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Green Hills Software has announced that it has received the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for the embedded software products and services market for passenger cars. Green Hills Software’s claim to fame has been its continual technological innovations in embedded compilers, debuggers, back-in-time debugging, and reliable, secure, royalty-free real time operating systems, all optimized through close collaboration with key automoti...

Zytronic, the leading designer and manufacturer of Projected Capacitive Technology (PCT™)-based sensing solutions that optimise the performance of electronic display applications, has strengthened its presence in Eastern Europe by signing a distribution agreement with the Electronic Components Division of Elatec GmbH.

During the four days on which it was held, electronica 2006 – the world’s leading trade show for electronic components, systems and applications – set new records. From 14 through 17 November 2006, the exhibitors recorded higher numbers of visitors at their booths. Furthermore, the quality of the attendees and the international mix among them rose significantly. The economic upturn made its presence felt in every hall. Both exhibitors and a...

STMicroelectronics has announced a precision temperature sensor with an ultra-low supply current requirement of less than 4.3-microamps (typical) and a tiny 4-lead UDFN package, making it ideal for 3G cell phones and other battery applications where low power, coupled with small size, accuracy and linearity over the full temperature range, are essential. The new STLM20 is the lowest-current drop-in replacement for industry-standard LM20 devices, ...

Texas Instruments and Arrow Electronics will present a live Analog eLab Webcast for designers entitled EMI/RFI as Seen by Analog ICs on Wednesday, December 6, 2006, at 11:00 a.m. CST (18:00 hrs CET). During the online discussion, TI analog expert Bill Klein, P.E., and eLab panelists Carl Wolfe of TI and Peter Goad of Arrow Electronics will talk about types of interference that can impact analog circuit performance.

Knowles Acoustics announces what it says is the first-ever Round Balanced Armature Receiver. The new SR Series is designed to meet the demands of the thriving digital media market and compliment existing BA products as the first-rate alternative for the common headset platform, at exceptional value.

Green Hills Software Inc has announced that ICS Triplex has chosen the Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety for its next generation of safety-rated, fault-tolerant control and safety systems. The Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety – based on the IEC 61508 TUV-certified INTEGRITY RTOS– allows ICS Triplex to design and deliver control systems that meet and exceed the most stringent international safety standards, while providing t...

Targeting the increasingly demanding requirements of embedded automotive and industrial applications, Analog Devices, Inc is introducing its newest series of Blackfin processors: the ADSP-BF54x family (ADSP-BF542/BF544/BF548/BF549). The Blackfin ADSP-BF54x family features a balance of increased I/O and memory bandwidth, on-chip memory, and integration of CAN and MOST system peripherals to deliver high performance and cost-effectiveness to industr...

Texas Instruments has announced the availability of its Small Form Factor Software Defined Radio (SDR) Development Platform, the industry's first and only development platform targeted at the portable military communications market. The platform, developed in collaboration with Xilinx Inc. and other third parties, provides the entire signal chain hardware from antenna to baseband as well as a software board support package that supports a complet...

Texas Instruments is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the registration of its first business operations in Europe in November 1956. The first subsidiary to be set up was Texas Instruments Ltd, located in Bedford, UK. Today, TI's presence in Europe and the Middle East has grown to include over 30 sites in 19 different countries, including 13 R&D centers, an advanced wafer fabrication site in Freising, Germany, and a worldwide business & compet...