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Texas Instruments has introduced a family of fixed gain Class-D audio power amplifiers for portable applications that require higher performance within limited board space, such as cell phones, portable media players, handheld gaming devices and portable mini-speakers. The new TPA203xD1 amplifiers complement TI's popular TPA2010D1 variable gain Class-D amplifier.

Texas Instruments has introduced two new stereo audio codecs for battery-operated applications, including digital still cameras and portable media players. Designed to extend battery life by lowering power consumption, the PCM3793 and PCM3794 audio codecs offer 7mW playback with a signal-to-noise ratio of 93 dB.

Following its acquisition by Nu Horizons, DT Electronics has landed a UK and Ireland franchise with Xilinx, the programmable logic devices company. Nu Horizons already represents Xilinx in both the US and Far East. This is the UK distributor’s most significant franchise since it won the Atmel line in 2002 and it will enable the company to provide a much more comprehensive offering to customers in its core broadcast, communications and industri...

Frontier Silicon has partnered with SigmaTel, Inc. a leader in mixed-signal multimedia semiconductors, to produce Atlas 2, said to be the lowest cost, ready to manufacture combined DAB (digital audio broadcasting), FM and fully-featured MP3 player platform available today. The platform brings together Frontier Silicon’s Naples FS 2011 miniature tri-band DAB/FM digital radio module and SigmaTel’s STMP3500 series MP3 processor and portable aud...

Available from CML Innovative Technologies (CML-IT) is a series of flexible light guides formulated with a patented light dispersion polymer which is uniformly distributed through the optic core. A great replacement for neon lamps and intrinsically safe, CML-IT’s 754xSS series flexible light guides are available in diameters of 5.5, 6.5, 10, 12 and 14mm and can be manufactured with different concentrations of dispersion polymer, allowing light ...

Intersil’s ISL317XE nine-member family of 3.3V RS-485/RS-422 transceivers are said to save 50-70% of board space and delivers the industry’s only full-featured IEC61000 ESD-protected transceivers with 20Mbps data transmission rate.

Texas Instruments has announced that ZyXEL Communications the world's largest residential gateway provider, has chosen TI's Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) products for its voice-enabled DSL access devices, VoIP gateways and IP phones. TI's complete, integrated customer premises equipment (CPE) silicon and software solutions are optimized for solution density, and incorporate TI's programmable digital signal processor (DSP)-based series of ac...

Accent has opened a UK sales office in Cambridge in the UK in order to bring the company closer to its customers from both a sales and design perspective in what is one of its most important and fastest growing markets.

Intersil has promoted Roberto Magnifico to the position of vice president of Sales, Europe, located at Intersil’s sales office in Lausanne, Switzerland. Magnifico joined Intersil in 1997 as a marketing manager and progressed to sales director for Europe in 2002. As sales director he helped drive sales growth and improve Intersil’s overall brand in the region. As vice president, Magnifico will play a vital leadership role in Intersil’s e...

Avago Technologies has announced its first series of small six-channel optical incremental C-shaped encoder modules for Brushless DC motors used in industrial automation applications. Avago's AEDB-9340 series modules, which include a codewheel with an optical radius of 15 mm (0.590in), are designed to reduce overall motor size and fit easily into round encoder housings.