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As a global leader in the design and manufacture of high reliability industrial and commercial magnetic components, Datatronic Distribution, Inc., is committed to preserving our environment and acting responsibly to meet the European Union’s 20002/95/EC – WEEE directives on the Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) prior to July 1, 2006.

Designed for high frequency applications in a wide range of consumer, commercial and industrial devices, the new DR354-1-2-3-4 Series Surface Mount Wirewound Chip Inductors from Datatronic Distribution, Inc., combine performance, miniature packaging and economy.

Fairchild Semiconductor power expert Alan Elbanhawy will present two papers on how to achieve system power efficiency at IPEMC 2006. A premier power electronics and motion control event, the conference will be held August 13-16 in Beijing, China.

More than a third of small and medium sized electronics businesses need practical help with waste minimisation issues such as reducing water use, says research commissioned by Envirowise.

CEVA, Inc., the leading licensor of digital signal processor (DSP) cores, multimedia and storage platforms to the semiconductor industry, and CoWare® Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, announced the availability of Processor Support Packages (PSPs) that support the use of CEVA-TeakLite and CEVA-TeakLite-II DSP cores within the CoWare system-level design environment. The joint...

Strategic Test Corp has released three new Digitizer cards. Based on the new UF2 series PCI-X (66 MHz/32-bit PCI) carrier card, the three models are available in 2, 4 or 8 input channel configurations. 64 MByte signal memory is standard but this can be expanded to 4 GBytes allowing long recordings at the high sample rates. The cards are supplied with drivers for Microsoft Windows and Linux, with free downloads of future OS version drivers such as...

Arrow partnership and Kontron embedded computing technology key to rapid development and global deployment of advanced monitoring and measurement architectures

Silicon Laboratories Inc. today announced that Sony Ericsson has adopted the Si4701 FM tuner for the W950 Walkman® phone. By using the highly-integrated Silicon Laboratories Si4701 with support for the Radio Data System (RDS), Sony Ericsson quickly implemented outstanding FM stereo receiver functionality in less than 20 mm² of board area on the ultra-slim, stylish, UMTS-enabled W950 Walkman® phone with mobile music capability.

Photonic Products Ltd, the UK optoelectronics device manufacturer and laser diode specialist, has launched a 25mW version of their hugely popular 405nm (blue-violet) Photon laser diode modules with TTL modulation.

EDA Solutions, the exclusive European representative for Tanner EDA's analogue and mixed-signal IC/MEMS design tools, and for MOSIS’ MPW and small volume wafer fabrication services, has appointed Munich-based Peter Kaiser to head up its first overseas office.