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PLDA, an industry leader in the high-speed bus market, and Texas Instruments has announced that their PCI Express controller / PHY solution successfully passed the full suite of PCI-SIG compliance tests and will soon appear on the PCIe Integrators List.

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation announced today that the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) has accepted the Company's notice of intention to make a normal course issuer bid. The Tundra Board of Directors has approved Tundra's purchase of up to 1,722,000 common shares (representing approximately 10% of Tundra's public float). The normal course issuer bid will commence on March 29, 2007 and will terminate on March 28, 2008 or on such earlier date as T...

Military and aerospace engineers can learn more about the latest developments in automated test and control design at the National Instruments Military and Aerospace Solutions Conference on Tuesday 22nd May 2007. Taking place at the System Engineering Innovation Centre, University of Loughborough, this free one-day conference and accompanying exhibition features technical demonstrations and case studies of the latest technologies for virtual and...

Schroff UK and a number of other key organisations involved in the development of the emerging AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA open computing specifications are sponsoring a one-day technical conference on 25th April 2007 at the RBS Williams Formula 1 conference centre in Oxfordshire.

Innovative Silicon (ISi), the developer of Z-RAM high-density memory intellectual property (IP), announced today that it has been selected to exhibit in the Disruptive Zone in booth 3068B at next week's Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Silicon Valley, April 3-5 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. The new Disruption Zone showcases only 16 companies whose products are slated to change the future of the embedded industry with groundbreakin...

During the 2007 CTIA Wireless convention, Texas Instruments will be demonstrating a prototype of a DLP pico-projector small enough to fit on your finger tips. The latest DLP innovation from the world leader in mobile projection solutions enables compelling viewing options that expand beyond the limitations of a physical screen for mobile users of cellular phones, digital cameras and portable media players.

The AWS Electronics Group will be at the Nepcon show (stand J22) to announce its growth into a £30M group with three leading-edge operations in the UK and a factory in Slovakia. With some of the major multinationals leaving the UK, Paul Deehan (Chief Executive, AWS) identified a major business opportunity: “Many businesses are looking for state-of-the-art manufacturing, backed up with excellent engineering input and outstanding operational su...

National Instruments has announced the availability of NI LabVIEW for The Infinity Project, a version of the LabVIEW graphical programming environment designed for learning and exploring exciting engineering topics in high school and early college science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) classes. Founded at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, The Infinity ProjectSM provides engineering curricula designed for today’s high school and...

Texas Instruments has introduced a precision voltage-to-current converter/transmitter designed for standard 0-20mA and 4-20mA analog signals, as well as 5-25mA signals and voltage outputs. The XTR111 can deliver current up to 36mA and boasts output error detection and output disable. This new device, from the company's Burr-Brown product line, features low supply current of 500uA, low drift span of 5ppm/C and a wide 7V to 44V supply range. The XT...

A new version of the low profile multi-function Integra 1630 digital metering system (DMS) benefiting from enhanced communication capabilities is now available from Tyco Electronics under the Crompton Instruments brand. The new Profibus option card fully supports the Profibus DPV1 protocol, developed by Siemens. It seamlessly integrates with Siemens‘ building management systems and other peripherals, providing a cost effective retro fit or new...