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NAD Electronics and Zetex Semiconductors announce the joint-development of high-performance digital amplifiers incorporating Zetex Class Z direct digital feedback amplifier (DDFATM) technology, a unique performance-optimised digital amplifier architecture.

Avago Technologies has announced the expansion of its series of miniature reflective incremental optical encoders, which are currently the smallest in the industry, with a new high resolution encoder. With dimensions of 3mm length by 3.28mm width by 1.26 mm height, Avago's AEDR-8400-14x reflective surface mount optical encoders are robust and can operate over a wide temperature range making them an ideal choice for use in a variety of office and ...

Expanding its portfolio of eXpressDSP™ digital media software for rapid product development, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) and Ittiam Systems today announced the availability of several audio and video codecs which will be offered through TI’s Authorized Software Providers (ASPs). The new offerings include: H.264 Main Profile (MP) encode, WMV9 MP encode, MPEG-2 encode, MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile encode/decode, Div...

Texas Instruments has announced that it was awarded the North American Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Award 2007 by Microsoft during the Microsoft Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference. TI earned the recognition in the silicon category for Windows Embedded CE innovation with DaVinciT technology and the OMAPT platform.

Continuing to simplify development of digital video products with the most comprehensive selection of production-ready software, Texas Instruments has introduced the eXpressDSPT Digital Media Software Standard (xDM), a low-level application programming interface (API) for DSP-based software that provides a framework for seamlessly integrating and exchanging multiple codecs within an application. As an integral part of TI's offering to digital v...

The new A1205 from Allegro MicroSystems Europe is a general-purpose Hall-effect bipolar switch that is optimised for applications where pulsing the supply line is used to conserve power. The new device is a next-generation replacement of Allegro's popular A3134 bipolar switch but with enhanced performance in a more compact package. The A1205 is designed to switch in response to a north/south alternating magnetic field, typically from a multi-pole...

Sealevel Systems, Inc. announces two additions to the popular SeaLINK USB serial product line, the SeaLINK+I.DIN and the SeaLINK+2I.DIN. Offering designers the choice of one or two serial ports, SeaLINK serial devices are the perfect way to connect peripherals such as barcode scanners, serial displays, and data acquisition modules to any USB port. Each DB9M serial port is configurable for RS-232, RS-422, or RS-485 via dip switches accessible thr...

Finder announces a new generation of its 14 Series electronic staircase timers, which have been designed for energy saving control of lighting in areas of temporary occupation. The latest models feature microprocessor control, and are targeted at lighting applications in stairwells, corridors, washrooms, storerooms and similar areas that only require illumination for short periods of time.

National Instruments UK & Ireland has been named as one of the UK’s 50 Best Workplaces in the Financial Times 2007 Best Workplaces Special Report. This is the second consecutive year that NI has appeared in the FT Best Workplaces report and, this year, NI is the only high technology manufacturer recognised in the list. The annual survey polls employees nationwide about the quality of their corporate cultures. NI employees identified the compan...

Sony Europe’s Image Sensing Solutions Division today announced that its EVI-D100P camera has been selected by ZYDACRON for use in its pioneering Carestation 140 home healthcare system for home-based patients. Carestation 140 uses the camera’s fast, precise autofocus, 40-times zoom and automated pan and tilt features as part of an easy-to-use telemedicine system which provides interactive remote care to patients.