News & Analysis
Aeroflex wins Contribution to Safety Award at the inaugural e-Legacy Awards 2007
Aeroflex has won the Contribution to Safety Award at the inaugural e-Legacy Awards 2007 organised by Electronic Product Design magazine in the UK and held earlier this month at the Tate Modern in London. The Award was presented to Phil Medd and Mike Thorpe of Aeroflex Test Solutions Wireless Division by Gina Citroni, Commercial Director, Amplicon Liveline, the sponsor of the Award and Caroline Hayes, the Editor of Electronic Product Design.
TTI, Inc makes two key appointments
TTI, Inc has announced the European appointments of Andrew Kerr as Director Supplier Marketing Passives and John Sandy as Director Supplier Marketing Connectors, Relay and Switches, in a strategic evolution of the organisation.
2008 Electronics wall planner from RS Components
RS Components has announced that its 2008 Electronics Wall Planner is now available. Featuring a January - June 2008 calendar on one side and July - December 2008 on the other, the RS Electronics Wall Planner is designed to help electronics engineers to effectively plan their time while at the same time highlighting the breadth of electronics products available from the company.
DS2 Licenses Tensilica’s Xtensa Processor for 200 Mbps Powerline Chipset
Tensilica has announced that Design of Systems on Silicon S.A. (DS2) has licensed Tensilica’s Xtensa configurable processor to use as a controller in a 200 Mbps powerline chipset. This chipset enables broadband and networking in homes over power lines, coaxial cable and telephone wire.
Tundra Semiconductor Switch Selected By GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation has announced that GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has selected the Tundra Tsi578, the serial RapidIO switch, for its DSP220, DSP230 and CRX800 system blades designed for defense and aerospace applications.
NI Releases New CompactRIO Systems for High-Volume Machines and Devices
National Instruments has announced the release of the new NI cRIO-9072 and cRIO-9074 CompactRIO systems that give engineers and machine builders an ideal solution for rapidly deploying industrial machines at high volume. These new National Instruments CompactRIO systems have an integrated hardware architecture that combines an embedded real-time processor and a reconfigurable FPGA within a single chassis, lowering the cost of CompactRIO for OEM a...
Digi-Key and Stackpole Electronics Sign Global Distribution Agreement
Digi-Key and Stackpole Electronics have announced that they have entered into a worldwide agreement for the distribution of SEI resistors. SEI products include a broad line of surface mount and thru-hole resistors, including thick film, thin film, current sensing, carbon composition, and metal film/oxide as well as a growing line of wirewound and thick film power resistors.
TI chipset enables equipment location system in hospitals
Demonstrating the effectiveness of ultra-low power control and radio frequency (RF) technology for asset management, InnerWireless, Inc. announced it is using Texas Instruments' MSP430 microcontroller (MCU)-based wireless chipsets for real-time location systems (RTLS). Based on 802.15.4 RF transmissions and Zigbee-protocols, the InnerWireless Vision Platform operates within building networks of hospitals, hotels, factories and other targeted indu...
IAR Systems appoints CTO and Engineering Director
IAR Systems has announced that it has appointed Petter Edman to the newly created position of Chief Technical Officer (CTO). At the same time Petter’s former position as Engineering Director has been taken over by the Project Director Anders Pikas.
Lapp appoints Bacon as Bus Development Manager
Lapp Ltd, the leading cable solutions provider, has appointed a business development manager for the UK. He is Chris Bacon, who brings to Lapp a wealth of experience following a career spanning more than 13 years in the cables industry.