Analysis

Just announced by Murata is the MHM series of ionizers, designed specifically for air conditioning applications in the white goods, automotive and industrial sectors. The MHM series ionizers require considerably lower voltages than competitive devices, yet by delivering comparable performance, they are proving particularly efficient.

RadioScape announced today that it will immediately extend its current multi-standard radio product line to support all digital standards required for the French market. This will enable the development of multi-standard radio receivers capable of supporting DAB based standards including T-DMB and DAB+, as well as DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale), and current analogue standards AM and FM.

EMI shielding specialist, TBA Electro Conductive Products (ECP) has announced that its range of Beryllium Copper fingerstock gaskets for EMI shielding meets the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive 2002/95/EC (RoHS Directive). The directive bans the use of certain substances in new products from July 2006, specifically Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Hexavalent Chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE).

In addition to its standard rectifier assemblies, plate rectifiers and IGBT and MOSFET assemblies, AC controllers, custom switched-mode power supplies and heatsinks, a new catalogue from Power Products International also gives brief information on a range of embedded copper pipe heatsinks which can be custom drilled for isolated IGBT, MOSFET or thyristor/diode modules.

Texas Instruments and Ramtron International Corporation have announced a significant milestone in the development of FRAM technology that has resulted in a commercial manufacturing agreement for FRAM memory products. The agreement provides for the production of Ramtron’s FRAM memory products on TI’s advanced 130 nanometer (nm) FRAM manufacturing process, including Ramtron’s 4-megabit (Mb) FRAM memory announced concurrently in a separate p...

IDT has announced its high-density, 20-Mbit search accelerator – a high-performance, low power, cost-effective packet header processing solution for large table support in enterprise, metro- and carrier-class switches and routers. The 20-Mbit device from IDT delivers an unprecedented search performance of one billion searches per second enabling customers to solve complex network challenges such as quad-play ready network applications, increas...

picoChip has announced the appointment of Steve Laurenson to the newly-created post of VP Engineering. A 28-year veteran of the mobile communications and semiconductor industries, Laurenson will take on a customer-oriented role, ensuring that picoChip continues to develop and support the technologies and products required by the wireless market.

Teseq, formerly Schaffner Test Systems, announces the availability of a series of wall chart guides, which illustrate the most common EMC test requirements. These attractive and easy to follow guides are fully up to date with the latest EMC standards amendments and will be useful for product designers and EMC test engineers. Four specific EMC topics are covered; LF and RF immunity, Transient immunity, RF emissions and Automotive.

Switch manufacturer Cherry Electrical Products has signed a distribution deal with Easby Electronics, the specialist stockist and distributor of passive, electromechanical, connector and discrete semiconductor products. The company serves customers across a wide range of industries in the UK and across Europe.

Sony Europe’s Image Sensing Solutions Division has extended its range of camera modules based on the industry-standard Camera Link interface, with the launch of a 5Mpixel, 15frame/s monochrome device designed for precision inspection and machine vision applications. The XCL-5000 features a 2/3 type monochrome super HAD CCD with progressive scanning, and supports up to 12-bit processing to allow data to be output quickly and efficiently.