News & Analysis

A digital radio technology called Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM®) is now taking off according to RadioScape, one of the world’s leading companies in digital radio technology. The DRM standard, which is complimentary to Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), digitises the Long Wave, Medium Wave, and Short Wave frequencies giving near FM-quality reception.

Camden Electronics has published a new catalogue for 2007 detailing the company's wide range of components for electronics, telecommunications, lighting and security applications.

Green Hills Software, Inc. has announced that the RTA-OSEK RTOS has been integrated with the MULTI® integrated development environment (IDE). Developers of automotive ECU software can now reduce their development time, produce code with fewer bugs and lower their production cost with Green Hills Software’s industry-leading ECU development tools combined with RTA-OSEK.

National Instruments has announced pioneer programs for two new devices based on the NI LabVIEW FPGA Module, giving engineers and researchers early access to technology for digital and communications system design. Engineers can now use LabVIEW FPGA to write custom software for each device’s FPGA to prototype and test emerging standards or create custom protocols. With FPGA technology, engineers can repeatedly reconfigure hardware performance t...

Texas Instruments Incorporated and Hie Electronics, Inc., a new company developing next-generation, digital video surveillance applications for extended data storage devices, today announced the selection of Hikvision to provide the compression cards in Hie Electronics’ video surveillance products.

Further demonstrating its commitment to improving all forms of Internet Protocol (IP)-based communications, Texas Instruments Incorporated today extends its PIQUA™ software with its first implementation in media gateways for carrier networks.

Power-One and UR Holding have announced the signing of a European distribution agreement. The two companies will work together to promote selected products in the power conversion market, in specific European territories.

Building on its commitment to provide innovative semiconductor solutions to fast growing markets, Texas Instruments has announced that it is providing new levels of support to Russian-speaking markets to extend its local customer service. The enhanced technical service and support structure includes a local representative office in Moscow, a dedicated website and live technical information and support on a local phone number from its European Pr...

OK International has announced that it has successfully achieved ISO 9001:2000 accredited status following a period of employee training and increased customer focus. The recognition is specific to the company’s Head Quarters in Garden Grove, California and is applicable to all products that are managed and assembled from design through to delivery to the customer.

The National Microelectronics Institute, the trade association representing the semiconductor industry in the UK and Ireland, has celebrated its 10th birthday. The occasion was marked at the NMI’s Annual General Meeting and Awards Dinner attended by an international audience of more than 200 people.