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Anglia has announced that it has presented Murata Electronics (UK) Limited with the Anglia Supplier of the Year Award for 2005/2006. The award acknowledges the ongoing high level of support, both technically and commercially, that Murata provides to Anglia as one of its major distributors, and also the key role that the Murata product range has played in Anglia’s success over the past year.

Keithley Instruments has co-developed and sponsored the first Nanotechnology Test Weblog, or Blog, designed exclusively for engineers and researchers dealing with electrical testing issues in the field of nanotechnology and MEMS (micro electromechanical systems). The Nanotest Weblog keeps visitors abreast of the latest news in the nanotechnology and MEMS industry through frequent posts of technical and business developments. The Weblog is coord...

National Instruments UK & Ireland today announced that Kevin Snelling and Martin Saxon, both Directors of Product Technology Partners Ltd, a National Instruments Alliance Partner, have achieved LabWindows/CVI Certification status. Kevin and Martin are the second and third engineers in the UK & Ireland that have attained this qualification.

Photonic Products has introduced two new red laser diodes from Opnext Inc. which combine a low operating current with a high optical output power. The HL6362MG/HL6363MG laser diodes (640nm wavelength band, 45mW maximum optical output power) are ideal for use in medical scanners, measurement equipment and next-generation display applications.

Avago Technologies has announced what is said to be the industry's smallest reflective incremental optical encoder. It is offered in a surface-mount package with dimensions of 3.00 mm length by 3.28 mm width by 1.262 mm height. The Avago AEDR-8400 encoder combines extremely small size with 254 lines per inch resolution, low power consumption and wide operating temperature range.

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced that Daewoo Electronics will use its system-on-chip digital video broadcast MPEG decoding solution in the company’s first dual stream personal video recorder (PVR). Due to launch in the UK in August and the rest of Europe later in the year, the new Daewoo PVR will use the Toshiba SoC to deliver enhanced functionality that includes the facility for simultaneous output of video to two external devices.

Texas Instruments and Avnet will present a live Analog eLab Webcast for designers entitled "Analog Support for Digital Media-Based Systems" on Wednesday, June 14 at 11:00 a.m. CST (18:00 hrs CET). During the online discussion, TI analog expert Bill Klein, P.E., and eLab panelists J.B. Fowler of TI and Mike Claassen of Avnet will address analog circuit design issues that affect performance of digital media-based video applications. Engineers are...

The World’s largest electronics trade fair – electronica (Munich 14 – 17 November) – will give wireless technology the platform that such an important market sector deserves. A “Wireless Communications User-Forum”, the Wireless Congress 2006 conference program and the presence throughout the Fair of almost every key player in wireless technology will make attendance at electronica 2006 a must for everyone involved in wireless communic...

Garland Partners has announced the launch of its Moviemaker HD from Optibase. This new MPEG-2 PCI encoder is said to be the only single-chip, hardware-based card that can support 4:2:2 up to 150MBPS and has been designed for content creation, post-production, archiving and video on demand markets.

A new 6.4 in open frame panel pc module from ICOP Technology UK is fitted with a Vortex86-6071 embedded PC/104 computer as standard, but customers can select from any other ICOP PC/104 module to suit their specific applications.