News & Analysis

Green Hills Software has expanded its European management team with the addition of Niclas Lindstrom, who has been appointed as Sales Manager for the Nordic region. He will be based in Kista, Stockholm.

Avago Technologies has announced a new innovative flat gain, high linearity low noise gain block that can be used as either a broadband gain block or driver amplifier MMIC. Housed in an industry standard SOT-89 package measuring 4.5mm by 4.1mm by 1.5 mm, Avago’s MGA-30689 flat gain, high linearity gain block operates in the 40 to 2,600 MHz frequency band and only requires a simple DC biasing match.

ARM and Melfas, a leader in capacitive-sensing touch input solutions, today announced that Melfas has chosen the ARM Cortex-M0 processor and ARM physical IP libraries for their future controller ICs for capacitive touch screen solutions.

Steatite has been awarded Gold Level Partner status in the Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner Program. This status is given to partners that demonstrate a high level of competence and expertise with Microsoft Windows Embedded technologies. This capability, combined with an excellent range of hardware, allows Steatite to offer a full Windows Embedded turnkey solution.

Productronica, the world’s leading trade fair for innovative electronics production, is continuing to extend its position as an international innovation platform for the electronics industry with the new Munich Electronics Summit. This event for CEOs of internationally operating companies will be held at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre on November 10, 2009. The guest of honour at the event will be Ram Charan, one of the World’s leading manag...

Following a highly successful EDS show in Las Vegas, Powerstax, one of Europe’s leading application-rich power solutions specialists, has appointed Irwin Industries as their Manufacturers Rep for Canada. Irwin Industries will be developing the market in Canada for the complete range of high efficiency AC and DC power conversion products designed, manufactured and marketed by Powerstax.

Gresham Power Electronics has announced the appointment of Phil Gethen to its power supply design team. “Our engineering department has never been busier” comments Jake Moir, Managing Director of Gresham Power “and we are very pleased to add Phil to our team.”

Texas Instruments has announced that Autoliv, the global leader in automotive safety, has selected Texas Instruments as the supplier of processors for its new night vision system. This system with pedestrian detection capability uses a digital media processor based on DaVinci technology from TI coupled with a single far-infrared sensor.

Tensilica has announced that TranSwitch Corporation has integrated two Xtensa customizable Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) into its recently introduced Atlanta 2000 gigabit-rate communications processor product family. Atlanta 2000 offers robust gateway routing, security and VoIP capabilities with unmatched performance and power efficiency, enabling customers to develop the next generation of high-performance green networking products and servi...

Jennic’s JN5139 wireless microcontroller unit has been used by Gloucestershire based electronics consultancy firm MicroWatt to give its KnowWatt energy monitoring systems reliable RF data links. The JN5139 is optimised for low power operation, and boasts a work rate of 3MIPS for every mA of current that it draws. The device has a 32-bit RISC core, 192kB of ROM and 96kB of RAM. It incorporates a 4-input 12-bit analogue-to-digital converter, tw...