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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.

Fastening Solutions Exhibitions is pleased to announce its next event at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton, on Thursday 28th September where it is expected the UK’s top suppliers of equipment components and services for fastening and assembly will be present to consult, advise and present specialist solutions to design/production engineers seeking fastening solutions.

Aeroflex and Etherstack have agreed to jointly develop and market a suite of products to support Project 25 protocol conformance testing. The new products will help ensure mobile stations and base stations conform to the APCO Project 25 family of standards and bulletins published by the Telecommunications Industry Association.