News & Analysis

New from Photonic Products Ltd, the UK opto-electronic device manufacturer and laser diode specialist, are powerful 35mW and 60mW versions of its bestselling 405nm (blue-violet) Photon laser diode modules with TTL modulation.

congatec AG has formed a U.S. company, congatec Inc., and will begin looking for a location for a California-based office immediately. The office will initially employ about 10 congatec employees headed by Ron Mazza, an industry veteran of more than 30 years.

Barco Silex has announced its new DCPB-2000 family of JPEG 2000 PCI-Express Acceleration boards. Capitalizing on its leadership in real-time and high-definition JPEG 2000 IP cores, this family of boards encodes and decodes JPEG 2000 in real-time. These JPEG2000 solutions will be demonstrated at NAB, Barco Silex Stand C11519F, in the Las Vegas Congress Centre, Las Vegas.

The next fastener show for UK manufacturing professionals takes place very soon - on April 30th at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, near Wolverhampton.

The RF200-2500TUNV1 is the first in a family of High Performance, Wideband, RF Tuners (HiPerTUNER) that is designed for both receivers and transmitters filter applications. The RF200-2500TUNV1 can be used as a premier pre-selector in your receiver or as a post filtering in the transmit-driver’s output chain.

Nexcom has launched three fan-less tablet computers. The MTC 2100, MTC 2100-MD and MRC 2100 are based on Intel’s smallest and lowest power processor (at the time of press) the Atom ™, which was specifically created for use within Mobile Internet Devices. All three platforms have a long battery life that can provide uninterrupted usage for up to 8 Hrs.

CML Innovative Technologies (CML-IT) has signed a distribution agreement with Samsung Electro-Mechanics to distribute its medium and high power ranges of LED products. Samsung’s mid and high power illumination LEDs are available in six different package sizes and in several shades, including cool white, warm white, and an RGB version.

The Institute for System Level Integration, iSLI, is to host a course on Digital Test Technology and DFT at the Bath Innovation Centre on 6th-9th May 2008. This is the 3rd iSLI course to be made available in Bath following a collaborative agreement with Silicon South West, the networking organisation for the largest chip design cluster in Europe, last year.

Orange Tree Technologies, a board-level embedded hardware and software company focused on high performance system-host communications interconnect, today announced that it has joined the Xilinx Alliance Program. The announcement comes on the back of Orange Tree’s record sales performance in the Industrial segment. Participation in the Program is a demonstration of its commitment to supporting the increased use and market deployment of low p...

Cissoid, the pioneer of Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) products, announced today the appointment of Tony Denayer as CEO and Director.