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Yamaichi Electronics Deutschland GmbH is one of the 100 best employers among Germany's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) according to this year's nationwide Top Job corporate benchmarking competition. This accolade has been awarded for the past five years to mid-sized firms for their outstanding HR management policies. Wolfgang Clement, Germany's former economics minister presented Yamaichi with the Top Job award last Friday evening at a...

QuickLogic Europe is making its low power FPGA devices available in smaller 6x6 and 8x8 mm form-factor FPGA packages. The advanced packaging meets the aggressive requirements of handheld electronics integrating storage, wireless, mobile TV and other emerging technologies.

Tensilica has announced its new TurboXim fast functional simulator, which is 40 to 80 times faster than its proven cycle-accurate ISS (Instruction Set Simulator). Tensilica also introduced its ability to automatically generate SystemC models to match all possible configurations of its Xtensa configurable processors and Diamond Standard series processors. These introductions significantly speed ESL (embedded system level) design and architectural...

Analog Devices, Inc has announced the rollout across Europe of its 2007 Technical Seminar series. These one-day, in-depth technical seminars are targeted at hardware design and development engineers, applications and system engineers, board designers and hardware project managers.

Finder has announced an update to its 80 series timers, which now provide improvements in functionality, multiple supply voltages, a wide choice of time ranges and greater ease of use. The 80 series timers find uses in applications that include process timing, material handling, access technology, and industrial equipment such as elevators, environmental, washing and shot blasting equipment. Additionally they are used by OEMS for functional tim...

Green Hills Software has announced that Ultra Electronics has chosen the Green Hills Platform for Software Defined Radio for the upgrade of the US Army’s Area Common User System (ACUS), Joint Network Node (JNN) High-Capacity Line-of-Sight Radio, also known as the AN/GRC-254(V) HCLOS radio.

The LTC2928 quad supply sequencer and supervisor from Linear Technology offers the flexibility to configure the power supply turn-on and turn-off sequence, monitor the supplies and diagnose supply failures. The device's simple pin-configuration approach to sequencing requires no firmware and allows the four supplies to be placed in any combination of eight time positions with configurable delay between each.

National Instruments UK & Ireland has announced NI Technical Symposium - a free, one-day professional development series for engineers, scientists and technicians. The symposium covers the latest technologies for test, control and design applications, with content for the sessions drawn from NIDays 2006, the popular, annual virtual instrumentation conference and exhibition.

UR Group has appointed Graham Langdon as Area Sales Manager for the Northern Home Counties and East Anglia. Graham, who lives near Colchester, Essex, joins the company from Cummins Power Generation Ltd and has more than 20 years’ experience in electronics sales.

Tekdata Interconnections has been contracted by GAI-Tronics to design and manufacture a range of cables for use within more than 5,000 emergency roadside telephone units. GAI-Tronics, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged, specialised communication products and systems, is supplying the Highways Agency with a new generation of telephones on motorways and trunk roads across England. The contract forms part of a £20 million Highways Agenc...