News & Analysis

NXP Semiconductors has announced that Ruediger (‘Rudy’) Stroh will join NXP as General Manager of the identification business. “We have recruited a new leader and created a dedicated structure for our identification business as we believe it has significant potential for further growth in the mid and long term,” commented NXP Chief Executive Officer Rick Clemmer. “Rudy brings to us an ability to focus on innovation and customer wins whi...

austriamicrosystems has introduced the AS5163, a magnetic rotary encoder IC specifically designed to satisfy stringent automotive requirements in angle sensing applications where robust IC protection is essential. austriamicrosystems’ newest automotive magnetic encoder IC incorporates both +27 Volt overvoltage protection and -18 Volt reverse polarity protection at its output. AS5163 also features an intelligent short circuit monitoring func...

Continuous Computing and picoChip today announced that they will collaborate to produce a comprehensive Long Term Evolution (LTE) femtocell and picocell reference implementation. The results of the joint work will enable Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) to quickly get to market with a variety of small form factor LTE products, including femtocell and picocell base stations. Smaller eNodeB products, such as those based on the MicroTCA form facto...

Lantronix has announced the opening of its new regional headquarters in Breda, The Netherlands. Due to significant growth in the past year, Lantronix has acquired larger premises as it extends its outreach to its current, as well as potentially new, customers.

FutureLogic has announced that it has been named preferred global technology partner by Cirsa Gaming Corporation. Cirsa Gaming Corporation is a world leader in the gaming and leisure sector, operating over 150 casinos and bingo halls, and providing gaming solutions worldwide under the Unidesa brand.

Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy, has become a supplier within the 3rd iteration of the UK MoD's Framework Agreement for Technical Support (FATS 3). Plextek's broad range of services can now be easily accessed by the MoD and other government departments and organisations including the Home Office, Metropolitan Police Service, Forensic Science Laboratory, Meteorological Office and HM Revenue and Custom...

Dialog Semiconductor has announced that the new Samsung Smartphone, the SCH-u750, will use Dialog’s DA8531 integrated circuit in a display based keypad configuration. Dialog has worked closely with Samsung to optimise the operation of the keypad display to ensure it does not consume any power when images are static - saving energy and extending the battery life of the phone.

Texas Instruments has announced that it will expand its microcontroller (MCU) portfolio with the acquisition of Luminary Micro, the market-leading supplier of ARM Cortex-M3-based 32-bit MCUs. The addition of Luminary Micro’s Stellaris family of Cortex-M3 processors will accelerate TI’s ability to provide the industry’s most complete MCU portfolio. This acquisition means that customers can now enjoy the innovative capabilities of Stellaris M...

Maxim has introduced the DS8313, a low-power, low-cost, smart-card interface. This device performs level translation between a host microcontroller and a 5V, 3V, or 1.8V smart card, while providing up to 80mA for smart-card operation.

STMicroelectronics and Soitec, the world’s leading supplier of engineered substrates, today announced a joint cooperation between the two companies that will lead to the development of 300mm wafer-level backside-illumination (BSI) technology for next-generation image sensors in consumer products.