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Messe München International, organizer of the industry-leading electronica exhibition, announces its exhibition schedule for 2007. A total of seven events will be staged: Two world-leading trade shows in Munich, Germany and five premier regional exhibitions in emerging markets around the world.

Altium Limited has announced that its unified electronic product development solution - Altium Designer 6 - has been nominated as a finalist in the International Engineering Consortium's (IEC) DesignVision Awards program which recognizes technologies, applications, products, and services judged to be the most 'unique and beneficial' to the industry.

An innovative MEMS-based gyro sensor device for car navigation systems has been launched by Murata, offering performance and manufacturing advantages over traditional approaches. Constructed as a System in Package (SiP), this microelectromechanical system device contains a silicon based vibration device and a custom designed integrated circuit for the capacitive sensor circuitry. The two chips are mounted on a ceramic substrate, and then herme...

Anders Electronics announces the availability of a new, highly advanced System-on-Module featuring Intel's 915 Express chipset, a powerful Pentium M processor and dual channel DDR2 RAM. Measuring just 9 x 7cm (63cm2) and offering all the features needed for a complete PC, the CM-iPM System-on-Module (SoM) can fit into extremely space-constrained applications that none-the-less require high levels of performance from the vast library of standard P...

As part of its continuing expansion into the embedded applications market, Anglia has won a franchise to distribute a range of socket modems from Multitech. Multitech employs a universal socket into which conventional, GSM wireless or Ethernet modems can be connected without changes to surrounding hardware.

Texas Instruments has announced sampling of its TMS320DM6441 system-on-chip (SoC) based on DaVinciT technology. Additional DaVinci software and development tools for the DM6441 make it possible to deliver high-quality video combined with power saving modes for portable audio and video applications, including portable media players (PMPs), consumer video security devices, medical devices, data terminals, IP netcams, automotive/in-flight entertainm...

BiTMICRO Networks, maker of intelligent flash IDE/ATA, SCSI, and Fibre Channel and SATA solid state disk storage solutions, has announced its partnership with ChipX. Under this alliance, BiTMICRO will utilize various ChipX Structured ASIC devices in the development of proprietary storage controller ICs such as the Enhanced Datamover and Storage Accelerator (EDSA) direct memory controller and the Logical Unifier of Extensive Transfer Arrays (LUN...

In a keynote address to industry leaders at the VMEbus International Trade Association’s (VITA) annual Bus and Board Conference in Long Beach, California, Tundra President and Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Hoste stated, “RapidIO is the right serial interconnect because the technology provides the optimal performance and reliability for next-generations critical embedded systems. When availability and performance are critical, RapidIO is th...

hueggenberg has announced a new series of short courses on DSP for FPGAs beginning in March 2007 and being presented in several cities. The courses are organised by hueggenberg gbr and presented by Steepest Ascent Ltd, who have more than 10 years of experience in the delivery of professional training.

National Instruments has announced the release of its first USB modules for high-speed and low-speed/fault-tolerant Controller Area Network (CAN) and Local Interconnect Network (LIN) monitoring, logging and testing, combining the quality and performance of NI CAN software and hardware with the benefits of Hi-Speed USB. With a low price point and a synchronisation option, engineers now have an easy, cost-effective and portable solution for connect...