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US resistor manufacturer has established a blog to enable engineers and designers to talk to each other and discuss design ideas or problems.

Synplicity has announced its industry-leading Synplify Pro FPGA synthesis and Synplify DSP true DSP Synthesis software solutions have been upgraded to support Altera Corporation's new low-power, high-performance Stratix III FPGAs. Optimizations to these tools allow designers to achieve aggressive system performance requirements and time-to-market goals, while simultaneously minimizing area.

Users of Tanner EDA tools are to get economical access to an analogue and mixed-signal, 0.25 micron Silicon Germanium Carbon (SiGe:C) BiCMOS process through a new collaboration with IHP’s pilot line in Frankfurt (Oder). Europractice has developed design kits for Tanner EDA’s L-Edit family of integrated circuit layout tools to ensure compatibility of designs with their process.

Silicon Laboratories has announced the appointment of William Bock as senior vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer, effective immediately. Mr. Bock will be resigning as a director on Silicon Laboratories’ board where he served as chairman of the audit committee since the company went public in March, 2000. In addition to his familiarity with Silicon Laboratories’ products, strategy and mixed-signal history,...

Avago Technologies has introduced an enhanced series of cost-competitive ultra-small optical encoder modules with resolutions of up to 360 lines per inch (LPI) - said to be the highest in the industry. These new encoder modules make it possible for manufacturers to produce more compact inkjet printers, photo printers and all-in-ones, that can provide higher quality images that today's customers want. The AEDS-964x series are a drop-in replacement...

STMicroelectronics, the first company to release a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) fully compliant with the TCG (Trusted Computing Group) TPM 1.2 specification, today announced a new module which is manufactured in ST’s advanced 0.15-micron CMOS EEPROM process technology. The new ST19NP18 is based on the successful previous-generation ST19WP18 TPM, with the 0.15-micron process delivering additional cost benefits for PC manufacturers.

StockerYale, Inc. (NASDAQ: STKR), an independent provider of photonic-based products, has announced that it has acquired privately held Photonic Products Ltd. of the United Kingdom, a well-known provider of laser diode modules and laser diodes for industrial, medical and scientific markets. This strategic acquisition will significantly broaden StockerYale's product portfolio of laser modules, increase StockerYale's 2006 revenues by approximately ...

Texas Instruments has introduced what it says is the first power management integrated circuit (PMIC) fully optimized to support all power system requirements of a multimedia device based on DaVinciT technology. Simplifying power design in portable media players, digital still cameras and other lithium-battery powered electronics, the flexible device provides dynamic voltage scaling and up to 95 percent power conversion efficiency.

Intersil to feature leading-edge analogue products in its booth and will present on automotive infotainment applications at Electronica on Thursday, November 16, 2006. Intersil will show its first families of parts for the growing precision amplifier and automotive markets. It will also feature power management products for industrial, communications and medical applications, as well as high-speed and video amplifier products. From high-perform...

Avago Technologies has announced that John Larson III, Ph.D., will be named an IEEE Fellow at the 2006 International Ultrasonics Symposium in Vancouver, British Columbia. IEEE Fellows are nominated by their peers in numerous engineering fields for extraordinary accomplishment.