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Quantum Research Group has announced that it has been awarded two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. Generally accepted as the UK’s most prestigious recognition of outstanding business performance, they reward the achievement by UK companies in the three categories of International Trade, Innovation and Sustainable Development. Quantum has achieved the rare position of having been conferred Queen’s Awards for both International Trade and Innova...

Anglia, the UK’s largest privately-owned electronic component distributor, grew sales by 17.5% in 2006, with annual sales through the $65 million mark , in stark contrast with the overall performance of UK distribution that, according to the Association of Franchised Distributors of Electronic Components (AFDEC) in its recently released figures, achieved only 5.3% year-on-year expansion in 2006.

Semtech has announced it will work with prominent frequency control products vendor Rakon Limited (Auckland, New Zealand, NZX:RAK) to develop IEEE 1588 Version 2 (V2)-based timing solutions. Employing Semtech’s advanced timing platform and Rakon’s oscillator technology, these solutions will deliver consistent, cost-effective, timing synchronization for next-generation packet switched network equipment.

Fairchild Semiconductor has introduced the FIN212AC, the first µSerDes device specifically designed for serializing high-speed signals in multi-megapixel-resolution CMOS and CCD image sensors commonly found in portable products such as cell phones with built-in cameras. Using Fairchild’s proprietary CTL I/O for serializing up to 12-bits at speeds up to 40MHz, the FIN212AC can be configured as a serializer or deserializer and is implemented in ...

Situations requiring more than 1GHz of processing power and up to 1GB of RAM will benefit from the new low cost AHM 6xx5 fanless industrial panel computer range from Datasound Laboratories. Available with either a 1GHz or 1.5GHz Celeron M processor or the 1.8GHz Pentium M, users of this NEMA 4/IP 65 compliant unit can also choose between a 2.5” hard disk drive or a CompactFlash card where ruggedised Flash storage is required.

Photonic Products, the UK opto-electronics device manufacturer and laser diode specialist, has been appointed by Ondax as authorised European distributor for its range of wavelength stabilised laser diodes which are low cost, miniature lasers in a standard TO package. Stabilisation is achieved using the Ondax Volume Holographic Grating (VHG) PowerLocker(tm). The PowerLocker(tm) increases the spectral brightness of laser diodes, ensuring a precise...

picoChip today announced that Global Wireless Technologies (GWT) has developed a hardware reference design and software for CDMA2000 and EvDO femtocells and picocells running on the picoArrayTM processor. This gives picoChip’s customers solutions for all the major standards, WCDMA (HSDPA upgradeable to HSUPA), CDMA2000 and EvDO Rev A, as well as TD-SCDMA and WiMAX, all on a single software-defined hardware platform.

Texas Instruments has announced technology enhancements that redefine its extensive Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions portfolio, driving voice applications even closer to a high-definition (HD) experience. TI is licensing the Low Delay AAC super wideband codec from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. Headquartered in Erlangen, Germany, Fraunhofer IIS is the home of MP3 and co-inventor of AAC audio coding. Powered by TI's high-per...

Aerco has been appointed as a stocking distributor by CML Innovative Technologies, one of the world’s leading suppliers of miniature lighting solutions. With over 1800 employees and annual revenue of $200 million, CML offers one of the widest selections of LEDs and incandescent and neon lamps in the world, serving the electronics, automotive, aviation and transport signalling markets.

Tim Baldwin has joined Nu Horizons Electronics as product manager for the distributor’s Xillinx FPGA franchise. Baldwin was previously Northern Regional Sales Manager for Vitesse Semiconductor and brings a wealth of experience in Xilinx products and technologies.