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Utilizing the company's innovative capacitive isolation technology, Texas Instruments has introduced a new family of dual-channel digital isolators, featuring faster data transmission, higher magnetic immunity and longer life expectancy than competitive devices. The ISO7220 and ISO7221 improve system performance and reduce cost in high-voltage, noisy applications such as factory automation, process control, computer peripherals and data acquisiti...

Electronics manufacturing services specialist Plexus is using its participation in this year's DSEi to underline its position as a global supplier to the defence and aerospace industries, with expanded facilities in the UK, Europe and world-wide. Recent enlargement of its European Design Centre in Scotland will enable the company to support a growing family of customers in UK and throughout Europe.

Review Display Systems Ltd has developed a new low cost media display system for locations where space is at a premium.The compact chassis mounted system measures just 165 x 115 x 25mm and features a high performance 7inch, 800 x 480 (RGB) pixel TFT screen with long life LED backlighting. Crisp, clear images can be displayed from a range of formats including MPEG4 (SP,ASP) stored on compact flash or uploaded via the units USB(2.0) interface.

Contrinex has developed a new range of high performance, M18 photoelectric sensors with an integral right angle prism that has been designed to improve the reliability of conveyor control. Conveyors are an essential transfer element in many manufacturing processes and control is normally achieved using M18 barrel sensors with axial detection. This means that the sensors have to be bracket-mounted on the sides of the conveyor with the sensor body...

Omnetics, USA manufacturer of miniature high rel connectors has announced that it has completed construction of a new cleanroom within its Minneapolis manufacturing plant. The 340 square foot cleanroom will be used for cleaning, testing and packaging products, as well as providing a custom assembly capability as necessary for certain demanding applications.

Digital Signage Specialist, ONELAN, has introduced the 3300/5 Net-Top-Box with more processing ability to power its complex functions. ONELAN’s Net-Top-Box (NTB) is a self-contained system running the ultra-reliable Linux operating system with built-in interfaces for communicating with data sources and live television and video feeds. It is controlled via a web interface and may be programmed to display stored pages or live TV and video togethe...

STMicroelectronics has today announced that by the end of the first quarter of 2007 it had shipped a cumulative total of more than 400 million MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 decoder chips – used worldwide in STBs, digital television sets (DTV) and DVD players – since entering the market with the world’s first MPEG-2 System-on-Chip (SoC) decoder in 1995. In a sector growing rapidly in size, diversity and technical complexity, ST continues to be the lea...

Charged with developing new business for Cherry’s range of ergonomic consumer multimedia wireless and general purpose keyboards, Trevor Dasilva has been appointed Business Development Co-ordinator - Keyboards under the auspices of the CID (Computer Input Devices) division. Dasilva brings a wealth of skills related to the consumer market from leading distributor, Misco, where he was involved in sales and business development.

Located in a picturesque corner of North Devon, concerns about environmental impact at Lambda UK are perhaps felt more acutely than elsewhere, which is why a team of employees has decided to wage its own war on waste. While Lambda UK had successfully recycled cardboard and office paper for many years, the team felt that there was an opportunity to do more at the 300 employee Ilfracombe plant, from where Lambda manufactures and exports its market ...

Arrow Electronics has regained TS16949 certification for the second year at its programming facility in Bedford, England and in its Dublin, Ireland sales office. This certification is so highly regarded that some customers and suppliers, automotive and non-automotive, now choose to waive their requirements for an annual audit of Arrow’s programming quality management system.