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Anglia has signed a franchise agreement to distribute GPS frequency sources with Rakon of New Zealand. Rakon is a leader in temperature controlled crystal oscillators (TCXOs) for GPS systems with greater than 50% market share. GPS applications demand TCXOs with exceptionally high levels of frequency stability and resistance to shock and vibration, particularly as many systems are used in mobile and portable environments where wide temperature ran...

National Instruments has announced an expansion of its popular academic site license to better address the needs of professors, researchers and students through university departments, colleges and campuses. Part of the expansion features a new circuit design and simulation option, as well as a student install option that gives students the opportunity to use software included in the license on their personal computers.

SL Power Electronics Corporation, the company established earlier this year following the merger of Condor DC Power and Ault, has opened a sales and support facility to cover Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The company has also announced the appointment of Gareth Hackett as Sales Manager for the region.

Innovative Silicon (ISi), the developer of Z-RAM ultra-dense memory intellectual property (IP), announced today that it has received the prestigious Red Herring 100 Europe 2007 award, which recognizes Europe’s 100 “most promising” companies driving the future of technology.

Innovative Silicon Inc. (ISi), the developer of Z-RAM ultra-dense memory intellectual property (IP), announced that its technology was named the number one winning technology by IEEE Spectrum Magazine readers. The award was presented to ISi during the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose yesterday at the Third Annual Creativity in Electronics Award Gala that celebrated creators of technology. IEEE Spectrum readers were asked to choose among ...

ChipX announced today that Jamshed Qamar has joined the company as Vice President of Customer Engineering Services. In this position, Qamar will be responsible for integrating and growing ChipX’ engineering services organization. He will report to the CEO, Amnon Fisher. Ophir Nadir has been promoted to General Manager of ChipX, Israel and will continue in his role as Vice President of Research & Development.

Green Hills Software and Objective Interface Systems, the high-performance, real-time and embedded communications middleware solutions company, has announced that they have collaborated on an innovative technique that drastically reduces the memory footprint of the software used to build software defined radios (SDRs). This reduction in resource usage translates into significant cost and footprint savings in radio production.

The MOST Cooperation, the consortium specifying the leading automotive multimedia networking standard for Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST), met at the annual All Members Meeting to agree on the roadmap of further expanding the established standard by breaking new technology grounds and entering the world of consumer electronics. More than 100 representatives of the partners and members contributing to MOST met in Frankfurt on March 27th, ...

Aerco is now stocking the comprehensive range of ElfaPlus circuit breakers from GE Controls. These high performance breakers, suitable for both top quality domestic and industrial applications, are available to installers and wholesalers on short delivery and in small quantities with minimum order value of only £25. Purchasers will be able to mix and match different rated breakers to provide maximum stocking and installing flexibility.

Photonic Products, the UK opto-electronics device manufacturer and laser diode specialist, has introduced the Sanyo DL-8142-201 830nm high power, infrared wavelength laser diode with an optical output power of 150mW. This diode is supplied in a 5.6mm package which is easier to manufacture than the 9mm package diode which it replaces, resulting in a lower cost laser diode.