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Knowles Acoustics announces an expansion of its range of electret condenser microphones (ECMs). The new 3 mm x 1.5 mm model is offered in both omni and unidirectional formats, the 3 mm ECM is now commercially available.

iWave Systems, a leading FPGA IP provider licences its 80186 IP Cores to companies developing FPGA products and to industries using 80186 processor. It is a boom to the industries which uses 16 bit, 80186 processor as the user need not change their software code as it is fully software compatible to X86 Standard in case of processor obsolesce. This cost-effective IP is a perfect alternative for replacing older parts that are no longer manufacture...

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced that digital television design house TVonics has developed a new module design targeted at terrestrial iDTV applications using one of the company’s digital video broadcast (DVB) system-on-chip (SoC) processors.

Intersil’s ISL6545 and ISL6545A single-output PWM (pulse width modulation) controllers allow a lower BOM cost by integrating the boot diode, the overcurrent protection, and the MOSFET drivers onto a single chip, reducing the number of external components and saving on board space. The devices’ overcurrent function protects the controllers from a shorted output by using the lower MOSFET’s on-resistance, rDS(ON), to monitor the current, enhan...

Digital Displays announces that it has entered into agreement with One Stop Displays (OSD) to offer the OSD line of OLED display modules to the UK market.

JAE Europe has appointed Gavin Coleman as key account manager for the company’s customers in the consumer electronics sector. Focusing on JAE’s product offerings for leading edge, high definition equipment – including its HDMI connector and cabling family – Coleman will support companies across Europe.

picoChip has announced a significant expansion with the establishment of a new development centre in Beijing, China. The new operation complements the company’s existing development site in Bath, England. picoChip also has an engineering facility in Shenzhen and sales office in Shanghai as part of its commitment to the Chinese market.

New from Swiss sensor company, Contrinex, is a 6.5mm diameter, non-flush, sensor that has a sensing distance of 4mm. In 2005, Contrinex, a specialist in producing very small, high performance, rugged inductive sensors, produced 4mm sensing distance in M8 size and now, thanks to smart packaging and new ASIC technology, this sensing distance, four times that of conventional sensors, is achieved in a 6.5mm diameter housing.

Contrinex has introduced the S3260, a potentiometer version of its high performance DIN-rail mounting, fibre-optic amplifier series that has an output frequency of 5kHz.

TTI Europe, the specialist distributor of passive, connector and electromechanical components, is on target to achieve year-on-year growth figures which are more than double that predicted for the industry in general. More, the company is moving up the top 10 largest European distributor rankings, despite the fact that it only sells low value components, not the high value semiconductor items which account for the majority of all other Top 10 di...