News & Analysis
High-Brightness 3W LED Emitter for Solid-State Lighting Applications
Avago Technologies has announced a low-profile 3W high power white surface mount light emitting diode emitter for use in a wide range of solid-state lighting applications. Avago's new ASMT-MW20 Power LED emitter is capable of being driven at high currents to deliver up to 160 lumens (lm) of illumination to provide an energy efficient and robust high output light source for designers of portable, architectural, decorative and backlighting applicat...
Inductor technology provides key benefits for power products
West Coast Magnetics has announced an inductor technology which combines the low DC resistance of a foil wound inductor with the low AC resistance of a litz wire wound inductor. For high current, high ripple applications at frequencies of 10 kHz and above, loss reductions in the range of 25% to 50% compared to conventional wire wound devices are typical. The technology fits very well with the newer classes of silicon devices such as IGBTs desig...
Altium Designer simplifies third-party FPGA core integration
Altium Limited has announced that it has added support for the direct import of FPGA cores generated by third-party applications to its Altium Designer unified electronic product development system. This new addition makes the creation and import of highly-optimized, device-specific custom FPGA cores from device vendor tools such as Xilinx's Core Generator and Altera's Megafunction Wizard easy and efficient, and significantly enhances the abilit...
PLDA and TI to Showcase PCI-SIG Compliant Solution at ESC
PLDA, an industry leader in the high-speed bus market, and Texas Instruments has announced that their PCI Express controller / PHY solution successfully passed the full suite of PCI-SIG compliance tests and will soon appear on the PCIe Integrators List.
Tundra Announces Share Repurchase Program
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation announced today that the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) has accepted the Company's notice of intention to make a normal course issuer bid. The Tundra Board of Directors has approved Tundra's purchase of up to 1,722,000 common shares (representing approximately 10% of Tundra's public float). The normal course issuer bid will commence on March 29, 2007 and will terminate on March 28, 2008 or on such earlier date as T...
National Instruments to Showcase Latest in Automated Test & Control Design at NI Military/Aerospace Solutions Conference 2007
Military and aerospace engineers can learn more about the latest developments in automated test and control design at the National Instruments Military and Aerospace Solutions Conference on Tuesday 22nd May 2007. Taking place at the System Engineering Innovation Centre, University of Loughborough, this free one-day conference and accompanying exhibition features technical demonstrations and case studies of the latest technologies for virtual and...
One-day conference will look at AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA architecture standards
Schroff UK and a number of other key organisations involved in the development of the emerging AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA open computing specifications are sponsoring a one-day technical conference on 25th April 2007 at the RBS Williams Formula 1 conference centre in Oxfordshire.
Innovative Silicon Inc in ESC's Disruption Zone
Innovative Silicon (ISi), the developer of Z-RAM high-density memory intellectual property (IP), announced today that it has been selected to exhibit in the Disruptive Zone in booth 3068B at next week's Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Silicon Valley, April 3-5 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. The new Disruption Zone showcases only 16 companies whose products are slated to change the future of the embedded industry with groundbreakin...
TI's Projection Technology Goes Even More Mobile
During the 2007 CTIA Wireless convention, Texas Instruments will be demonstrating a prototype of a DLP pico-projector small enough to fit on your finger tips. The latest DLP innovation from the world leader in mobile projection solutions enables compelling viewing options that expand beyond the limitations of a physical screen for mobile users of cellular phones, digital cameras and portable media players.
AWS will hit Nepcon in a big way
The AWS Electronics Group will be at the Nepcon show (stand J22) to announce its growth into a £30M group with three leading-edge operations in the UK and a factory in Slovakia. With some of the major multinationals leaving the UK, Paul Deehan (Chief Executive, AWS) identified a major business opportunity: “Many businesses are looking for state-of-the-art manufacturing, backed up with excellent engineering input and outstanding operational su...