News & Analysis

AdvancedIO is introducing a new family of rugged 10-Gigabit Ethernet XMC boards that are conduction cooled and provide packet processing. The first member of this family to appear will be the V1120, which buffers up to 115,000 jumbo-frame Ethernet packets over a temperature range of -40oC to 85oC.

Celsum Technologies has added the new ILE Inline Converter Housing to its range of products related to strain gauge based sensors.

NEC Electronics has announced it is a recipient of a 2007 Visteon Important Partner award from Visteon Corporation. The annual award program recognizes suppliers that exemplify best-in-class performance and go above and beyond to meet Visteon's needs and expectations. Selection criteria focus on a supplier’s performance in terms of quality, delivery, technology, launch and cost control.

At Sensor & Test 2008, Allegro MicroSystems Europe is featuring its latest families of Hall-effect sensors, including a number of precision current sensors designed for automotive and industrial applications.

Austin Hughes Europe has appointed Richard Gray to the new position of UK Sales Manager. Reporting to Martin Hennessey, European Managing Director, Richard will have overall responsibility for managing and further developing the company's UK distribution, VAR and OEM business channels for its comprehensive product portfolio of 19 Rack Mount LCD Monitors, Keyboard Drawers and KVM (Keyboard, Video and Mouse) Switches for centralised server managem...

National Instruments has announced the release of four new R Series I/O modules for the PXI platform that are equipped with high-performance Xilinx Virtex-5 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The NI PXI-7841R, PXI-7842R, PXI-7851R and PXI-7852R modules feature eight analogue inputs, eight analogue outputs and 96 digital I/O lines as well as analogue input rates that are more than 3.5 times faster than previously released R Series devices.

Tektronix, Inc and LitePoint Corporation, a provider of wireless test system solutions, announced their collaborative solution to LTE product development. LitePoint’s RSALTE software is designed to run on Tektronix RSA3000A/B and RSA6100A real-time spectrum analyzers, and offers 3.9G compliance support for designers of UMTS-Long-Term Evolution (LTE) systems.

Vishay Intertechnology has introduced its first wide-viewing-angle infrared emitter in a leaded package. With its uniquely designed lens, the TSFF5510 has a viewing angle of ±38°, which enables significantly better performance than standard 5-mm emitters.

Aerco, Horsham-based electronics and electrical component distributor has bought part of the Spartan Europe business from the administrators. As a result of this transaction Aerco has gained new franchise relationships with Wernes Cambion, Hi-G Italia, Hypertac and Oxley.

picoChip as announced that the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA – formerly the FSA – Fables Semiconductor Association) has appointed Guillaume d’Eyssautier, its President and CEO, to the GSA Board of Directors. In addition to his new role, Mr. d′Eyssautier will continue to serve on GSA’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Leadership Council (EMEA).