News & Analysis

Ismosys, officially launched in March 09 as a new demand creation vehicle of the Spectrum Electronics Group, has extended its pan-European network with the establishment of an operation in Israel, based in Gedera South of Tel Aviv.

Texas Instruments has announced the selection of Continuous Computing, a leader in wireless protocol software, and mimoOn GmbH, a leader in software defined radio solutions, as third parties to offer integrated solutions for HSPA and LTE enterprise and residential femtocells.

Tensilica has announced the first member of its new ConnX family of DSP cores for system-on-chip design. The ConnX Baseband Engine enables efficient baseband processing for 3G, LTE (Long-Term Evolution) and 4G wireless equipment with its scalable, high-performance DSP architecture that provides industry leading computational throughput of 16 18-bit MACs per cycle. The ConnX Baseband Engine features an optimized instruction set, high memory bandwi...

Imagination Technologies has signed a multi-use license agreement with MediaTek Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company, for a member of Imagination's POWERVR SGX graphics processor family. MediaTek will deploy the technology in its future SoC devices.

Carlo Gavazzi has obtained full certification for its range of meters designed to comply with the requirements of the European Measuring Instruments Directive (MID). The MID’s Annex B + Annex F certification involves type approval from notified bodies and verification by authorised laboratories.

ARM has announced that LG Electronics has licensed ARM technology to power its digital TV development revolution. The ARM11 MPCore multicore processor provides flexible and cost effective processing in next generation DTVs and enables LG Electronics to target a range of platforms with the same architecture simply by implementing single or multiple SMP cores. ARM Mali-200 and Mali-400 MP graphics processors will open the path to true 1080p resolut...

STMicroelectronics has announced that it has been awarded an “Electron d’Or 2009” by Electronique Magazine in the ‘power conversion’ category, for its new family of silicon-carbide (SiC) Schottky diodes. The winner in each award category is determined by an independent jury of recognized experts in the electronics industry, and is selected from products released in the previous year.

Green Hills Software has announced that Meggitt Control Systems is using its software development solutions to build a cabin air temperature control system for private cabin-class jets. The Meggitt Control Systems’ bleed air system will be used on the Embraer Legacy 500 midsize and 450 midlight business jets.

Agilent Technologies Inc. today kicked off its Agilent Digital Measurement Forum in Seoul, Korea. The annual forum, which brings together local and global industry leaders to address all digital-related measurement solutions from consumer electronics to high-speed digital design, will be held in six countries in the Asia-Pacific region from June 18 to July 16. Partners and collaborators such as Xilinx, The MathWorks and Microchip Technology are p...

IBM Corporation, NEC Electronics Corporation and Toshiba Corporation announced that NEC Electronics and Toshiba have extended technology development agreements with IBM to participate in the development of a 28-nanometer (nm), high-k metal gate (HKMG), low-power chip technology geared for consumer products.