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Dr. James Truchard, CEO, President and Cofounder of National Instruments was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering, in U.S.A. widely considered the highest honour given in the engineering profession. Truchard was recognised for “creating ‘virtual instrumentation,’ which enabled the rapid development of customised measurement systems in industry, academia and classrooms.” He is one of only 156 Texans to be elected in...

Arrow Norway field sales executive Per-Arne Kristiansen has received the Outstanding Contribution Award from Altera Corp. in recognition of his 20 years of outstanding support. Per-Arne has been dedicated almost exclusively to the Altera product line since 1986.

ChipX Inc., provider of differentiated ASIC solutions, today announced it has signed an agreement with Oki Semiconductor Company, a division of Oki America Inc., regarding an asset purchase and business collaboration.

Keithley Instruments, Inc., a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, announces the availability of its 2007 Test and Measurement Product Catalogue. This desktop reference guide offers details and specifications on Keithley's general-purpose and sensitive sourcing and measurement products, DC switching, RF switching and measurement, data acquisition solutions, semiconductor test systems, and optoelectronics test hardware.

Now available from TTI Europe, the world’s leading authorized specialist distributor of passive, connector and electromechanical components is Kemet’s new range of high capacitance, multi layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), which includes two new low profile parts.

Parker Hannifin Corporation, parent company of Chomerics Europe, has announced the acquisition of the Tecknit Division of Technical Wire Products, LLC and its affiliates, a global provider of electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding products.

Expanding its sales reach and focusing on key application areas for the Chinese market, Intersil has opened a sales office in Beijing. The office includes direct sales and field applications engineers to better serve the growing number of research and development centres located in China’s capital city. Beijing is a key growth area for Intersil, with substantial opportunities in consumer electronics, telecommunications, networking, instrument...

The Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) is pleased to announce availability of the classic engineering text Electronic Transformers and Circuits – Third Edition Reprint, authored by the late Rueben Lee and co-authored by Leo Wilson and Charles E. Carter. The book was initially published by John Wiley and Sons in 1988, but has been out of print for several years. Copies of this practical design treatment of magnetics will be available...

The 2006 Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award in the field of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology was presented to Innovative Silicon Inc. for the invention of the capacitorless memory device that overcomes the limitation in scaling dynamic random access memory (DRAM) for future memory needs.

National Instruments today opened registrations for NIDays 2007, the company’s annual virtual instrumentation conference and exhibition. Once again, this industry event will be held in association with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and will take place on Thursday 25th October 2007 at Savoy Place, London, home of the IET.