News & Analysis

Sonitor Technologies has confirmed Arrow as one of the company’s preferred supplier partners for electronic technologies deployed in the company’s latest ultrasound indoor positioning system (IPS). The relationship with Arrow covers the supply of components, technical engineering support and advanced supply chain solutions that support the global nature of Sonitor’s business.

ACAL Technology and EPCOS announce an extensive, new online resource which simplifies and speeds the selection process for ferrite components. The new ferrite design centre at www.acaltechnology.co.uk/ferrites features a free design tool as well as comprehensive information on ferrite materials, data on all EPCOS ferrites and accessories, and a list of ACAL Technology’s inventory of EPCOS ferrites.

ChipX Inc. today announced a new methodology that enables customers to launch their products quickly with a Structured ASIC and then seamlessly migrate their design to a Standard Cell device once the product features and market potential have been validated. The methodology, called XPath, enables customers to get products to market quickly and inexpensively and will play a valued role in the production of ASICs for a wide variety of applications...

Altium Limited the developer of unified electronic product design solutions, has confirmed its final financial results for the financial year ending 30 June, 2007. Altium ended the financial year with a cash balance of $10.7 million, up 68%. Revenues grew 18%, and sales grew 26%. As a result, Altium proposes to provide a return to shareholders of 6 cents per share in the form of a capital reduction, subject to shareholder approval at the company...

The ACS760 from Allegro MicroSystems Europe is a hot-swap protection IC designed for 12 V high-side applications. The new device combines Allegro's Hall-effect current sensing technology with hot-swap control circuitry, resulting in a highly efficient integrated controller. No external sense resistor is required, resulting in greatly reduced I2R losses in the power path.

Cherry has started a program to aid the Pasque Charity by donating keyboards and mice for sale in their charity shops and by starting a mobile phone recycle campaign throughout the company. For every old phone recycled, the Pasque Charity will receive £5.00, while taking care of environmental issues associated with the disposal of mobile phones.

Just published by Hawco Controls is the company’s latest 30-page Quick Pick focus product guide, which details over 700 product ranges that are always available off the shelf for immediate delivery. Alongside products such as relays from Song Chuan, and miniature and disk thermostats, thermal fuses and cut-outs, thermistors and motor and transformer protection devices from Microtherm, the Quick Pick shortform catalogue lists: switches, fans, h...

Building on its commitment to provide semiconductor solutions to fast growing markets, Texas Instruments has announced that it has opened a new Customer Support Center and representative office in Prague (Czech Republic), adding to existing recently established offices in Warsaw, Moscow and Istanbul and providing new levels of support to Eastern European markets by extending its local customer service. TI also now offers a toll-free number for it...

Finisar Corporation has announced availability of the Xgig 10GbE Analyzer, said to be the industry’s first and only protocol analyzer which supports the recent ANSI Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) initiative. Finisar’s Xgig is the industry’s workhorse for testing all key storage protocols such as Fibre Channel, SAS/SATA, Ethernet and iSCSI. The FCoE analyzer is based on the company’s 10GbE Xgig product and Expert software extensively u...

Following interest in its digital signage technologies at recent tradeshows, 3M has announced a series of training workshops for existing and potential UK or Ireland resellers at the 3M Centre in Bracknell, Berkshire. The one-day events are aimed at resellers seeking a more in-depth understanding about Vikuiti Rear Projection Displays and 3M Digital Signage software to enable successful sales promotion and specification of the products to their ...