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An international, five-session, two day conference will prove a major attraction for design engineers of electronic products to be used in all sectors - consumer, medical, industrial, military, transport, telecom - who are required to meet high frequency EMC compliance requirements. Running as an integral part of EMCUK 07, the UK’s only EMC event, the conference will feature international speakers drawn from governmental and regulatory organisa...

ChipX and Ariane Controls, a leading manufacturer of Powerline Communications technology for the energy utilities and building automation markets, announced today an ongoing successful partnership to implement Powerline Communications technology in an easy to use Embedded Array platform.

Texas Instruments has introduced two new crosspoint switches supporting data rates up to 4.25Gbps. The four-by-four and two-by-two switches provide an exceptional combination of high speed, low power and low jitter performance for applications such as XAUI signal buffering/muxing, backplane redundancy and high-speed network routing in end equipment such as wireless base stations and IP network routers. The SN65LVCP404 and SN65LVCP402's ability to...

The PCB Assembly Products Division of Inseto has announced that it has been appointed as the new UK distributor for Senju. Senju manufactures a comprehensive range of electronics grade solders and related materials including paste, wire, spheres, bar and flux, and are renowned for their leadership in lead-free soldering materials, which were introduced and patented in Japan during 1993, over 14 years ago.

Effective immediately, visitors to Productronica 2007, the leading world trade fair for electronic manufacturing (13 to 16 November 2007, New Munich Trade Fair Centre) can order their admission tickets or redeem guest tickets online at www.productronica.com/ticket. By doing so, they can avoid the kind of queues shown in the picture.

Keithley Instruments, Inc (NYSE:KEI), a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, announced the acquisition of Lyocom, Inc., a private company located in Richfield, Ohio. Terms were not disclosed. Lyocom develops and sells software algorithms used for generating and analyzing complex digital waveforms. Keithley currently offers a broad suite of measurement capabilities for developers and manufacturers of wireless devices and products, s...

National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) reported quarterly revenue in the second quarter of 2007 of $179.5 million, up 12 percent from Q2 2006. Diluted earnings per share (EPS) for Q2 2007 was 26 cents. This compares to NI guidance of 23 cents to 28 cents per share. Net income was $21 million, up 22 percent from Q2 2006. For Q2 2007 operating margin and net margin were 13.5 percent and 11.6 percent, respectively.

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation, a world leader in System Interconnect, today announced that Cesar Cesaratto has been appointed to the Board of Directors, effective immediately.

Building on the attendance of over 10,000 people at the 2006 worldwide MSP430 Day events and continuing to make embedded design easier than ever, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) has announced that it will give away MSP430 Collector’s Kits to attendees of this year’s 430 Day events, held at over 100 locations worldwide. 430 Day 2007 will take place in Europe, Middle East and North Africa in 60 locations from September 3...

Innovative Silicon (ISi), the developer of Z-RAM® ultra-dense memory intellectual property (IP), announced today that it has joined the Cadence Design Systems Inc. OpenChoice IP Program. The program is designed to ease the process of integrating IP, such as ISI’s Z-RAM, into SoC designs.