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Future Technology Devices International Limited (FTDI) announces that Parallax Inc. has expanded its distribution agreement with the addition of the Vinculum Universal Serial Bus (USB) host controller IC to their product portfolio. Vinculum provides USB host capability to microcontroller-based products that previously did not have the hardware resources available. A wide range of consumer, commercial and industrial products can now incorporate US...

Anglia has been nominated as “Outstanding Regional European Distributor” by circuit protection specialist, Raychem, a division of Tyco Electronics. The award, for Northern Europe, was won in the face of competition from four other distributors, including the world’s largest. Raychem judges the performance of its distributors on sales growth, number of design registrations, conversion of design registrations, sales of new products, and parti...

Aerco, a long time stocking distributor of a wide range of aircraft lighting products from Paramount Panels (formally TEC), is now offering lamps and accessories that are compatible with night vision goggles (NVG).

LEM has introduced Minisens, a miniature, IC transducer for AC and DC isolated current measurement up to 100 KHz. This new component offers full isolation (no optocouplers required) and high sensitivity (from 20 mV to 200 mV per Amp of primary current) with no insertion losses. It is mounted directly onto a PCB as an SMD device, reducing manufacturing cost.

Renesas Technology Europe announces both that NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Renesas Technology Corp., Fujitsu Limited, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Sharp Corporation are developing SH-Mobile G2 single chip 3G platform, and also that the SH-Mobile G2 single chip 3G platform supports Symbian OS v9.3. Aimed at high end 3G smartphones the upgraded processors address the need for a standard OS platform for advanced applications, and also the increased d...

National Instruments has announced the release of the NI LabWindows/CVI 8.1 Real-Time Module, an extension to the proven ANSI C development environment that makes it easy for engineers to create and deploy reliable and deterministic applications to dedicated real-time hardware such as PXI and desktop PCs. LabWindows/CVI Real-Time takes advantage of network variables to simplify the process of transferring data between real-time and Windows applic...

Speaking today at a press conference at the 3GSM World Congress, Rich Templeton, president and chief executive officer of Texas Instruments Incorporated, said that TI’s single-chip technology will provide consumers in emerging economies “complete, global access to the Internet, information, people, opportunities and entertainment.” New TI innovations for feature phones with high-definition (HD) playback and 3D graphics will make the cell ph...

At a press conference today at 3GSM World Congress, Texas Instruments Incorporated demonstrated the industry’s first application processor to playback 720p high-definition (HD) video for high-end mobile phones. The OMAP3430 solution is also the first application processor to integrate the newly-defined OpenGL ES® 2.0 graphic standard, bringing “life-like” 3D graphics to the handset and creating a mobile gaming experience com...

New subscriber rates are experiencing meteoric growth in emerging markets worldwide, with demand for affordable handsets continuing to rise. Addressing this phenomenon at a press conference at 3GSM World Congress, Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced its third generation GSM solution for the ultra low-cost handset market, specifically designed to enhance the user experience with added features and improvements. This includes dramatic im...

The reputation that LASER 2007. World of Photonics (18 – 21 June 2007 in Munich, Germany) enjoys as the world’s leading trade show in its sector is due not only to its role as the global photonics industry’s meeting place, but also to its outstanding program of accompanying events.