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Innovative Silicon (ISi), the developer of ZRAM high density memory intellectual property has announced that it has been awarded its 21st patent, and has another 43 more patent applications pending worldwide. For 2007, to date, the company has already been granted four U.S. patents for low power consumption, data storage and other important contributions related to its memory technology. The newest patent numbers include 7,170,807; 7,187,581; ...

Mindready has announced the latest software-defined radio toolkit release, the Universal Radio Tester (URT) Version 3.0. The URT is a highly flexible, compact and affordable solution used for generating analogue and digital radio frequency signals based on National Instruments' PXI hardware and NI LabVIEW and NI TestStand software.

Finisar Corporation, known for its fiber optic solutions for high-speed communication networks, announced the achievement of a record-setting industry milestone - 10 million optical transceivers/transponders shipped in calendar year 2006, up nearly 30% over the previous year.

Tatara Systems and picoChip have announced a partnership to collaborate on and jointly market all-IP solutions for the femtocell market. The partnership will focus on developing a SIP/IMS-enabled femtocell reference design to ease the integration of femtocells into a mobile operator’s network thus enabling the significant advantages of an all-IP approach. The collaboration will include picoChip’s portfolio of products, including the PC8208 H...

The High Density Packaging (HDP) User Group announces the launch of the industry's first Board Mounted Power Supply (BMPS) Application Guidelines. The 148-page document is designed to support the communications and electronics manufacturing industry by promoting understanding of BMPS products. Originally started as a project within the Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) in 2002, the activity was incorporated into an HDP User Group Pr...

STMicroelectronics has announced the signing of an agreement with the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS to jointly develop a dedicated low-power ASIC for Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) applications such as fixed and portable radios, car receivers, software receivers, and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). Allowing listeners to set their radio using station names or IDs, the ASIC will offer excellent audio quality and integration of ...

Keithley Instruments, Inc. has announced Nano Days, an on-line nanotechnology educational event from April 24 through April 26, 2007. During this virtual conference, the theme of which is VISUALIZE, CHARACTERIZE, REALIZE: The Future of Nanotechnology, leading researchers from academia and business leaders from industry will present cutting edge measurement technology for nanoscale devices and materials. For more information about the conference p...

Avago Technologies has announced a low-profile 3W high power white surface mount light emitting diode emitter for use in a wide range of solid-state lighting applications. Avago's new ASMT-MW20 Power LED emitter is capable of being driven at high currents to deliver up to 160 lumens (lm) of illumination to provide an energy efficient and robust high output light source for designers of portable, architectural, decorative and backlighting applicat...

West Coast Magnetics has announced an inductor technology which combines the low DC resistance of a foil wound inductor with the low AC resistance of a litz wire wound inductor. For high current, high ripple applications at frequencies of 10 kHz and above, loss reductions in the range of 25% to 50% compared to conventional wire wound devices are typical. The technology fits very well with the newer classes of silicon devices such as IGBTs desig...

Altium Limited has announced that it has added support for the direct import of FPGA cores generated by third-party applications to its Altium Designer unified electronic product development system. This new addition makes the creation and import of highly-optimized, device-specific custom FPGA cores from device vendor tools such as Xilinx's Core Generator and Altera's Megafunction Wizard easy and efficient, and significantly enhances the abilit...