News & Analysis

Intersil’s ISL6545 and ISL6545A single-output PWM (pulse width modulation) controllers allow a lower BOM cost by integrating the boot diode, the overcurrent protection, and the MOSFET drivers onto a single chip, reducing the number of external components and saving on board space. The devices’ overcurrent function protects the controllers from a shorted output by using the lower MOSFET’s on-resistance, rDS(ON), to monitor the current, enhan...

Digital Displays announces that it has entered into agreement with One Stop Displays (OSD) to offer the OSD line of OLED display modules to the UK market.

JAE Europe has appointed Gavin Coleman as key account manager for the company’s customers in the consumer electronics sector. Focusing on JAE’s product offerings for leading edge, high definition equipment – including its HDMI connector and cabling family – Coleman will support companies across Europe.

picoChip has announced a significant expansion with the establishment of a new development centre in Beijing, China. The new operation complements the company’s existing development site in Bath, England. picoChip also has an engineering facility in Shenzhen and sales office in Shanghai as part of its commitment to the Chinese market.

New from Swiss sensor company, Contrinex, is a 6.5mm diameter, non-flush, sensor that has a sensing distance of 4mm. In 2005, Contrinex, a specialist in producing very small, high performance, rugged inductive sensors, produced 4mm sensing distance in M8 size and now, thanks to smart packaging and new ASIC technology, this sensing distance, four times that of conventional sensors, is achieved in a 6.5mm diameter housing.

Contrinex has introduced the S3260, a potentiometer version of its high performance DIN-rail mounting, fibre-optic amplifier series that has an output frequency of 5kHz.

TTI Europe, the specialist distributor of passive, connector and electromechanical components, is on target to achieve year-on-year growth figures which are more than double that predicted for the industry in general. More, the company is moving up the top 10 largest European distributor rankings, despite the fact that it only sells low value components, not the high value semiconductor items which account for the majority of all other Top 10 di...

Green Hills Software has announced that it has received the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for the embedded software products and services market for passenger cars. Green Hills Software’s claim to fame has been its continual technological innovations in embedded compilers, debuggers, back-in-time debugging, and reliable, secure, royalty-free real time operating systems, all optimized through close collaboration with key automoti...

Zytronic, the leading designer and manufacturer of Projected Capacitive Technology (PCT™)-based sensing solutions that optimise the performance of electronic display applications, has strengthened its presence in Eastern Europe by signing a distribution agreement with the Electronic Components Division of Elatec GmbH.

During the four days on which it was held, electronica 2006 – the world’s leading trade show for electronic components, systems and applications – set new records. From 14 through 17 November 2006, the exhibitors recorded higher numbers of visitors at their booths. Furthermore, the quality of the attendees and the international mix among them rose significantly. The economic upturn made its presence felt in every hall. Both exhibitors and a...