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Linear Technology has announced new wider temperature range versions of its LT1763 and LT1764A high current, low noise linear regulators. The new MP grade features operation from -55°C to +125°C for a wide range of applications including avionics, military, industrial, RF and telecom.

Infolytica Corporation announced today that it will be offering a special pre-conference seminar at the 2007 Magnetics Conference in Chicago. The one day event will feature the latest innovations from the software developer, including a look at MotorSolve.

STMicroelectronics has introduced what it says is the first LED driver to include auto-power-saving features. The STP16CPS05 allows manufacturers to meet the high power-efficiency requirements of industrial lighting, signage and transport applications by guaranteeing savings of 80% compared to existing solutions.

Anglia has added a memory and microcontrollers franchise from Ramtron to broaden its offering into embedded design applications. Ramtron designs and manufactures specialised memories and microcontrollers for metering, computing, automotive, consumer, industrial, scientific and medical applications. The company's ferroelctric RAM (FRAM) products combine the non-volatile data storage capability of ROM with the benefits of RAM, which include a high ...

The National Microelectronics Institute (NMI), the trade association representing the semiconductor industry in the UK and Ireland, has appointed two new members to its Board of Directors: Patrick McNamee, VP Product Engineering, CSR and Anthony O’Neill, Professor in Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at Newcastle University.

STMicroelectronics has announced a new-generation development of the industry-leading STV0297 Cable TV demodulator. The STV0279E High Performance QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) Demodulator adds new features to the widely-used STV0279D to deliver dramatic performance improvements that enable the demands on other elements in the reception chain to be relaxed, so reducing Bill of Materials (BOM) costs for manufacturers.

Dr. James Truchard, CEO, President and Cofounder of National Instruments was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering, in U.S.A. widely considered the highest honour given in the engineering profession. Truchard was recognised for “creating ‘virtual instrumentation,’ which enabled the rapid development of customised measurement systems in industry, academia and classrooms.” He is one of only 156 Texans to be elected in...

Arrow Norway field sales executive Per-Arne Kristiansen has received the Outstanding Contribution Award from Altera Corp. in recognition of his 20 years of outstanding support. Per-Arne has been dedicated almost exclusively to the Altera product line since 1986.

ChipX Inc., provider of differentiated ASIC solutions, today announced it has signed an agreement with Oki Semiconductor Company, a division of Oki America Inc., regarding an asset purchase and business collaboration.

Keithley Instruments, Inc., a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, announces the availability of its 2007 Test and Measurement Product Catalogue. This desktop reference guide offers details and specifications on Keithley's general-purpose and sensitive sourcing and measurement products, DC switching, RF switching and measurement, data acquisition solutions, semiconductor test systems, and optoelectronics test hardware.