News & Analysis

STMicroelectronics has announced a precision temperature sensor with an ultra-low supply current requirement of less than 4.3-microamps (typical) and a tiny 4-lead UDFN package, making it ideal for 3G cell phones and other battery applications where low power, coupled with small size, accuracy and linearity over the full temperature range, are essential. The new STLM20 is the lowest-current drop-in replacement for industry-standard LM20 devices, ...

Texas Instruments and Arrow Electronics will present a live Analog eLab Webcast for designers entitled EMI/RFI as Seen by Analog ICs on Wednesday, December 6, 2006, at 11:00 a.m. CST (18:00 hrs CET). During the online discussion, TI analog expert Bill Klein, P.E., and eLab panelists Carl Wolfe of TI and Peter Goad of Arrow Electronics will talk about types of interference that can impact analog circuit performance.

Knowles Acoustics announces what it says is the first-ever Round Balanced Armature Receiver. The new SR Series is designed to meet the demands of the thriving digital media market and compliment existing BA products as the first-rate alternative for the common headset platform, at exceptional value.

Green Hills Software Inc has announced that ICS Triplex has chosen the Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety for its next generation of safety-rated, fault-tolerant control and safety systems. The Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety – based on the IEC 61508 TUV-certified INTEGRITY RTOS– allows ICS Triplex to design and deliver control systems that meet and exceed the most stringent international safety standards, while providing t...

Targeting the increasingly demanding requirements of embedded automotive and industrial applications, Analog Devices, Inc is introducing its newest series of Blackfin processors: the ADSP-BF54x family (ADSP-BF542/BF544/BF548/BF549). The Blackfin ADSP-BF54x family features a balance of increased I/O and memory bandwidth, on-chip memory, and integration of CAN and MOST system peripherals to deliver high performance and cost-effectiveness to industr...

Texas Instruments has announced the availability of its Small Form Factor Software Defined Radio (SDR) Development Platform, the industry's first and only development platform targeted at the portable military communications market. The platform, developed in collaboration with Xilinx Inc. and other third parties, provides the entire signal chain hardware from antenna to baseband as well as a software board support package that supports a complet...

Texas Instruments is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the registration of its first business operations in Europe in November 1956. The first subsidiary to be set up was Texas Instruments Ltd, located in Bedford, UK. Today, TI's presence in Europe and the Middle East has grown to include over 30 sites in 19 different countries, including 13 R&D centers, an advanced wafer fabrication site in Freising, Germany, and a worldwide business & compet...

Airbus has selected National Instruments DIAdem data analysis and report generation software as its Europe-wide standard tool for processing wind-tunnel test data, including the effects of specific thermal and aerodynamic parameters on airliners. With NI DIAdem, Airbus test engineers can automate time-consuming, repetitive analysis procedures and streamline the data reporting process to reduce analysis time and make important engineering decision...

Solid State Supplies have been appointed as a distributor for Santa Clara based manufacturer Catalyst Semiconductor. Catalyst produces a variety of analog, programmable and mixed-signal devices. Solid State’s reputation for being a design based distributor was a major factor in their selection of a company that would be able to introduce their latest offerings into the UK. Among the new products are digital potentiometers, charge pumps, LED dr...

A network digital video recorder (DVR) from Beijing Avinfo Technology, Inc. (Avinfo) is using the Blackfin processor from Analog Devices in a surveillance solution that enables audio and video recording, as well as remote viewing, recording, and playback over a secure IP network.