News & Analysis

Molex Incorporated is to be honoured as a supplier to a winning product, the NeuroStar TMS Therapy system by Neuronetics Incorporated, in the 2009 Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) competition, the premier awards programme for the medical technology community. The MDEA will present the award on June 10 at the Medical Design & Manufacturing East 2009 Conference and Exposition in New York City.

National Instruments has announced the 15 recipients of the company’s Global Supplier Awards for 2009. The annual awards were presented to suppliers who through their commitment to excellence, continuous improvement and innovative practices, delivered world-class performance within the global supply chain.

XMOS is expanding its US operations with the appointment of semiconductor industry veteran, Kevin Yoder, as Director, North America Sales. Based at the new XMOS office in the Plug & Play Center, Sunnyvale, Yoder takes responsibility for supporting and expanding the XMOS US customer base as the company establishes its position as a leader in event-driven processors.

Linear Technology has introduced the LTC4222 dual Hot Swap controller for protecting boards with multiple load supply voltages ranging from 2.9V to 29V. When a board is plugged into a backplane, inrush currents can be large enough to create a glitch on the load supply, causing other boards on the bus to malfunction. The LTC4222 enables safe board insertion and removal from a live, two-supply backplane by controlling external N-channel MOSFETs to ...

Achronix Semiconductor has announced the availability of new, high-performance Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) IP cores for its Speedster(tm) 1.5 GHz family. These high-performance 128-bit key size AES cores, from Portland, Oregon-based Signali Corp., are targeted at 10 Gbps, 40 Gbps, and 100 Gbps applications. They demonstrate the speed of the Speedster FGPA fabric, as well as the balance between throughput performance and resource minimisati...

MOSIS has announced that it will commence multi-project wafer (MPW) runs using IBM’s new 0.18um high voltage process. The technology meets the growing demand for ICs to provide a high voltage capability in low power hand-held products. Typical applications include power management ICs for portable devices such as PDAs and cellphones as well as low cost integrated controllers for automotive, medical and industrial designs.

XMOS, the leader in event-driven processors, has launched an Ethernet-based LED Tile Reference Design Kit to enable digital designers to rapidly develop LED tile systems using daisy chains of Ethernet scan boards. All requirements are implemented entirely in software, which is available on an open source basis as a royalty free download.

Agilent Technologies has announced it will present three technical sessions and exhibit its LTE test application solutions at the fifth Informa LTE World Summit, Berlin, Germany, May 18-20. Agilent will exhibit its design-automation tools and flexible instrumentation for early LTE R&D design in components, base-station equipment and mobile devices.

NXP and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), a leading supplier of payment cards, services, and smart card solutions, today announced the introduction of NXP’s new Fast Pay contactless security chip and a new line of G&D contactless payment devices based on this IC. Fast Pay-based devices have been specifically designed to provide consumers in the USA and Canada with a convenient and swift contactless payment solution – replacing the need for cash and ...

Fairchild Semiconductor will demonstrate its innovative and highly efficient solutions for power supplies, lighting, motor control, automotive and industrial applications at Power Conversion Intelligent Motion (PCIM) Europe in Germany, May 12-14, 2009 in booth 601. Fairchild will show its broad range of integrated motor drive solutions that drive highly efficient inverter-based motors and its comprehensive solutions for linear fluorescent lamps (...