News & Analysis

The University of Tulsa last week won the National Instruments Most Innovative Use of Graphical System Design Award at the third annual Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility competition. The team built an environmentally friendly crossover sports utility vehicle based on the National Instruments LabVIEW graphical design environment. Challenge X, which took place in Detroit, Mich. from May 30 to June 7, is a four-year engineering competit...

Elo TouchSystems, a leader in touch technology and a business unit of Tyco Electronics, has signed a partnership agreement with Distec, a leading specialist in the UK industrial sector.

Texas Instruments has announced plans to integrate a high-k value material within the transistors in its most advanced, high performance 45nm chip products. For years, high-k dielectrics have been under consideration to address leakage, or power drain, which has become increasingly problematic as transistor dimensions continue to shrink. Through its approach, TI will reduce leakage by more than 30 times per unit area as compared with commonly u...

Quantum Research Group has announced the appointment of Paul Russell as Principal Field Applications Engineer for their new Japanese operation. Paul, a Canadian citizen, has been resident in Japan for the past six years and was previously employed by Tega Sanyo, where he was exposed for many years to Quantum’s touch sensing technology and hence brings considerable experience with him, especially in appliances and mobile applications. His new re...

Synplicity has announced that Paul Weiskopf has been appointed to its board of directors effective June 18, 2007. Mr. Weiskopf, who is vice president of corporate development at Adobe Systems, brings a wealth of knowledge in corporate strategy, mergers, acquisitions, and venture investing to Synplicity's board of directors. Mr. Weiskopf's addition will increase the total number of directors on Synplicity's board to eight.

C&D Technologies has presented Arrow UK with a Distributor of the Year award from the company’s Power Electronics Division. The Northern Europe Distributor of the Year award follows a year in which Arrow increased both design-ins and sales of C&D power technologies and related products in the UK and Ireland.

BVM has announced availability of the LV-676, the world's first Mini-ITX motherboard to support Intel's leading-edge Quad Core processors, putting the hardware ahead of the curve in processor-intensive applications such as high definition video and graphics based gaming. Based on the Intel Q965 Express chipset, the board also supports the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor with Intel Virtualization Technology, Intel Pentium D 900 sequence and Pentium 4 ...

Microchip has announced an online Lighting Applications Design Centre at (www.microchip.com/lighting). This site provides a wide range of technical tools and resources that designers can use to add intelligence to lighting designs — including information relating to Microchip’s PIC microcontrollers, dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), analog and memory products, as well as development tools.

Link Microtek has published a shortform catalogue detailing the extensive range of microwave and RF components, assemblies and sub-systems manufactured in-house by its Engineering Division in Basingstoke.

Grandstream Networks and Texas Instruments have announced today that Grandstream has selected Texas Instruments' new advanced acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) software to dramatically improve the speakerphone quality for its GXP2020, GXP2000, and BT200 IP phones, all of which are based on TI's TMS320C5000T digital signal processor (DSP) platform. A speakerphone enhancement firmware release based on the TI's new advanced AEC software will be avail...