis
Only airworthy Vulcan bomber back in the air after 14 years
Historic bomber back in the air On Thursday October 18th 2007 the only airworthy Vulcan bomber in the world returned to the skies over Leicestershire when Avro Vulcan XH558, having last flown 14 years ago after a 33 year career in the Royal Air Force, took to the air from Bruntingthorpe airfield for a 34-minute test flight.
Harwin signs with elcon electronic in Germany
High reliability interconnect manufacturer, Harwin, has secured a distribution agreement with elcon electronic GmbH in Goettingen, Germany, to reinforce its presence in the German market place. elcon electronic distributes a range of active, passive and electromechanical components for over 20 well established manufacturers throughout Germany.
Zytronic Group names new Chief Executive Officer
The Zytronic Group, a leading designer and manufacturer of Projected Capacitive Technology (PCT)-based touch sensor products and customised optical filters for electronic displays, has announced the promotion of its subsidiary’s managing director, Mark Cambridge, to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Group, effective immediately. Cambridge succeeds John Kennair who will continue on the Board as Chairman.
Express Logic’s ThreadX/MCU RTOS Scores well in Microchip Technology’s PIC24 Benchmarks
Express Logic, Inc. has announced benchmark results for its ThreadX/MCU RTOS, running on Microchip Technology’s PIC24 16-bit microcontroller. ThreadX/MCU performed up to 50% better than other RTOSes measured by the Thread-Metric benchmark suite. Express Logic’s ThreadX/MCU’s performance is a result of its advanced, highly-optimized architecture that has been fine-tuned over the course of its use in over 450 million electronic products.
EVE and CoWare Forge Strategic Alliance
EVE, a leader in hardware/software co-verification, and CoWare, Inc., a supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, today announced a strategic alliance to provide design teams with an integrated approach that ties hardware/software co-verification from EVE with SystemC virtual platforms developed with CoWare’s ESL 2.0 solutions.
Hard-Disk-Drive Motor Controller from STMicroelectronics Designed for Next-Generation Enterprise Drives
STMicroelectronics has announced a hard-disk drive (HDD) motor-control chip intended for demanding enterprise-level HDD applications. The new L7220 controller integrates all of the circuits required to drive both the spindle motor and the voice-coil motor (VCM), plus the motor drive power FETs and multiple high-efficiency voltage regulators. It continues and complements ST’s HDD controller family, which includes the L7207 HDD controller for mob...
PCIe Switching Solution Optimized For The Communications Market is a first says IDT
IDT has announced it is sampling the industry’s first PCIe family of switching solutions specifically tailored to meet the high-performance data and control plane interconnect requirements of demanding communications applications.
Management buy-in/buy-out puts Artisan Software Tools firmly on a path for accelerated growth
Artisan Software Tools has announced the successful conclusion of a management buy-in/buy-out which has brought significant new investment and management talent into the company and seen a further strengthening of its sales and support operations in both the USA and Europe, setting the company firmly on a path for accelerated growth. The company will continue to focus on the sale of Artisan Studio, its all-in-one UML, OMG SysML and Architectural...
picoChip now supports all three 3G standards families
picoChip has announced the PC8808 TD-SCDMA femtocell reference design, the first to support this standard. Femtocells (or 3G access points) are low-cost basestations optimized for deployment inside buildings to improve coverage and data rates. The new design was developed in China at picoChip’s Beijing design center. TD-SCDMA is the third major 3G standard, and is expected to launch in the Olympic cities this summer.
Link Microtek launches website for Engineering Division
Link Microtek has launched a new website dedicated to activities of the company’s Engineering Division, which designs and manufactures a comprehensive range of waveguide and coaxial microwave components, assemblies and subsystems. As well as presenting an overview of the Division’s capabilities, www.linkmicrotekeng.com provides easy access to PDF datasheets on a wide variety of standard products for applications in the frequency range DC to 4...