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Now available from Contrinex is a new generation of photoelectric proximity switches designed to provide users with a high level of performance at competitive prices.

Linear Technology has introduced the LTC4311 Rise Time Accelerator for heavily loaded I2C/SMBus systems operating at bus speeds of up to 400kHz. The LTC4311 offers improvements over existing accelerator products with its wide supply voltage range, low power shutdown mode, strong pull-up current, tight bus hold-off threshold, voltage improved ESD ruggedness and reduced package size.

At the Embedded Systems Conference VersaLogic Corp. announced that it has joined the recently-formed Small Form Factor Special Interest Group (SFF-SIG) as a voting member. The purpose of the international organization is to develop, adopt, and promote circuit board specifications and related technologies that will help electronics equipment manufacturers and integrators reduce the overall size of their next-generation systems.

UR Group has signed a distribution agreement with NeoPhotonics, the second-ranked firm in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 listing for Silicon Valley. The new agreement considerably expands UR Group's portfolio to include a complete line of both active and passive optical components for every network market segment: FTTH/Access, datacom, storage area networks, metro and long haul networks.

International Rectifier has announced that the Company’s Founder and Chairman, Eric Lidow, will retire from his position as Chairman and as a member of the Board of Directors effective on May 1, 2008. Mr. Lidow had served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer until 1995, after which time he assumed the position of Chairman.

Aeroflex and Innowireless have announced that they have entered into a technology partnership designed to accelerate the development of 3GPP LTE mobile devices for subscribers. The partnership will enable the two companies to combine their extensive engineering skills and resources to collaborate on the development of a new 3G LTE mobile test tool intended to enable handset designers and manufacturers accelerate the time-to-market of their 3G LT...

Farnell has significantly enhanced its product portfolio with over 50,000 new additions in 12 months. The additions further strengthen Farnell’s market-leading component range, taking the total number of products in stock, for next day delivery, to over 468,000.

Renesas Technology has entered into a strategic research collaboration with IMEC, Europe's leading independent research center in the field of nanoelectronics, to perform research on 45nm RF transceivers targeting Gbit/s cognitive radios. To this end, Renesas has joined IMEC’s software-defined radio (SDR) front-end program. This research program includes reconfigurable RF solutions, high-speed/low-power analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and n...

ASBIS Group, a leading supplier of computer hardware and software to the EMEA emerging markets, announced it had established presence on the emerging market of Bosnia and Herzegovina through acquisition of MEGATREND d.o.o. Sarajevo, a local distributor of IT products and components.

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a nonprofit organisation inspiring young people to be science and technology leaders, has selected the National Instruments CompactRIO embedded control platform as its next-generation FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) robot controller. With this platform, high school students will create advanced robots starting in the 2009 FIRST season. Students can program their robots based on C...