News & Analysis

AWS Group has just announced the acquisition of technology specialist Cemgraft Electronic Manufacturing Ltd.

As part of a global franchise agreement, TTI Europe - the world’s leading authorized specialist distributor of passive, connector and electromechanical components – now offers Littelfuse’s comprehensive range of circuit protection solutions, which also includes the Teccor, Wickmann and Pudenz brands.

CoWare Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, announced the CoWare Virtual Platform product family is now interoperable with the Windows Embedded CE operating system. As a result, companies developing Windows Embedded CE-based electronics devices can start their software development before physical hardware is available, which results in lower cost product development and faster t...

The HARTING Technology Group, Europe's leading manufacturer of heavy-duty connectors for industrial and transport applications, is the first company worldwide to receive quality certification to the new IRIS international quality standard for the railway industry.

As part of its continuing commitment to industry in Northern Ireland, Lapp Group announces the appointment of Donald Graham as Regional Sales Manager. Key to his new role includes reinforcing Lapp’s longstanding presence in this market and promoting the company’s reputation, not only as a competitive component supplier but also as a total solution provider. Donald will liase closely with Lapp’s existing distribution and technical support p...

Anglia has introduced significant enhancements to its popular PartTracker Web site, which now automatically notifies users of any changes to parts they have already purchased, or of any termination in the supply of particular parts.

During October, National Instruments UK & Ireland hosted NIDays 2006, its annual professional development conference and exhibition for engineers and scientists, in association with the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology – Europe’s largest professional engineering society), at Savoy Place, their prestigious central London headquarters.

Kineto Wireless, Inc., the key innovator and leading supplier of UMA technology, and picoChip today announced the companies are working to develop a UMA-enabled Femtocell reference design. The reference design, based on picoChip’s industry leading single-chip solutions and Kineto’s industry leading UMA client software will enable 3G femtocells to overcome network integration barriers to accelerate mass market adoption.

National Instruments, a global leader in graphical system design, has announced that NI LabVIEW, the graphical design platform for test, control and embedded system development, as well as other NI application software and device drivers will be compatible with Windows Vista.

Linear Technology has introduced the LT3837, a synchronous flyback DC/DC controller with precision regulation and high efficiency for 10W to 60W isolated power supplies. The controller IC has 9V to 36V input voltage operation and is ideal for industrial and instrumentation applications. The LT3837 is a current mode controller that regulates the output voltage based on sensing secondary voltage via transformer winding.