Analysis

AWS Electronics Group has announced its acquisition of Jantec Electronic Services Ltd, a contract service and repairs business based in Bedfordshire. Jantec’s expertise in product design, development, prototyping, low volume manufacture, diagnostic testing and repairs compliments the longstanding services that AWS already offer their clients.

Having outgrown its former home at Don Valley, Sheffield, TBG Solutions has now opened its new office in Barlborough Links, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Pete Zogas, National Instruments Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, officially opened the new premises at a ceremony attended by TBG’s key customers.

Semtech has announced the E8400, the first off-the-shelf device to integrate all of the functionality needed for two complete channels of 500MHz/1Gbps pin electronics for high-performance system on chip (SoC), memory, and other testers.

IDT has announced that Trapeze Networks will include an IDT Network Search Engine (NSE) in its new series of wireless LAN Mobility Exchange switches. The Trapeze Mobility System uses identity-based networking which enables VLAN and subnet memberships, authentications, access control lists (ACLs), roaming policies, bandwidth usage and other vital statistics to stay with and track users as they move between any wired and wireless environment.

LEM has introduced the AT series of AC current transducers which use innovative core material which enable split-core current transformer technology to reach new levels of performance for this category of products.

Greatly improving the processing of multimedia content available to mobile phones by expanding the choice of supported standards, Renesas has announced the development of hardware IP supporting a decode function for the VC-1 video compression standard.

BAE Systems, National Instruments and Phase Matrix Inc. have announced a joint initiative to develop a PXI Express-based synthetic instrument for military and commercial RF and microwave applications. PMI is currently developing a 100 KHz to 26.5 GHz family of downconverter modules in a 3U PXI Express-compatible format to support PXI RF and microwave applications. BAE Systems, a leader in synthetic instrument systems, plans to build a next-gene...

Integrated Engineering has announced that Marcel van der Meijs has been appointed Vice President Sales & Marketing EMEA. In his new position with Integrated Engineering, he will be responsible for Integrated Engineering’s sales growth in Europe through the formation of a strong sales driven organisation.

Tensilica has announced that eInfochips has joined the Tensilica Xtensions Design Center Partner Program and is offering system-on-chip design services for customers using Tensilica’s Xtensa configurable processors or Diamond Standard processor cores. eInfochips has design centers in the US and India and a proven track record in design services ranging from silicon design and verification to physical design as well as board design and embedded...

SL Power Electronics Corporation, the company established following the merger of Condor DC Power and Ault, will use electronica 2006 (Munich 14 to 17 November - Hall B2 552) to demonstrate the scale of its product offering and will give several products their first public showing.