News & Analysis

According to Open Basestatiohn, the buzz in the cellular infrastructure community is all about ‘femtocells’. Pocket sized home basestations that give consumers improved coverage, cheaper calls, faster downloads and, as yet to be defined, ground breaking new services whilst attempting to lock in the home owner and family to a cellular brand.

RF and microwave component specialist Link Microtek has appointed Darren Brito to the newly created position of business development manager for the company’s engineering division, which designs and manufactures a wide range of waveguide products at its premises in Basingstoke. In this new role, his primary task will be to establish a network of overseas representatives with a view to increasing the division’s international sales. In additio...

Tundra Semiconductor has announced that GE Fanuc Embedded Systems, a leading provider of embedded military and commercial solutions, has selected the Tundra Tsi148 PCI/X-to-VME Interconnect Bridge. GE Fanuc Embedded Systems recently launched the V7865 Intel® Dual Core Processor Single Board Computer (SBC) which uses the Tsi148 as its data interconnection to the VME backplane.

Mobile Knowledge has selected Zytronic’s projected capacitive technology (PCT)-based ZYPOS touch sensors as the primary input interface for its ruggedized, in-vehicle kiosk, the Windows CE based Passenger Information Monitor (PIM). The company, which specializes in dispatch technologies for the For Hire industry, will market the new ZYPOS-based PIM to taxi companies across North America and around the world.

Ramtron International has introduced the FM33x product family – a new line of FRAM-Enhanced Processor Companions with a high-speed serial peripheral interface (SPI). The FM33x family combines, in one small package, all the benefits of a non-volatile RAM with a comprehensive set of highly-integrated support and peripheral functions for processor-based designs.

Surtech Distribution has arranged with German-based Eplax - formerly Vero Electronics - to import and distribute the company's range of pluggable power supplies into the UK electronics market. Eplax previously maintained a UK sales office to provide sales and technical support for the standard product families, which include the PK, VP, EC and GK ranges of 3U and 6U pluggable supplies offering single and multiple outputs with a wide choice of c...

LEM has extended its range of current transducer families designed to operate from a single +5V power supply with the introduction of the HMS model. The new unit measures only 16 (L) x 13.5 (W) x 12 (H) mm and integrates a primary conductor. It is directly surface-mounted onto a printed circuit board, reducing manufacturing costs.

Focus EDL announces its appointment by HAL, one of the industry’s leading manufacturers of EMI/RFI filters and filter-based products. This latest franchise gives Focus EDL an extensive range of IEC inlet filters and power entry modules as well as a broad selection of single and three-phase filters.

Dialog Semiconductor Plc and E Ink Corporation have announced the launch of new products resulting from a strategic partnership which will open up new markets for electronic paper displays (EPD). At the SID 2007 Symposium, the premier annual international gathering of the electronic display industry, Dialog will show the first ever family of dedicated chips designed to drive E Ink’s latest segmented displays based on E Ink’s Vizplex(TM) Ima...

Avago Technologies has introduced what it says is the industry's thinnest chip light emitting diodes (ChipLEDs) in the smallest industry-standard package. With an ultra small form factor of 1.65 mm length by 0.8 mm width by 0.45 mm height, Avago's new ASMT-Rx45 series of low-power, high-brightness leadframe ChipLEDs have been specifically designed to operate in the extreme conditions found in automotive, electronic sign and signals and industrial...