Analysis

Texas Instruments has announced plans for the MSP430 microcontroller (MCU) eZ design contest, to be held from now to - October 9, 2006. Contestants may submit projects ranging from practical everyday devices to industry-specific solutions that show off design skills using the low-power MSP430 MCUs and development tools, including the new eZ430-F2013-a USB stick based full emulation and development tool.

SL Power Signs Global Purchasing Agreement with Dräger Medical

Munich Trade Fairs International (MMI), the organiser of electronica 2006, the Worlds largest trade fair for the electronics industry, has announced that applications as well as products, will be the main focus at this years event. For the Wireless sector, in particular, the emphasis will be on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and delegates to Wireless Congress 2006 – Systems and Applications (November 15 – 16 in the ICM complex next to...

hueggenberg gbr, well known for its technical training courses, has announced a series of short courses on "DSP for FPGAs". These courses will be presented during the second half of 2006 at several locations in Germany, Italy, Scotland, Switzerland, and the United States.

Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) has acquired Opto-Control Elektronik Prüfsysteme GmbH of Bochum, Germany. The purchase adds high-precision automatic optical inspection (AOI) systems to Siemens’s Siplace surface mount technology business. Opto-Control’s technologically leading inspection systems are fully automated and use the latest 3-D sensor technology to detect any solder or placement flaws with exceptional speed.

Dean Kamen, President of DEKA Research & Development Corporation and founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), will deliver the closing keynote address to more than 2,000 attendees at NIWeek, the world’s largest virtual instrumentation conference and exhibition, Aug. 8-10, in Austin, Texas. In his speech, “Inspiring Present and Future Scientists and Engineers to Innovate,” Kamen will discuss the role of s...

Powerstax plc has announced the appointment of Richard Ford as Director of Sales. Richard has been a major influence in the growth of power supply sales with a leading UK distributor and will now bring his expertise to Powerstax’s international business.

RDS has announced the D2151-S from Fujitsu Siemens Computers. It adopts Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron D LGA775 CPU (Supports 1066/880/533MHz FSB) and is specifically designed as an Industrial Motherboard around the Micro ATX form factor.

Every major power supply manufacturer will be at electronica 2006, the largest trade fair for the global electronics industry. There is no other event in the electronics industry calendar that provides visitors with the chance to see and discuss the latest advances in power sourcing from all the power supply industry’s key players from the United States, Europe and the Far East.

Tensilica has announced that PnpNetwork Technologies, Inc., of Seoul, Korea, has licensed two Diamond Standard processor cores for their digital mobile broadcasting chip designs for mobile consumer broadcast TV applications and video-enabled handset designs. PnpNetwork will use the Diamond Standard 330HiFi for high-quality audio processing and the Diamond Standard 212GP as a control processor for their chip designs.