News & Analysis
"DSP for FPGAs" short course program announced
hueggenberg gbr, well known for its technical training courses, has announced a series of short courses on "DSP for FPGAs". These courses will be presented during the second half of 2006 at several locations in Germany, Italy, Scotland, Switzerland, and the United States.
Siemens Acquires Optical Inspection Specialist Opto-Control
Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) has acquired Opto-Control Elektronik Prüfsysteme GmbH of Bochum, Germany. The purchase adds high-precision automatic optical inspection (AOI) systems to Siemens’s Siplace surface mount technology business. Opto-Control’s technologically leading inspection systems are fully automated and use the latest 3-D sensor technology to detect any solder or placement flaws with exceptional speed.
Renowned Inventor Dean Kamen to Deliver Keynote at National Instruments NIWeek 2006
Dean Kamen, President of DEKA Research & Development Corporation and founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), will deliver the closing keynote address to more than 2,000 attendees at NIWeek, the world’s largest virtual instrumentation conference and exhibition, Aug. 8-10, in Austin, Texas. In his speech, “Inspiring Present and Future Scientists and Engineers to Innovate,” Kamen will discuss the role of s...
Ford is Director of Sales at Powerstax
Powerstax plc has announced the appointment of Richard Ford as Director of Sales. Richard has been a major influence in the growth of power supply sales with a leading UK distributor and will now bring his expertise to Powerstax’s international business.
Micro ATX form factor Industrial Motherboard
RDS has announced the D2151-S from Fujitsu Siemens Computers. It adopts Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron D LGA775 CPU (Supports 1066/880/533MHz FSB) and is specifically designed as an Industrial Motherboard around the Micro ATX form factor.
Every leading power supply manufacturer will show at electronica 2006
Every major power supply manufacturer will be at electronica 2006, the largest trade fair for the global electronics industry. There is no other event in the electronics industry calendar that provides visitors with the chance to see and discuss the latest advances in power sourcing from all the power supply industry’s key players from the United States, Europe and the Far East.
PnpNetwork Licenses two Diamond Standard processor cores
Tensilica has announced that PnpNetwork Technologies, Inc., of Seoul, Korea, has licensed two Diamond Standard processor cores for their digital mobile broadcasting chip designs for mobile consumer broadcast TV applications and video-enabled handset designs. PnpNetwork will use the Diamond Standard 330HiFi for high-quality audio processing and the Diamond Standard 212GP as a control processor for their chip designs.
30 MIPS Digital Signal Controller
Microchip's dsPIC Digital Signal Controller offers a performance of 30 MIPS, self-programming capable Flash memory, and industrial and extended temperature ranges. The dsPIC30F6015 features an advanced pulse-width modulation peripheral designed for power-conversion, motor-control and lighting applications, a 1-million samples per second (MSPS) 10-bit analogue-to-digital (A/D) converter, 144 Kbytes of Flash program memory and operation at full...
World Cup fans score on-the-go with Microtune's tuner technology
Microtune's tuner technology was built into a variety of products that enabled avid fans of the World Cup to watch their favorite team on-the-go from mobile TV phones, in cars and on laptops. By providing the core technology that lets consumer devices receive live digital TV broadcasts, Microtune is helping usher in the era of mobile TV - one that was "kick"-started by the 2006 World Cup event.
Advanced AVC / H.264 Encoder
VITEC Multimedia, a provider of leading edge digital video products and technology since 1988, has introduced its VMC-5400, a capture and compression board designed for developers and integrators of mission critical video-based equipment and video broadcast applications.